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Contents

Exhibits ��2-3 Theater ��4 Happenings �� 5-31

your source for happenings since 2005

Special Music Section.................... 35-45

Vol. 10, Issue 6

Historic Happenings: The Sensational Gary Rue ��47-52

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Clubs, Classes & More ��53

June 2015

Dining �� 54-55

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206 1st St. N., Montgomery • 507/364-5933 or 507/364-8110 artsandheritagecenter.org • Th-F 2-5pm, Sa 9am-12pm

Crossings at Carnegie

320 East Ave., Zumbrota • 507/732-7616 crossingsatcarnegie.com • M/T/W/F 10am-5pm, Th 10am-8pm, Sa 10am-4pm Kat Corrigan and Cynthia Starkweather-Nelson – through June 20 – paintings. Amy Rice and Kim Gordon – June 22-Aug. 1 – paintings.

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Flaten Art Museum

920 MN Hwy 19, Red Wing • 651/388-8400 • stoneyend.com M-Sa 10am-5pm. Mark Abrahamson Photography – Abrahamson, from the Pacific Northwest, recently moved to Red Wing and established a studio at the Anderson Center. He has more than 60 pieces on display, including works in mixed media collages and aerial landscapes, as well as samples of an ongoing series of photographs called American River Watersheds.

Lakeville Area Arts Center

20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville • 952/985-4640 LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com – M-F 8am-4:30pm

Northfield Arts Guild

304 Division St. • 507/645-8877 • northfieldartsguild.org M-F 10am-5pm, visit website for weekend hours. The Archer House gallery is open all day, year round. Main Gallery: Northfield High School Honors Art: Beyond the Fridge – through June 13. Nick Sinclair and Jennifer Wolcott – June 26-July 25 – Artists’ Reception – June 26, 7-9pm The Archer House and Up Galleries: A+ Art Club exhibit – through June 23.

Northfield Arts Guild at Allina Clinic

1440 Jefferson Rd. • M-T 7am-8pm, F 7am-7pm, Sa 9am-3pm Fiber Art by Northfield artist Jill Ewald – through May 31.

Dittmann Center, St. Olaf • wp.stolaf.edu/flaten/ 507/786-3556 • M/T/W/F 10am-5pm, Th 10am-8pm, Sa/Su 2-5pm

Books &Stars Community-wide entertainment series held at various parks on Wednesday evenings from 7-8pm in June, July & August. Booker opens at 6:30.

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VOLUMES 2 & 3 Selected Entertainment Guide columns by Susan Hvistendahl

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Made possible by a grant from Myrtle Houston Fund and the Northfield Historical Society.

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Northfield Historical Society

408 Division St. • 507/645-9268 • northfieldhistory.org M-Sa 10am-5:30pm, Su 1-5:30pm 40 for 40 – through mid-June – The Historical Society is celebrating its 40th anniversary with this selection of unique, surprising, ordinary and iconic objects, donated over the years. Henry Wheeler Display – Opening June 16 – Includes the .50 caliber Smith Carbine Wheeler used to kill Clell Miller and wound Bob Younger during the failed 1876 bank raid by the James-Younger Gang, the watch Wheeler received from the First National Bank of Northfield in appreciation for his actions during the robbery and a Smith and Wesson .38 caliber revolver Wheeler carried with him for the rest of his life. Opening Reception – June 16, 7pm 40 for 40 – New display Opening Reception – June 30, 7pm

Northfield Senior Center Gallery 1651 Jefferson Pkwy. • 507/664-3700 northfieldseniorcenter.org

Exhibit dates: June 23-Aug. 4 Opening and Artists Reception: June 26, 5-7pm Carlander Family Gallery: 4 Color – Andrea Costopoulos, HeeJune Shin, Patricia Dunn Walker, Dr. Monika L. Gloviczki

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200 State Ave., Faribault Featured artists: Karen Peters, Joel Timm, Susanne Crane, Ivan Whillock, Dale Brown and Sandra Spellman

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Owatonna Arts Center

435 Garden View Ln., Owatonna • 507/451-0533 oacarts.org • 1-5pm, closed Mondays Steele County Exhibition – through May 31 Artist Paul Walech Roth – June 7-28–Water lilies and abstract paintings. Opening reception – June 7, 1-5 pm. Allina Hospital Owatonna – Sharon Drager photos, Ernest Gillma drawings, Mary Mittlestadt textiles, Karen Peters prints, Jean Zamboni prints and FOCI Minnesota Center for Glass Arts.

Paradise Center for the Arts

321 Central Ave., Faribault • 507/332-7372 Tu/W/F/Sa 12-5pm, Th 12-8pm • Su/M closed Exhibit dates: through June 23 Carlander Family Gallery: Melting Point: Karen Peters and Justin Peters Lois Vranesh Boardroom Gallery: Daniel Ruf Corey Lyn Creger Memorial Gallery: Samantha Paquette

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Betty’s Summer Vacation

May 29-June 1, June 4-7, Th-Sa, M 7:30pm, Su 2pm Ames Center, Burnsville Ah, the joys of summer. Warm breezes, the beach, playing charades with the roommate who just might be a serial killer...and the crazy landlady who invites a seedy stranger over for dinner. Not to mention the mysterious laughing voices in the ceiling. What twist of fate brought a nice girl like Betty into this house full of insanity? Is it uproariously funny or unbearably horrible? You decide. Tickets: $22 adults, $19 students seniors fringe button holders and groups of eight or more, $16 groups of 20 or more. Tickets available at the Ames Center box office, 800/982-2787 or ticketmaster. com. Amadeus

June 12-14, 18-20, Th-Sa 7:30pm, Su 2pm Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault Amadeus, a play by Peter Shaffer, gives a highly fictionalized account of the lives of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. Significant use is made of music of Mozart, Salieri and other composers of the period. The premieres of Mozart’s operas The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute are each the setting for key scenes of the play. Amadeus won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play. It was adapted by Shaffer for the 1984 Academy Award-winning film of the same name. Tickets: $14 members, $15 non-members, $10 students. Available at the box office or 507/332-7372, Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5pm, Thursdays until 8. The Producers

June 18-21, 25-27, Th-Sa 7:30pm, Su 2pm Little Theatre of Owatonna This Mel Brooks comedy tells the tale of Max Bialystock, a downon-his-luck Broadway producer who has produced flop after flop after flop. Then he meets Leo Bloom, a forever-frightened accountant who discovers that a producer could actually make more money by producing a flop rather than a hit. With that, the duo sets out to find the worst play ever written and hire the worst director and worst actors to be a part of the production. Of course, things don’t quite work out as they expect. Mel Brooks first conceived the story back in the 1960s, when it was made into a movie for which Brooks won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It also marked the directorial debut of Brooks – the man responsible for Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. In 2001, Brooks, along with Thomas Meehan, adapted his screenplay of The Producers for the stage as a musical, with book by Brooks and Meehan and music and lyrics by Brooks. The musical went on to win a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards. Tickets: $14 adults, $10 students, available at 507/451-0764, ticket-e-split.com or at the box office.

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Macbeth

June 19-21, 25-27, 7:30pm Central Park, Northfield Witches and prophesies – ghosts and murder – intrigue, treachery and war – this supernatural drama has it all. One of the best-known of William Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth, or the “Scottish Play,” is exciting, action-driven, classic theater at its best. Enjoy this thrilling tale in Northfield’s beautiful Central Park. Tickets: $17 adults, $12 students and seniors. Available at 507/645-8877. Notes on Broadway, The Great White Way

June 26, 7:30pm Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault A composer and author set out to write the next great musical having no idea of where to start. From the earliest inceptions of musical theater to the most familiar and obscure, this entertaining “review” of musical theater will have you laughing, reminiscing and learning how the art form came to what it is today. Tickets: $15 members, $20 non-members, $10 students. Available at the box office or 507/332-7372, Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5pm, Thursdays until 8. Baba Yaga

June 26-27, 7pm; June 27-28, 2pm Lakeville Area Arts Center When a peasant named Ivan returns home with a potion to cure his ailing father all seems well – until the Czar of Russia drinks it instead. Feeling rather giddy, the Czar decrees to give half his kingdom to anyone who can bring him the rarest gift he’s ever seen. Presented by Children’s Castle Theater. Tickets: $13 adults, $10 seniors and children under 10. Available at 952/985-4640.

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The last days of May…

MONDAYS: Bingo • 7pm

Brick Oven Pizza & Mark Allen • 4-8:30pm

FRIDAYS: Family Movie Night 5 and 7:30pm

Carbone’s, Northfield

HideAway, Northfield 5pm family movie, 7:30pm movie for adults. Free popcorn.

Cribbage Tourney • 7pm

Northfield VFW

TUESDAYS: Texas Holdem • 7pm

Bar Bingo • 7pm

L&M Bar & Grill, Dundas

Dawn’s Corner Bar, Dundas WEDNESDAYS: Brick Oven Pizza • 4-8:30pm

Texas Holdem Tourney 8pm

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27

Red Barn Farm, Northfield Enjoy live music and brick oven pizza baked to order with toppings from the farm’s chemical-free garden and local meats. Bring your own chair/blanket, beverage, plate and napkin. Mark Allen (of the Key West Rejects) brings his usual mix of acoustic country and rock, mixing in the occasional original song, too. Allen’s good-time charm and perfect song selection always make for a fun night. Traditional Irish Music Session  7-9pm

Red Barn Farm, Northfield BYO beverage, plate, chair/ blanket.

