KTWH will highlight and cover much of the excitement of Heritage Days 2019 in Two Harbors, Minnesota from Friday July 12 through Sunday July 14.
If you can’t be on the scene throughout Heritage Days (this coming weekend already!), KTwH will carry the sounds that make this community event a summer fixture on the North Shore:
***KTWH will be helping celebrate Heritage Days in Two Harbors with a series of LIVE BROADCASTS from the scene! Come and find us at our booth, tune in at 99.5fm or stream us at ktwh.org:
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Two Harbors Community Radio will be hosting its 5th annual Cabin Fever Reliever music and entertainment extravaganza at the Two Harbors High School Auditorium on Sunday, March 24 at 3:00 p.m. This year’s Cabin Fever Reliever will showcase stellar music and storytelling. Our featured guest this year is Red House Records recording artist Charlie Parr, a brilliant blues and folk musician hailing from Duluth, who will play an extended set. The show’s Emcees this year will be The McCullough Brothers, also part of The Northwoods Band, an outfit named best band in the Northland in the Reader Weekly’s 2018 & 2019 Polls. Also featured will be youthful Knife River piano wizard Eddie Ojard, storyteller Shane Dickey, and singer Kelli Scoggin from Two Harbors High School. Cabin Fever once again welcomes the return of our one-of-a-kind house band: THUG (Two Harbor Ukulele Group). This is a something-for-everyone event.
The Cedar Coffee Company will be selling gourmet coffee and treats before the show and at intermission. Free desserts and cider will be available as well. A selection of baked items featuring gourmet bread will be available for purchase at the show, as will be a lovely collection of donated art work and gift certificates courtesy of the many business supporters of KTWH.
Again this year we are opening the lobby at 2:00 p.m. for kids’ activities such as face painting, a percussion music circle, and the opportunity for kids and adults to record a legal station ID for broadcast. You can also make a donation or become a sustaining member and instantly receive a KTWH premium. THUG will open the pre-show at 2:30 with a 30 minute performance, so come and get your seats early and enjoy ALL the fun!
Tickets are on sale at the KTWH studios, Tues-Fri. 1-5 pm (Harbor Landing Building, corner of 7th Ave. and 7th St. in Two Harbors) and at the Cedar Coffee Company (1130 11th St., just north of Shopko) and the Mocha Moose Café (543 Scenic Dr, Two Harbors) during their business hours. Tickets run $12 adults ($10 in advance), $7 for students and seniors, $3 kids under 5, and $25 for a family. Tickets are also available at the door.
KTWH is doing what it can to prepare voters for the November 6 general election, at least regarding the two contested city council positions and our 8th congressional district race. All coverage of these races will be repeated on air at KTWH, plus all may be accessed at any time on our website.
CITY COUNCIL RACES
Previously recorded forums with candidates for the Ward 1 seat (Miles Woodruff and Uriah Hefter) and at-large council seat (Jackie Rennwald and Zach Anderson) will be broadcast this Saturday at 10:00am during the Saturday Morning Mix on October 27, and again at 6:05pm on Monday, November 5, right after community events. The forums are also posted on our website, accessible at any time, at https://ktwh.org/two-harbors-city-council-candidate-forums/
8th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT RACE
Interviews from Katya’s Grounds Control morning show over the past couple months with all three candidates to replace Rick Nolan as our congressman will be aired back to back on Saturday November 3 in the 10:00 hour of the Saturday Morning Mix. These interviews with Joe Radinovich-DFL, Pete Stauber-GOP and Skip Sandman-Independent are also accessible online at https://ktwh.org/8th-congressional-district-candidate-interviews/
Alternatively, click the Programs tab on the menu across the top of our home page, and click the 8th District interviews and/or city council forums that drop down beneath Programs.
KTWH thanks all the candidates for helping us inform our local listener-voters!
