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


Latest Pieces

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A free live concert at The Historic Chief Theater in Bemidji on May 19, 2023 featuring Kiss the Tiger.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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Centerstage Minnesota featuring an interview with Minnesota artist Sarah Morris, and highlighting other Minnesota artists in an eclectic mix of fol...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:50:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Tune in for story and song on Stay Human, our weekly mix for spirit and courage. This week, stories about being awe-struck. Up in the stars, down ...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Tammy Bobrowsky joined the Between You & Me podcast to share a recent conversation with Meg Eden Kuyatt, whose "Good Different" tells the story of ...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 16:53
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Jeremy Jackson’s inquiry began shortly after Brainerd officials renamed the city’s newest park after the man once known as the “Father of Brainerd,...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 19:46
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Ty Yule describes himself in his memoir Chemically Enhancd Butch as “a scruffy, middle-aged, retired queer cult leader” and “a happy husband and a ...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 14:54
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Centerstage Minnesota featuring an interview with hip-hop artist Nur-D, and highlighting other Minnesota artists in an eclectic mix of folk, rock, ...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:50:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Long celebrated in the Black community, Juneteeth commemorates the day on which the last remaining slaves in the United States learned they were fr...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:01
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Happy Father’s Day, from Stay Human. Tune in for our weekly mix of story and song, celebrating playful Dads, tired Dads, father figures and figuri...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Nora Lester Murad is a writer, educator, and activist. Born and raised in a Jewish-American family, she later married a Muslim-Palestinian and rais...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2023
  • Length: 10:33