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Duluth’s Trampled By Turtles are playing an unannounced show at the Looch tonight. Mmmm patchouli and bluegrass.
Duluth’s Trampled By Turtles are playing an unannounced show at the Looch tonight. Mmmm patchouli and bluegrass.
Weather doesn’t look great, but it’s sure to be better than last year’s miserable conditions — and that was a blast.
ALSO: This Friday, July 3 – Retribution Gospel Choir, Burly Burlesque + Kevin Craig – $5 – 11PM – All ages.
An outdoor concert featuring Shinedown, Saving Abel, Pop Evil and Sick of Sarah will be held Sunday at Wade Stadium. Read more.
Their new single, “Since We’ve Been Wrong,” sounds so Low-esque. Are the Angelenos acquainted with the Sparhawk family or is it just affinity?
I know it is hard to believe but Purple Rain was released 25 years ago this week and I am going to do a special episode of The Local to celebrate. Leave your stories about Prince and Purple Rain from the mid-1980s. I know many of you have great stories.
The Duluth Playhouse presents “Guys and Dolls Jr.,” an evening of song, dance and fun for families! You remember the song “Luck Be a Lady,” right? Well, this is that show! It’s presented by the children’s theater summer intensive camp on the playhouse’s main stage, and the cast is all kids.
Thursday & Friday, June 25-26 at 7 p.m.;
Saturday, June 27 at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.;
Sunday, June 28 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: call 218-733-7555 or visit www.duluthplayhouse.org.
Students: $7 Adults: $9
Only five shows!
People are speculating that “Running to the End of the World,” a song off Marilyn Manson’s latest album “The High End of Low,” bears an uncanny resemblance to our beloved hometown heroes’ seminal ballad, “Drive Away.” Stick with this story: Controversy (and hilarity) are bound to ensue.
Sacred Heart Music Center will play host to part of the Three Bridges International Chamber Music Festival with a free concert on Tuesday June 16 at 7:30 pm.
I have had the pleasure of recording all of the concerts during this festival and have been very impressed by the quality of the participants. Some world class players are involved and hearing them play in the acoustical space of Sacred Heart should be a treat. Even if you aren’t normally a classical music fan you owe it to yourself to check out this show.
Performing at Beaner’s Central on Friday, June 12, at 8 p.m.
Listen to songs from their debut album Backyard Tent Set at http://www.myspace.com/carolinesmithmusic.
(I particularly dig the track “Clinch My Teeth.”)
This Saturday at Thristy Pagan:
Show starts at 6 with two fab. songwriter/performers. Bands start at 9 and go till 1am. Bring earplugs and noisemakers.
Old Knifey (Duluth)
Will Tolle (MPLS)
Holly Newsome of Zoo Animal (MPLS)
Three Song Sunday (Duluth)
Colder in Moscow (MPLS)
The Fontanelles (Duluth/MPLS)
The Unit Breed (Portland, OR)
Heads up to local musicians:
Big Top Chautauqua is holding another songwriting competition. The long version of the details is on the “Celebration of Song” page of www.BigTop.org (scroll about halfway down the page).
The short version is, you submit two original songs by June 19. Finalists perform on the Big Top stage August 27 and have a shot at airplay on Tent Show Radio, a $100 cash prize and a chance to play a two-song set opening for Suzanne Vega.
Magician Kelvin Saline brings his Magic Village to events of all kinds. Kelvin’s “magical extravaganza” features audience participation, comedy, ventriloquism, and magical illusions which he has been performing for over 30 years. Kelvin keeps to the traditional types of magic and illusions through appearing, disappearing, sawing through a live person, escapes, and several original tricks that delight young and old. Saline performs for corporate, college, school, fair, and community events including weddings!