Two Harbors Community Radio will be hosting its 4rd annual Cabin Fever Reliever music and entertainment extravaganza at the Two Harbors High School Auditorium on Sunday, March 4 at 3:00 p.m. This year’s Cabin Fever Reliever will showcase music, tap dancing, storytelling, poetry and our ever popular Radio Theater. A sampling of this year’s line-up includes musicians Kyle Ollah and Dave Slattery, Brenda Moe from Sterling Dance, youth performers showcasing the “Suicide Prevention Song,” storyteller Shane Dickey, poet Micky McGilligan, piano from the Two Harbors Piano Studio and the return of our one of a kind house band: THUG (Two Harbor Ukulele Group). This is a something-for-everyone event.
The Cedar Coffee Company will be selling gourmet coffee and treats before the show and at intermission. Free desserts and cider will be available as well. A bake sale featuring gourmet breads and homemade jams will be available for sale after the show.
New this year we are opening the lobby at 2:00 p.m. for kids activities such as face painting, story time and the opportunity for kids and adults to record a legal ID for broadcast. You can also make a donation or become a sustaining member and instantly receive a KTWH premium. THUG will open the show at 2:40 with a 20 minute performance, so come and get your seats early and enjoy ALL the fun!
Tickets will be on sale after Feb. 12 at KTWH Mon-Fri. 1-5 pm (Harbors Landing Building, corner of 7th Ave. and 7th St. in Two Harbors) or at the Cedar Coffee Company (1130 11th St., just north of Shopko): $10 adults ($8 in advance), $5 seniors, $3 kids under 5, $25 for a family. Tickets also available at the door.
2017-2018 Winter Sports Schedule-
Two Harbors Agates/North Shore Storm Game Broadcasts on
KTWH 99.5 FM, online at ktwh.org
Note: change in schedule – no game broadcast on January 6, but added game on January 19
| Sport | Game Day | Air Time | Opponent |
| Girls Hockey | December 5, Tuesday | 6:55 pm | Cloquet |
| Boys Basketball | December 18, Monday | 3:55 pm | Silver Bay |
| Girls Basketball | December 28, Thursday | 7:05 pm | Silver Bay |
| Boys Hockey | January 12, Friday | 6:55 pm | Princeton |
| Girls Hockey | January 16, Tuesday | 6:55 pm | Eveleth-Gilbert |
| Boys Hockey | January 19, Friday | 6:55 pm | Pine City |
| Boys Basketball | January 22, Monday | 7:05 pm | Lakeview Christian |
| Girls Basketball | February 1, Thursday | 7:05 pm | Moose Lake/Willow River |
| Girls Hockey | February 5, Monday | 6:55 pm | Superior |
| Boys Basketball | February 9, Friday | 7:05 pm | South Ridge |
| Boys Hockey | February 13, Tuesday | 6:55 pm | Proctor |
| Girls Basketball | February 20, Tuesday | 7:05 pm | Mesabi East |
WE APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT OF OUR WINTER SPORTS UNDERWRITERS:
And we wish to thank the La Bounty Family Fund, which supported purchase of the remote broadcast equipment which makes these broadcasts possible! Meanwhile, for athletes struggling to find new equipment, a websites like legendarchery provides them with access to high-quality sports products at affordable prices. By offering top-notch products like durable bowstrings without breaking the bank, these platforms enable athletes to enhance their performance while staying within budget, ensuring excellent value.
If you or your business would like to help KTWH as an underwriting sponsor of THHS sports on the air, call the station at 218-595-6195 or email us at thcommradio@gmail.com
Update: see the photo gallery of highlights from our Harvest Moon Gala at here
Two Harbors Community Radio is proud to announce its first fall event that will bring together community in the old way—with music, food, and things to buy. The Harvest Moon Gala will take place on Saturday, October 14 at the American Legion on 1st Avenue in Two Harbors, beginning at 5:30pm with a silent auction, cash bar and social hour. At 6:00 a plated dinner will be served, prepared by a professional chef. The three-course plated lasagna dinner includes a harvest salad, artisan bread and gourmet cupcakes for dessert. A vegetarian & gluten free option, of the same menu, is available. Only 50 tickets are being sold for dinner, so contact the KTWH Studio in the Harbor Landing Building soon! The $30 ticket includes dinner, the silent auction and the concert. $10 tickets are also available for the concert only, details below.
