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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Heidi visits the Crow Wing Food Co-Op, a thriving business during the economic turn-down.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2010
  • Length: 08:21
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Discussed in this piece are an Arctic map made partially of Arctic muskox fur, a venison-keeper made with materials from deer, and many more pieces...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and mnartists.org


  • Added: Jul 01, 2010
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 2
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An interview with Jenny Graupmann, originally from Grand Rapids, about her vocal ensemble Lake Effect. Operating out of Duluth, their new CD is cal...

Bought by KMSU


  • Added: Jul 01, 2010
  • Length: 17:27
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Centerstage MN we’ll be talking with Jenny Graupmann, originally from Grand Rapids, about her vocal ensemble Lake Effect. Operating ou...

Bought by WTIP, KMSU, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 01, 2010
  • Length: 57:44
  • Purchases: 3
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John Latimer shares his observations of the change of nature in our lives.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 15:25
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This includes John Latimer's Phenology Report and Talk Backs. Plus A Talk on the Wild Side with Bill Berg on climate change up north.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 55:51
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We talked with Onzaam O Onzaam, an online persona in northern MN working as a voice of Native People and building connections for the spread of Nat...

Bought by KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, WGDR, and KVSC


  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 4
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We’re talking about the SIXTH SENSE or ESP; where you KNEW something would happen. We’ll also have a guest appearance by Rev Dave, a man who can t...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:56:15
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How much of the sixth sense is perception and how much is reality?

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 04:59
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What would life be like without a sixth sense? Check out more in Aaron's blog www.minnesotabrown.com.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 03:45