Northfield VFW

Rueb ‘N’ Stein, Northfield

Corner Room, Rueb ‘n’ Stein, Northfield A gathering of musicians and listeners in a relaxed, informal setting. Along with the music enjoy conversation, camaraderie and perhaps even a few Irish dance steps.

CowQuiz • 7:30pm

SATURDAYS: Bar Bingo • 3pm

THURSDAY, MAY 28

Bar Bingo • 7pm

Toward a Lasting Peace: Sherman, Johnston and the “Astonishing Close” to the Civil War In North Carolina • 6:30pm

DJ • 9-11pm

Contented Cow, Northfield Free. Pub prizes. Teams of up to four.

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DJTV • 10pm

Contented Cow, Northfield DJ Terry VanDeWalker.

DJ • 9pm-1am

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THURSDAYS: Commanders Coffee • 10am

Northfield VFW Have coffee with some of the bravest veterans of foreign wars. Public welcome. Bar Bingo • 6pm

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Free Jukebox Sat Night Froggy Bottoms, Northfield SUNDAYS: Quiz Night • 8pm

Rueb ‘N’ Stein, Northfield Teams compete for prizes and bragging rights. $5/team. $1 off drinks. 3rd Sunday Pizza 11:30am-3:30pm

Red Barn Farm, Northfield See Wednesday description.

Old Crow Medicine Show • 7pm

Vetter Stone Amphitheater, Mankato From busking on Doc Watson’s old street corner in North Carolina to induction into the Grand Ole Opry, Old Crow Medicine Show has powered an old-time string sound revival with punk rock energy. Special guest The Devil Makes Three. All ages. Tickets $35. More at vetterstoneamphitheater.com. Mark Mraz • 8pm

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Northfield Historical Society A 150th Anniversary talk by Karl Fredrickson, using letters of soldiers, officers and civilians to recreate the mood of those last days and to reflect on how those events led to the reshaping of the Union. It was indeed, as Major Hitchcock wrote to his wife from Raleigh, an “astonishing close.”

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Everybody’s favorite piano man tickles the ivories and performs favorite sing-along songs, golden oldies and classic covers from the pop music archives. More at mrazbrothers.com. MayFly Music Festival • 9-11pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield This is the first of a three-day event. Live music from Mark Allen. FRIDAY, MAY 29 Smokin’ in Steele • 11am-midnight

Steele County Fairgrounds, Owatonna Two days of blues music by Fabulous Love Handles, Rachelle Coba, Dave Lampert and the Motivators, The Swamp Kings, Blue Rooster, the Joanna Connor Band, the Mark Cameron Band, Mike Fugazzi, Ray Fuller & the Blues Rockers, and Bobby Messano. Backyard BBQ competition on Saturday. Also Antique tractors, 5K run, and family bike cruise, and blues-for-kids-harmonica lessons. Tickets $10 in advance or $8 per day at the door. Tickets at Huntington Barber and Tone Music in Owatonna. More at smokininsteele.com.

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Reunion Weekend 2015 Alumni Author Celebration Saturday, May 30, 9:00-11:00 am Wilor Bluege ‘65

Ella Fossum

The Golden Bough

When Abraham Lincoln Slept Over

HAPPENINGS Friday, May 29, continued MayFly Music Festival • 4-11pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield This is the second of a three-day event. • Sweet Jazz, 4-6pm Christina Schwietz (vocals), Peter Webb (keyboard), David Miller (drums, flugelhorn, melodica) and Bruce Jensen (bass). Their name says it all. • Grammar, 6-8pm • The Scott Woolridge Trio, 8-9:30pm • Wilkinson James, 9:30-11pm Liz Wilkinson and AJ Scheiber perform a unique brand of folk and honky-tonk. Winery Summer Kick-off • 7pm

Prairie Pond Winery, New Prague Live music kicks off with Turpentine Wine. There’s a Rabbit on the Roof

Clay Christensen

Birdman of Lauderdale

Joe Shaw ‘49 John Nathan Kildahl

Col. Chuck Lehman ‘56

Angels Three Six

Art Quilts of the Midwest Rogue 6

Lori Evert & Anja The Tiny Wish

The Christmas Wish

Ames Center, Burnsville See theater page.

Billy Johnson • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield “Commitment-free rock ‘n’ roll…Johnson belongs on the A-list alongside G.B. Leighton as one of the Twin Cities’ best feel-good, blue-collar, barroomrousing tunesmiths with his first solo album, tellingly titled It’s a Good Life.” – Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune. Johnson has opened for the BoDeans, Five For Fighting, Train, Poco, Paul Thorn, Van Hunt, Lowen and Navarro, Old 97s and many more. More at billyjohnsonmusic.com. Orchestra Concert • 8-9:30pm

Linzee McCray ‘76

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Theater: Betty’s Summer Vacation • 7:30pm

Susan Hvistendahl ‘68 HISTORIC HAPPENINGS at st . olaf college By Susan Hvistendahl originally published in the entertainment guide presented here in partnership with the northfield historical society

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Historic Happenings Historic Happenings at St. Olaf College

Concert Hall, Carleton, Northfield Hector Valdivia, director. Matthew Griswold • 8:30pm-midnight

Pub 31, Faribault Minnesota native and alternative-folk singer, songwriter and amateur musicologist, Matthew Griswold is currently playing more than 200 of his “Modern Day Minstrel Shows” each year. SNS Band • 9pm-close

Reggie’s Brewhouse, Owatonna Tim Sigler • 9:30pm-close

Babe’s Music Bar, Lakeville A great country act who plays with various national acts. Mark Allen & Mark Juenemann • 7-11pm

Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield Faribault favorite Mark Allen (of the Key West Rejects) brings his usual mix of acoustic country and rock, mixing in the occasional original song, too. (In inclement weather, show moves to 9pm-12:30am inside.) SATURDAY, MAY 30 Smokin’ in Steele • 7am-midnight

Steele County Fairgrounds, Owatonna See May 29. www.stolafbookstore.com 507.786.3048 • 888.232.6523

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History Hound Walk • 8:30am-noon

Central Park, Northfield Prairie’s Edge Humane Society and the Northfield Historical Society present this walking tour of historic east side Northfield homes fundraiser. Bring your pet (must be leashed, friendly and up-to-date with vaccinations). Group tour leaves Central Park at 9am, or take a map and walk the route on your own. Cost: $20/ person, or raise $50 in donations and registration is free. Alumni Author Celebration • 9-11am

St. Olaf Bookstore, Northfield Authors include Ella Fossum, Clay Christensen, Col. Chuck Lehman, Lori Evert and Anja, Wilor Bluege, Joe Shaw, Linzee McCray and Susan Hvistendahl. Ric Gillman • 1-4pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Jason Paulson • 3-7pm

Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield Jason Paulson is not your average country artist. He trades the glitz and gloss of contemporary country radio for an honest storytelling. You may know him from his regionally popular band Grayson. MayFly Music Festival • 4-11pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield This is the third of a three-day event. • Thea Ennen & Dave Ja Vue, 4-6pm Thea Ennen is a singer, songwriter, pianist and artist. Dave Ja Vue’s repertoire includes bluegrass, jazz and original music.

• Joe Fahey & The Bottom 40, 6-8pm Joe Fahey has been a favorite on the Twin Cities blues and folk-rock scene for decades. • Why Not, 8-11pm Duo of Ray Coudret and Carey Langer. Educators by day, rock stars by night, they combine Langer’s encyclopedic knowledge of American pop music from the ’50s through today with Coudret’s edgy vocals and passion for spectacular results. With their tenacious ability to string songs together, they’re often referred to as a “human jukebox.” Mark Allen • 5:30-7:30pm

Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield Faribault favorite Mark Allen (of the Key West Rejects) brings his usual mix of acoustic country and rock, mixing in the occasional original song, too. Allen’s good-time charm and perfect song selection always make for a really fun night. Theater: Betty’s Summer Vacation • 7:30pm

Ames Center, Burnsville See theater page.

Tim Cheesebrow • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Expect folky, memorable melodies, interesting guitar work, thoughtful lyrics and a downto-earth sound that couldn’t have come from anywhere but the heartland of the Midwest. More at cheesebrowmusic.com.

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HAPPENINGS Saturday, May 30, continued Chad Johnson • 8:30pm-midnight

Pub 31, Faribault Rice County country-rocker and leader of the 8th Street Band, Chad Johnson returns to the pub with the perfect combination of cover songs with his own twist and his own music. Drive South • 8-11pm

Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield An acoustic trio performing eclectic folk and slices of Americana music fused from folk, country, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll. Mark Juenemann’s, Mark Hedenstrom’s and Scott Cummings’ backgrounds are rooted in stage, songwriting and recording.

Russell Franek • 3-7pm

Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield Northfield native and local favorite Russell Franek, of the Eighth Street Band, is known for his spot-on harmonies and diverse acoustic style. On the Lily PADio. Cancelled if bad weather. Jazz Ensemble Concert • 4:30-6pm

Concert Hall, Carleton, Northfield Laura Caviani, director. MONDAY, JUNE 1

Theater: Betty’s Summer Vacation • 7:30pm

Ames Center, Burnsville See theater page.

Northern Roots Session • 7:30-9pm

Ramblin’ River • 9pm

Red Fox Tavern, Lakeville New and classic country with a bit of rock and roll.

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.

