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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Live concerts on KAXE

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Local stories produced by KAXE/KBXE thanks to the generous support of contributors to the 1 day local journalism fundraiser.

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A highlight of live music events for the upcoming week throughout the listening area along with a live music event and interviews.

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Two live, traveling, free music and spoken work events that highlight local musicians, writers, and storytellers, and support the local music scene.

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The restoration and celebration of an extensive collection of rare vinyl recordings that showcase life and music in northern Minnesota.

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Free concerts in KAXE's amphitheater on the Mississippi River.

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NorthernCheapskate.com is frugal living website and radio feature from northern Minnesota dedicated to helping people save money every day.

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'Northern Voices: Celebrating Ties to Minnesota's Northland,' shares sustainable practices, traditions, and indigenous and ancestral ways of life of Northern Minnesotans.

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In the Nigaane Language Program at the Bug-O-Nay- Ge-Shig School near Bena, elementary students learn to speak the language of their ancestors.

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We share stories from Our History during the Morning Show


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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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  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:43
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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
  • Length: 05:07
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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
  • Length: 03:09
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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
  • Length: 59:10
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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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  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:52:59
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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
  • Length: 59:03
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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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  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:48:22
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