August 2013 Entertainment Guide by The Entertainment Guide

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Contents

August Shorts �� 2-3 Exhibits ��4 Theater ��5 Vintage Band Festival 2013 �� 6-8 your source for happenings since 2005

Happenings �� 9-29

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August Gigs �� 29

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Title Fight by Philip Taylor. Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault, is hosting Philip Taylor “Signifiers” Action Art in their Carlander Family Gallery. The exhibit opens Aug. 13, with an artist reception Aug. 16, 5-7pm.

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Getting Down At Barnfest 2013

By Felicia Crosby

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Could this be Minnesota’s biggest block party? If thousands of people gathering in downtown Faribault for live music, games, and a barbeque competition are any indication, it sure could be. Join 5,000 or so of your closest friends on Saturday, Aug. 10, at the 5th Annual Blue Collar BBQ and Arts Festival, presented by Paradise Center for the Arts and held on the 200-300 block of Central Avenue, from 10 am to 11 pm, and see how big it is. This free event includes a home beer-brewing contest, the aforementioned BBQ cook-off, numerous kids’ activities and 12 solid hours of live music. For more information, go to www.paradisecenterforthearts.org

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Is there anything better than a Minnesota summer music fest? How about one that includes some of the best in today’s roots music with artists like John Gorka, Michael Johnson, Peter Ostroushko, the Roe Family Singers and others? And if the festival venue is the outdoor amphitheater at the picturesque Hobgoblin Music Barn just outside Red Wing, and includes food and kid-special entertainment, you have Red House Record’s 5th Annual Barnfest. Held rain or shine on Saturday, Aug. 3, from 1 to 7:30pm, this celebration of Americana music is a multi-sensory reminder of what makes this region so very special. For tickets and information, go to redhouserecords.com, or call 651/644-4161.

Images of Self

The definition and interpretation of “self” is explored in Images of Self, an exhibit at the Northfield Arts Guild Gallery that runs from July 31 to Sept. 7, and features a veritable cornucopia of local artists. Wendell Arneson, Jim Bohnhoff, Lilla Johnson, Marsha Kitchel, Jan Shoger and others create a provocative conversation about who we really are, using mediums that range from paper toys to oil on canvas, with messages that employ humor and heart. The opening reception is Aug. 2, from 7 to 9pm. For more information, call the Center for the Arts at 507/645-8877 or go to northfieldartsguild.org.

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Welcome Back the Vintage Band Festival

In 2006, Dr. Paul Niemisto created a musical event that wove together the histories and heritages of brass bands from across the globe, and brought it to Northfield. An immediate success, the Vintage Band Festival returned in 2010, and it’s back again in 2013 – bigger and better than ever – from Aug. 1 to 4. With 30 bands whose musical influences range from Mexican mariachi to the klezmer music of Eastern Europe’s Jewish tradition to New Orleans jazz to the songs of the Civil War battlefields, this four-day festival features 100 concerts at venues in and around the Northfield region. The concerts are free, but a donation will get you a button and make you a partner in this extraordinary trip through time and place. For more information, go to vintagebandfestival. org and check out the schedule on pages 6-8.

Since the 1960s, they’ve shared the stage with names that read like a musical “Who’s Who” of the American rock scene. From Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Otis Rush, the Blues Brothers and the Rolling Stones, members of the Lamont Cranston Band have performed with them or opened for them, while earning awards and accolades from critics, audiences and fellow musicians as the best in the business. Dan Aykroyd called founding member Pat “Lamont” Hayes one of the best harmonica players around. And on Saturday, Aug. 3, this Minnesota-based blues band wows the crowd at Red Wing’s annual River City Days. The show starts at 8pm and runs till midnight; more information can be found at www.rivercitydays.org.

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Twenty-seven poems have been selected since 2011 to be cast in concrete as part of the Arts and Culture Commission of Northfield’s Sidewalk Public Poetry Project. On Thursday, Aug. 29 at 7pm on Bridge Square, many of the winning poets will join in a community celebration of this newest phase of public art. Poems will be read – music will be made (by Bonnie and the Clydes) and maps will be handed out so you can discover these immortalized words that capture, through the thoughts of fourth-graders through senior citizens, a sense of the spirit of the Northfield community. More at ci.northfield.mn.us/index.aspx?NID=630.

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Owatonna Arts Center – 435 Garden View Lane Crossings at Carnegie

320 East Ave., Zumbrota • 507/732-7616 crossingsatcarnegie.com • M/T/W/F 10am-5pm, Th 10am8pm, Sa 10am-4pm Ivete Castro Martinez, Maggie Sutton: Paintings and Drawings Stolen Goods – a group show that takes liberties with works by old masters. Opening Reception: Aug. 9, 6:30pm with a free presentation about notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory at 8pm.

507/451-0533 • oacarts.org • Tu-Su 1-5pm Patrick Ginter, painter and Jim Colton, photographer – Aug. 4-55. Ginter’s modern expressionism works include landscapes, cityscapes and rock stars. Colton’s exhibit, “Portraits of Southeast Asia” consist of photos he took on a recent trip to Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Artist Reception for Patrick Ginter (with live music): Aug. 4, 1-6pm e

Paradise Center for the Arts

321 Central Ave., Faribault • 507/332-7372 Tu/W/F/Sa 12-5pm, Th 12-8pm, Su/M closed $20.13 Sale – Aug. 6-10 – buy original artwork for $20.13. Carlander Family Gallery: Elmyr de Hory

Eclectic Goat – 413 Division St. S. • 507/645-0301 • M-Sa

10am-5:30pm, Th until 7pm, Su Noon-4pm – Hip Handmade Goods!

Northfield Arts Guild

304 Division St. • 507/645-8877 • northfieldartsguild.org M-F 10am-5pm, visit website for weekend hours Artist Self-Portraits – July 31-Sept. 7. Work of local artists Wendell Arneson, Jim Bohnhoff, Lilla Johnson, Kate Fisher and others. The exhibit is an opportunity to reflect on “self,” its definition and visual interpretation. Work will range from paper toys to oil on canvas. The work shifts in unpredictable ways, using humor as well as heartfelt image to hit its mark. Opening Reception: Aug. 2, 7-9pm.

Chris Holmquist: Ceramic and Digital Combine for Success and Mary Singer: Water, Land and Sky – through Aug. 6. Philip Taylor – “Signifiers” Action Art – Aug. 13-Oct. 1, Opening Reception: Aug. 16, 5-7pm Vranesh Boardroom Gallery:

Donna Carver – Eclectic Recollections – through Aug. 6. Action Art – Aug. 13-Oct. 1 – Opening Reception: Aug 16, 5-7pm Corey Lyn Creger Memorial Gallery:

Portraiture Exhibit by 2013 Seniors of Bethlehem Academy – through Aug. 6

Paradise Center Health Arts Gallery at District One Hospital

How We Become – featuring the work of Libby Koehl – through Aug. 12.

200 State Ave., Faribault Featured artists: Barb Pendergrass, Evan Ishmael, Katrina Smith, Julie Schroeder, Xena Goldman, Jim Foreman and Harry Meyering Center Painting Club.

Northfield Historical Society

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408 Division St. • 507/645-9268 • northfieldhistory.org M-Sa 10am-5:30pm, Su 1-5:30pm Northfield and the Civil War –”If war comes, I’m going!” – Aug. 22-Dec. 31.

Northfield Senior Center Gallery

1651 Jefferson Pkwy. • 507/664-3700 northfieldseniorcenter.org Heaven and Earth, Invisible and Visible – through Aug. 3. Asian brush paintings by 30+ Minnesota and Wisconsin artists from the Ming Chiao Chapter of the Sumi-e Society of America

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16 Bridge Square • 507/786-9393 • studioelements.net Th 10am-5pm, F/Sa 10am-5pm, Su 12-4pm. Fine art, unique gifts and fun junk.

CALL FOR ARTISTS Riverwalk Market Fair Artist Vendors

Pick your Saturdays or all summer long. Affordable at $15 or less/week. Visit RiverwalkMarketFair.org or contact Nancy Stroessner, manager@riverwalkmarketfair.org.

Theater

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Aug. 2-3, 9-11, F/Sa 7:30pm, Su 2pm Hilltop Hall, Montgomery A long one-act musical comedy conceived by Rebecca Feldman with music and lyrics by William Finn, a book by Rachel Sheinkin and additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School. Six quirky adolescents compete in the Bee, run by three equally-quirky grown-ups.

The Music Man

July 26-28, Aug. 2-4, 9-11; F-Sa 7:30pm, Su 2pm Northfield Arts Guild Theater Directed by Rachel Haider. Fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill comes to River City, Iowa, to make a quick buck. Talking his way into the hearts of the city, he promises to form a boys’ band. Little does he know that his own heart is about to be lost. Filled with delightful, memorable songs, this classic musical includes such favorites as Seventy-Six Trombones, Goodnight, My Someone and Till There Was You.

auditions Night Watch

Aug. 6-7, 6:30-8pm, Northfield Arts Guild Tightly wound, ingenious and humorous at times, the layers of intrigue in this mystery are deep and exhilarating. Director Rachel Haider is seeking nine confident adult actors. Performances will be Oct. 11-13 and 18-20.