SUNDAY, MAY 31

TUESDAY, JUNE 2

Leah Tousignant • 1-4pm

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

Acoustic Jam Session • 7:30-10pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Theater: Betty’s Summer Vacation • 7:30pm

Ames Center, Burnsville See theater page.

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Traditional Irish Music Session • 7-9pm

Northfield, call for venue A gathering of musicians and listeners in a relaxed, informal setting. Along with the music enjoy conversation, camaraderie and perhaps even a few Irish dance steps. Contact Laura for venue: 651/398-5055 or laura@lauramackenzie.com.

Theater: Betty’s Summer Vacation • 7:30pm

Ames Center, Burnsville See theater page.

Jon Manners & Lonnie Knight • 7:30-11:30pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls

The Contented Cow, Northfield The dean of the Southern Minnesota music scene, Jon Manners’ sound is unmistakable. Combining the bounce of funk, the passion of soul, the thoughtfulness of jazz, the storytelling of folk and the joy of rock and roll, Manners is the very model of a great folk troubadour. Knight is a renowned guitarist.

Brie’s Boutique • 5-8pm

Ben Aaron • 8pm

THURSDAY, JUNE 4 First Thursday Fun Fest • 5-8pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Luke Smith • 6-7pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Singer/songwriter. DeKam & Johnson • 7pm

Central Park, Owatonna Americana rock.

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Tavern Lounge, Northfield Known for both his work as a solo artist and with the nationally touring Americana roots duo Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank, Alexy’s critically acclaimed CD release, Born on the Day of the Dead, marks the popular artist’s eighth release since relocating to Minnesota and starting CIC Records in 2004 with his brother and bandmate, Teague Alexy.

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Ben Aaron brings his original folk, blues and Americana songs. Sit back and enjoy as he plays your favorite popular songs from the past and present, along with selections from his recent CD release, Blue Winter. Pub 31, Faribault Faribault favorite Mark Allen (of the Key West Rejects) brings his usual mix of acoustic country and rock, mixing in the occasional original song, too. Allen’s good-time charm and perfect song selection always make for a really fun night.

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Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield Mark Ross has been involved in the Twin Cities music scene since 1993. As a singer and songwriter, Ross’ original style of country, rock and Americana folk has influences of Bon Jovi, Matchbox Twenty, America, Wallflowers, Jimmy Buffet, Ryan Adams and Gin Blossoms, to name a few. His show includes a blend of upbeat covers of many genres. (In inclement weather, show moves to 9pm-12:30am inside.) Carey Langer • 7-10pm

Prairie Pond Winery, New Prague Carey draws upon his lifelong passion for music to present all your favorites covering six decades and seven styles of music. From The Everly Brothers and Frank Sinatra, to Rick Springfield, Dave Matthews and Jimmy Eat World, plus original music.

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Babe’s Music Bar, Lakeville Drop Tailgate blends together a good night out with the best highenergy rockin’ country music mixed in with a surprise or two. The band says “If y’all are in the mood for an upbeat, rockin’ country tailgate party, we’ll give you a night to remember.” SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Relativity • 1-4pm

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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. More at bonnieandtheclydes.com. Chad Johnson • 7-11pm

Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield Rice county country rocker and acoustic alternative. His influences range from Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Bob Seger to Johnny Reznik and Travis Trill. Covers and originals. (In inclement weather, show moves to 9pm-12:30am inside.) Theater: Betty’s Summer Vacation • 7:30pm

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Tavern Lounge, Northfield Katy Vernon joins Matthew Inkala & the Hostages for the first half of the show and then follows with her own trio for the second half. Matthew Inkala & the Hostages’ latest critically acclaimed release, One Footed Pigeon, proves their reputation as the Twin Cities’ kings of hopefully romantic folk/rock. Dave Hudson • 8:30pm-midnight

Pub 31, Faribault Dave Hudson made his way through the Minneapolis music scene by writing and singing his own blend of melodic acoustic-rock music. His style has been compared the Gin Blossoms, U2 and the Counting Crows. His self-styled mix of cover songs ranging from the ’80s, ’90s and today, blended with his own recorded and nationally released music is what has kept crowds coming back for more.

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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. Exhibit Opening and Artist Reception • 1-5pm

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Ames Center, Burnsville See theater page. Darren Caster • 3-7pm

Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield On the Lily PADio. Cancelled if bad weather. MONDAY, JUNE 8 Northern Roots Session • 7:30-9pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Every Tuesday night show up with your unplugged instrument of choice and jam – or just show up and listen. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 Brick Oven Pizza & Mark Allen • 4-8:30pm

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Tavern Lounge, Northfield Cutrufello is hailed as a Texas honky-tonk heroine, a fiery Midwestern roots-rocker and a powerhouse acoustic performer. Connecticutraised and Yale-educated, she’s made records showcasing all facets of her identity as her musical journey has taken her from the East Coast to Houston and now to Minnesota.

Faribault American Legion Dinner, silent auction and entertainment by Buddy Koopmans’ Orchestra, a local big band-style orchestra. This newly revived group is a locally based band that has a history extending back to 1948 when Roger Koopmans of Faribault organized the band while still in high school. The original group included up to 16 instrumentalists from the region playing four to five gigs a year. Recently, Gary Anderson, a clarinetist who started playing in Koopmans Orchestra at the age of 13, bought the band from Roger. There will be a silent auction of merchandise and services from area businesses, as well as a raffle. Proceeds will support the Rice County Historical Society. 5pm social hour, 6pm dinner, 7pm program, 8:30pm raffle drawing. Dinner/event tickets: $25. Raffle tickets: $100, includes two dinner/event tickets, a one-in-five chance of winning your $100 back and a one-in-100 chance of winning the grand prize of $1500. Tickets available at the Rice County Historical Society museum or from any RCHS board member. 507/3322121 for more information. Maddie Hargis & Cassandra Crandell • 5-7pm

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HAPPENINGS Friday, June 12, continued New Moon Trio • 7-9pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Here’s a taste of 100 years of popular tunes, random requests and spontaneous harmonies featuring Ross Currier (bass), Lance Heisler (drums) and Justin London (guitar). Relativity • 7-10pm

Prairie Pond Winery, New Prague Voted one of Northfield’s best bands, Relativity first performed at Prairie Pond for its two year anniversary in November 2014. Toby and Sandy Jensen return to Prairie Pond with a special guest – Minnesota Rock & Country Music Hall of Fame fiddle player, Mike Hildebrandt. Chad Johnson • 7-11pm

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HAPPENINGS Saturday, June 13, continued Riverwalk Market Fair • 9am-1pm

Bridge Square, Northfield Minnesota’s only combined artists and farmers’ market. 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 welcome. Riverwalk: The Art of a Summer Saturday. More at RiverWalkMarketFair.org. Grand Re-Opening Celebration • 10am-4pm

Gear ReSource Outfitters, Dundas Kayak rides $5/person. All ages welcome. Also, try paddleboarding and check out camping equipment on display. Gooters will be selling their famous ice cream. More at TheGearReSource.com. A Garden Party • 11am-7:30pm

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Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Tinker • 5-7pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Celtic/rock/bluegrass/folk out of Minneapolis. The Tinkers are: Brian Miller, Rob O’Malley, Chris O’Malley, Joe O’Malley and Dan Rainboldt. Dave Williams • 7-9pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield Formerly of The Tuition Daddies. Based in Owatonna, the singer/ songwriter presents a mix of originals, blues and jazz standards. Chris Miller • 7-11pm

Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield Lyrics that will make you cry, a voice that will make you sing and guitar that will make you dance. Throw in a healthy dose of off-the-cuff wit and you’ve got a Chris Miller show. (In inclement weather, show moves to 9pm-12:30am inside.) Theater: Amadeus • 7:30pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault See theater page. The Music and Magic of Fleetwood Mac • 8pm

Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota Revel in the group’s hits including The Chain, Landslide, Rhiannon and Don’t Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow). Tickets: $28 in advance, $30 at door. Reservations at 507/732-7616.

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Nigel Egg & Bobby E • 8pm

Classic Car Show • 9am-3pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Nigel Egg is a multi-award winning blues original, a 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 Americana roots music. Egg is currently touring the country in support of his latest CD release, The Blues is Personal. Nigel will be joined by virtuoso guitarist and composer Bobby E, a renowned performer and producer who has been featured on National Public Radio and appeared at numerous clubs and festivals including Orchestra Hall and WE Fest. Preston Gunderson • 8:30pm-midnight

Pub 31, Faribault Singer/songwriter from the Iron Range in Northern Minnesota. His full-length album, While I Was Gone, cracked the top 200 on the iTunes pop charts. He was also a casting finalist on NBC’s The Voice. Marty Anderson & the Goods • 9-11:30pm

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TeePee Tonka Park, Faribault A button event for Faribault Heritage Days June 17-21. The Riddle Brothers • 1-4pm

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Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault See theater page. Dave Hudson • 3-7pm

Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield Dave Hudson made his way through the Minneapolis music scene by writing and singing his own blend of melodic acoustic-rock music. His style has been compared to the Gin Blossoms, U2 and the Counting Crows. His self-styled mix of cover songs ranging from the ’80s, ’90s and today is blended with his own recorded and nationally released music. On the Lily PADio. Cancelled if bad weather.

