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.

Series

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51 Pieces

Phenology is the rhythmic, biological nature of events as they relate to climate.

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10 Pieces

Power in the Wilderness: Dramatized episodes about Iron Range historical figure Victor Powers.

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216 Pieces

What We're Reading is Northern Community Radio's discussion on the books we're reading and talking about. Hosted and produced by Tammy Bobrowsky.

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17 Pieces

Each Friday Morning we pull up a chair to one of member's kitchen table and get to know them a little better.

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8 Pieces

A series of interviews with artists that explores a community arts project addressing the aftermath of suicide.

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106 Pieces

Wordish is a writer-centered audio segment that features Minnesota artists reading original poems, short fiction and creative essays. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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21 Pieces

The next generation of youth making real, relevant radio.


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...

Bought by WGZS


  • 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 ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • 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...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • 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