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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Ginstrings are an energetic bluegrass and Americana band from the Twin Cities and frequent visitors of the North Shore music scene. They return to ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 34:50
Caption: Kerri Westenberg, Credit: Star Tribune
Kerri Westenberg is the travel editor for the Star Tribune. She speaks with host CJ Heitoff on the Roadhouse about her collaboration with Brian Pet...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 24:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Can Do Canines is a Twin Cities based non-profit that parnters people with disabilities with specially-trained dogs. Volunteer coordinator Laurie C...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 16:44
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Local bluesman and fingerstyle guitarist Gordon Thorne returns to the Roadhouse ahead of the annual Fingerstyle Masters Weekend in Tofte.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 41:57
Caption: Eric Dregni
Eric Dregni is an author and associate professor of English, Italian, and Journalism at Concordia University. He speaks with Dave Tersteeg about hi...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 17:56
Caption: Donn Branstrator
Donn Branstrator is a professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a researcher at the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Researc...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 20:16
Caption: Evergreen Grass Band
Evergreen Grass Band returns with high-energy bluegrass to the Roadhouse. They are joined by Cook County's own Bill Hansen on dobro ahead of a gig ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 33:19
Caption: Joe Paulik
Local singer/songwriter Joe Paulik stopped by Studio A to chat with WTIP's Dave and CJ, and to play a few songs, both covers and original compositi...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 37:33
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A research team at the U of MN has developed a sponge that can absorb mercury from a polluted water source in seconds. WTIP's Dave TerSteeg talked ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 12:04
Caption: Rebekah Novinger & Aidan Driscoll
The award-winning Minnesota SkyVault Theater, from Rochester, was in town for Shakespeare week. Troupe members Aidan Driscoll and Rebekah Novinger,...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 23:00
Caption: from left: Kyle Westrick, Rich Mattson, Germaine Gemberling
Sparta, Minn.-based Rich Mattson and the Northstars joined WTIP's Dave & CJ in Studio A during membership drive for great original music.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 23:42
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Cook County duo Frozen Britches (Erik Hahn, flute and whistle; Tom van Cleve, fiddle) stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse to observe St. Patrick's Day ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 20:33
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March is Women's History Month, and WTIP was lucky to speak with a Minnesota woman who made history by becoming the first woman to cross the ice to...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 22:58
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Local favorites the Plucked Up String Band made a return appearance on The Roadhouse recently, this time playing all covers. The band is: Amanda Ha...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 41:15
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Phil Huston is an adventurer, climber, speaker, and cancer survivor who now resides in Silver Bay. He joined WTIP's Dave TerSteeg recently to tell ...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 16:22
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River Falls, Wisc.-based singer/songwriters Thea Ennen and Dave JaVue visited WTIP's The Roadhouse after a long absence, with rich, original folk m...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 40:22
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A team at the University of Minnesota has invented a new technology to produce renewable car tires from trees and grasses. Lead researcher Prof. P...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 10:38
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Tom Crossmon of Hermantown, who hunts for shipwrecks, found something very unusual at the bottom of the Big Lake--an old locomotive. He joined WTIP...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 12:42
Caption: Pushing Chain, Boyd Blomberg (l.) & Adam Moe
Pushing Chain, the award-winning duo of Boyd Blomberg (guitar & vocals) and Adam Moe (fiddle & vocals), plays Americana roots music. They stopped b...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 40:23
Caption: Paul Imholte on the hammered dulcimer
St. Cloud-based musician Paul Imholte plays a wide variety of string instruments, including hammered dulcimer, banjo, fiddle, and many more. He joi...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 41:23