The concert begins at 7:15pm and will include local entertainers Jim Madison and Ron Koivisto, Ladyslipper belly dancing troupe of Duluth, Shane Dickey storyteller, and singer-songwriter Shane Nelson with his band Crescent Moon. Throughout the evening a silent auction will offer over 70 items up for bid including local art and jewelry, gift certificates for many local businesses and venues, a variety of baskets filled with goodies and even a handcrafted pie.
Tickets are available at KTWH Studios in the Harbor Landing Building and at Cedar Coffee Company. $30 for dinner (50 tickets only, available only at KTWH Studio, must be purchased in advance), $10 for auction/concert only pre-sale (available at both venues), and $15 for auction/concert at the door. Join us for a good time!
It is indeed Heritage Days week in Two Harbors! And we will be broadcasting live for the first time from our station’s Heritage Days booth on Friday and Saturday, and from downtown Two Harbors during the Saturday parade.
Thanks to equipment the station acquired through support from the LaBounty Family Fund of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation, KTWH will be broadcasting over four hours of special programming live from Two Harbors’ biggest community event.
On Friday July 7th listeners can tune in at noon for a Heritage Days Download/Preview with co-hosts Jackie Rennwald and Michelle Miller. At 1:30 on Friday the High School Show crew, anchored by youth radio producers Jackson Leon and Sam Knight, will be broadcasting their show live, with a special guest, from the KTWH booth.
On Saturday July 8th there will be a historic and unpredictable culinary uproar when Chef Uriah Hefter broadcasts his Hot Dish Imperative from the KTWH booth at 11am. You can join him in person or via the radio or internet as Uriah takes us on creative recipe adventures. This show will be cookin’ for sure.
The main event will be at 1 pm Saturday. If you can’t make the Heritage Days Parade in person (or even if you can – bring your radio!), catch all the action on KTWH, with Jackie Rennwald and Big Dave Anderson providing colorful commentary about on this most eagerly anticipated cultural tradition. They’ll capture the audio essence of all the many people and groups that strut their stuff at Heritage Days.
Everyone is invited to visit the KTWH booth anytime July 7th through the 9th . It will be facing the Depot on the main drag of vendor village, #41. We will be recording memories of the people stopping by – memories of Two Harbors, of Heritage Days past, of your times spent in the area, family ties, and more. The volunteers and staff will be available to help record your recollections between 2 and 5 pm on both Friday and Saturday.
KTWH will also be hosting a door prize drawing in appreciation of everyone who has welcomed the station to town. Stop by the station’s booth and sign up for the drawing during Heritage Days. Winners will be drawn at random and announced during Monday morning’s Scenic Route show with Jackie Rennwald which airs from 7am to 9am on 99.5 FM, KTWH-LP, also heard online at ktwh.org.
We hope to see you at Heritage Days this weekend!
On March 25, KTWH’s Saturday Morning Mix aired a special hour devoted to encounters with bears and bear dens. Hosts Fran Kaliher and Peg Zahorik talked about a den they recently visited in northern Wisconsin where they recorded the sounds of the infant cubs and their mother from outside the den, without ever seeing the bears of course. These are some of the sounds recorded on two different occasions, January 28 and February 12 of this year.
The first one records the cubs “squalling” = trying to get comfortable, squirming around, sounding a bit like ducks squawking!
This one includes some squalling, then some “chumming” = nursing sounds, not the suckling itself but a sound they make while swallowing the milk; periodic short breaks for a gasp of air, every 3-5 seconds. Sounds like a motor running, or a car trying to start.
Two different cubs chumming, two different “pitches” or frequencies
Cubs squalling with occasional deep breaths/snores from the mother: listen for these at 5 seconds, 36 seconds and 1 minute. Also a grunt or belch from the mother at about 44 seconds.
