Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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Northern Community Radio is an independent, nonprofit organization that operates a unique community-based public radio station, KAXE and KBXE. NCR serves most of north central, northeastern and northwestern Minnesota with a 100,000-watt signal originating in Grand Rapids at 91.7 FM and a 50,000-watt signal in Bemidji at 90.5 FM. Northern Community Radio also operates translators in Brainerd at 89.9 FM 

Northern Community Radio is a different kind of radio. When you tune in NCR you hear northern Minnesota...its people, environment, communities, attitude. These are the "stars" of NCR programs. NCR is a place where people gather to dance to good music or to find out about the flowers in the ditches and the birds at their feeders. It's a place to learn about the world, laugh, meet good neighbors, and share ideas.

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Segments that explore the meaning and lasting impact of Dylan’s work on the Minnesota music and literary scenes through the eyes of one or more other working musicians or writers. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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Honoring the legacy and impact of Bob Dylan, Minnesota's Nobel Prize-winning songwriter and musician.

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158 Pieces

A radio segment about Ojibwe language and culture that features puppets. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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121 Pieces

The Call of the Wild is a call to your heart. The call to the wild part of yourself that you want to express in the work that you do. Sometimes you can even make a living doing what you love. And sometimes you can’t, but you still do it. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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Centerstage Minnesota showcases the talents of Minnesota musicians. A local production of Northern Community Radio: KAXE - Grand Rapids and KBXE - Bemidji. Also heard on KSRQ in Thief River Falls and on WTIP in Grand Marais.

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Centerstage Minnesota Features are value-added segments focusing on various aspects of Minnesota's music landscape, past and present. Centerstage Minnesota Features are produced by Nothern Community Radio, and are made possible by Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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A focus on regional events, sites, and places and how they relate to the community.

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Coming Home: the Gary Burger Story is an hour-long documentary about the life and times of Gary Burger, former front man of The Monks. Produced by Milt Lee and written by Jamie Lee.

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This program contains state and local conversations on COVID-19.

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Stories from Northern Minnesota's arts and culture scene.


Latest Pieces

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Pull up a chair for Stay Human, our weekly mix of words and music. This week, it’s about feeding ourselves – with a visit to the Farmers Market, M...

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Painter Joyce Jackson Arndt has a retrospective exhibit at the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji called 'Ninanda Minwaajim: I Seek to Tell a Good Sto...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
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On the latest installment of What We're Reading, Grand Rapids Area Library children's librarian Tracy Kampa reviewed new picture and middle-grade b...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 10:23
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Grand Rapids Players' production of "These Shining Lives" begins this weekend. Area Voices Producer Andrew Dziengel interviews Director Rachelle Ra...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 12:36
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In a recent conversation on the KAXE Morning Show, Stenerson says she believes community theater is alive and well in Bemidji. Her next production ...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 12:45
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Lots of art activities this Labor Day Weekend. Andrew Dziengel has five picks for what to check out.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
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Today on Stay Human, friends and neighbors talk about living history. John Beltman and Mark Sage describe their experiential archeology, Tracy Kam...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
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Centerstage Minnesota featuring an interview with Travis Zimmerman of the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post, and highlighting Minnesota art...

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This week on Stay Human, we’re going out on the waters. Putting in at the Boundary Waters, fishing the Great Lakes, the Blessing of the Fleet in A...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
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Centerstage Minnesota featuring two interviews, one with Minnesota artist Aurora Baer and the second with Siri Undlin of Humbird. Highlighting othe...

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