The Roadhouse

Series produced by WTIP

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Image by: courtesy Buck Benson 

The Roadhouse is an interview and music program that airs live every Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. to kick off the weekend.

WTIP's The Roadhoue is two hours packed with insightful interviews, weekend happenings, local features and toe-tapping music. You never know quite what to expect on the Roadhouse! Funding is provided in part by the MN Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.


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Cook County guitar favorite Pete Kavanaugh dropped by WTIP's The Roadhouse recently on his way to a gig. Lots of great music, fun chat, and laughter.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 32:52
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Grand Marais' Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux is a writer, storyteller, actress, and now...a published author. Her book, "The Marvelous Imagination of Katie...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:47
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Hovland musician Michele Miller brought her guitar and lovely voice to WTIP's Studio A recently. She played several songs, both covers and origina...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 26:11
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"Everybody's Heard About the Bird" is a new behind-the-scenes account of how a group of Minnesota bands made it big on the national music scene in ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 19:57
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The Grand Marais-based Plucked Up String Band (Amanda Hand, guitar; Bill Hansen, dobro; Matt Nesheim, banjo; Elliot Noyce, mandolin; Will Moore, up...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 45:12
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A recently published study suggests that all dogs alive today can trace at least some of their ancestry back to dogs that were domesticated 33,000 ...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 20:06
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Minnesota's largest solar power project went online in December atop two parking ramps at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Dennis Probst, who spea...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 17:31
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South Shore (Lake Superior) jam band Floydian Slip was in Grand Marais New Year's weekend to play a few gigs. They joined WTIP's Dave TerSteeg & Bu...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2016
  • Length: 42:19
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2015 was a pretty unusual year for weather. Dr. Mark Seeley, extension climatologist, meteorologist, and professor, and regular guest on Minnesota ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2016
  • Length: 19:48
Caption: Toni Lindgren (l.) & Reina del Cid (r.)
Twin Cities musicians Reina del Cid and Toni Lindgren were in Grand Marais recently for a gig-- WTIP was fortunate to have them stop by Studio A fo...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 44:33
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The future of mining on Minnesota's Iron Range continues to be a topic of discussion and debate throughout the region and beyond our state borders....

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 22:16
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Adam (Stariha) & Tim (Tucker), also of the bluegrass group Black River Revue from Duluth/Superior, stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse recently to chat...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:40
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Grand Marais-based explorer Lonnie Dupre recently returned from Nepal, where he and his team explored newly-opened areas for possible climbs in 201...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 20:35
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Mindfulness has been linked to reduced stress and improved mental clarity, creativity and productivity. Alex Haley, who teaches mindfulness at the ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 18:08
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Fred Anderson, a Cook County musician, joined WTIP's Dave TerSteeg and Dick Swanson recently to chat and play gorgeous guitar music, including a fe...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 30:40
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U of MN landscape architecture professor John Koepke recently received a 'mini-grant' from the U of MN Institute on the Environment to plan a trail...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 22:42
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Briand Morrison (guitar) & Roxann Berglund (keyboard, vocals) took time recently to visit with WTIP's Dave TerSteeg and play some beautiful music....

  • Added: Nov 25, 2015
  • Length: 31:42
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North House Folk School's annual Winterer's Gathering & Arctic Film Festival recently took place in Grand Marais, Minn. One of the featured films w...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2015
  • Length: 20:17
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The Butterball Turkey Talk Line fields thousands of calls at this time of year. WTIP's DaveTerSteeg chatted with turkey expert Rochelle Kirwan to l...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2015
  • Length: 14:15
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A new study shows that cougars, also known as mountain lions or pumas, are likely to recolonize portions of habitat in the middle part of the U.S. ...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
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