New Year's Eve-Toast of the Nation

Join us New Year’s Eve to ring in 2010

This year we are offering two choices on New Year’s Eve. Come to both or choose just one.

• Dinner Show •

• Seating begins at 5:30 • $130 tax and dinner gratuity included

Pianist Paris Strother, a rising star who now lives in Los Angeles, will start the evening.  Then at 8 PM, Jevetta and Jearlyn Steele will be joined by Sanford Moore to take us through dinner with style. Expect gospel inflected vocals that blend elements of pop, jazz, R&B and soul. Expect world class entertainment. Expect a show.

 

Jearlyn and Jevetta are members of the gospel powerhouse family The Steeles, and they also have become regulars on Prairie Home Companion. Sanford is the musical mastermind behind Moore by Four and has become one of the most admired theatrical music directors in town. His most recent project was Penumbra Theater’s Black Nativity holiday show.

 

VIDEOS

Jearlyn and Garrison Keillor sing together on A Prairie Home Companion

Jevetta Steele’s hit song “Calling You” – theme from Bagdad Cafe

 

• Cocktail Show •

• doors at 10 • music at 10:30 • $80 tax included

NPR’s Coast to Coast Countdown!

We will ring in the New Year coast to coast as as part of NPR’s “Toast of the Nation.” Celebrate with the fiery trumpet playing of Irvin Mayfield and his stellar quintet as the rest of the nation listens in.

Irvin is one of the creators and the co-leader of the blistering New Orleans band, Los Hombres Caliente. He’s also the Director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and the Artistic Director of Jazz for the Minnesota Orchestra.  He will be coming back to Orchestra Hall with Los Hombres Caliente on Aug 21.

 

• Both! •

• $200 tax and dinner gratuity included

 

Keep your New Year’s Eve celebration downtown and walk
back to a comfortable bed at the Marriott or Radisson.
Special rates available to Dakota guests.

Click the links below to reserve a room now.

 

New Year’s Dinner Menu

To begin, each guest will receive a Chef’s amuse’

First Course • choose from -

Brie and Apple Soup
crispy oyster, green apple, caviar

Belgian Endive Salad
black truffle, black walnuts

Ahi Tuna Poke’
preserved ginger, wasabi oil, black sesame

Linguine Pasta Carbonara
house cured guanciale, sweet onion, duck egg

Main Course • choose from -

Loch Duart Salmon “Wellington”
foie gras, wild mushroom, bordelaise sauce

Maine Diver Scallops
caramelized cauliflower, meyer lemon, sea urchin roe

Hot Smoked Beef Strip Loin
potato aligote, tasso ham, brussel sprouts

Stuffed Wild Acres Pheasant Breast
maine lobster, curry leaf, lobster hot and sour broth

Porcini Mushroom Pave’
yukon gold potato, spinach, chianti reduction

Dessert • choose from -

Egg Nog Croquettes
Chocolate Souffle
Trio of Tropical Fruits

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