Freshwater bluegrass & Americana from the twin ports of Duluth, MN and Superior, WI. Using a bluegrass instrumentation "BRR" has crafted their own sound made up of mostly original music which can be heard on their debut album "Garbage Pickin" (released in April of 2013). Their sophomore album "Spring Thaw" (released June 2014) added another […]

As childhood friends growing up in Denver Colorado, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing were always exploring the outdoors. Whether it was rafting down their neighborhood creek or discovering hiking trails through the Rocky Mountains, Joe and Justin were born adventurers. Now, as the GRAMMY® Award-winning Okee Dokee Brothers, they have put this passion for the […]

Rescued Treasures: Telemark and Ballads from the Middle Ages Enjoy the rare opportunity to hear Arna Rennan, Georganne Hunter and Loretta Kelley performing music from Telemark and Ballads from the Middle Ages. Every song and dance tune has an intriguing story and welcomes you into another time and another place. Arna sings and plays the […]

As a prolific composer and guitarist from DR Congo (later Uganda, Kenya, Dubai and Japan) Siama performed with many of the greats and was a sought-after studio musician, recording hundreds of popular songs during the golden era of soukous music in the 70s-80s. His signature sound and commitment to innovation helped to fuel the popularization […]

Tyler Jameson Pimm is a composer, organist and pianist based in Madison, Wisconsin. He has had works performed at the Northern Illinois University New Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival and the Charlotte New Music Festival. Tyler was awarded a grant through the University of Minnesota’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program to compose new works for the […]

The Twin Cities Community Gospel Choir will be making their way to Duluth for a performance of their concert "For the Love of Gospel." For the Love of Gospel is a 90-minute compilation of the most popular spiritual and gospel music of the past 200 years. From "Dem Bones" to "How I Got Over," to […]

Easily confused and very shy, Charlie Parr has been traveling around performing his Resonator-fueled folk songs ever since leaving Austin, Minnesota in the 1980s in search of Spider John Koerner–whom he found about 100 miles north at the Viking Bar. The experience changed his life, made him more or less unemployable, and transformed him into […]

Joan Osborne unleashes her sizable gifts as a vocalist and interpreter of Duluth-born Bob Dylan's celebrated canon with a performance just blocks from his boyhood home on the eve of the Bard's 78th birthday. The seven-time Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling singer and songwriter, whom The New York Times has called “a fiercely intelligent, no-nonsense singer,” winds her […]

Award-winning organist Dean Billmeyer is in his thirty-seventh year as University Organist and Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota. In this capacity, he teaches classes in Counterpoint, Thoroughbass, and Keyboard Skills, as well as Organ and Harpsichord. Billmeyer has appeared as a recitalist and clinician throughout the United States and Western Europe. Known […]

Thanks to a 2019 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, The Leap Ensemble will present its “Hapsburg House Party” chamber music program at five venues throughout Minnesota in September 2019, including Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, and Owatonna. Soprano Andrea Leap and her seven-member ensemble will perform works by Mozart, Scarlatti, and Handel, as well […]