Footloose

July 26-28, Aug. 1-4, Th-Sa 7:30pm, Su 2pm Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault Presented by the Merlin Players. Directed by Eric Parrish, this high-energy musical is based on the 1984 film of the same name. Ren is forced to move from Chicago to Bomont, a small town in the middle of nowhere, because his father has left his mother and him. He loves to dance but there is no dancing in Bomont. Ren finds love and helps others rediscover the joys in their lives. The show features classic ’80s songs such as Footloose, Holding Out for a Hero, Let’s Hear It for the Boy and Almost Paradise.

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I couldn’t resist the “Hansel & Gretel” story line. Who among us hasn’t followed a trail of poverbial breadcrumbs to potential doom? This one brings me back to the topic of “Free Range Chickens”. Oh how I scoff at criminally deceptive phrasing that leads one to envision scads of hippie chickens leaping through fields of daisies in their Birkenstock sandals... when, in fact, they’re likely only allowed to turn around on a mere napkin-sized hunk of dirt for 10 seconds daily. Well, lo and behold, there is a place right here that raises and roasts what they call “Happy Chickens”! Must investigate www.redbarnfarmofnorthfield.com.

"All you gotta do is get a free range chicken. It doesnt matter how you get it, buy it or hunt it down with a knife. All that matters is that you treat the animal with respect." — Christopher Walken

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Vintage Band F e s t i va l the schedule

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4 days • 30 bands • 100 concerts The Vintage Band Music Festival is here for the third time; it was first held in 2006 and drew approximately 10,000 people to Northfield, and the second one in 2010 attracted 15,000 people. This year’s roster is the largest yet, with bands playing at venues all over town, as well as in New Ulm, St. Peter, Nerstrand, Cannon Falls, Faribault, Chatfield, New Prague, Owatonna and Red Wing. The music ranges from alphorns to zydeco; throw in dancing, a vintage base ball game, a battle of the bands, a Historic Brass Society conference and an instrument exhibit – well, you get the picture. Pick up an official Vintage Band Festival Program and have at it. This schedule may need to be changed due to unforeseen circumstances. Most concerts have a designated alternate site in case of inclement weather. Check the VBF website (VintageBandFestival.org) or visit or call VBF headquarters (17 Bridge Square, 507-321-1250) for any updates. Locations are in Northfield unless otherwise noted. Pre-Festival – Wednesday, July 31

12pm – Lunch, Listen, and Learn #1: Contented Cow Pub Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) 3pm – Archer House Riverfront Gazebo Medevi Brunnsorkester (Sweden) 7pm – Grace Lutheran Church, Nerstrand Medevi Brunnsorkester (Sweden) 8pm – Contented Cow Pub – Eine Kleine Dorfmusik Kapelle (Austria) J. Grundy’s Rueb ’n’ Stein Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) Day 1 – Thursday, August 1

(Roaming the Northfield downtown all afternoon: Matterhorn Alphorns, Schell’s Hobo Band) 12pm – Lunch, Listen, and Learn #2: Contented Cow Pub Oktetten Ehnstedts Eftr. (Sweden) Northfield Public Library Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) 1:30pm – Way Park – Schell’s Hobo Band 2pm – Northfield Hospital – Oktetten Ehnstedts Eftr. (Sweden) Bridge Square Main Stage – Ameriikan Poijat Finnish Brass Band 2:30pm – Way Park – Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band 3pm – Archer House Riverfront Gazebo Medevi Brunnsorkester (Sweden) Bridge Square Main Stage – Matterhorn Alphorns 3:30pm – Way Park – Eine Kleine Dorfmusik Kapelle (Austria)

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4pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Schell’s Hobo Band Northfield Retirement Center Ameriikan Poijat Finnish Brass Band 4:30pm – Way Park – Medevi Brunnsorkester (Sweden) 5pm – Bridge Square Main Stage Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) 5:30pm – Way Park – Copper Street Brass Quintet 6pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Oktetten Ehnstedts Eftr. (Sweden) 7pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Jack Brass Band First Lutheran Church, Red Wing – Kentucky Baroque Trumpets Between 4th Street and the Cannon River, Cannon Falls – First Thursday Fun Fest – Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band Central Park, Owatonna – Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Cowboy Band 7pm – Central Park, Faribault – Dodworth Saxhorn Band 7:30pm – Chatfield City Park – Independent Silver Band 8pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Eagles Club – Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) Contented Cow Pub – Copper Street Brass Quintet VFW POST 4393 – Eine Kleine Dorfmusik Kapelle (Austria)

Day 2 – Friday, August 2

12pm – Lunch, Listen, and Learn #3: Contented Cow Pub 26th North Carolina Regimental Band Northfield Retirement Center – Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band Northfield Hospital Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) 1pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Medevi Brunnsorkester (Sweden) Oddfellows Park Pavilion – Dodworth Saxhorn Band First United Church of Christ – Dolcé Wind Quintet Archer House Riverfront Gazebo Eine Kleine Dorfmusik Kapelle (Austria) 1:30pm – Way Park – Oktetten Ehnstedts Eftr. (Sweden) 2pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – 1st Brigade Band First United Church of Christ – Mark Ponzo and the Cornet Family Oddfellows Park Pavilion – Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Cowboy Band Northfield Retirement Center – Kentucky Baroque Trumpets Central Park – Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band 2:30pm – Way Park – Independent Silver Band 3pm – Bridge Square Main Stage 26th North Carolina Regimental Band 3:30pm – Three Links Chapel – Dolcé Wind Quintet 4pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Dodworth Saxhorn Band Northfield Retirement Center – Independent Silver Band

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5pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band Central Park – Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Cowboy Band Oddfellows Park Pavilion – Kentucky Baroque Trumpets 5:30pm – Way Park – 1st Brigade Band 6pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Sheldon Theatre Brass Band 6:30pm – Way Park – Medevi Brunnsorkester (Sweden) 7pm – Bridge Square Main Stage Eine Kleine Dorfmusik Kapelle (Austria) B&L Bar, New Ulm – Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) St. Ansgar’s Lutheran Church, Cannon Falls Oktetten Ehnstedts Eftr. (Sweden) 8pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Kenny Carr and The Tigers J. Grundy’s Rueb ’n’ Stein – Dodworth Saxhorn Band The Hideaway Coffeehouse and Wine Bar – Dolcé Wind Quintet VFW POST 4393 – Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Cowboy Band Contented Cow Pub – Sheldon Theatre Brass Band

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Bridge Chamber Music Fest

Music Festival 2013 Young Artist Recital

Festival Concert I • Tuesday, August 20 • 7:30pm Thursday, August 16, 7:30 p.m., Studio A, St. Olaf College (this is a free con Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf College • The PARKER QUARTET

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Festival Concert II • Thursday, August 22John’s • 7:30pm Sunday, August 19, 7:30 p.m., St. Lutheran Church Urnessand Recital Hall, St.performing Olaf College Artaria String Quartet WindWorks works by Beethoven, Shostakovich The BRIDGE CHAMBER PLAYERS with special guests Festival Concert II Herb Winslow, horn21, and7:30 Taichi Chen, violin Tuesday, August p.m., Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf College

BridgeIChamber Players performing by Mozart and Brahms, Jazz Concert • Friday, August 23 •works 7:30pm and Andrea Een performing a set of Hardanger Fiddle pieces. Carleton College Hall • LAURA CAVIANI and FRIENDS “Bach to Bop”

Festival Concert III

Young Artist RecitalAugust • Sunday, 25 Recital • 2:00pm Thursday, 23, 7:30August p.m., Urness Hall, St. Olaf College Studio A, St. Olaf College Erin Keefe, violin; Andrey Tchekmazov, cello; and Esther Wang, piano, performing works by Mozart, Kodaly and Brahms. Jazz Concert II • Monday, August 26 • 7:30pm Northfield School Auditorium TicketsMiddle for Festival Concerts are $5, available at the door. SNOWBLIND, with David Hagedorn www.bridgechamberfestival.org • 507-645-9170 Festival Concert III • Tuesday, August 27 • 7:30pm A u g u s t 1 6 – 2 3 , 2 0 Carleton College Hall Northfield, Minnesota SUSANNA PERRY GILMORE, SABINA THATCHER, ANTHONY ROSS and friends

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Vintage Band F e s ti va l Day 3 – Saturday, August 3

