Artist Profiles

Yesterday’s students become tomorrow’s stars quickly these days, and this trio is on the fast track. Hear this multiple Dakota Foundation Jazz Piano Competition Winner with former high school colleagues bassist Chris Smith (taking t […]

Kathleen Johnson, a/k/a/ Druscilla Abernathy, once lit up area stages with her sisters in Best Kept Secret. She’s kept that flame going with the BKS Vine and this weekend it’ll burn with new intensity. If you’re looking for a party, this is the plac […]

“A true authentic New Orleans dance-hall style band” -New Orleans Traditional Jazz Quarterly

Southside Aces perform traditional New Orleans jazz. The band first began as the brainchild of Clarinetist Tony Balluff and […]

At only 4’ 11”, Paris Bennett may be pint-sized. But she definitely packs a wallop when it comes to singing. The national television audience got a taste of what she can deliver when Bennett auditioned and later became one of the 24 contestants o […]

The Dakota is open for Gift Card sales, noon to 4:30pm!

There is still time to get gift cards for holiday gifts to be used for lunch, dinner or nightly shows.

The Dakota is closed on the 24th but there are still tickets for Th […]

With Special Guest Dustin Bentall

Newfoundland-based singer/songwriter Alan Doyle was already a successful solo artist when he founded Great Big Sea. As the group’s main vocalist, Doyle has taken his music to mil […]

The Drift Benders are the combination and collaboration of two singer-songwriter guitar slingers; Joey Molland of Apple recording artists Badfinger and Phil Solem of Atco/Atlantic recording artists The Rembrandts. T […]

Those of you with good memories may recall Tom Lieberman as the tallest member of the seminal jazz trio Rio Nido… Those of you who are fans of A Prairie Home Companion may remember Tom as the voice of “El Muchacho Allegre (Happy Boy) Ajua-brand H […]

Jon Anderson is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable voices in progressive rock as the lead vocalist and creative force behind Yes. Anderson was the author and a major creative influence behind the series of epics produced by Yes […]

Coming together in the Spring of 2008 after meeting at Columbia College in Chicago, Sidewalk Chalk is rapidly emerging as a shining star in the burgeoning Chicago hip-hop scene.

Fronted by MC K’neqta Dots (Rico Sisney) and vocalist S-Star (Margare […]