Two Harbors Community Radio (KTWH-LP) is thrilled to present our 8th in-person Cabin Fever Reliever at the Two Harbors High School on Sunday, March 10th. A very special addition to our benefit performance for KTWH this year is the Native Nations Expo in the Great Hall from 1:00-3:00 pm. Cabin Fever 2024 is a celebration of regional musical talent, indigenous culture, and community radio. Families will enjoy the Cabin Fever Reliever Variety Show in the auditorium from 3:00-5:00 pm. We’ll welcome singer, songwriter and story weaver John Sonofmel as The Master of Ceremonies, David Huckfelt, The Oshkii Giizhik Singers, Michael Laughing Fox Charette, and Edward Ojard.
Advance tickets, $15 each or $35 Family, are on sale now at KTWH.org (click the Pre-sale Tickets button on the homepage), in-person starting February 9th at Cedar Coffee Company and the KTWH studios. Tickets are $18 at the door, day of the event. The doors open at 1:00 pm for the Expo and free treats will be available to all before the show.
Tribal agencies and community members will participate in the Native Nations Expo, a culturally themed outreach event taking place before the live show in the Great Hall of Two Harbors High School. We’re so pleased that the Lower Sioux Indian Community will come to show people their energy efficient Hempcrete building products. What a cool innovation! MN Historical Society, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), The 1854 Treaty Authority and John Beargrease’s great-grandson, Mike Keyport, and the Beargrease Sled Dog Race folks will be among the Expo participants.
Here is a snapshot of the acts appearing at Cabin Fever 2024:
David Huckfelt is a singer/ lyricist /activist and founding front-man of Minneapolis indie-folk cult favorites The Pines. An Iowa native and former theology student, Huckfelt attended the Iowa Writers Workshop before turning his attention to songwriting and performing. With improvisational mastery, Huckfelt’s shows and songs of no-spiritual-surrender have earned him a devoted following from small-town opera houses & theaters to national festival stages like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Edmonton and Calgary Folk Fests, and the legendary First Avenue mainroom, sharing stages with Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, Bon Iver, Calexico, Trampled By Turtles & more. An early encounter and collaboration with radical Native American poet John Trudell introduced Huckfelt as friend & partner to an array of Indigenous artists & activists including Winona LaDuke, Louise Erdrich, & Keith Secola, working for climate justice and tribal sovereignty under the banner of music + resistance. With roots in the same fertile Midwestern soil that produced legendary folk singers like John Prine and Greg Brown, David’s new solo work preserves a rugged optimism that blasts through layers of dark in real time with songs that speak volumes, soft & clear.
John Sonofmel. Voted 2017 “One Week Live” Singer/ Songwriter of the Year- Wussow’s Music Cafe, formerly Beaners.
“Dylanesque songwriting delivered with a voice like Johnny Cash.” –Jeffrey Jones, WOJB Music Director, Hayward, WI. “Sometimes it takes traveling far from home to find out where one comes from. From Baku to Berkeley, Anchorage to Ankara, Sonofmel brings the foreign home to the familiar, piling prodigal wanderings and fistfuls of chords into spoken word, stories, and song.” – Sonofmel.
Oshkii Giizhik Singers (OGS) is a group of Indigenous women singers and hand drummers from Northern Minnesota. Founded in 2006, the group has had dozens of Native women and elders from the region sing and share teachings over the years. OGS was the first women’s drum group to receive a “best traditional recording” NAMMY award in 2009 with their album, It’s A New Day For Love and credit that distinction to the many women’s drum groups that paved the way for them. Photo, Nedahness Rose Greene
Michael Charette (Laughing Fox) is an artist, musician, writer and performer and a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe). As a self-taught Native American flute player, he enhances his stories with flute music and storytelling performance. Growing up surrounded by the beauty of Lake Superior and the Woodlands led him to dedicate his gifts as an artist teaching about Indigenous history, culture, and heritage. His work as both a visual and performance artist is varied and tied together by the traditional wisdom of the Anishinaabe people, which is respectfully incorporated into his work. Tales of Laughing Fox are Native American Cultural Demonstrations that consist of stories, culture, history and music from the Anishinaabe Peoples. With over 20 flutes in his collection, each with their own story voices and song. Michael weaves traditional storytelling with his own experiences. Tales of Laughing Fox performs all over Turtle Island and beyond, recently returning from a trip to York, England.
Laughing Fox currently has Native American flute Music albums available: https://laughingfox.bandcamp.com https://talesoflaughingfox.wixsite.com/talesoflaughingfox
Edward Ojard aka “Eddie” of Two Harbors began playing piano at age 3, composing at age 4 and has become a highly accomplished 15 year old pianist & composer. Eddie’s musicianship continues to advance through his study of piano and music theory, which earned him the highest score and special honors in recent statewide piano comprehensive exams. Eddie’s success in the American Protege Piano Competition earned him a spot performing at Carnegie Hall in December 2023. Along with music competition, high school classes, and being a Two Harbors High School JV basketball player, Eddie is busy preparing to release his 5th original music CD.
Two Harbors Community Radio is a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization that operates KTWH-LP, Radio With a Lake View, a low power FM community radio service on the north shore which has broadcast over 100 hours per week of diverse music and community news and information since 2015 at 99.5 FM– also streaming online at ktwh.org. KTWH is volunteer driven, listener and community supported radio. Follow us on Facebook: Two Harbors Community Radio. Learn more online at ktwh.org. Cabin Fever advance tickets may be purchased and donations to support KTWH may be made from the homepage.
KTWH is grateful to area businesses and organizations that sponsor our event.
The 2023 Cabin Fever Reliever Radio Variety Show has been generously supported by funding and assistance from Lovin’ Lake County. We thank all our generous sponsors: Minnesota Public Radio, Cooperative Light and Power, Holiday Stores of Two Harbors (east and west), Judy’s Cafe, North Shore Federal Credit Union, Thrivent Financial, Harbor Rail Loft, Lake County Press, Northshore Journal, Two Harbors Federal Credit Union, Betty’s Pies, The Reader, Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and Two Harbors Media.