10am – Bridge Square Main Stage New Prague Area Community Band 11am – Bridge Square Main Stage – Lake Wobegon© Brass Band 12pm – Northfield Retirement Center – Windworks Quintet Battle of the Bands – Downtown Riverwalk 1pm – Civil War Bands Massed Concert, Fourth Street Bridge Three Links Chapel – Mark Ponzo and the Cornet Family 1:30pm – Vintage Base Ball Game – St. Olaf Old Main Field New Prague Area Community Band 2pm – Lunch, Listen, and Learn #4: Contented Cow Pub Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) Northfield Public Library – Kentucky Baroque Trumpets Bridge Square Main Stage – Eine Kleine Dorfmusik Kapelle (Austria) Minnehaha Park Bandstand, Minneapolis Oktetten Ehnstedts Eftr. (Sweden) Three Links Chapel – Windworks Quintet Northfield Retirement Center The Original New Ulm German Band 3pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Independent Silver Band Northfield Hospital – Ameriikan Poijat Finnish Brass Band Oddfellows Park Pavilion – 26th North Carolina Regimental Band Mill Pond Park, St. Peter – Medevi Brunnsorkester (Sweden) 3:30pm – Way Park – Lake Wobegon© Brass Band 4pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Copper Street Brass Quintet Oddfellows Park Pavilion – Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band Archer House Riverfront Gazebo Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) 4:30pm – Way Park – Century Brass Band 5pm – Bridge Square Main Stage The Original New Ulm German Band Archer House Riverfront Gazebo – Kentucky Baroque Trumpets Chankaska Creek Ranch & Winery, Kasota Medevi Brunnsorkester (Sweden) 5:30pm – Way Park – Frontier Brigade Band 6pm – Northfield Cemetery – Civil War Memorial Sunset Concert – 26th North Carolina Regimental Band Bridge Square Main Stage – Klezmerica 6:30pm – Gammelgarden Museum, Scandia Oktetten Ehnstedts Eftr. (Sweden) 7pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Mariachi mi Tierra 8pm – Most Holy Redeemer Catholic School Auditorium, Montgomery – Eine Kleine Dorfmusik Kapelle (Austria) Polka Dance

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8pm – Northfield Armory Cotillion Grand Ball Dodworth Saxhorn Band Bridge Square Main Stage – The Brass Messengers Contented Cow Pub Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) J. Grundy’s Rueb ’n’ Stein – Copper Street Brass Quintet VFW POST 4393 – Tom Baker’s Mardi Gras Brass 8:30pm – Eagles Club – The Original New Ulm German Band 9pm – Patrick’s on 3rd, St. Peter – Medevi Brunnsorkester (Sweden) Day 4 – Sunday, August 4

Church Service Appearances (see web site for details) 12pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Bavarian Musikmeisters Oddfellows Park Pavilion Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) 1pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Frontier Brigade Band Central Park – Lex-Ham Community Band 1:30pm – Way Park – Swing and a Miss 2pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Minnesota State Band Northfield Retirement Center – Copper Street Brass Quintet Cannon Falls Cemetery, Cannon Falls Colvill Civil War Memorial Concert – 1st Brigade Band 3pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Swing and a Miss August Schell Brewing Company Biergarten, New Ulm Eine Kleine Dorfmusik Kapelle (Austria) New Prague Memorial Park, New Prague Medevi Brunnsorkester (Sweden) 3:30pm – Way Park – Lex-Ham Community Band Cathedral of Our Merciful Savior, Faribault Kentucky Baroque Trumpets 4pm – Bridge Square Main Stage – Oktetten Ehnstedts Eftr. (Sweden) Northfield Senior Center Picnic – Bavarian Musikmeisters 4:30pm – Way Park – Minnesota State Band 7pm – Grand Event Center North Star Cinema Orchestra Vaudeville Show 8pm – Eagles Club – Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany) Contented Cow Pub – Medevi Brunnsorkester (Sweden) J. Grundy’s Rueb ’n’ Stein Eine Kleine Dorfmusik Kapelle (Austria) Day 5 Monday, August 5- Post-Festival

7pm – John Burch Park, Cannon Falls: Music at the Movies – Original Drachenfelser Musikanten (Germany)

HAPPE N I NG S

The last days of July…

mondays: Bar Bingo • 4:30pm

Five Days of Fun Festival

saturdays: DJ Music • 9pm

Spike’s Bar and Grill, Faribault

Rueb ‘N’ Stein, Northfield Castle Rock N Roll, Castle Rock

Chess Night with The Bishop • 7-9pm

Contented Cow, Northfield

All Request Dance Party 9:30pm-midnight

tuesdays: Open Mic Night 7pm-midnight

Free Jukebox Saturday Night

Babe’s Music Bar, Lakeville

Wednesdays: Babe’s Bar Bingo • 7pm

Babe’s Music Bar, Lakeville

thursdays: Water Pong Tourneys 9-11pm

Babe’s Music Bar, Lakeville Open Jam Night • 9-close

Shenanigan’s, Rosemount

DJ Dance Party • 9:30pm

Spike’s Bar and Grill, Faribault

Babe’s Music Bar, Lakeville Froggy Bottoms, Northfield EVERY OTHER SATURDAY: Euchre Tournament • 11am

Spike’s Bar and Grill, Faribault

sundays: Babe’s Poker Tourney 4 and 6:30pm

Babe’s Music Bar, Lakeville Quiz Night • 8pm

Contented Cow, Northfield Four-person teams compete for prizes.

DJ and Karaoke • 9:30pm

Froggy Bottoms, Northfield By Speedo Entertainment. fridays: Karaoke • 9pm

Castle Rock N Roll, Castle Rock DJ Music • 9pm-1am

Rueb ‘N’ Stein, Northfield

Friday, July 26

Owatonna The third of five days of fun – Owatonna-style: ice cream social, old car cruise-in, Crazy Days sidewalk sales, kiddie parade, food, music, street dance and Festival of the Arts in Central Park. Go to visitowatonna.org and click on area events for details. Theater: The Music Man • 7:30pm

Northfield Arts Guild Theater See theater page.

Theater: Footloose – The Musical • 7:30pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault See theater page. Mason Jennings • 8pm

Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota Jennings tackles the exponentially growing responsibilities of adulthood in his latest release, Minnesota. See him perform in this intimate setting shortly before he performs at the Minnesota State Fair. Martin Devaney and Jake Hyer 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Dubbed “the mayor of St. Paul” by friends and compatriots in the Twin Cities music scene, Devaney is an accomplished singer/songwriter with five albums to his name, each garnering praise and attention from the press and fans. He is known for his poetic, yet unpretentious songs and inspired live performances (martindevaney.com). Jake Hyer accompanies on vocals, violin and mandolin. Harmonies with Hyer provide the bread and butter to Devaney’s artful, sincere songs. Diver Dress • 9-10pm

Live KDWB Party Zone

The Contented Cow, Northfield

Shenanigan’s, Rosemount

Adult classes: evenings and weekends

Summer Dance Intensive Auditions for “Peter and the Wolf” Competition Teams ➠August 19-22 • 9am-4pm

open house

Fall Classes for All Ages

August 29, 30 and September 4 from 5 to 7pm. Check them out at www.NorthfieldDance.com

Calling All Preschoolers for Preschool Fridays 10-11am or 11-noon ➠All Summer Long!

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Happenings Friday, July 26, continued Jaded Evolution • 9:30pm-close

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Owatonna This is the fourth of five days of fun – Owatonna-style. See July 26. Riverwalk Market Fair • 9am-1pm

Bridge Square, Northfield Minnesota’s only combined artists and farmers market, back for a fourth season. Local and organic farm produce, art and fine craft, artisan foods and Northfield’s favorite bread and pastries. Weekly mix of entertainment and youth activities ranges from hammer dulcimer music to breakdancing. New vendors always welcome. Riverwalk: The Art of a Summer Saturday. More at RiverWalkMarketFair.org. Antique Road Show • 12-4pm

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Studio A, St. Olaf, Northfield This is the third of nine days of world class performance and cello master classes. Tonight’s cello recital features Astrid Schween. Tickets $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students. More at celloanamericanexperience.com.

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Tavern Lounge, Northfield A three-piece band that covers hits from the ’50s to today, Why Not is guaranteed to get everyone in the audience tapping their toes. With their tenacious ability to string songs together, they’re often referred to as a “human jukebox.” Why Not brings great vocals and instrumentation – and a whole lot of fun – to every performance.

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Owatonna This is the last of five days of fun – Owatonna-style. See July 26 description. Antique Road Show • 12-4pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls This is the second of a two-day event. See July 27 description. My Sweet Patootie • 1-4pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Acoustic roots group from Ontario that brings twining vocal harmonies, monstrous fingerstyle guitar, sizzling fiddle, percussion and abundant chemistry together for the full package.

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Northfield Arts Guild Theater See theater page.

Theater: Footloose – The Musical • 2pm

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Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota With every possible honor including seven Grammy nominations, McCutcheon brings his timeless traditional and well-loved original music to Crossings. A superb instrumentalist able to play the hammered dulcimer as easily as the banjo, the nyckelharpa as well as the guitar, McCutcheon adds in his voice and expert storytelling skillls.

