Valentine’s Dinner Show with the Clearwater Hotclub

This event includes a five course dinner with music by the Clearwater Hotclub.

Sam Miltich, a self-taught jazz guitarist born and raised just down the road. By choice, Sam still lives here, performing at a very high level while maintaining his northwoods lifestyle. Sam burst on the scene in his teens as a young lion of the Hot Club sound, joining Paul Mehling’s Hot Club of San Francisco and touring internationally with the world-renowned Robin Nolan Trio. Sam’s fluid and instinctive sound has graced hundreds of stages, from small town bars on the Iron Range to the Lincoln Center. In addition to fronting his band The Clearwater Hot Club, Sam records and performs extensively with both Twin Cities-based and international jazz musicians. Sam is committed to bringing world-class jazz to a part of the country where live jazz performances are otherwise quite rare.

Guitarist Mark Kreitzer has been playing music on stage since almost before there were two Germanys. He has played in rock, country, bluegrass, folk, traditional jazz and Hot Club bands as well as being involved in theatrical and classical music. An accomplished performer on more than a handful of instruments, Mark also is a prolific songwriter, having written a musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s Life On The Mississippi.

Bassist Matthew Miltich is one of ten children of musical parents, bassist Matthew Joseph Miltich and cellist Jean Baird, both music graduates of the University of Minnesota. After military service and college, he began performing with his brothers Anthony and Paul and others, but his jazz career began in earnest when his son Sam began to perform professionally and asked his father to accompany him. Matthew has played jazz in a variety of venues as far away as Japan and as close as his hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

Limited tickets and reservations are available online or at Wussow’s in person before the show.