Here are some shows, this week, in the Minneapolis/St Paul area.

01/24/2023 Tuesday
Ani DiFranco
with Peter Mulvey and SistaStrings
at First Avenue
first-avenue.com

Highly influential protest singer Ani DiFranco is making a return to First Avenue this January 24, 2023. Her previous First Avenue show, set for August 21, 2021 (as mentioned in July 2021) was canceled due to COVID concerns. DiFranco is making up for lost time with this January 2023 show… which actually kicks off her 2023 tour.

The feminist icon and Grammy winner is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of her seminal first live album, Living In Clip (Righteous Babe Records). In addition, you can get the 25th anniversary remastered edition of the landmark double album on this tour, as well as online through her website.

Also, look for DiFranco’s children book The Knowing, out March 7, 2023, via Penguin Kids.

Peter Mulvey and SistaStrings to open.

Tour dates:

01/24 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
01/25 Pabst Theater Milwaukee, WI
01/26 Embassy Theatre Fort Wayne, IN
01/27 City Opera House Traverse City, MI
01/28 Ann Arbor Folk Festival 2023 Ann Arbor, MI
03/15 Boulder Theater Boulder, CO
03/16 Boulder Theater Boulder, CO

03/18 Breckenridge Riverwalk Center Adm Breckenridge, CO
03/19 Washington’s FoCo Fort Collins, CO
03/21 Commonwealth Room Salt Lake City, UT
03/22-03/26 Treefort Music Fest 2023
03/22 The Elm Bozeman, MT
03/24 Wilma Theatre Missoula, MT

01/27/2023 Friday
Semisonic
with Chastity Brown
at First Avenue
first-avenue.com

01/28/2023 Saturday
Semisonic
with Chastity Brown
at First Avenue
first-avenue.com

Celebrating local radio station The Current’s 18th Anniversary, they’ve double booked Semisonic and Chastity Brown at First Avenue on January 27 and 28.

As soon as the dates were announced, both shows have sold out… although Semisonic said that a limited number of tickets for Friday’s show was released to the public.

We saw singer Dan Wilson in Sep 2017 and said, “Singer-songwriter Dan Wilson has been a Los Angeles transplant for several years now, but Minneapolis/St. Paul still claims him as one of our own, and friends, family, and fans all came out, to fill his recent concert at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. ”

Semisonic wrote:

We’re so excited that our friend Chastity Brown has been added to our shows in January at First Avenue!

Minnesota friends! A handful of tickets for our Friday Jan 27 show at The Current’s 18th Anniversary Weekend with special guest Chastity Brown at First Avenue will be released today at 2pm CT. Get your tickets if you haven’t already!

01/29/2023 Sunday
Magic City Hippies
with CAPYAC
at Fine Line
first-avenue.com

Indie-rock band Magic City Hippies is back on tour in support of their third album Water Your Garden.

We didn’t see the band last January 2022, but briefly saw them with Hippo Campus in Mar 2017 and said, “Opening up the show was Florida’s Magic City Hippies…. in for a treat with the snowstorm outside. Normally a trio (Robby Hunter, Pat Howard, John Coughlin), the Miami-based band was expanded to a five-piece with a keyboardist and additional guitarist. This was the band’s first national tour, and they were super excited to be billed with Hippo Campus.”

Tour dates:

1/12: Jacksonville, FL – 1904 Music Hall *
1/13: Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse *
1/14: Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle *
1/15: Washington, DC – 9:30 Club *
1/18+19: New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom *
1/20: Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club *
1/21: Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of the Living Arts *
1/23: Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird Café and Music Hall *
1/24: Cleveland, OH – House of Blues Cambridge Room *
1/26: Detroit, MI – The Shelter *
1/27: Indianapolis, IN- The Vogue *
1/28: Chicago, IL – Metro *
1/29: Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line *
2/7: St. Louis, MO – Blueberry Hill Duck Room *
2/8: Kansas City, MO – The Record Bar *
2/10: Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre *
2/11: Frisco, CO – 10 Mile Music Hall *
2/13: South Salt Lake City, UT – The Commonwealth Room *
2/14: Bozeman, MT – The ELM *
2/15: Spokane, WA – Lucky You Lounge *
2/17: Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre *
2/18: Seattle, WA – The Showbox @ The Market *
2/19: Portland, OR – McMenamins Crystal Ballroom *
2/21: Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s *
2/23: San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore *
2/24: San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park *
2/25: Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre *
2/26: Tempe, AZ – Innings Festival
2/28: Albuquerque, NM – Launch Pad *
3/1: El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace *
3/3: Dallas, TX – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall *
3/4: Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater *
3/5: Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall Downstairs *

* with CAPYAC

If your band is coming to the Minneapolis/St Paul area, please email details to vu@weheartmusic.com with a good lead time. Thank you.