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Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf, Northfield This is the fourth of nine days of world class performance and cello master classes. Tonight’s cello recital features Bruce Uchimura. Tickets $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students. More at celloanamericanexperience.com. Northern Roots Session • 7:30-9pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield An informal weekly gathering of musicians to play acoustic music with roots in the north, particularly the Nordic countries. Participants and listeners of all ages and levels of experience are welcome. Tuesday, July 30 Acoustic Jam Session • 7:30-10pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Every Tuesday night show up with your unplugged instrument of choice and jam – or just show up and listen. Wednesday, July 31 Vintage Band PRE-Festival

Northfield based 4 days, 30 bands, 100 free concerts. See schedule pages 6-8. Noontime Organ Recital: Rosalie Alcoser • 12:15-12:45pm

First Congregational Church, Northfield Organist and choir director at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Rochester.

Traditional Irish Music Session • 7-9pm

Corner Room, Rueb ‘n’ Stein, Northfield A weekly gathering of musicians and listeners who love Irish music. Open to all players of traditional Irish music – come for jigs, reels, airs, the occasional song, good spirits and good company. Listeners most welcome. Cello: An American Experience Recital Series • 7:30pm

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf, Northfield This is the fifth of nine days of world class performance and cello master classes. Tonight’s cello recital features Bo Li. Tickets $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students. More at celloanamericanexperience.com. Thursday, August 1 Vintage Band Festival – Day 1

Northfield based 4 days, 30 bands, 100 free concerts. See schedule pages 6-8. Cello: An American Experience Recital Series • 7:30pm

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf, Northfield This is the sixth of nine days of world class performance and cello master classes. Tonight’s cello recital features Mark Summer. Tickets $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students. More at celloanamericanexperience.com. Theater: Footloose • 7:30pm

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Central Park Band Shell, Red Wing Willie B formed the Willie B’s Blues Band in the summer of 2010 in Red Wing. His style is influenced by the “Crunchy Texas Blues Sound” as well as the “Chicago Clean Tone.” Willie has been gigging regularly with a rotating lineup of musicians spread through the Twin Cities Metro and is a member of the Minnesota Blues Society.

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Babe’s Music Bar, Lakeville Mark Allen and a cast of talented musicians performing favorites from the likes of Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Foo Fighters and Buck Cherry, along with a repertoire of original tunes. More at thekeywestrejects.com.

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Vintage Band Festival – Day 2

Northfield based 4 days, 30 bands, 100 free concerts. See schedule pages 6-8. Dennison Days

Dennison This is the kickoff day of a 2-day celebration. Go to dennisondays.org for the full schedule. Exhibit Opening Reception: Artist SelfPortraits • 7-9pm

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Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota Critically acclaimed and with a starstudded “played with” list, Shawn Phillips has the goods. Audiences will thrill to his voice and guitar. Phillips has sung with the Beatles, recorded with Traffic members and taught Joni Mitchell 12-string guitar techniques. Ben Aaron • 8pm

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Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf, Northfield This is the seventh of nine days of world class performance and cello master classes. Tonight’s performance is a chamber recital. Free admission (donations appreciated). More at celloanamericanexperience.com. Theater: Footloose • 7:30pm

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Riverwalk Market Fair • 9am-1pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls The BZ Girls are a blend of sweet tight harmonies that combine infectious rhythmic and soulful music in a classic style. Carol Z adds her guitar stylings while Tara B tickles the ivories. Red House Records Barnfest 1-7:30pm

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Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls An award-winning singer-songwriter and pianist from Bloomington best known as the singer/keyboardist for the pop-rock group Terramara. Plays original and popular songs in the styles of Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds and Harry Connick Jr. Cello: An American Experience Recital Series • 7:30pm

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Bay Point Park, Red Wing A River City Days concert: The Lamont Cranston Band has been evolving to legendary status since the 1960s. The Cranstons have shared the bill with legends Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Robert Cray, Mighty Joe Young, Little Feat, Delbert McClinton, Koko Taylor, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Animals II, Wilson Pickett, The Blues Brothers and many, many more (emphasis on many). One of their biggest thrills was opening for The Rolling Stones on a leg of their North American tour in 1981. Pat “Lamont” Hayes has toured with Bonnie Raitt as a member of her band on her 1990 “Nick Of Time” tour; blown harmonica duets with Charlie Musselwhite in Minneapolis and was a special guest performer at a private pre-grand opening bash at Dan Aykroyd’s new ‘House Of Blues’ nightclub, where he performed with Charlie and his band the first night and with The Blues Brothers band the next. Current lineup: Pat Hayes (harp, guitar, vocals), Rod Smith (guitar), Brad Pelkey (bass), Jason Kotecki (drums) and Brian Risling (saxophone). More at rivercitydays.org/.

Artist Reception: Patrick Ginter • 1-6pm

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Theater: Footloose • 2pm

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Vintage Band Post-Festival Concert • 7pm

John Burch Park, Cannon Falls Music at the Movies with the Original Drachenfelser Musikanten Band (Germany) Northern Roots Session • 7:30-9pm

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Red Fox Tavern, Lakeville Sunday, August 4 Vintage Band Festival –Day 4

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Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf, Northfield This is the last of nine days of world class performance and cello master classes. Tonight’s performance is the second of two parts of a grand finale. Free admission (donations appreciated). More at celloanamericanexperience.com. Tony Williams • 1-4pm

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Northfield Historical Society The Vicksburg Campaign, the Battle for the Gibraltar of the West is the fourth talk in a series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The Vicksburg Campaign was the battle for the Gibraltar of the Mississippi. Vicksburg was a heavily fortified city that controlled the mighty Mississippi for Southern transport. General Grant used a series of military diversions to confuse the enemy and conceal his true intentions. Grant took great risks, cut off his own supply lines and fought more battles in the shortest period of time to encircle the enemy at Vicksburg. On July 4, 1863, the beleaguered city fell to Grant and led to Grant’s later promotion and command of all Union forces. The program is free and open to the public. Mischief & Mayhem • 7-8:30pm

Central Park, Owatonna A variety of classic rock, pop, R&B and country. Idlewheel • 7:30pm

Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota A creative spark flies between Poco’s Jack Sundrud and veteran singer/songwriter Craig Bickhardt when they get together to perform acoustic alt-country, folk and Americana music.

Tavern Lounge, Northfield A blues original and veteran of the 1970’s British music scene who has played with legendary groups like Supertramp and Mott the Hoople. Egg’s repertoire includes original blues songs, a few classics and a very personal collection of soulful American roots music. He has taken multiple awards at the Minnesota Folk Festival, the Austin (TX) Songwriters Group, the Big Top Chautauqua (Bayfield, WI), the Great River Festival (LaCross, WI) and the Telluride (CO) Blues and Brews festival. Egg is also a seven-time winner of the “mnspin” music competition sponsored by mnartists.org. More at nigelegg.com. Key West Rejects • 4:30-8pm

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Babe’s Music Bar, Lakeville Hits from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s by the likes of Tom Petty to Stone Temple Pilots to AC/DC.

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Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota In the late 1960s Elmyr de Hory was the world’s most talented and successful art forger. In 1967 his chicanery ended in a scandal that rocked the art world, although this monocle-wearing charmer’s artful deception did not end there. Join Crossings and de Hory’s former personal assistant, Mark Forgy, for a free showing of the BBC documentary, Elmyr: The True Picture?, followed by a question-and-answer session with Forgy. Forgy is author of The Forger’s Apprentice. Crossings’ August group exhibit Stolen Goods is inspired by de Hory’s tale.

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Outlaw Run • 8am-3pm after party 5:30-10pm

Bridge Square, Downtown Northfield Start the day off with a re-enactment of the failed 1876 JamesYounger Gang raid on the First National Bank of Northfield. Then saddle up your motorcycle and head to New Trier, Red Wing, Goodhue and then back to Northfield for an after party with prizes and music by Rebel Queens at the upstairs Rueb ‘n’ Stein (5:3010pm). Travel Southern Minnesota like the James-Younger Gang did before the failed raid. Along the route play games at each stop and get a little bit of history of what the gang did in these parts. $20/rider includes an Outlaw Run T-shirt plus a chance at prizes. 8-10am registration on Bridge Square. Riverwalk Market Fair • 9am-1pm

Fifth Annual Blue Collar BBQ & Arts Festival 10am-11pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault Faribault’s biggest block party returns to the streets of Central Avenue in downtown Faribault. Filled with live music, an art fair, a beer garden, food vendors, a home brew competition, a washers tournament, a kids area and a local BBQ competition, this one day not-to-be-missed event brings more than 5,000 people to the Main Street district of downtown Faribault. The festival is free and open to the public. Fourth Annual Sogn Series Label Contest • 12-5pm

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Theater: The Music Man • 7:30pm

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Hilltop Hall, Montgomery See theater page.

Spike’s Bar & grill, Faribault Formed in 1987 this solid rock band out of Green Bay plays under the influences of KISS, Flipp, The Beatles, Metallica and Motley Crue. They are Paul Hanna (lead vocals, guitar), Ben Boncher (guitar, vocals), Craig Hanna (drums) and Josh Krouth (bass). Whiskey Canyon • 9pm

Red Fox Tavern, Lakeville Take a trip to a Texas honky-tonk without leaving the state. Whiskey Canyon is a good timin’ Country band playing foot-stompin’ music to get you movin’ on the dance floor or just groovin’ at your seat.

