We have been fans of Putumayo World Music for a long time now and are still saddened by its founder, Dan Storper’s, passing earlier this summer. Luckily, his vision of highlighting music from around the globe continues with the latest release, Dream World.
I’m not sure if it’s a first for We Heart Music, but last night welcomed the return of a band Horsegirl and its opening act that played at the same venue two years before. Also the drummer in the opening act is the younger brother to one of the headliners. So, a lot of synergy, maybe a perfect trifecta if you could gamble on music.
Except for the lingering Canadian smoke it was a perfect night to be outside to catch The Star Tribune’s Music & Movies at Lake Harriet’s Bandshell. It was definitely a family affair with the movie being Denzel Washington’s Remember the Titans and local favorite Yam Haus playing a 75-minute set before the hazy sun set.
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The raspberry fields are now gone, but the Festival’s spirit was alive on Thursday night as downtown was packed with people there to see the Coronation & Royal Ball at the Hopkins Center for the Arts as well as catch Trapper Schoepp at Downtown Park.
Like the Four Freshmen which we covered last month at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, Pure Prairie League (PPL) has held a similar trajectory starting with its original members and ending up with a completely new set of musicians on their latest tour. In between over thirty musicians have played in the band, some of them going on to have their own careers like Vince Gill, Gary Burr and Curtis Wright.
The music of the 80’s was not on tap when The Beatnik Brothers took the stage at Veterans’ Memorial Amphitheater, but for two hours the outdoor venue was filled with hit songs starting with “Little Sister” from Elvis Pressley. Pretty quickly the front of the stage filled with dancers, young and old, but mostly older due to the songs as well as a retirement community abutting the park.
Salin, aka Salin Cheewapansri, is the Thai drummer. Born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, she tried the piano before switching to drums, busking on the streets at an early age to heavy metal and grunge.
On a balmy summer evening in downtown St. Paul the Twin Cities Jazz Festival kicked off its 27th year. Earlier in the week the Star and Tribune noted that the TCJF is bigger than the Taste of Minnesota and boasts more musical acts than the Minnesota Yacht Club. In fact, there were over eighty artists playing 20 venues over two days and a lot of it was free. So, it was my intention to catch five of these acts at Mears Park.
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Downtown was quiet with no ravenous sports fans or torrential rain filling the streets. In fact, it was a perfect night to stroll to a venue. Even better was the casual scene at the velvet rope as the person in front of me and a Fine Line staffer shared a bonding moment for the patron wore a baseball cap with Snoopy donning headphones and the staffer sported a Snoopy flying ace tattoo on his left arm.
Snoopy has found much love with the Gen Z generation and it was a young crowd that waited for one of the hottest bands out of Chicago (Friko) to take the stage.
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Joseph David Keery aka Djo has a successful side gig as an actor, landing a breakout TV role as Steve Harrington in the wildly successful Stranger Things. But before all that he was living in Chicago, attending DePaul University, studying theater and playing in a band that was the opening act.
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Bob Mould next took the stage and adhered to the above rules. In fact, he blistered through the first half of his set before even stopping to grab a breath.
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