Music
Last call for Expedition Train!
Friday, July 16
8:30pm doors open | 9:30pm board train | 1am return home
Put on your best dress khakis and hiking boots for the Duluth Art Institute Expedition Train! Inspired by the National Geographic Greatest Portraits exhibit currently on view, the Duluth Art Institute is sending visitors on assignment into the wilds of Duluth.
Your adventure begins at the Depot train station where you’ll enjoy live music by local favorites Tryke and two free drink tickets. This is also the last chance to view the Smithsonian exhibit “In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits” for free. The train will depart the Depot station at 10pm and bring explorers deep into Duluth’s unexplored backcountry (if by backcountry you mean Emily’s Eatery to hear music by Kip Jones).
You’ll be given a number of adventure assignments during your trip, so choose your fellow traveling partners well! The train will return home by 1 am. The ticket price includes music, train ride, viewing of the Smithsonian show, and drink tickets.
Call or email the Duluth Art Institute to get your tickets today – 218-733-7560 or getart @ duluthartinstitute.org
Art Exhibit and Show at the Encounter
There is a fantastic showing of arts on Saturday, July 10, at the Encounter, being put on by Nate Adelson.
Art from Duluthians will be displayed starting at 3pm in a gallery upstairs at the Encounter for free. There is a wide array of fine arts as well as photography being shown. There is also a show happening in the red room starting at 6pm that will be $3, featuring 6 bands.
Ashton George
Preston Gunderson and the Crew
Loup-Garou
Polis (from Mankato)
Amauros
Lions&Creators
Come out and support some fantastic local art and enjoy a cheap show with incredible bands. It should be a fun and interesting event, hope to see many of you there.
Northwoods Music Fest – July 17
10am Aurora Baer
11:15am Kristy Marie
12:30pm Mad About Jane
1:45pm James Moors
3:15pm The Fractals
4:30pm Uprising
5:45pm Arcadia
7pm Natalie Gelman
No Summer Music at Bayfront?
There’s Reggae Fest and Blues Fest … and that’s it this year?
After doing a bit of searching, I don’t see ANY other music coming to Bayfront this year. If I am remembering right, there was some problems with starting/ending times of the (very) few concerts held there over the past couple years. Has Secret Service Entertainment totally given up on music there? I have to admit, the few times I have been able to see a show there … kicking back in the grass with a drink or two, and nice breeze off the lake … heavenly.
I’m a longtime lurker, and I trust y’all to know what’s going on in Duluth. So tell me, where did my summer music go? 🙁
Live Music at Bowery Bros. Thursday
Live music with Andy Hauswirth and Paul Newberg going on July 8 from 9-close at Bowery Bros. Radisson, Superior Street level.
Double Whammy In-store Thursday!
We’ll be having two live performances at the Duluth Electric Fetus today! Our July MinnEconomy feature is Duluth’s rising songstress Sarah Krueger! She will be playing a solo acoustic set at 5pm.
At 7pm Duluth band Remote Viewfinder will be playing as well. Come on down and enjoy some live, free music.
Bayfront Reggae Festival – Win Tickets
A free pair of tickets to the Bayfront Reggae Festival go to the first person to reply in the comments with the correct answer to this question:
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
Here’s who’s coming to the Bayfront Reggae Festival stage on Saturday, July 10 at Bayfront Festival Park:
11am DJ Sound of Fujun
noon Max Dakota and Modern Life
1pm Uprising
2:45pm Zili Misik
4pm Queen Omega
6pm Dub Tonic Kru
7pm Tosh 1
8:30pm Michael Rose
An Evening of Music to Support Choice Unlimited’s Arts Program with Lookdown Moon and the Alrights
Choice Unlimited is a day program dedicated to supporting individuals with disabilities and persons who are experiencing barriers to employment and community inclusion. Choice Unlimited’s Arts Program is having an evening of celebration and music to help raise funds to support its programming. It is an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments Choice Unlimited’s artists are helping to make in the community. Please come support this wonderful cause and listen to fabulous music from accomplished local musicians. Bands performing include the Alrights and Lookdown Moon.
The show is July 17, 7:30 p.m. at Beaner’s Central in West Duluth. The price at the door will be $5. We will see you there!
For more information call the Choice Unlimited office at 218-725-5869.
Carmina Burana at Weber Music Hall
The Northern Lights Music Festival will present a rare, fully staged and costumed production of Carmina Burana this Friday, July 9, at Weber Music Hall in Duluth at 7:30 p.m. Internationally recognized Russian bass-baritone Maxim Mikhailov will be one of the featured soloists. Tickets are $10 and available at the Weber Hall box office.
Excuse Me, Princess + Lions&Creators + Tiny Moving Parts Tour Kickoff show!
Lions&Creators and Excuse Me, Princess, two high school bands from Duluth, are touring for the first time starting July 15th at Beaner’s Central with the cool lads in Tiny Moving Parts. Starts at 7pm and admission is $5; it’ll be a really happenin’ Thursday, you should be there!