Vicky Emerson and Mother Banjo • 8pm

Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota Mother Banjo includes KFAI-FM personality and Minnesota Music Coalition’s executive director Ellen Stanley and Vicky Emerson, who are good friends and princesses of the Twin Cities folk music scene.

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Tavern Lounge, Northfield An award-winning singer/songwriter and pianist from Bloomington. Best known as the singer/keyboardist for the pop-rock group Terramara, he is also a versatile solo artist performing both original and popular songs in the style of Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds and Harry Connick Jr. robmeany.com. Bonnie & the Clydes • 8-10:30pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Take a step back and resurrect songs of love, peace and flower power from the late ‘60s and early ’70s. The Bonnie is Bonnie Jean Flom. The Clydes are Bill McGrath and Scott McMillan.

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Wednesday, August 14

Theater: The Music Man • 7:30pm

Owatonna The second of a six days of fun. See why more than 320,000 people went last year. More at www.scff.org.

Steele County Free Fair

Northfield Arts Guild Theater See theater page.

Theater: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 2pm

Hilltop Hall, Montgomery See theater page.

Northfield Noontime Organ Recital: Katie Burk 12:15-12:45pm

Boe Memorial Chapel, St. Olaf, Northfield St. Olaf organ performance and music education 2013 graduate. Traditional Irish Music Session • 7-9pm

Monday, August 12 Northern Roots Session • 7:30-9pm

Tuesday, August 13

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Owatonna The first of a six days of fun. See why more than 320,000 people went last year. More at www.scff.org. Acoustic Jam Session 7:30-10pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Every Tuesday night show up with your unplugged instrument of choice and jam – or just show up and listen.

Owatonna The third of a six days of fun. See why more than 320,000 people went last year. More at www.scff.org. Dimestore Watch • 7-10pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Joe Carey • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Singer/songwriter Joe Carey has been active in Minnesota’s music scene for over 15 years playing with several local bands. His sound is best described as a soulful roots rock band with a twist of twang.

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Owatonna The fourth of a six days of fun. See why more than 320,000 people went last year. More at www.scff.org.

September 13 & 14

Exhibit Opening Reception: Philip Taylor “Signifiers” Action Art • 5-7pm

2 Hot 4 Northfield: Prince Tribute • 7pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Local musicians pay tribute to one of Minnesota’s most famous symbols. Hosted by Jeremy Bishop.

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault See galleries page. Northfield Arts Guild 2013-2014 Theater Season Kick-off Party • 5:307:30pm

Title Fight by Philip Taylor

Matthew Griswold • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Bone-shakin’ voodoo grooves that keep your toes tappin’ and hands clappin’ all night long. His brand of foot-stompin’ folk-rock pays tribute to the Delta Blues with a side order of thistle and shamrock. Expect a repertoire of classic covers, reinvented traditionals and well-crafted originals. More at matthewgriswold.net.

Northfield Arts Guild Refreshments, door prizes, entertainment and brief introductions of upcoming shows by their directors. Free and open to the public.

Wine and Yoga in the Vineyard • 6-8pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls A relaxing evening with yoga and wine in the vineyard. Maureen Farley of the Green Lotus Yoga & Healing Center will be leading an hour-and-15-minute yoga class in our vineyard. Cost is $20/ person, which includes yoga class, healthy snacks and glass of wine. Pre-registration required. Call the winery at 507/263-7400 to reserve your spot in the class.

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Happenings Friday, Aug. 16, continued Hicktown Mafia • 9pm

Spike’s Bar & Grill, Faribault A five-piece, Southern Minnesota-based country and rock party band playing hits from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, from Johnny Cash to AC/DC. Hicktown Mafia is Rob Donner (lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar), Jason Rasmussen (bass guitar), Jody Sommervold (lead guitar), Scott Russell (drums, percussion, vocals) and Mike Solma (drums, percussion). Additional members sometimes include Greg Murphy and Mark Janning (keyboards and vocals). Barb Piper • 7-9pm

HideAway Coffeehouse and Wine Bar, Northfield Singer/songwriter Barb Piper performs classics, covers and originals with passion and expertise from her extensive and varied musical background. Modern folk, vocals/guitar with influences from Hoagy Carmichael, The Beatles and Bonnie Raitt to Susan Tedeschi, Brandi Carlile and Indigo Girls. More at barbpipermusic.com.

Riverwalk Market Fair • 9am-1pm

Bridge Square, Northfield Minnesota’s only combined artists and farmers market, back for a fourth season. Local and organic farm produce, art and fine craft, artisan foods and Northfield’s favorite bread and pastries. Weekly mix of entertainment and youth activities ranges from hammer dulcimer music to breakdancing. New vendors always welcome. The Art of a Summer Saturday. More at RiverWalkMarketFair.org. Kids Party Zone/Customer Appreciation Day • 12-2pm

Carbone’s Pizza and Sports Bar, Northfield Celebrate Carbone’s 1 year anniversary in Northfield with games for the kids, face painting, bouncy house, a Northfield fire truck, free pizza and a drawing for one kid to ride on a fire truck in the Defeat of Jesse James Days Parade. Andrew Walesch • 1-4pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Blues and jazz by “the boy with the voice.” A great variety of classics and originals. Sweet Jazz • 5-7pm

Saturday, August 17

The Contented Cow, Northfield Christina Schwietz (vocals); Peter Webb (keyboard); David Miller (drums, flugelhorn, melodica) and Bruce Jensen (bass). Their name says it all.

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Relativity • 5-8pm

Owatonna The fifth of a six days of fun. See why more than 320,000 people went last year. More at www.scff.org.

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Voted one of Northfield’s best bands. Enjoy power harmonies by twin sisters Linda Wilson and Sandy Jensen (who also adds mandolin, harmonica and percussion) and solid guitar and bluesy vocals by Toby Jensen.

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Summer Family Movie Night • 6:30pm

River Bend Nature Center, Faribault Plant your own seedling in a recycled container and watch a family friendly movie that explores the wise use of resources and imagines the lives of the robots who would clean up all our trash if humans had to abandon Earth. Fresh, movie-style popcorn will be on sale for 25 cents. Charlie Parr • 7:30pm

Hogan Brothers Acoustic Café, Northfield Charlie Parr is an American country blues musician, born in Austin, Minn. His influences include Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk and Mississippi John Hurt. He plays a National resonator guitar, a fretless open-back banjo, and a 12-string guitar in the Piedmont blues style.

Sunday, August 18 Steele County Free Fair

Owatonna The last of a six days of fun. See why more than 320,000 people went last year. More at www.scff.org. Jagged Ease • 1-4pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Regulars on the Southern Minnesota music scene, Jagged Ease is an acoustic duo playing originals and covering many genres from easy-going lounge to blues-driven ballads. More at jaggedease.com. Monday, August 19 Northern Roots Session • 7:30-9pm

Rich Prenier • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Rich Prenier is one half of the popular duo The Tumeni Brothers, covering a wide and eclectic range of music from artists like Matchbox 20, Eric Clapton, Incubus, The Beatles, Alice Cooper and even Lady Gaga. Optimum Trajectory 9-11pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield A jazz quintet based in the Twin Cities. Their repertoire spans jazz classics from the ’30s-’50s as well as contemporary jazz and originals. Band members include Ira Adelman (alto and tenor saxophones), Garth Anderson (drums), Jeff Gurney (acoustic and electric bass), Steve Hillson (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Tim McNamara (guitar). More at optimum-trajectory-jazz.com.

Acoustic Jam Session • 7:30-10pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Every Tuesday night show up with your unplugged instrument of choice and jam – or just show up and listen. 14th Annual Bridge Chamber Music Festival Concert: Parker Quartet • 7:30pm

St. Olaf College, Northfield This annual concert series is held at various venues for a week in Northfield, hosting distinct talent ranging from young artists to internationally known chamber musicians. Cost: $5 at the door. More at BridgeChamberFestival.org. Wednesday, August 21 Traditional Irish Music Session • 7-9pm

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Thursday, August 22 Key West Rejects • 4:30-8pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Formed in 1995, this classical and popular music quintet hails from Minneapolis/St. Paul. They’ve played The Schubert Club Courtroom Concert series in St. Paul, the Munsinger/Clemens Gardens concert series in St. Cloud, as well as weddings, artists’ series and charity benefits. The group has been featured on Classical Minnesota Public Radio’s holiday sampler broadcast. 14th Annual Bridge Chamber Music Festival Concert: Bridge Chamber Players • 7:30pm

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Lonesome Dan Kase • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield For the last 15 years, Lonesome Dan Kase has been playing his unique brand of country-blues on stages throughout the U.S. His live performances showcase both his unique finger-picking style and warm vocals as well as his depth of knowledge in the history of the blues. More at lonesomedan.com.

