Mar 2017
National Lutheran Choir
Under Director David Cherwien, NLC sings Johann Sebastian Bach’s "Ein feste Burg ist Unser Gott" (“A Mighty Fortress is Our God”), based on one of most well-known Lutheran hymns, composed by Martin Luther nearly 500 years ago. Bach’s cantata highlights this program of early Lutheran choral music which includes works by Johann Walther, Heinrich Schütz and others.
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Naantali Chamber Choir
The Naantali Chamber Choir perform a variety of Finnish choral music. The theme of the concert is “The Four Seasons of Finland" and includes "songs from summer to fall and from the darkness of winter to the light of spring." The Naantali Chamber Choir was founded in 1978 and has 30 singers. They perform actively in the Naantali-Turku area and collaborate with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America of Naantali regularly. The choir has toured extensively in Sweden, Canada, Estonia,…
Find out more »Oct 2017
Scandinavian Festival
The long-running event returns with Lefse, Krumkakake and Rolepølse. Try treats, view rosemaling, pottery and spinning and enjoy a cup of Kaffe. Proceeds go to local organizations such as CHUM, Safe Haven, The Salvation Army, Damiano and more.
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Happy Holidays with the TPWO Brass
Twin Ports Wind Orchestra Brass presents its annual holiday program. Tickets are $15 for adults, $13 for senior citizens, $8 for students and free for ages 12 and under.
Find out more »Lutefisk Dinner
First Lutheran Church welcomes all to be a “Finn for a Day” at the 30th Annual FLC Lutefisk Dinner. This widely-celebrated Nordic dish has been served at First Lutheran for thirty years and now comes with meatball and salmon options for those lacking the sisu to indulge in this traditional delicacy. Menu items will also include the ever-popular lefse made with love by volunteers in Bea Ojakangas’s Lefse Lounge. Traditional homemade breads and lingonberry sundaes, too.
Find out more »Jun 2018
Twin Ports Wind Orchestra: The Celebrations of Our Lives
Twin Ports Wind Orchestra's “The Celebrations of Our Lives” will feature music that honors celebrations. The symphonic masterpiece “La Fiesta Mexicana” by H. Owen Reed is a musical description of the traditional celebrations from Mexico. TPWO will also feature Michael Daughtery’s “Niagara Falls” and “A Movement for Rosa” by Mark Camphouse. Tickets are $15 for adults, $13 for senior citizens, $8 for students and free for ages 12 and under.
Find out more »New Wine’s Production of Les Misérables
New Wine, a musical drama ministry of Zion Lutheran Church in Cloquet, presents the musical Les Misérables at First Lutheran Church in Duluth. The performance is free; a free-will donation can be given after the performance. New Wine has involved high school students grades 9-12 for the last 26 years from local schools and churches. The Duluth performance is the last before New Wine takes their show on the road, with the fifty kids and eight adults loading a bus and…
Find out more »Oct 2018
Greenlight New Music Festival: Vital Organ Project
Greenlight New Music Festival is a new modern classical concert series focused on bringing new music to the Duluth community. Concert two features the guest composer and organ duo Vital Organ Project from Michigan. The program highlights the modern repertoire and versatility of the organ. All GNMF concerts are free with a suggested donation of $10 at the door.
Find out more »Dec 2018
Lutefisk Dinner 2018
First Lutheran Church welcomes all to be a “Finn for a Day” at the 31st annual Lutefisk Dinner. This widely-celebrated Nordic dish now comes with meatball and salmon options for those lacking the sisu to indulge in the traditional delicacy. Menu items will also include boiled potatoes, coleslaw, pickled beets, lefse and homemade breads, and lingonberry sundaes.
Find out more »Apr 2019
Who We Are
The College of St. Scholastica’s Bella Voce women’s choir will host a Twin Cities-based women’s choir for “Who We Are,” a performance benefiting Safe Haven Women’s Shelter and Resource Center. Bella Voce will perform with See Change, a choir dedicated to promoting transparency and strength among women through song. Bella Voce is a 40-voice auditioned women’s choir focused on providing women with opportunities to sing high-quality and challenging music from all genres. See Change is a 40-member adult treble choir…
Find out more »May 2019
Requiem in D Minor
The University of Wisconsin-Superior choirs and orchestra, under the direction of Michael Fuchs, performs Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor. The performance will also feature soloists Vicki Fingalson, Sarah Lawrence, Jeffrey Madison and Cal Metts. Suggested donation for this concert is $10.
