Rehearsals start Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 7pm at Woodland Middle School. This is put on by Duluth Community Education. You won’t find a better bunch of people to play with. Josh Aerie is the conductor and does a marvelous job. So, whether you are in middle school, high school, out of high school, college or out of college, or even if you haven’t played since college, give this a try. All your other hobbies cost tons of money anyway. Have fun and enjoy great music along the way.

Seeking all instruments, but woodwinds and brass especially.

No auditions, all ages and skill levels welcome. The ‘semester’ is $36 and you can prepay or do it at Woodland Middle School.

I don’t think this is a band T-shirt, but I did think it was notable. (BoyGirlBoyGirl is a Duluth band that included both Nelson brothers.) This is obviously at Wal-mart.

What is this teaching young girls?

Lake Superior, a huge natural climate change gauge, is running a fever

The warming of Lake Superior has hit the New York Times. Any local news on this lately?

“The Great Lakes in a lot of ways have always been a canary in the coal mine,” Cameron Davis, the senior adviser to the U.S. EPA on the Great Lakes, said last week. “Not just for the region or this country, but for the rest of the world.”

Analysis of several buoys that measure temperatures in the lake reveal that the waters are some 15 degrees warmer than they would normally be at this time of year, Jay Austin, a professor of physics at the University of Minnesota, Duluth’s Large Lakes Observatory, said in a recent interview.

“This year is just tremendously anomalous,” he said. “This year ranks up there with the warmest water we have ever seen, and the warming trend appears to be going on in all of the Great Lakes.”

It was always a joke that the only places you could move after living in Duluth were: Back to the cities, Bozeman MT, Colorado Springs CO, Seattle WA, or Portland OR. Add Los Angeles CA, Las Vegas NV, and Tempe AZ and that was 2008.

Summer is upon us again. Come join other musicians and learn and play on the beautiful shores of Lake Superior. You don’t have to be an awesome musician. In fact, this camp is geared toward amateurs wanting more facility and to play with other like-minded musicians. It is put on by Josh Aerie, who you will remember was named one of the 20 under 40 by the DNT. I went to this wonderful workshop last summer and it was a blast. Great food, great people and a lot of great music making. Ensembles are put together at the camp and it is very low stress. So, tell your friends, your friends kids and let them know about this great camp/workshop. – mevdev

Woodland Chamber Music Workshop
June 22-27, 2010 (full session)
June 24-27, 2010 (short session)
at Surfside on Lake Superior Resort, Tofte, Minnesota
Gichigami Trio and Betty Braunstein,
Artist-Faculty in Residence

The Woodland Chamber Music Workshop is a place where adult amateur musicians of any instrument and all skill levels come together for a weekend of small-ensemble playing and coaching, seminars, chamber orchestra, and fun on the beautiful North Shore of Lake Superior in Northern Minnesota! (Registration and prices)

Also, composer and storyteller Rick Sowash will be there and the Gichigami trio will hold a special concert of his music.