14th Annual Bridge Chamber Music Festival Concert: Laura Caviani with David Hagedorn and Friends • 7:30pm

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Craig Wasner & Maren Brogger • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Father/daughter duo Craig (Over and Bank Band/piano) and Maren (guitarist recently returned from Nashville) play covers of popular artists such as James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty and Vince Gill. A mix between country, folk, blues and funk. Local Songwriters Showcase • 8pm

Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota This show highlights solo artist Jake McBroom from Wanamingo and Tat Thompson of The Trees, who grew up singing to cows on his family’s dairy farm. They’ll share their original acoustic-alternative folk music. Burning Chrome • 9pm-12am

The Contented Cow, Northfield St. Paul-based band with rock at heart and a guarantee that each song will be a minimum of six minutes and a maximum of, well, somewhere around 18. All original material because the best things are still hand made. Chris Trifilio (guitar, vocals), John Gagich (drums) and Bryan Vann (bass). Influences include the Grateful Dead, Santana, Zeppelin, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Luna, Wilco, The Pixies, Lucinda Williams, Guy Clark and U2. Roadhouse 6 • 9:30pm-close

Friday, August 23

Babe’s Music Bar, Lakeville First-place winner of Country Fest 2013 Battle of the Bands. The band is made up of members of WYLEE, Bordertown and Elegant Mess who decided to get together and perform the best new country and some classic rock favorites. Lead singers are Jimmy Jay Anderson, Bonnie Racho and John Sautter.

Tonic Sol-fa • 7:30pm

Loose Cannon • 9pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault Emmy Award-winning a cappella group. $15 members, $19 nonmembers, $10 student.

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Spike’s Bar & Grill, Faribault Songs from the ’80s, ’90s and today from bands including Guns N’ Roses, Prince, Lady Gaga, Bon Jovi, Journey, Green Day, Neon Trees, Pink and Poison.

Saturday, August 24

Why Not • 8pm

Riverwalk Market Fair • 9am-1pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls A delightful annual event complete with locally handcrafted jewelry, clay pots, art, artisan soaps, wine-inspired gifts, clothing and more. Bring your friends, sisters, moms, aunts and grannies. Enjoy a glass of award-winning wine while you shop local. Brooke Ellis • 1-4pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls A 20-something-year-old singer/songwriter from Hastings who plays guitar, keyboards and ukulele. Originals as well as covers.

Tavern Lounge, Northfield A three-piece band that covers hits from the ’50s to today, guaranteed to get toes tapping. With their tenacious ability to string songs together, they’re often referred to as a “human jukebox.” Why Not brings great vocals and instrumentation to every performance. Stagecoach • 9pm

Red Fox Tavern, Lakeville Optimum Trajectory • 7-9pm

HideAway Coffeehouse and Wine Bar, Northfield A jazz quintet based in the Twin Cities. Their repertoire spans jazz classics from the ’30s-’50s as well as contemporary jazz and originals. Band members include Ira Adelman (alto and tenor saxophones), Garth Anderson (drums), Jeff Gurney (acoustic and electric bass), Steve Hillson (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Tim McNamara (guitar). More at optimum-trajectory-jazz.com. Sunday, August 25 treVeld • 1-4pm

Cedar Paddle • 5-8pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls A group of string musicians producing a rare quality of acoustic music that blends gypsy, swing, old time, Celtic, bluegrass, blues, chamber and Nordic roots and appeals to all ages.

Bruce Jensen Benefit Concert • 5-11pm

14th Annual Bridge Chamber Music Festival Concert: Young Artist Recital • 2pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Classic rock, covers, folk and Jimmy Buffett. The Contented Cow, Northfield Bruce has been a stand-up guy (bass) in many local bands including Sweet Jazz (playing the Cow Aug. 17). Stop in for some great music and show your appreciation to a great guy and musician.

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Thursday, August 29

Northern Roots Session • 7:30-9pm

Sidewalk Poetry Celebration • 7pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield An informal weekly gathering of musicians to play acoustic music with roots in the north, particularly the Nordic countries. Participants and listeners of all ages and levels of experience are welcome. 14th Annual Bridge Chamber Music Festival Concert: Snowblind with David Hagedorn • 7:30pm

Northfield Middle School See Aug. 20 description.

Bridge Square, Northfield This is the capstone event for Sidewalk Poetry. There will be a poetry readings of all the winning poems (with some by the winning poets), music by Bonnie and the Clydes and new walking tour maps will be available. Mark Allen & The Key West Rejects 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield A cast of talented musicians performing favorites from the likes of Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Foo Fighters and Buck Cherry, along with a repertoire of original tunes. More at thekeywestrejects.com.

Tuesday, August 27 The Blue and the Blond • 7-9pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield The Finnish-Norwegian duo from Helsinki – Jutta Rahmel (kantele, vocals) and Vidar Skrede (harding fiddle, guitar, vocals).

Friday, August 30 Andy Tackett • 8pm

Acoustic Jam Session • 7:30-10pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Every Tuesday night show up with your unplugged instrument of choice and jam – or just show up and listen.

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Popular cover songs from many genres. Expect everything from the Little River Band and England Dan and John Ford Coley to Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell.

14th Annual Bridge Chamber Music Festival Concert: Susannah Perry Gilmore, Sabina Thatcher, Anthony Ross and Friends • 7:30pm

Robby Vee • 8pm

Wednesday, August 28

Dirty Word • 9pm

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Traditional Irish Music Session • 7-9pm

Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota Second-generation rocker and beebopper Robby Vee (son of Bobby Vee) brings his three-piece band and pop, swing, rockabilly and bop to town. Spike’s Bar & Grill, Faribault Dirty Word is THAT band. The one that Robby Vee leaves audiences on their feet, stunned and literally begging for one more song. Dirty Word’s playlist is a virtual library of hits that leaves no genre untouched including top 40 pop, soulful funk grooves, rockin’ country, and classic rock and pop hits that span five decades. Plain White Toast • 9:30pm-close

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Mike Toomey: TV & Me • 7:30pm

Riverwalk Market Fair • 9am-1pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault Mike Toomey takes you on a journey back into the ’60s and ’70s TV land. He relates how his childhood television watching has shaped his adult life while sharing his unique observations about his favorite programs and their characters. This multi-media presentation features more than 300 slides and sound bytes plus Toomey’s dead-on impersonations of your favorite TV celebrities. $17 members, $22 nonmembers. Jivin’ Ivan and the Kings of Swing • 7:30-11:30pm

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Signature Bar and Grill, Faribault Classic acoustic swing. Hot licks, stellar vocals and dancing. No cover. More at jivinivanandthekingsofswing.com.

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Minneapolis Irish folk and Celtic music D’Sievers • 5-8pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls A group of musicians from Rochester and surrounding Southeast MN communities. The core sextet consists of Steve Sawyer on bass, Eric Straubmuller on piano, Lee Krueger on drums, John Sievers on trombone, Curt Shellum on trumpet and Dick Rohrbaugh on saxophone. Together they play a variety of music with a focus on improvisation. A Momentary Lapse of Floyd - A Tribute to Pink Floyd 7pm-1am

The Contented Cow, Northfield Local musicians pay tribute to Pink Floyd.

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Relativity • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Voted one of Northfield’s best bands, Relativity presents music from popular artists such as Missy Higgins and the Avett Brothers as well as many classic rock tunes from bands like Fleetwood Mac and John Mellencamp to such varied artists as the Indigo Girls, Damien Rice and Sarah McLachlan. Enjoy power harmonies from twin sisters Linda Wilson and Sandy Jensen, who also adds mandolin, harmonica and percussion. Solid guitar and bluesy vocals are provided by Toby Jensen.

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The Band Days of F. Melius Christiansen Visitors to Northfield’s third Vintage Band Festival this month may be acquainted with the name of F. Melius Christiansen, founder and director of the world renowned St. Olaf Choir from 1912 to 1943. But they and local area residents alike may be unaware of his association with bands and instrumental music.

In Larvik, Christiansen’s musical abilities were encouraged as he took piano, organ and violin lessons. He became so proficient that, at the age of 12, he played a violin solo at a concert and, at 14, was able to fill in as church organist. He also began giving music lessons himself and composing pieces for small bands. But after the death of his mother in 1885 and the emigration to the U.S. of his brother Karl in 1887, Christiansen left for America in 1888. After a short stay with an uncle in Oakland, he joined Karl, who was working as a mechanic in a sawmill and directing a Scandinavian band, in Washburn, Wisconsin. Soon he was playing the baritone in the band and learning English at the local high school. In the fall of 1890, at the age of 19, Christiansen was hired to be director of the city band in Marinette, Wisconsin. He gave piano, organ and violin lessons and became organist and choir director at a Lutheran church where he met his future wife, Edith Lindem. Two years later, Christiansen decided to further his education at Augsburg College and Seminary in Minneapolis after a concert at his church by a male quartet from this school.