Find out more »A Night of 5/4 Works for String Quintet and Quartet
A group of local string musicians present the American string quartet by Antonin Dvorak, Mozart's String Quintet No.4 in G Minor and Five Folksongs in Counterpoint by Florence Price. The musicians are Kristin Sande and E.A. Wilson on violins, Erik Honkanen and RaeAnn Johnson on violas, and Bryon Klimek on cello. A freewill offering will be accepted.
Find out more »The Two Trees: A Yeats Song Cycle
Composer and pianist Wendy Durrwacther and tenor Adam Sippola will perform The Two Trees: A Yeats Song Cycle. Admission is free, with any donations supporting the production of their upcoming album, which the duo will record at Weber Music Hall in June. More than 19 years ago Wendy Durrwachter studied the poetry of W.B. Yeats with Peter Firchow at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Yeats' words left a spark in her soul while studying piano and music composition. She…
Find out more »Aug 2019
Poets on the Water
Organized by Duluth Poet Laureate Gary Boelhower, this poetry reading will feature Ryan Vine, Ann Glumac and Shelley Getten. Music will be provided by Dave Winchester. Other readers are invited to sign up at the event for the open mic portion of the program. Refreshments will be available. The Duluth Poet Laureate Project is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Duluth Public Library, Lake Superior Writers, Lake Superior College and the English departments at UMD and the College of Saint…
Find out more »Dec 2019
Lutefisk, Salmon and Meatball Dinner
The menu: lutefisk, Alaskan salmon, Swedish meatballs, boiled potatoes, coleslaw, pickled beets, lefse, homemade breads and lingonberry sundaes.
Find out more »TubaChristmas
Created by tuba performer and teacher Harvey Phillips, TubaChristmas' 2019 concerts are presented in more 300 cities throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. Every TubaChristmas performance features traditional Christmas carols, especially arranged by American composer Alec Wilder. The night includes singing and a contest for the best-decorated performer. For those that play baritone, euphonium or tuba, they have music available in bass and treble clef. For more information, call or email Tracey Gibbens at 218-591-0493 or ballade1100…
Find out more »May 2020
Twin Ports Wind Orchestra: The Wild West (Canceled)
Twin Ports Wind Orchestra takes a musical journey into the Wild West.
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Not All Who Wander Are Lost: A Mass of Our Time
The Twin Ports Choral Project explores the human search for meaning, purpose and truth, reinventing the structure of a traditional Mass setting.
Find out more »Mar 2022
Lenten Recital: Karen Hanson Sande
The Arrowhead American Guild of Organists presents a series of five Wednesday-afternoon recitals March 9 to April 6. In the March 16 recital, Karen Hanson Sande performs on organ, with Kristin Sande on violin.
Find out more »Messiah: An American Oratorio
Arrowhead Chorale's spring concert features the world premiere of a new setting of Messiah: An American Oratorio, by Los Angeles-based composer Severin Behnen, dedicated to the victims of torture in the 21st century. Performances are March 26 at 7:30 p.m. and March 27 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students and children under age 17.
Find out more »May 2022
Festival of Nordic Music: James D. Hicks Recital
The three-day Festival of Nordic Music opens with a concert by James D. Hicks devoted to Scandinavian composers from his Nordic Journey series of Pro Organo CD releases, featuring the 73-rank Jaeckel pipe organ.
Find out more »Festival of Nordic Music: Workshop on Accessible Nordic Organ Music
This workshop on accessible Nordic organ music, led by organist James. D. Hicks, is part of the three-day Festival of Nordic Music. The workshop is free; an optional lunch afterward is $10. Register for the lunch by May 1 by emailing info @ arrowheadago.com.
Find out more »Jun 2022
St. Olaf Orchestra Concert
Founded in 1906, the 95-member ensemble has been heralded as one of the finest collegiate orchestras in the country and won the 2013 and 2019 American Prizes in Orchestral Performances among colleges and universities.
Find out more »Nov 2022
Twin Ports Choral Project: All Things in Time Concert
With works both historic and modern as well as traditional and popular, the Twin Ports Choral Project offers a varied program of choral music exploring the dreams, hopes, wishes and wants that mark the human experience. The program includes music composed by Henry Purcell, Gerald Finzi, Gabriel Faure, Maddalena Casulana, Tadeja Vulc, Mari Valverde, Joel Thompson, James Deignan, Shawn Kirchner, Nell Cohen Shaw, Jason Robert Brown and Säje.
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