Hattie Peterson, Coyote and Shaunna Heckman at the Teatro
Thursday July 1, 2010 – 7pm
Compilation CD Release Show
Hattie Peterson | Coyote | Shaunna Heckman
$10 (includes CD)
Teatro Zuccone
222 E. Superior St.
218.336-1414, www.teatrozuccone.com
Artwork by Sarah Heimer
Explore Minnesota Radio
Explore Minnesota and 89.3 The Current have partnered to put together a sampling of popular music from Minnesota bands.
Among the 59 tracks are songs by Retribution Gospel Choir, Cloud Cult, Low and the Alrights.
And, of course, you can hear Minnesota music every Wednesday in Duluth at 5 p.m. on 103.3FM KUMD‘s “The Local.”
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Market Day in the Plaza: SFA Farmers Market at UMD – Every Wednesday!
Fill your market bag with fresh vegetables, breads, bakery, flowers, meats, fruits, berries, eggs, transplants, herbs, spices, canned goods, nuts and lots more all fresh from your neighbors.
Stay to browse handmade treasures from local crafters and artisans while taking in the live local music every week!
EBT/Food Stamp Cards are Welcome!
Every Wednesday!
May 19 – September 29
1:30-4:30
On the UMD campus at the Kirby Plaza Bus Hub
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Break out the jean jackets, Tribute Fest is two months away
Oooooh yeeeeeah, you better believe Perfect Duluth Day is a proud sponsor of Tribute Fest at the Buffalo House.
Performers needed — $$$
Arts on Superior (formerly Comprehensive Arts Planning Program) of Two Harbors, in cooperation with the City of Two Harbors, has received a grant to produce 10 outdoor Friday concerts in the historic Thomas Owens Band Shell on Waterfront Drive (6th St) and 3rd Avenue in Two Harbors this season.
Arts on Superior is looking for North Shore artists in various performance genres for this series: music, storytelling, dance, puppetry, and theater.
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Yesterday in History
Sorry for the belatedness, but I felt I had to acknowledge the 16th anniversary of the release of Guided By Voices’ Bee Thousand, one of my favorite rock albums of all time. Pitchfork has it at #10 in the Top 100 Albums of the ’90s, a tad low if you ask me. I may be slightly obsessed with GBV, but I think this album has something for just about everyone. “I am a Scientist!”
Getting Rowdy at the Grace!
Hey Duluth! You just survived the madness of Grandmas, what better way to relax than some live tunes at the Amazing Grace Bakery & Cafe? Loup-Garou will be kicking off their summer Tuesday night at 8pm. John Koepp will be playing an opening set then we plan on getting a bit rowdy. Come for a sandwich, coffee, or some soup and treat yourself to some trumpet and banjo-filled indie-folk!
Too old to remember anything
Correction to an earlier post:
Music at Chester Creek Cafe tonight (Friday) is 5-8pm. Not at 7pm
Where’s my old-timers disease medication?
July rock shows at Zuccone
A couple rock shows happening at Teatro Zuccone in July:
Teatro Zuccone
July 10
7pm – $5 – All Ages
BNLX (Twin Cities – Electro-Rock duo)
The Surfactants (Twin Cities/Duluth – New-Wave Rock)
Albino Ghost Monkey (Rice Lake – Solo 8bit/chiptunes)
Teatro Zuccone
July 24
7pm – $5 – All Ages
Grey Matador (Twin Cities – Rock)
The Surfactants (Twin Cities/Duluth – New-Wave Rock)
Humanoid (Duluth – Solo Experimental Indie Rock)
Renegade improv comedy follows both shows.
Robert Plant to cover two Low songs
I know Duluth rock legends Low are constantly receiving honors and critical acclaim for their music but it doesn’t get much more impressive than this: Robert Plant (yes, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant) is covering two Low songs from The Great Destroyer (“Silver Rider” and “Monkey”) on his upcoming album to be released in September. So cool, quite an honor!
Source: Billboard.com
Robert Plant Returns To Americana With Band of Joy
Music at Chester Creek Cafe
Locally grown talent this weekend
At Sara’s Table
1902 E. Eighth St.
218-723-8569
Hobo Nephews @ Lucius Woods Performing Arts Center in Solon Springs
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmINmX2DlyE
The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank are playing the incredible outdoor amphitheater at Lucius Woods in Solon Springs — 30 minutes down Hwy 53 from Superior.
Saturday, June 26 | 7 p.m.
Post-Marathon Music with Turbo Rathvon at Twins Bar
Join Turbo Rathvon, James and Younger, and the Real McCoys Saturday, June 19 at the Twins Bar. Show starts at 10. No Cover. Getting drunk and listening to indie-rock is way more fun than hanging around Canal Park after the race and you know it!
The New Standards at Sacred Heart
With special guest Kip Jones
Saturday June 26, 2010 7:30 pm
$10 in advance $12 at the door
Tickets online at sacredheartmusic.org or at the Electric Fetus
Featuring Chan Poling of the Suburbs, John Munson from Semisonic and Steve Roehm of Electropolis in their Duluth debut performance.