Unite For Haiti
In partnership with the American Refugee Committee, a Special One Night Performance by: Nachito Herrera Davina Sowers Adam Levy Estaire Godinez Debbie Duncan and many more Special Guests! Join us for this special evening as these incredible talents team up to benefit Haiti. 100% of your $20 ticket will be donated to The American Refugee [...]
Cancelled: Sacbé
Eugenio Toussaint, keyboards Enrique Toussaint, bass Fernando Toussaint, drums with special guests Jean-Pierre Zanella, saxophones Luis Conte, percussion Originally formed in 1976, the Toussaint brothers conceived of Sacbe as a means to explore their Latin-American identity through improvised music. Over 30 years and seven recordings, the music is every bit as vibrant and iconoclastic as [...]
Kelly Rossum Quartet
Kelly Rossum, trumpet Bryan Nichols, piano Chris Bates, bass J.T. Bates, drums Kelly Rossum has singlehandedly engineered countless rewarding musical experiences to people of all ages in the Mpls/St. Paul area over the last 15 years. Creator of the Jazz Studies program at the MacPhail Center for Music, Rossum recently left Minneapolis to pursue professional [...]
The New Congress
Bringing original R&B/Soul to the Twin Cities! Possessing one of the freshest sounds in town, The New Congress are winners of City Pages’ 2008 BOTC “Best R&B Band.” The New Congress are also the winners of the 2006 Minnesota Music Awards for Best R&B Artist/Group and R&B Album for their release, “Everybody Gets Up,” and [...]
Shawn Colvin
“Shawn Colvin is a solo acoustic performer of stratospheric skill… here, the songs are infused with a direct clarity and beauty.” -No Depression Singer/songwriter Shawn Colvin has been the standard bearer for the folk movement since her Grammy Award winning debut album was released in 1989. While her name is synonymous with the mid-1990s Lilith [...]
Roy Hargrove Quintet
Roy Hargrove, Trumpet Justin Robinson, Alto Sax & Flute Jonathan Batiste, Piano Ameen Saleem, Bass Montez Coleman, Drums Pamela Espeland described Hargrove’s June appearance here as “A night of shifting moods, rhythms and speeds, fine solo turns, and fun all around, on stage and in the audience.” She has so much more to say than [...]
Enormous Quartet
Chris Thomson, saxophones Park Evans, guitar Chris Bates, bass Joey Phillips, drums This stellar quartet will focus on original music, overlooked jazz classics, and various points in between.
Spaghetti Western String Co.
The Spaghetti Western String Co., is an instrumental acoustic quartet from Minneapolis, MN that began it’s career in the winter of 2003. Their music is fit for film scores and at times bittersweet and chaotic. They are two-time recipients of Minnesota Music Awards in 2005 and 2006 for ‘Eclectic Artist of the Year.’ The current [...]
Judy Collins
Folk music doesn’t produce stars bigger than Judy Collins. For nearly 50 years she has been performing and recording folk, pop, and art music at a very high level. Her crystal clear, pure soprano voice is just as captivating today as it is on her debut 1961 recording, A Maid of Constant Sorrow. A classical [...]
Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing
Featuring Frank Vignola and Julian Lage on guitars! “One of the most talented and imaginative artists working in music — any music — today.” – The Los Angeles Times A product of America’s rich aural folk tradition as well as classical and flamenco music, Mark O’Connor’s creative journey began at the feet of a pair [...]