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The Contented Cow, Northfield Sindre Fotland (diatonic two-row accordion) studied traditional music at The Ole Bull Academy, one of Norway’s few folk music academies. He plays concerts and participates in projects all over Norway. He is a regional and national champion on his instrument. Kristoffer Kleiveland (diatonic two-row accordion, bass) is currently studying traditional music at The Ole Bull Academy. He also teaches music and freelances as a musician. He won the Norwegian National Championship on his instrument in 2013. TUESDAY, JUNE 16 Author Presentation: God’s Angry Man: The Incredible Journey of Private Joe Haan • 6pm

Trinity Lutheran Gym, Faribault Presentation by author B. Wayne Quist. Free book with an advanced ticket purchase. Tickets: $10 at the Faribault Senior Center. More at faribaultseniorcenter.org. Henry Wheeler Display Opening • 7pm

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Old Memorial Pool, Northfield In an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest swimming lesson ever, Northfield will be one of many communities around the world holding a simultaneous swim lesson. 30-minute lesson teaches people/youth how to be safe in and around water. Participants must sign in between 9:15 and 9:50am. Free and for all ages and abilities. Wear a swimsuit and bring a towel. Faribault Heritage Days • 3-11pm

Faribault A five-day event, June 17-21. More at faribaultheritagedays.com. City-wide Garage Sale, Tilt-A-Whirl Dedication, Mayor’s Reception, Bingo, Carnival, Free Family Fun Night & Karaoke, Stone House Bus Tour. Covered Bridge Music & Arts Festival • 4pm

Zumbrota Four-day event June 18-21. Activities include arts & crafts, variety of food booths, sports tournaments, parade, street dance and activities for the entire family. For more information, call City Hall at 507/732-7318. Marion’s Concertina Band • 7pm

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Little Theatre of Owatonna See theater page. Mark Ross • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield High-energy acoustic singer/songwriter playing rock, country and alternative music from many past and current artists like Keith Urban, Bon Jovi, Miranda Lambert, Matchbox Twenty, Ryan Adams, Bruno Mars and more. Ross has played in various projects around the Twin Cities and nationally for more than 20 years. Marc Reigel Oldies Sing-Along • 8-10:30pm

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Solstice Outdoor Music Festival • 6pm

Riverfront Park, Mankato A three-day event, Solstice is one of Mankato’s major summer charity events. The schedule is full of local and regional musicians, artists, crafts and food vendors. Bring your coolers, sun shades, lawn chairs, bean bags and other lawn toys and enjoy the afternoon. Tickets: adults $15, 14 & under $5. Band lineup subject to change. More at mankatosolstice.com. Friday Night Times • 6pm Jenae Perry and the Wild Ride • 7pm Lost Highway • 8:30pm Mistral • 6-8pm

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Prairie Pond Winery, New Prague If Jimi Hendrix was a violin-playing female, they would have called him Jillian Rae. This multi-talented violinist, lead vocalist and songwriter is renowned for her creative and dynamic style of violin playing, along with passionate live performances. She had lent her fiddle chops to the Duluth-based band Two Many Banjos, and spent some time fronting the local pop country staple, The Killer Hayseeds. When she isn’t performing with her own band, you can catch her playing fiddle and singing with: Corpse Reviver, Steve Kaul & The Brass Kings, Brian Just Band, The Fiddle Heirs, and The Blackberry Brandy Boys. More at jillianraemusic.com. Tim Howe • 7-11pm

Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield Silky vocals, melodic lines and acoustic guitar. Howe’s been compared to Jason Mraz, Gavin Degraw, Bruno Mars, John Mayer and Howie Day. (In inclement weather, show moves to 9pm-12:30am inside.) Theater: The Producers • 7:30pm

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Joe Carey • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Singer/songwriter Joe Carey has been active in Minnesota’s music scene for more than 15 years playing with several local bands, namely Loft, The Careys, Love Songs for Angry Men and his newest endeavor, The Chinwaggers. His sound is best described as a soulful roots rock band with a twist of twang. Becky Schlegel with Kenny Wilson • 8pm

Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota A fusion of folk, bluegrass and country that is mesmerizing. Becky Schlegel’s songs are pasPhoto: Mike Witcher sionate and unique. With multi-instrumentalist Kenny Wilson. Tickets: $16 in advance, $18 at door. Reservations at 507/732-7616.

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The Contented Cow, Northfield Pop rocker Doug Collins is renowned for his music both acoustically and with his band, The Receptionists. His original song Davenport Iowa was recently voted “Best of the Year” in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Cherrygun • 9:30pm-close

Babe’s Music Bar, Lakeville Non-stop rock, country and dance pop hits. Professional and fun. SATURDAY, JUNE 20 Faribault Heritage Days • 7am-12am

Faribault A five-day event, June 17-21. More at faribaultheritagedays.com. Farmers’ Market, Heritage Hustle 5k Run/ Walk, City-wide Garage Sale, Soap Box Derby, Kids’ Fishing Contest, La Compagnie Fur Traders, Alexander Faribault House Tours, Carnival, Craft Show, Rugby Tourney, Tractor Pull, Stone House Bus Tour, Amablu Cheese History, Yoga, Music at the Band Shell: Luke Smith (noon), Andy Tackett (1:15pm), Mad Pipes (2:30pm), Goodtime Band (3:45pm). Kids’ Fun Run, Grand Parade, Dance & Beer Garden.

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HAPPENINGS Saturday, June 20, continued Covered Bridge Music & Arts Festival • 8am

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Riverwalk Market Fair • 9am-1pm

Bridge Square, Northfield Minnesota’s only combined artists and farmers market. 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 welcome. Riverwalk: The Art of a Summer Saturday. More at RiverWalkMarketFair.org. Solstice Outdoor Music Festival • 11:30am

Riverfront Park, Mankato Three-day festival June 19-21. See June 19 description. Capitan Gravitone (11:30am), Kids Got Talent (12:30, 2, 3:30 and 5pm), Billy and the Bangers (1pm), Crash Cuddle (2:30pm), Decadence (4pm), Small Town Anthem (5:30pm), Mayberry Riot (8:30pm), and The Whiskey Richard Band (9:30pm) Andy Tackett • 1-4pm

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The Contented Cow, Northfield Optimum Trajectory • 7-9pm

The Contented Cow, Northfield A jazz quintet based in the Twin Cities. Their repertoire spans jazz classics from the ’30s to the ’50s and 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.

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Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield A solo artist covering six decades and seven styles of music. From The Everly Brothers and Frank Sinatra, to Rick Springfield, Dave Matthews and Jimmy Eat World, plus original music. (In inclement weather, show moves to 9pm-12:30am inside.) Theater: The Producers • 7:30pm

Little Theatre of Owatonna See theater page.

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Central Park, Northfield See theater page.

Dan Israel • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Much admired and beloved by audiences and fellow musicians alike, Dan Israel is a multiple Minnesota Music Academy (MMA) Awardwinner with 12 CDs under his belt. His latest releases, Live On and the limited edition vinylonly retrospective Danthology (a collection of 25 songs from 12 albums), have garnered praise all around the globe. No Depression calls Israel one of Minnesota’s most “notable folk rock bards” and American Songwriter magazine in Nashville recently featured the first video release from Live On, calling Israel a “hometown hero who can pack a local venue to the gills,” describing his sound as “combining pop hooks with the rootsy orchestration of Neil Young’s slower material.” Jon Manners • 8:30pm-midnight

Pub 31, Faribault Jon Manners plays blues-edged roots-rock with intricate and percussive guitar-work. Manners sounds like John Hiatt, without that dose of country. Do you like Eric Bibb, John Martyn and Tom Waits? This is the vein that Manners mines.

SUNDAY, JUNE 21 Covered Bridge Music & Arts Festival • 8am

Zumbrota Pancake breakfast and community band concert in the afternoon.

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Riverfront Park, Mankato See June 19 description. Ian Hilmer (12:30pm), Rain Kings (1:45pm), Angry Waters (3pm), Electic Sky (4:15pm), Jade Murphy (5:30pm), Switch Road Band (6:45pm), The Murphy Brothers Band (8pm), and IV Play (9:15pm) Faribault Heritage Days • 1pm

Faribault A five-day event, June 17-21. More at faribaultheritagedays.com. Andrew Walesch • 1-4pm

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Little Theatre of Owatonna See theater page.

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The Contented Cow, Northfield Every Tuesday night show up with your unplugged instrument of choice and jam – or just show up and listen. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 Brick Oven Pizza & Drive South • 4-8:30pm

Red Barn Farm, Northfield Enjoy live music and brick oven pizza baked to order with toppings from the farm’s chemical-free garden and local meats. Bring your own chair/blanket, beverage, plate and napkin. Live music by Drive South, an acoustic trio performing eclectic folk and slices of Americana music fused from folk, country, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll. Mark Juenemann’s, Mark Hedenstrom’s and Scott Cummings’ backgrounds are rooted in stage, songwriting and recording. They present narrative songs and ballads, spinning tales with wit and charm.