February 12 now, much chumming, noisier than the earlier visit, mother’s breathing at 10 seconds
Starts out with a lull in the action, relatively quiet, panting of cubs, slowly ramp up into chumming interrupted with gasps of breath, mother’s breathing at 8 seconds, 24 seconds and more
Check out the photo gallery of photos from the biologists’ visit to this den in March at https://ktwh.org/gallery/from-the-biologists-visit-to-the-bear-den/ The cubs are really cute!
We are happy to introduce two new local music shows in our Friday late afternoon line up. They are CoverAlls with Kim Leon at 5:00pm Fridays – featuring all covers, by famous and lesser-known artists across a wide range of genres from rock and folk to jazz and polka and more;
A recent addition is the occasional DJ for a Day, on 2nd and 5th Wednesdays from 7-8:00pm, repeated at 10:00am on Fridays. So far we have had three guest hosts who brought and/or chose their own music, introducing it and playing it with assistance from one of our trained hosts. Two of these hosts have gone on to produce their own shows (Scott Golden – on the program grid as of December – and Kim Leon – whose new show CoverAlls we introduced above), but you may also do it as just a one-time thing. Call 595-6195 to get in line for your turn at the mic. No training is necessary for this gig, a good way to test your enthusiasm for doing your own show eventually.
Local programming is our priority, so there IS still room in our schedule for new local programs – we will happily displace outside programs for good local programming.
If you miss something we changed (mostly outside programs that have been canceled, reruns of them eliminated or the time changed), let us know, we can try to find a slot for anything we should be keeping, but we need to hear from you.
Click below to view our program schedule (subject to change):
And click below for a one-line description of our local programs and many outside programs. Most of our outside music programs have self-explanatory names, so to keep it to one page, we include mainly descriptions of non-music outside programs.
Prog Descrips for grid – Feb 2017
Please contact us at ktwh995@gmail.com or 218-595-6195 with your feedback and program suggestions. Send us your show ideas – want to host your own show or just tell us what you would like to hear?
Submit your show ideaOr fill out this Program Proposal Form (pdf) form and email or deliver it to our office.
The musical term ‘steel guitar’ usually conjures up notions of twangy country tunes rife with lyrics about heartache and romantic betrayal. Steel Harmony host, Paul Hanson, uses his two-hour Thursday night show to quash that stereotype. Each week he showcases a multi-faceted instrument that has a surprising history and has gone through an amazing evolution over the years.
Like most all of the Two Harbors Community Radio on-air personalities, Paul is a passionate student of the genre that he presents to the public. The student becomes the teacher when he speaks about the history of the instrument and the exact definition of ‘steel guitar’ as a style of music. “It was a result of Captain Cook bringing the Spanish guitar to Hawaii. In 1889, Joseph Kekuku applied a steel bolt to the strings on the neck of an old Spanish Guitar creating the first slide guitar style of playing. He would go on to become internationally famous, touring Europe for years.”
Paul also gave a much more inclusive definition of the steel guitar when he said, “It is really a style of playing as much as it is a particular instrument. There is the slide technique of playing using a steel bar or glass bottleneck like the Dobro used by Delta bluesmen. Then there’s the lap, or Weissenborn, also called the Hawaiian, steel that has a squared off neck and no resonating cavity. And finally, there is the pedal steel that most people have come to associate with country and Texas swing music. The pedal steel, in the hands of a true master like Buddy Emmons, has found homes in such genres as classical, bebop, rock, Dixieland, jazz and even Nigerian Jùjú music. It is more versatile than what most people think.”
As part of the core group of former 80’s KUMD DJs and engineers, Paul was involved in the early efforts to make community radio a reality in Two Harbors. As a result, Steel Harmony was one of the station’s inaugural shows. He credits his neighbor, Dave Slatterly, for mentoring him in the rich history of the steel guitar, without which the show would have followed a different path.
Steel Harmony airs Thursdays at 7 p.m. and re-airs Saturdays at 4 p.m. KTWH-LP, 99.5 FM, is a volunteer run non-profit serving the town of Two Harbors and surrounding area with a broadcast range of 10 miles. It streams online at ktwh.org.