Fredrik Melius Christiansen was born into a family of music lovers on April 1, 1871, With plans to become a concert violinin Berger, Norway, near Eidsvold. Joseph ist, Christiansen spent just one year M. Shaw, in The St. Olaf Choir: A Narrative at Augsburg before enrolling in the (1997), recounts that Christiansen’s maternal Northwestern Conservatory of Music in grandfather, Jon Braaten, was “a capable vioMinneapolis, from which he gradulinist and organist” who “laid down the rule ated in 1894 at the top of his class of 70 that any young men calling on his daughters students. He directed a student chorus must play an instrument.” So Christiansen’s F. Melius Christiansen, director of the St. Olaf and was organist and choir director at father Anders learned to play cornet, tromBand 1903-1919, founded the St. Olaf Choir in a church near Augsburg, while taking bone and the bass viol as he courted Oleana 1912 and brought it to international promiadvantage of a growing and active musinence. But the Band had been his “first love.” Braaten. When they lived in the village of cal climate. Christiansen was in demand Courtesy St. Olaf College Archives. Agnes, Anders (a mechanic) led a factory as a violinist and performed for various band in which six-year-old F. Melius played groups, including Norwegian-American social clubs. a three-key clarinet he had received at the age of three. After the family settled in Larvik in 1879 where Anders worked for the glass- On July 14, 1897, Christiansen and Edith Lindem were married works, Anders and sons Karl and F. Melius joined the Larvik Band. in Marinette and moved to Leipzig, Germany, for two years so Christiansen and his brother Karl could study music at the Royal

St. Olaf archivist Jeff Sauve says this is the earliest known photo of F. Melius Christiansen with the St. Olaf Band, ca. 1903-1904. He believes this image has not been published since the Viking yearbook issued in the spring of 1904. Stephanie Henriksen bought this photo at an estate sale and her friend Marie Tommeraas (who had attended the St. Olaf Academy from 1911-1914) immediately identified Christiansen to her. Henriksen sold it to the Northfield Historical Society for what she had paid for it ($30) on August 29, 1985, because she “wanted it to be in a safe place” and knew the NHS director, Beverly Voldseth Allers. Photo courtesy of the Northfield Historical Society.

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during the inaugural term. The first notable music organization to emerge was the St. Olaf Band, which began as a 14-member cornet band at the college on Oct. 5, 1891, and played for commencement ceremonies and gave popular concerts in Northfield’s City Park (starting in 1893). It became a concert band with woodwinds under Andrew Onstad, the first salaried director from 1899 to 1903. In 1899, a Choral Union was organized by Oluf Glasoe. Christiansen took over both the Choral Union and the band, with his primary focus on the 46-member all-male band. As Dr. Shaw writes, “It This St. Olaf College Band, shown here with director F. Melius Christiansen and St. is well known that when F. Melius Christiansen Olaf President J.N. Kildahl, was the first U.S. college musical organization to tour came to St. Olaf in 1903 he took as his first project Europe, introducing both the saxophone and baseball to Norway in 1906. the improving of the Band. Decades later, while Courtesy St. Olaf College Archives. serving as guest conductor of the St. Olaf Band, he told its memConservatory of Music. Dr. Shaw, St. Olaf historian, points out that bers, much to their delight, that the Band was his first love.” Christiansen’s first concern was the violin, which he practiced for Schmidt attended early rehearsals of the band and, in My Years at six hours a day, with no choral studies at that time. St. Olaf (1967), he writes that the band was used to playing one After receiving his diploma in the spring of 1899, Christiansen piece after another “just for the fun of it.” Christiansen, however, joined the violin faculty at Northwestern Conservatory and played was “not at all impressed by the fact the band could play some violin in the Philharmonic orchestra which became the Minneapo- marches from beginning to end without any noticeable mishap, lis Symphony in 1903. While directing a male singing society, the but made every effort to improve tone quality and balance in the Kjerulf Club, Christiansen met an extraordinary bass singer, Paul different sections, spent a great deal of time in repetition of certain G. Schmidt, who became an assistant teacher of mathematics in musical phrases, and – what really surprised some of them – took 1902 at St. Olaf College and later manager of musical organizations. time to show them how to handle and finger their instruments most effectively.” Leola Nelson Bergmann, in Music Master of the In June of 1903, St. Olaf College president John N. Kildahl finally Middle West (1944), writes that Christiansen was the most “electric (on the third attempt) received permission to hire a music director from the United Norwegian Lutheran Church, which supported St. personality” they had ever seen “with his sharp, darting eyes, flushed face and vigorous movements.” Christiansen “demanded Olaf. Schmidt suggested Christiansen’s name to Pres. Kildahl and their best, drove them fiercely. But, though somewhat terrorized by Christiansen accepted the position on a part-time basis, keeping his family in Minneapolis that first year. His duties were to head the him, the boys came to admire him unrestrainedly.” After a dozen music department, direct the band and the chorus and teach violin rehearsals, they could see real progress under their new master director. He increased and improved their concert repertoire and and music theory for $600 a year. also added marching rehearsals in uniform, with Schmidt serving Music had been part of St. Olaf since its inception in 1874 as a co-educational academy founded by pastor Bernt Julius Muus from as drum major. By November the Manitou Messenger said that “interest for the art melodious has taken an upward shoot, and our Norway. Instruction in piano, organ and note reading was offered various musical organizations are in a flourishing condition.” As a climax to his successful first year, Christiansen organized the college’s first musical festival on May 17-18, 1904. On May 21, the Northfield News called the festival “an immense success” and trumpeted in a headline Christiansen’s “Untiring Efforts and Superior Skill as a Leader in Music.” Festivities on the 17th included a baseball game on campus attended by 2,000 in the afternoon (won by Luther College) and a St. Olaf College Band concert downtown in the evening in a packed Ware Auditorium (now the Grand). The program included the Sextet from Lucia by Donizetti, The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss, F. Melius Christiansen’s own Norwegian Rhapsody and the Tancred Overture by Rossini. The News said “encore after encore was demanded.” On July 3, 1906, shortly after the St. Olaf Band’s arrival in Norway, the Student Singing Society hosted the group at a dinner banquet at Holmenkollen, a mountain resort outside of Christiania (Oslo). Courtesy St. Olaf College Archives.

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On the 18th the St. Olaf Choral Union led by Christiansen presented Haydn’s oratorio The Creation at the Ware, accompanied by the Danz Symphony Orchestra of Minneapolis. The Northfield News raved, “This occasion was the

Left: On the 1906 tour, the St. Olaf Band visited Norway’s Prime Minister Michelsen at his estate near Bergen. Right: Each city received the band’s chartered boat, Andenaes, with banners, music and enthusiastic crowds on the 1906 tour of Norway. Saxophonist Herman Roe called the ship “the swellest, finest, newest boat on the coast.” Photos courtesy St. Olaf College Archives.

first the citizens of Northfield and vicinity ever had to hear as large a chorus, accompanied by an orchestra of any repute. It was a feat for the musicians and from the first strains of the introductory the audience was held almost spellbound.” Christiansen had found his life’s calling in Northfield. On May 27, 1905, a touring Student Singing Society from the University of Christiania in Norway stopped by Northfield. Schmidt wrote that before the afternoon concert at the Ware Auditorium, the singers were treated to a lunch on the lawn of Ytterboe Hall: “Two things especially seemed to interest them greatly – the heaping bowls of fresh strawberries and cream and the playing of the band.” Christiansen had arranged some favorite Norwegian music and the visitors were so impressed that they urged their American tour manager, Harry Randall, to arrange a tour for the St. Olaf Band to Norway. Randall persuaded a Minneapolis businessman (Olaf Searle of the Scandinavian American Steamship Line) to make up any deficit. Thus it was that the St. Olaf Band became the first U.S. college musical organization to tour in Europe in July of 1906. They played six concerts en route to New York, including in Chicago and Brooklyn and, on June 20, they left for Norway on the Oscar II steamship. After some days of seasickness in their steerage berths, the band reached Kristiansand on July 1st and continued along the coast to Christiania (now Oslo) the next day. As they neared the city, small cannon blasts from the boat were answered by cannon booms from the Askerhus Fortress on shore.

band boys said, “There were lots of grandstand stunts and some good plays, but it wasn’t the kind of game that wins pennants.” That evening came the first concert in Tivoli, an open air amusement park. The band was to march, playing Alexander’s Olympia Hippodrome March, from their hotel to the site but needed police to clear their way through the tightly packed crowds that had gathered. More than 6,000 people enjoyed the sold-out concert, with one newspaper saying, “It is entirely unique that so young amateurs have been able to attain so much. Mr. Christiansen is apparently a conductor by the grace of God; there is inspiration in his baton.” In addition to marches by Alexander and Sousa and the national anthems of both countries, the band’s repertoire included Christiansen’s Norwegian Rhapsody, Donizetti’s sextet from Lucia, Elsa Entering the Cathedral from Wagner’s Lohengrin, the William Tell Overture and Tancred Overture by Rossini, Schumann’s Traumerei, Macbeth’s Love in Idleness, Delibes’ Intermezzo and Grieg’s Landsighting. The soprano soloist Beatrice Gjertsen of Minneapolis sang Gounod’s Jerusalem, Sullivan’s The Lost Chord and songs by Schumann, Hawley and Martens. At a stop at Eidsvold, the site of Norway’s Independence Hall, Schmidt recounted that an official was so overcome by the “sudden, thunderous rolling of the drums” as the band played the Norwegian anthem that he fell to the ground in a “quivering faint.”