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The Contented Cow, Northfield • Mark Ross • 4-5:30pm – Mark Ross has been involved in the Twin Cities music scene since 1993. As a singer and songwriter, Ross’ original style of country, rock and Americana folk has influences of Bon Jovi, Matchbox Twenty, America, Wallflowers, Jimmy Buffet, Ryan Adams and Gin Blossoms, to name a few. His show includes a blend of upbeat covers of many genres. • Occasional Jazz • 6-8pm – Mainstream classic jazz of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and others in the same style. • Treading North + the Filthy Animals 8:30-11:30pm

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Northfield Historical Society Learn about some of the interesting tombstones in Northfield as well as hear some background history on the people associated with them. Owatonna Community Band • 7pm

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The Contented Cow, Northfield • New Moon Trio • 4-5:30pm – Here’s a taste of 100 years of popular tunes, random requests and spontaneous harmonies featuring Ross Currier (bass), Lance Heisler (drums) and Justin London (guitar). • Warehouse Eyes • 6-8pm – Dreampop for music friends and music lovers. • Why Not • 8-11pm – The local “super group” is the duo of Ray Coudret and Carey Langer. Educators by day, rock stars by night, they combine Langer’s encyclopedic knowledge of American pop music from the ’50s through today with Coudret’s edgy vocals and passion for spectacular results. With their tenacious ability to string songs together, they’re often referred to as a “human jukebox.”

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Little Theatre of Owatonna See theater page. Theater: Notes on Broadway, The Great White Way 7:30pm

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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. JuneBug Music Festival • 4pm-midnight

The Contented Cow, Northfield • Thea Ennen & Dave Ja Vue • 4-6pm • JW Schuller + Wilkinson James • 6-8:30pm – JW Schuller is a singer, guitar slinger and purveyor of quirky indie acoustic folk pop from Minneapolis. After years of playing in various indie rock bands, he took a hiatus and started playing oldies at senior homes. The experience inspired him to start writing songs again, leading to the release of his solo debut full-length All Important Artists in 2013. Liz Wilkinson and AJ Scheiber have been performing their unique brand of folk and honky-tonk around the Twin Cities since 2008. With their Appalachian roots proudly showing and their hearts on their sleeves, they grab listeners with hooky but rootsy self-penned songs that have been described as the bastard offspring of June Carter Cash and Townes Van Zandt. • Stone Soup • 9pm-12am – A hearty broth of rock and blues from a time when it hit you in the chest and lifted you straight up. Breathe the air, stir the pot, share the wine and start feeling fine. Theater: Baba Yaga • 7pm

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Paul Seeba • 8pm

Tavern Lounge, Northfield Acclaimed singer/songwriter Paul Seeba promotes his deubt album, Mitchell Yards, which was recorded at Sparta Sound in Eveleth, MN and mastered by John Golden (Chris Isaak, John Hiatt). Americana UK described it as “a record full of that space, steeped in the beauty of North American music, true Americana, blues... Its veins are full of Neil Young, Chuck Berry walking hand and hand.” Seeba’s songs involve catchy melodies, strong harmonies and the interplay of acoustic/electric guitar layers that definitely fall into a roots rock genre – with impressionistic lyrics that often weave together a narrative honoring our northern heritage. Joe Carey • 8:30pm-midnight

Pub 31, Faribault Singer/songwriter Joe Carey has been active in Minnesota’s music scene for over 15 years playing with several local bands, namely Loft, The Careys, Love Songs for Angry Men and his newest endeavor, The Chinwaggers. His sound is best described as a soulful roots rock band with a twist of twang.

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The Night Crawlers (60s Minnesota Garage Band) In 1965, Marc Reigel founded the Night Crawlers, a band that toured the Midwest and was known as Carleton College’s “House Band,” attracting Carls, Oles and townies alike to dances at Carleton’s Sayles-Hill Gym and Northfield’s Armory. Reigel, who grew up in Owatonna and now lives in Bloomington, has local roots: his grandfather, Irvin Scott, a Northfield farmer, was married to Ruth Whiting, daughter of dentist D.J. Whiting who was shot at by the JamesYounger Gang during their bank robbery attempt in 1876, leaving Reigel grateful the gang’s aim was off. Since 2010, Reigel has returned to Northfield to lead singalongs of the songs from 1955 to 1965 that shaped the music his band played.

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In September, I Cantanti Chamber Choirs will begin their 28th year of making fine choral music in the Northfield area. Their annual Nine Lessons and Carols concerts will be presented during the Advent Season in Northfield and Faribault. In the spring, the choirs will combine for performances with the ensembles of Northfield High School. Founder Wayne Kivell continues to direct I Cantanti (mixed voices) and Le Donne (women’s voices).

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Upcoming gig: June 18, 8-10:30pm: Oldies Sing-Along, Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield. Reigel (keyboard) will be joined by Night Crawlers’ lead singer Barry Gillespie, Wendy Smith (guitar) and Rae Rusnak (harmonica). Sing-along will feature golden age rock and roll from Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Shirelles, the Beatles, Bob Dylan and many more, including the Night Crawlers’ own You Say. Songbooks provided.

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“The dean of the Southern Minnesota music scene, Jon Manners’ sound is unmistakable. Combining the bounce of funk, the passion of soul, the thoughtfulness of jazz, the storytelling of folk and the joy of rock and roll, he is the very model of a great folk troubadour.” - Rich Larson

June 5, 7:30pm: Contented Cow, Northfield with Lonnie Knight (The Smokin’ Section), renowned guitar player who has won several Minnesota Music Awards for best guitarist. Knight was guitarist for The Hoopsnakes led by Bruce McCabe. June 20, 8:30pm: Pub 31, Faribault

Wake-Robin 507/663-7290 • 507/645-7764 • jfhanson@gmail.com Wake-Robin (John Hanson and Brad Easterson), somewhat senile but still playing American folk, old-time and other worldly tunes. Occasional lunchtime tunes at Bittersweet Cafe in the Archer House, Northfield. Banjo, guitar and fiddle. Upcoming gigs: Aug. 1, 8:30am: SAVE Bike Fundraiser, Riverside Park, Northfield Oct. 10: Riverwalk Market Fair, Bridge Square, Northfield

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Multe grew out of a weekly Nordic folk music get-together and jam session (once known as Nordic Jam) when some of its participants decided to take on the genre more seriously and emulate some of its heroes. Originally focused on gammaldans (literally “old dance” – schottische, waltz, reinlender, etc.), the band has grown to include tunes more suited to listening than dance by artists at the forefront of modern Scandinavian folk music. Multe’s members have hosted such artists here for gigs and visited them in their native lands during festivals. The band’s current lineup is: Jon Bjork (five-row accordion and guitar), Doug Wornson (accordion), Bruce Jensen (double bass), Jerry Johnson (guitar), and Glenn Lee (accordion). What has evolved since 2007 has become one of Northfield’s true hidden musical gems.

Northfield cellist and vocalist, Martha Larson, was classically trained as a youth but expanded to jazz and rock as a college student. She was active in the Chicago music scene for more than a decade, performing with various rock and jazz ensembles including singer/songwriter Kat Parsons, indie rock band The Paper Airplane Pilots, prog rock ensemble Aziola Cry, rock musician Phil Angotti and gypsy jazz guitarist Alfonso Ponticelli. Larson was a founding member of Chicago gypsy jazz ensemble, the Uptown Strings. She studied jazz theory, improvisation, writing and arranging with David Bloom at the Bloom School of Jazz, who is also producing her debut solo jazz album.

Upcoming gigs: Every other Sunday afternoon: Contented Cow, Northfield

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David Ullman TheFuriousLight.com Often thought of as “too rock for folk” and “too folk for rock,” David Ullman has a forthcoming album, The Furious Light, which both blends and embraces the two extremes. With influences ranging from the writings of Herman Melville, William Blake and Neil Gaiman to Martin Scorsese’s cinematic adaptation of The Last Temptation of Christ and Ullman’s love of 90’s Alt-Rock, The Furious Light is his most diverse and dynamic record to date. Ullman is currently routing a full-band tour to coincide with his album’s late-summer release.

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In 2010, Larson founded the gypsy jazz ensemble, Ile du Berceau. She appears frequently with Sam Miltich and his Clearwater Hot Club, and strives to cultivate the budding gypsy jazz scene in southern Minnesota. She established the now-annual Northfield Gypsy Jazz Jam Series, which brings professional musicians to Northfield for rousing “hot club” style community jam sessions. Larson serves as an instructor for the Itasca Orchestra Strings Program Summer Jazz Camp, which introduces young classically trained musicians to jazz and improvisation. She plays with the Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra, with which she soloed at last fall’s performance of Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger Concerto for Cello and Orchestra. She is now manager of Campus Energy and Sustainability at Carleton College in Northfield, where she lives with her loving husband, Nat, and adorable daughter, Olga. Upcoming gigs: June 8-12: Itasca Orchestra Strings Program Summer Jazz Camp June 12: Itasca Orchestra Strings Program Summer Jazz Camp Concert, Grand Rapids July 24: Great River Shakespeare Festival Concert on the Green, Winona (performing with the Sam Miltich Trio) July 24: Ed’s No Name Bar, Winona (performing with the Sam Miltich Trio) July 25: The Cottonwood Club, Northfield (aka Carrie & Charlie’s barn) (performing with the Sam Miltich Trio)

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The Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra CVROrchestra.org Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra is beginning its 36th season of drawing talented volunteer musicians of all ages together to perform symphonic music. Under the direction of conductor Paul Niemisto, classical repertoire provides a solid foundation for CVRO programming, which regularly features outstanding local soloists. The Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra is a program of the Northfield Arts Guild. Niemisto, founder and conductor, is a member of the St. Olaf College music faculty. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and received additional conducting training at the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg and at the American Symphony Orchestra League Institute. While in Canada during the 1970s he was a conductor of the Prince Edward Island Symphony and the South Shore Orchestra and was a playing member of the CBC Halifax Orchestra. Recently, he has been a regular summer traveler to Finland, where he teaches courses in conduction, performs in brass festivals and conducts bands and orchestras. Since 1991, he has directed a Finnish-American brass ensemble, Boys of America, which has traveled widely and made recordings in the U.S. and Scandinavia. In 2006, 2010 and 2013, he was coordinator for Northfield’s Vintage Band Festival. CVRO 2015-2016 Season Oct. 24-25: Classical Concert Divine Mercy Church (Faribault) and St John’s Hall (Northfield) Dec. 11 & 13: Handel’s Messiah, with soloists and chorus Cathedral of our Merciful Saviour (Faribault) and St. Wenceslaus Church (New Prague) March 5-6, 2016: Family Concert Young Lutheran’s Guide to the Orchestra, Carnival of the Animals St John’s Hall (Northfield) and Cannon Falls High School Auditorium (Cannon Falls) May 14-15, 2016: From Broadway to Hollywood with Video Enhancement and Live Singers Locations: TBD

Bill McGrath billmcgrath52@gmail.com Bill McGrath’s contributions of sixstring acoustic, bass guitar or vocal are like mushroom soup that can be added to enhance other things, but should not be poured on ice cream. Specializes in 1960-1975 music.

