CD release show at Amazing Grace on Saturday, Sept. 17. No cover.
The Overhead Low is available at all online retailers, locally at the Electric Fetus, and on ryanvanslooten.com.
Please check out the video for the first track, “Rise or Fall.” Hope to see you at the show, thanks for all your support!
The Hope CD, a fund-raising album, is available at Super One Grocery Stores in Duluth, Superior, Two Harbors and Cloquet at the service counters, and also at Duluth Grill.
The singers/musicians on the album are James Moors, Andy Elwell, Sara Thomsen, Kim Storm, Rachael Kilgour, Jane Aas, Bill and Kate Isles, Josh Revak, and Peter Provost.
The beautiful photos throughout the CD case are donated by Dennis O’Hara. All proceeds benefit Circle of Hope for breast cancer treatment bills for patients of any gender or age in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
After an absence of more than a year, I’ll be back at Amazing Grace, one of my favorite places to play, on Saturday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m.
Audio samples from my CD Square One.
John Berquist singing a northern MN folk song about our iron ore industry at the 2011 Wirtanen Farm Fall Festival this past weekend in Markham, MN.
Choreography by Anna Galikowska-Gajewska PhD, Music Academy Gdansk, Poland. The music is Dinosaur Bones from my 2007 Innova release Analog.
5,000+ old LPs and 45 rpm records from the 1950s to 1980s. Rock, pop, soul, blues, jazz, country. 25 cents each and up! Friday and Saturday 9-5. 417 N. 11th Ave. W. in alley.
Here’s the musically enhanced soundscape of the harbor area created for Duluth Superior Pride last Saturday.
There will be art by Avery Cassar as well.
Folk singing legend Cheryl Wheeler is coming back to Amazing Grace! Tickets are $20, available for pre-sale at the cafe.
Sunday, Sept. 18, 7 pm
Amazing Grace Bakery and Cafe
394 Lake Ave S., Duluth
218-723-0075
From her website:
“You may not be familiar with Cheryl, but you have probably heard her music. She is very respected as a songwriter by her peers, which can be seen by how many of them record her songs. Chery’s songs have been covered by artists as diverse as Dan Seals, Peter Paul and Mary, Kenny Loggins, Garth Brooks, Suzy Boggus, Melanie, Bette Midler, Maura O’Connell, Sylvia, Kathy Mattea, and Holly Near. If they think she is great, then you owe it to yourself to learn more if you aren’t familiar with her.”
Christine Hoberg, a singer-songwriter with ties to Duluth-Superior, is looking for people to download a song from Spin/PopChips.com and nominate her to perform at the annual South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX. Christine is entering the contest from New York City, her current hometown. If she is the winner of her city then she will go on to compete against the winning artists from Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle (I know, I know, weird how they left the musical hotbed of Duluth off of that list).
The easiest way to do this is to click this link to Facebook and follow the directions, and yes you do (apparently) need to do this via facebook although you can listen to Christine’s music a number of places online her website, http://www.christinehoberg.com/ is a good jumping off place.
As of this writing, Christine is currently in the lead for her New York City. Being her “real” hometown, let’s push her over the top and keep her there.
Tribal Alchemie (a Duluth tribal fusion belly dance troupe) is seeking live musicians to collaborate with in an improvisational dance/music fashion. Music/instrumentation can be very diverse … gypsy/balkan, middle-eastern, funk, electronic/trance, lounge, what-have-you. Serious inquiries only. Must be available to rehearse a couple times a month. Email ziolatribal @ gmail.com. This is gonna be fun!!!
Two great bands from the Twin Cities and one from Duluth will be playing at Beaner’s Central on Friday, Sept. 2. Show begins at 8 p.m.; tickets are $5. I’m excited to travel up to see them and hope some Duluth peeps will come out as well. You won’t be disappointed!
My wife and I had an opportunity to attend the Tribute Fest this year. It is a concert to raise money for homeless Minnesota Veterans. The organization it helps is called the Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans. It is the first year it was held at Bayfront Park. We had a lot of fun attending, got very sunburnt and gained a few pounds eating vendor food. This is the end result. A handful of 360 images, 20 or so still photos and a 7-minute video clip of the artists. Please consider attending this event next year as all the proceeds go to a great cause. It’s because of the veterans we live in the great country we have.