The student chorus from 1905, at the head of a tremendous crowd, greeted the band by singing the Star Spangled Banner and the band responded by playing the Norwegian national anthem, Ja vi elsker. The band then marched to the Mission Hotel and spent the next few days recuperating from their voyage, rehearsing and (on July 3) enjoying a dinner banquet with the student chorus at Holmenkollen, a mountain resort outside of town. On the afternoon of the 4th of July the band boys showed off the American game of baseball, with a fencing mask serving as a catcher’s mask. Schmidt reported that “So far as we were able to judge from remarks made after the game, most people in the audience thought the game too dangerous, especially catching high flies.” One of the

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On Aug. 30, 1909, the St. Olaf Band led a mile-long parade celebrating Norway Day at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle and played at this amphitheater. Courtesy St. Olaf College Archives.

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He later admitted that it was “the most stirring music he had ever heard and altogether too exciting for him.” In Trondhjem (now Trondheim) King Haakon asked the band to play for the royal family, including the queen and crown prince Olav. Prior to a concert in the cathedral where the king had been recently crowned, the band gathered in the cemetery there to honor St. Olaf founder, the Rev. B.J. Muus, buried in his homeland. At Trondhjem the band boarded the boat Andenaes which became their home for 17 days as they played in coastal cities. Near Bergen, the band was welcomed to the palatial summer villa Gammelhaugen by Prime Minister Christian Michelsen and his wife (Michelsen had presided over the separation of Norway from Sweden). And in Stavanger, they were invited to help themselves to canned fish of the famous Bjelland’s Cannery. A highlight for the band and for Christiansen was the stop in Larvik on July 21. The Larvik newspaper said: “We remember him well as a boy…On every 17th of May, and also on other festive days, we saw the little fellow march along with our city band. Later in life, like so many other talented Norwegian boys, he felt the urge to cross the high mountain in order to get more air under his wings. And now he returns to his boyhood home town, a grown-up man, who has brought glory and honor to the land of his birth.” Christiansen’s father proudly watched his son receive a silver Viking ship at a dinner after the concert. Schmidt said the band had been a revelation to the people, since there was limited instrumentation in Norway. The band introduced the saxophone to the country, played by Herman Roe who later became the editor and owner of the Northfield News. Before they boarded the ship back on July 29, the band played three more concerts in Christiania, including one before the local Temperance Society. The Society was quite impressed that the bandsmen were all abstainers. One of the players said, “The drinking class considered our attitude as highly ridiculous; the temperance people considered it as the height of perfection.” It had been a tour of 57 days, with about 10,000 miles of travel and 30 concerts in Norway.

Christiansen led another noteworthy band tour in 1909 from Northfield out to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. This time the band played 100 concerts in 69 towns in 105 days, covering 5,083 miles. The $10,000 expenses were made up for in concert receipts. The band left June 21st by train on a private tourist sleeper through Northern Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and Idaho. They played at auditoriums and opera houses en route to Spokane (occasionally taking on local baseball teams, as well). In Spokane, they had a week’s engagement to play two concerts a day at the Natatorium Amusement Park. The band was hosted by United Church people and the park averaged 3,000 per day, the best attendance that summer. In Seattle, the highlight event was on August 30 when the St. Olaf Band led the mile-long parade celebrating Norway Day at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a world’s fair publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The parade, with sections representing periods of Norway’s history, went through the exposition grounds to an amphitheater where an afternoon program of speeches and band music took place. The band also had concerts in Everett, Tacoma, Silverton and Portland before a final appearance back in Spokane. Upon their return to Northfield, the Northfield Independent of Sept. 16, 1909, called it “the most successful and most extensive tour yet made,” with favorable press notices all along the way. In 1919, Christiansen turned over band directing duties to J. Arndt Bergh and devoted his energies to the St. Olaf Choir, which he founded in 1912. A tour to the east coast in 1920 led to widespread critical acclaim for the St. Olaf Choir which has continued to this day. Christiansen became a legendary choir director, composer and arranger (his arrangement of Beautiful Savior being the best-known and the signature a cappella song of the Choir). His son Olaf Christiansen succeeded him as Choir director in 1943. F. Melius Christiansen died on June 1, 1955, in Northfield. When the St. Olaf Choir returned from that first triumphant east coast tour in May of 1920, Christiansen spoke to the crowds that had gathered to welcome them back. He said, “The choir and band are a natural outgrowth of the culture here. They have grown naturally from a little seed way back in history and like flowers in the woods, grew under favorable conditions. That we were successful was only that the flavor of St. Olaf was given to the world and they seemed to like it.” Years later, a visiting choir director who had been watching rehearsals of the St. Olaf Choir asked Christiansen, “How do you do it?” Christiansen replied, “Work. Hard work. Did you think that God whispered in my ear?” Perhaps Christiansen’s success with both the St. Olaf Band and Choir can be attributed to the flavor of St. Olaf, hard work--and divine inspiration, as well.

F. Melius Christiansen directs the St. Olaf Choral Union and Band at the Finseth Band Stand on the campus on May 17, 1911. Courtesy St. Olaf College Archives.

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Thanks to St. Olaf archivist Jeff Sauve and St. Olaf historian Dr. Joseph Shaw for their contributions to this story. I was privileged to play alto clarinet in the St. Olaf Band’s 1966 European tour, under director Miles Johnson, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Christiansen’s historic 1906 band tour to Norway.

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cannonriverwinery.com, 507/263-7400 Wine Club with a Book Problem – Aug. 22, 6-8pm – This month’s book is Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain. Read, drink great wine and enjoy wonderful conversation. There is a $10 preregistration fee to participate each month. Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota – crossingsatcarnegie.com, 507/732-7616 Classes in the arts for preschoolers through adults. Summer Camps – through Aug. 19 – Worlds of art experiences await at Crossings summer camps. Explore clay, fabric, music, drama, writing, room décor projects and more. Week-long and longer day camps for preschoolers through high school seniors. Hobgoblin Music Loft, Red Wing – hobgoblin-usa.com, 877/866-3936 or eve@stoneyend.com Just Food Co-op, Northfield – 507/650-0106 Mondays: Knitting Night, 7-9pm, 507/645-6331 Lakeville Area Arts Center – 952/985-4640 Find art-related classes for at lakevilleareaartscenter.com MOMS Club – northfieldmomsclub@gmail.com – First Wednesday of each month, 10am, St. Peter’s Church, Northfield. If you are a full-time or part-time stay-at-home mom, this club may be for you. MOMS Club is a local chapter of the International MOMS Club, an organization dedicated to providing support and a sense of community for stay-at-home moms. Northfield Arts Guild – 507/645-8877 Book Art Camp – Aug. 20-23 – for kids grades 5-8. Make paper, a paper vessel, a concertina book, a small covered box, etc. Each class is $27 nonmembers, $24 members. Sign up for the whole series and receive a 20 percent discount.

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4452 40th St W, Webster • 952/652-2700 • Tu-Th 5-9 pm, Fri-Sat 5-10 pm, Sun 5-8:30 pm – Owned by the Ettlin family for 35 years, Ranchero steaks are among the best in Southeast Minnesota. For traditional German fare try the Pork Schnitzel with German beer. Excellent food, fine service, a true supper club experience. The Tavern of Northfield – 212 Division St., Northfield • 507/663-

0342 • tavernofnorthfield.com • Sun-Thu 6:30am-10pm, Fri-Sat 6:30am-11pm, lounge open daily 3pm-midnight. Located in the historic Archer House since 1984, The Tavern offers casual dining with a wide variety of homemade menu items and specials daily featuring fresh fish on Fridays and prime rib on Saturdays. The Tavern Lounge sports a deck overlooking the Cannon River, appetizers and a full bar with live music Thur-Sat.

Mandarin Garden Restaurant – 107 East 4th St., Northfield 507/645-7101 – MandarinGardenNorthfield.com, Lunch: Wed-Fri 11:30am-2pm, Dinner: Tue-Thu 4:30-9pm. Fri/Sat, 4:30-10pm. Authentic Peking and Szechuan cuisine, freshly prepared, dine-in or takeout, since 1981. The Ole Store Restaurant – 1011 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield 507/786-9400 • olestorerestaurant.com – Mon-Th 11am-9pm, Fri/ Sat 11am-10pm (breakfast: Sat 7am-12pm, Sun 7am-1pm) – Contemporary dining with neighborhood charm. Relax at a table with linens and fresh flowers or sit in our cozy lounge. A full menu including appetizers, rustic flatbread pizzas, salads, soups, entrees, steaks, fresh seafood, sandwiches and gourmet desserts. Reservations available. Quality Bakery and Coffee Shop – 410 Division St., Northfield

645-8392 – Opens 6 a.m. Tuesday-Saturday – Owned and operated by the Klinkhammer family since 1949. Quality baking from scratch using delicious family recipes with no preservatives. Custom cakes, homemade breads, donuts, pies, cookies, espresso, lunch and more.

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