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Alluvion is the musical brain child of longtime professional daydreamer Berndt Evenson. The purpose of Alluvion: to make music, distribute it, and perform it for any and all who will listen. The debut 2011 release Self Titled followed by Autumn Synthesis in 2012 could be described as explorations in dark, yet mellow wobbly bass synth sounds, combined with melodic textures and thumping percussion. The 2013 album Rising Tides took that same approach to new levels with more samples, more crunching synths, more percussive layers and more attitude. The 2014 experimental drum & bass album Rum Tum Tum took a trip to Alluvion’s past and has sounds like nothing on the previous releases. It is to be expected that the upcoming album, The Deepest Depths of Shallow Waters, currently in the making, will be no exception.

High energy acoustic singer/ songwriter playing rock, country and alternative music from many past and current artists like Keith Urban, Bon Jovi, Miranda Lambert, Matchbox Twenty, Ryan Adams, Bruno Mars and more. Ross has played in various projects around the Twin Cities and nationally for more than 20 years. Upcoming gigs: June 5, 7-10pm: Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield June 18, 8-11pm: Tavern Bar & Lounge, Northfield June 21, 3-6pm: Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield June 26, 4pm: The Contented Cow, Northfield

The Alluvion live experience features live midi tweaking, guitar improvisation and heavily effect-driven layered vocals. Who wants to play hide and never come back?

Jivin’ Ivan and the Kings of Swing JivinIvanandtheKingsofSwing.com We are rather adorable and, better yet, we sound GREAT!! We play classic acoustic swing from the Great American Songbook – tunes you can hum along, sing along, and by all means, dance along with. Hot licks and stellar vocals abound, and frequent talented guest artists come by and sit in for a few songs, or a few sets! There’s something for everyone, so come on out to our party and “swing” on in! Upcoming gigs: June 27, 7:30pm: Signature Bar and Grill, Faribault July 26, 2pm: Concert at Trempealeau Hotel, Wisconsin August 13, 7pm: Concert in Central Park, Faribault

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Bonnie & the Clydes bonnie.clydes.mn@gmail.com Music performed by Bonnie & the Clydes: the kind of songs you listened to when you and your friends were renting your first apartment near the campus sometime in the ‘60s or early ‘70s and your entire furniture contribution to the apartment consisted of a mattress and a coffee table made from a telephone company wooden spool that you snatched from a construction site next to the natural food grocery that was up the rear stairway above the paraphernalia shop where they also sold posters and lava lamps and had a cat in the front window named Quagmire who was the mother of one of your girlfriend’s kittens that is now sleeping in your guitar case in the back of your VW microbus next to Ken Kesey’s book, a bottle of Boone’s Farm Apple Wine and a stack of signs protesting the government’s policies in some far-off country. Delivering rock, folk and R & B tunes of the ‘60s and ‘70s, and some vintage blues for nearly 20 years, Bonnie & the Clydes are sure to get your toes tapping. Expect to hear three-part harmonies as they cover Simon and Garfunkel, Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Beatles, Van Morrison, the Grateful Dead, Bessie Smith, the Drifters, Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac, with a little Elvis thrown in for good measure. Bonnie & the Clydes are Northfielders Bill McGrath (guitar, vocals), Scott McMillan (guitar, vocals) and Bonnie Jean Flom (percussion, vocals). Upcoming gigs:

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Stone Soup

Started in 2010, Stone Soup is a ’60s and ’70s cover band that takes pride in attention to detail while delivering its lineup of rock classics. Its trademark guitar-driven sound is lean and powerful with a visceral effect on danceentranced audiences. This is music you “feel.” Songs of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Savoy Brown, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Creedence Clearwater Revival, ZZ Top and many others played as true to their original versions as possible. Some of Soup’s members have been playing together for more than 30 years. Featuring: Jon Bjork (guitars and vocals), Jeff Lien (bass), Dave Drentlaw (drums and vocals) and Chris Perry (guitars and vocals). House band at the Contented Cow, Northfield. Upcoming gigs:

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Randall Ferguson

Northfield Youth Choirs NorthfieldYouthChoirs.com • 507/664-9335

Randall Ferguson is a multi-string performer and educator. He plays classical and flamenco guitar, Renaissance lute, Baroque archlute, vihuela, classic 19th century banjo, mandolin and ukulele. In addition to the U.S., he has performed in flamenco clubs in Madrid, Spain, and Mexico City, Veracruz and Mérida, Mexico. “I do a performance that spans more than 500 years of guitar music, with a repertoire that ranges from the Renaissance court dance music of the lute, to exciting syncopated dance rhythms of Spanish flamenco. In my programs, I use 15 to 20 instruments that date from 1785, 1835, 1850, and 1900, as well as present day concert classical and flamenco guitars.” Ferguson retired last June after 38 years as a music educator in the Farmington School District and 25 in the department of Continuing Education at Hamline University, St Paul.

Northfield Troubadors Russ 507/645-7201 • Phil 507/645-8183

Founded in 1979, the Troubadors maintain the tradition of community-based male choruses. The ensemble performs for senior residences, the School for the Blind, Laura Baker school and service clubs. They have performed the national anthem at Carleton College football games. Appearances are scheduled October through December and in April and May, culminating in a spring concert for the public. New members are welcome without audition.

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The motto of the Northfield Youth Choirs is Find Your Voice! That is something that NYC has been helping young people accomplish for more than 27 years. NYC provides more than 200 singers, ages five through adult, with the opportunity to develop their musical skills in six ensembles and a summer program led by nationally renowned directors. For children in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten, there is Poco a Poco: A Music Experience, weekly sessions packed with singing, music games and movement fun. Those in first grade and up enjoy weekly rehearsals of great music, yearly retreats and area performances and tours.

Relativity RelativityTheBand.com facebook.com/relativitymusic Relativity is a local Northfield band, playing since 1999. The band combines outstanding vocals, guitar, mandolin and fiddle to create a fun and eclectic evening of music. With a request list of a couple hundred songs, Relativity encourages the audience to choose what they want to hear, from covers of current top 40 songs to classic and folk rock. The core of the band is made up of Toby Jensen and Sandy Jensen. For most performances, the duo is joined by guest artist Mike Hildebrandt, a Minnesota Rock & Country Music Hall of Fame fiddle player. Sandy’s identical twin sister, Linda Wilson, joins the band on occasion, adding great harmony and percussion. Upcoming gigs: June 6, 1-4pm: Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls June 12, 7-10pm: Prairie Pond Winery, New Prague June 26, 7-10pm: Railhouse Grill, Lake City

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David Folland FollandViolins.com • 507/645-7557 • david@follandviolins.com Born on a farm in northern Minnesota in 1961, Folland moved with his family to Owatonna in 1968. He started playing violin in 1969 and in the 1970s studied with players from the Minnesota Orchestra and became concertmaster of his high school orchestra and a member of the Minnesota All-State Orchestra. He continues to play violin in various orchestras and ensembles and has lately been playing violin/piano duets with his wife, Lori, pianist at St. Olaf College. Music has long been a part of the Folland family: his mother was a teacher of piano and choir, his two sisters and a brother play violin and the younger sister, Dian, is assistant concertmaster of the Phoenix Symphony. As a child, Folland enjoyed working with his hands and building things – canoes, chess sets, a guitar and a sailboat all came out of his garage workshop. The sailboat is still in service 30 years later at the family cabin in Northern Minnesota. In high school he combined these two major interests of violin playing and woodworking and attended a violin-making school. With the help and encouragement of his orchestra instructor, Arnold Krueger, Folland was accepted to the Violin Making School of America in Salt Lake City. There he studied under Peter Paul Pier, the founder of the school, and instructors Chris Degroot and Jeff Robinson. During summer vacations he would return to Owatonna and make violins on his own. After graduating in 1983 Folland set up shop in Northfield, concentrating exclusively on building violin family instruments. Since then he has made more than 200 violins, violas and cellos, and three basses. He has won three gold medals, four silver medals and 17 merit certificates in Violin Society of America competitions and has been awarded the status of “Hors Concours” by that society. Folland lives in the countryside near Northfield with his wife and their son, Sam.

