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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Today David Bowie calls in and learns to say “hot tea” in Ojibwe.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: :58
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This podcast features a song written and performed by Michael Lyons and Natasha. Will I Ever See You Again.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 01:00
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A free live concert at The Historic Chief Theater in Bemidji on March 24, 2023 featuring Wild Horses.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
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Minnesota writer and motivational speaker Shelly Breen is the author of the "Shelly Bean, the Sports Queen" series and will be a keynote speaker at...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 11:59
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Watermark Art Center in Bemidji hosts textile artist Blair Treuer’s collection "Becoming: The Transition from Childhood to Womanhood," an exhibit t...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 15:05
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This week on Stay Human, adventures drumming around the world, with Robin Anders. The long-time percussionist for Boiled in Lead reports from his ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:39
  • Purchases: 1
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A live concert at The Historic Chief Theater in Bemidji on April 13, 2023 featuring Keep for Cheap.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:04:37
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An interview with Davina Lozier from Davina and the Vagabonds about the upcoming live concert at The Historic Chief Theater in Bemidji on February ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 13:43
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A live concert at The Historic Chief Theater in Bemidji on January 13, 2023 featuring Thomas X.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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A broken-up couple has to fake being back together in Emily Henry's lastest novel "Happy Place," but first, we get to know a little more about "Wha...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 26:54