Free Ranger ReverbNation.com/freeranger Free Ranger is the local indie blues and rock artist/songwriter Rae Rusnak (harmonica, guitar, vocals, bass, percussion). Rusnak has performed with The Three Amigos, Cool Rae & the Hot Blue Line, The Channel Cats, The Swamp Kings, Chance Meetings, Marc Reigel and Barry Gillespie of the Night Crawlers and Wendy Smith of The Zillionaires. Look for Uncaged, the debut solo cd by Free Ranger to be released in late June. Upcoming gig: June 18, 8pm: Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield. Performing with Marc Reigel, Barry Gillespie and Wendy Smith.

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Wasted Talent WastedTalentBand.com

Coming from the town of New Market, Wasted Talent plays a variety of rock, pop and a little country from artist such as ACDC, Foo Fighters, Pink, Pat Benatar and Miranda Lambert. This five-piece band is Kyle Murphy and Brita Brown ( lead vocals), brother duo Doug Orth (lead guitar) and Scott Orth (drums) and Tye Lewis (bass). Call the babysitter and let them know you’ll be late because you won’t want to leave a WT show until the last note has played.

Laura MacKenzie LauraMacKenzie.com laura@lauramackenzie.com

Wendy Smith facebook.com/zillionairesmusic Wendy Smith, singer, multi instrumentalist, composer. Hear her playing solo and with her band The Zillionaires.

Traditional Wind-Powered Music Songs and music of Ireland, Scotland, England, Nova Scotia, Central France and Galicia Laura MacKenzie has learned from many noted tradition bearers on both sides of the Atlantic, and has herself been recognized as a master folk artist. She has received numerous honors and performing arts awards for her participation and dedication in this realm of music, including Bush and McKnight Fellowships. In 2014, Mayor Chris Coleman of St. Paul proclaimed a “Laura MacKenzie Day” in honor of her contributions to Irish-American culture in Minnesota. MacKenzie performs and teaches on an array of windpowered instruments, including wooden flutes, whistles, concertina, Scottish smallpipes, border pipes, French cornemuse, medieval greatpipes, gemshorn and voice. She enjoys a richly varied career grounded in traditional music, yet diverse in expression. For more than 25 years, MacKenzie has performed solo and with many ensembles in concerts, shows, theatrical productions, family programs and community events. Upcoming gigs: This summer, MacKenzie will be performing at a number of festivals and libraries around the state including June 24, 7pm: Books & Stars, Way Park, Northfield

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Upcoming gigs: June 6, 8pm: The Riverview Café and Wine Bar, Mpls June 18, 8 pm: Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio, Northfield July 3, 8pm: The Riverview Café and Wine Bar, Mpls July 9, 8pm: The Tavern Lounge, Northfield July 30, Aug. 1, 3, 7, and 8: Baby Lost, Family Found, Minneapolis Fringe Festival

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A guitar band with a bit of accordion thrown in. Sweet harmonies and a good dance beat are found with The Zillionaires, an electric rock, roots, blues, alt band playing originals and covers. Upcoming gigs: June 14, 3pm: Como Dockside, Como Park Pavilion, St. Paul

A Finnish-American brass septet. Made up of Midwesterners – some of Finnish descent – they play old Finnish brass band music and newer compositions. Their main inspiration: friends and colleagues in Finland who keep the tradition alive, and generously share their music.

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REGIONAL MUSIC Festivals, Concert Series, Venues 411 Concert Series NorthfieldArtsGuild.org • 411 W. Third St. The Northfield Arts Guild Theater provides an intimate setting for the 411 Concert Series, which features acoustic performances by regional and national musicians, now going into its 4th year. Each show opens with a local Northfield musician, providing them with great exposure. Past performers have included Gary Louris, the Ruth Moody Band and The Pines. Planning a music concert? Both the Center for the Arts, (304 Division St. S., Northfield) and the Northfield Arts Guild Theater, (411 W. Third St., Northfield) are available for rental. The Dance Studio space at the Center for the Arts seats approximately 60. The theater seats 118 people. Both are a warm setting perfect for music, theater and community events.

Central Park Concert Series 7pm • Central Park, Downtown Owatonna June 4: DeKam & Johnson (americana rock) 11: Owatonna Community Band 18: Marion’s Concertina Band (oldtime) 25: Owatonna Community Band July 2: Billy McLaughlin (new age acoustic) 9: Owatonna Community Band

July 16: Trinity Lutheran Choir 23: Owatonna Community Band 30: Red Bull Concert Band Aug. 6: Boiling Point (contemporary Christian) 13: Northern Darlings (jazzy R&B with pop)

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Vintage Band Festival is presenting a one-day fund-raising event Aug. 1. Twelve diverse bands will perform outdoor concerts on Bridge Square in the heart of Northfield’s downtown, 9am-9pm. Riverwalk Market Fair (on Bridge Square 9am-1pm), will provide arts, crafts and fresh, local foods. There will be additional food booths Aug. 1 to accommodate all. Bring the family, bring folding chairs and plan for a great day. The event is free and open to the public with generous donations greatly appreciated.

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I CONSIDER MYSELF A POET FIRST AND A MUSICIAN SECOND. I LIVE LIKE A POET AND I’LL DIE LIKE A POET.

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JuneBug Music Festival TheContentedCow.com facebook.com/events/1587474024804270/ The JuneBug Festival of Music has been part of Northfield’s summer music scene since 2008 when Norman Butler first organized the event. Musicians perform outdoors along the Riverwalk at The Contented Cow, Northfield. June 25: 4pm New Moon Trio 6pm Warehouse Eyes 8pm Why Not

June 26: 4pm Mark Ross 6pm Occasional Jazz 8:30pm Treading North + The Filthy Animals

June 27: 4pm Thea Ennen & Dave Ja Vue 6pm JW Schuller + Wilkinson James 9pm Stone Soup

MUSICIANS WANT TO BE THE LOUD VOICE FOR SO MANY QUIET HEARTS.

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Rock & Roll Kamikaze facebook.com/events/1083411301685430/ Musicians of all levels and ages are invited to the first gnarly Rock & Roll Kamikaze in Northfield. Step 1. Join by adding your name to the event page in a comment, or by dropping your name and email address (or phone number) in one of the boxes around Northfield marked “Rock & Roll Kamikaze.”

Step 4. Practice. Practice. Practice. Bands will have from the sorting ceremony until the day of the show to rehearse. This is a competition, but more, importantly, it’s about having fun, meeting and learning from musicians you may not know.

Step 2. Show up for the sorting ceremony on June 6 at the Contented Cow, Northfield. All contestant names will be drawn from a hat and sorted into random bands of equal proportion. Your job will then be to decide how you and your bandmates will present the music, whether it’s with six guitarists, or two drummers and three singers, or four jaw harps, the sky is the limit. Judges will be announced on this day.

Step 5. Perform July 11 at the Contented Cow. A panel of four judges will rate each band’s performance (all in good fun) and the top three acts will get cool prizes. Bands will be rated in categories such as cohesiveness, theme, originality and stage presence.

Step 3. Each band will be given one song by a British band (or musician) they must cover. All bands may elect to play up to two additional songs (three songs total per band). It can be two covers, or two originals.

A house drum kit, bass amp and microphones will be provided. Change-over between bands will be as prompt as possible and any instruments or amplifiers not listed will have to be provided by the performer. If members of your band cannot perform, you can still contend even if you’re alone.

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HAPPENINGS By Susan Hvistendahl

The Sensational Gary Rue Gary Rue was in his 9th grade algebra class in Tracy, Minnesota, in September of 1964 and the fellow sitting behind him was beating a constant rhythm on his desk. Annoying, right? Not to Rue. He turned around and said, “Hey, do you want to start a band with me?”

Rue, a Northfield resident since 2011, told me his band played 1965 to mid-1966 in the Tracy and Marshall area with the name P.J. and the Sleepers. Rue explained that the name came from a baby raccoon he had taken from a nest at the family lake cabin. He named her Priscilla, with the nickname P.J. He does not remember how the band came up with the name Sleepers. (When anyone asks about his current rock group Sleepers, he uses the definition of “something that unexpectedly achieves success.”) His band in the ’60s would take the raccoon to some of the shows and “she’d stand on top of one of the PA speakers and just dance around frenetically while all this noise was going on.” Eventually she returned to the woods, leaving her rock and roll days behind. Rue had seen two dynamic show bands, the Seven Sons and the Fabulous Flippers from Lawrence, Kansas, at the Blue Moon Ballroom in Marshall, with whites and blacks playing together. That was “a real shock for Southwest Minnesota,” Rue said. Rue was inspired by their dance steps, horns, backup singers and their overall sound. To emulate this type of music, in the spring of 1967, Rue’s band added Randy Drager of Marshall, who had a Vox organ, to let them create soul music in the vein of Sam and Dave, James Brown and Wilson Pickett.

“Sure, why not?” said Steven (known as Tilly) Thielges. And by 1965, Rue (playing his father’s gold Harmony guitar) and Tilly (who had a snare drum) had been joined by Denny Morgan, also of Tracy (with his red Harmony guitar), and Mike Burt from Marshall on a Sears Silvertone bass guitar. They practiced Gary Rue, native of Tracy and Shortly thereafter, promoter Don Madison of musician extraordinaire, now in Rue’s garage, a true “garage band” of that Mankato signed on as their booking agent. lives in Northfield. era. The band nervously played its first gig in Rue told me that Madison changed the name the nearby Currie town hall on June 17, 1965, and made $13.64 to the Sensational Sleepers, introduced some dance steps each. They were hooked. for them, “talked us into buying suits and wearing the same outfits and had us wear wigs whenever we played so our hair Rue had been hooked on music from the beginning of his life. was longer.” Madison would also give them cigarettes to hold His mother, Helen, used to wake Rue and his sister, Cindy, as props to make them look more mature. singing, “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!” His father, Wilbur, was the co-owner of Rignell Hardware in Tracy, but Wilbur Madison got them jobs outside of Minnesota. One memorable was a guitar-playing musician at heart. Rue started piano evening in Iowa, the band played two proms in one night in lessons when he was in third grade. When he changed the Algona and then at an all-nighter in Bancroft but needed a lift notes of Mozart and Chopin and kept on playing by ear, he from prom parents when stranded in between by a flat tire. was set free from that. He played cornet in school. But Rue can When they participated in a Battle of the Bands in Ft. Dodge, tell you the exact day he was inspired to spend “every spare Iowa, their soul music renditions sparked two African Ameriminute” learning to play his father’s guitar: “I picked up the cans to ask them, “Are you sure you guys are white?” They also guitar the day after the Beatles came.” The Beatles made their played the Beatles, Doors, Young Rascals, Mitch Ryder and first American TV appearance live on The Ed Sullivan Show the Detroit Wheels and other music of that time to audiences on Feb 9, 1964. Seventy-three million people tuned in. Though in Wisconsin, at the Air Force Base in Grand Forks, N.D., the his father taught him a few chords, Rue had a natural aptitude Bemidji Armory and towns in eastern S.D. for the instrument. As Rue explains it, “I was way out in front In the summer of 1967, the band participated in a Battle of of the curve all the time. It’s what I wanted to do and I was a the Bands in Rochester. The Sensational Sleepers, competing sponge, soaking it all up.” against 45 bands from the area, Minneapolis and northern While Rue took to the guitar, he did not adopt the famous mop Iowa, placed first in showmanship and second in music. Rue top of the Beatles because, “It wasn’t school policy to allow that said, wryly, “We always had an issue with the judges, because kind of a haircut. They’d drag us into the office all the time, the hometown boys won it,” a group called the Downchilds. In they’d slap two fingers above our eyebrows and if it was over the fall of 1967, the Sensational Sleepers recorded two 45 rpm those two fingers, we had to go get a haircut.” The faculty at songs in Rochester for Don Madison’s MAAD label, Hey Girl his school did not encourage musical emulation of the Beatles, and Do You Feel It? In all, 1,000 copies were made and sold at either, as it was “considered a little bit radical.” appearances. Rue has one left.

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The Sensational Sleepers celebrate placing first in showmanship and second in music among 45 bands at a Battle of the Bands in Rochester in the summer of 1967. (Left to right) Gary Rue, Steven “Tilly” Thielges, Randy Drager, Mike Burt and Denny Morgan. Courtesy Gary Rue

Thumbs Up was formed in 1974 and became the “house band” at CC Tap in Minneapolis that winter. (Left to right) Curt Almsted, Gary Rue, Mark Young, Mike Burt and Tilly. Courtesy Gary Rue

The band broke up in 1968, as Randy Drager left the keyboard for football and Dennis Morgan took off to launch a performing and songwriting career which landed him in Nashville. There Morgan hooked up with Charley Pride and Barbara Mandrell and has written for Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, George Michael and many others. Rue graduated from Tracy High School in 1969. Today, Rue believes the Sensational Sleepers performed in the golden age of pop music. It was a creative time, with songwriters familiar with masters like George and Ira Gershwin through exposure to recordings in their homes. “People really, really knew how to write back then,” said Rue, and they felt free to experiment, such as changing time signatures in the middle of songs. Rue considers today’s music to be “all absolutely money-driven in its formula, very flattened-out, inspiration-wise,” with the cultural landscape shifting to a very corporate environment. Rue spent a couple semesters at Southwest State University in Marshall, leaving in the wake of the tumultuous Vietnam protests and shooting of students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, when Southwest failed striking students. At Southwest State, Rue met Curt Almsted (later to be known by the stage name of Curtiss A). Rue has played since 1993 in the annual tributes to John Lennon which Curtiss A produces at the First Avenue nightclub in Minneapolis every year on Dec. 8, the anniversary of Lennon’s death. Rue played with Almsted in the band Wire from 1970 to 1973 and, in 1974, Rue joined Almsted in Thumbs Up, a five-piece band with two guitars, two drummers and a bass, including his former bandmates Tilly and Mike Burt. This band found a home at the CC Tap, now called the CC Club, at 2600 Lyndale Ave S. in Minneapolis and played every night but Sunday for five hours during the winter of 1974, “sort of the house band there.” Rue and Tilly started a band in Minneapolis in March of 1976 called Nip ‘n Tuck, with Jeff Willkomm on bass, then added Terry Isachsen on guitar, to play what Rue calls “not quite

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Nip ‘n Tuck played together 1976-78, garnering good reviews. (Left to right) Tilly, Gary Rue, Jeff Willkomm and Terry Isachsen. Courtesy Gary Rue

Rue Nouveau gained fans, including pop star Elvis Costello, during its run 1980-86. (Left to right) Bradley Gilbo, Gary Rue, Leslie Ball and Jeff Willkomm. Courtesy Gary Rue

mainstream pop, like Todd Rundgren and Steely Dan, things like that.” This band garnered good reviews, but ended in October of 1978. A highlight of 1979 was a USO tour of the Caribbean by Rue and Tilly, followed by the formation of another band in 1980 called Rue Nouveau. Pop star Elvis Costello became a fan of the group which consisted of Rue, Leslie Ball, Willkomm and Bradley Gilbo. Costello brought Rue’s song Everyone to Nick Lowe of the UK, who recorded it on his Columbia Records album, The Rose of England, in 1985. Rue Nouveau broke up in 1986. In June of 1987, Rue got a phone call from Jack Thibault, who had been the manager of Nip ‘n Tuck and was now manager of pop star Gene Pitney. Pitney (who was later inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002) had 16 top 40 songs in the U.S. in the 1960s, including Town Without Pity, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Only Love Can Break a Heart (see sidebar). Knowing his affinity for Pitney’s music, Thibault asked if Rue could put a band together quickly and come out to Warwick, Rhode Island, where Pitney was scheduled to perform in one of several east coast summer tent shows. An incident with the bus of Pitney’s musicians had soured them on touring and had led them all to quit. Rue told me that it took about a week for him to assemble a 12-piece band, all from Minnesota, and get out them all out to Rhode Island by bus. Rue played bass with this band and then guitar the following year. In 1989, he was asked to take over as Pitney’s North American music director. Rue also played piano, arranged songs and was Pitney’s duet partner.

In 1996, Rue (center) directed a band and 100 singers in recording Paul Wellstone’s Senate campaign song, We Can Do Better, at Creation Studio in Minneapolis, for which he had written the music. Courtesy Gary Rue

Rue said the high point of his years with Pitney was playing Carnegie Hall with a 20-piece band in front of a sell-out crowd on Feb. 26, 1993, despite the fact that the World Trade Center had just been bombed (for the first time, before Sept. 11, 2001). Rue asked stagehands what had happened and they said, “That’s downtown, this is uptown, don’t worry about it.” Rue said the low point was playing on a Parks and Recreation flatbed trailer in the rain in Miles City, Montana. Among other highlights: an outdoor concert in Boston before 15,000 people

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Gary Rue: Show Up and Shoot from 2008 feature various artists and showcase the diversity of his songwriting. Rue has a wide range of pop, country, jazz, classical, light opera and lounge singing influences, all of which enable him to do a variety of work on commission. In 1994, Rue was engaged to do the song campaign for the Mall of America, with the slogan, “There’s a place for fun in your life.” In 1996, he wrote the music for Paul Wellstone’s Senate campaign song, We Can Do Better (lyrics by Leslie Ball and Marian Moore), and he directed a band and about 100 singers in a recording at Creation Audio of Minneapolis.

In 2006, the Dallas Children’s Theater took Stinky Cheese Man (by Kent Stephens, music by Gary Rue) on a national tour and to Shanghai. Commissioned in 1998 for St. Paul’s SteppingStone Theatre, the work has been performed by many theatrical companies. Courtesy Dallas Children’s Theater

Since 1994, Gary Rue has written the music for around 40 musical theater shows for St. Paul’s Steppingstone Theatre as composerin-residence. This photo is from The Nightingale in August of 2008. Courtesy Gary Rue

in 1994 and a successful engagement during the last days of the Stardust Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas in 2003. Pitney died from a heart ailment at the age of 66 in his hotel room on April 5, 2006, while on tour in Cardiff, Wales. Rue said Pitney was still “going strong” professionally at his death. Rue’s last performance with Pitney was at the Kewadin Casino in Lansing, Michigan, on Feb. 14 that year. Rue’s experience as music leader with Pitney led to contract band leader gigs with the Coasters, the Platters, the Marvelettes and the Shirelles. He had directed the band for the Shirelles in Duluth and Grand Rapids in 1977 and did so again at Grand Casino in Hinckley two years ago, with Beverly Lee as the only original singer left from this popular ’60s girl group. Rue told me that he had started songwriting in earnest in the early 1970s. Helen Reddy recorded his Lost in the Shuffle in 1989 and Prudence Johnson sang Tell Me Lies on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion in 2004. The 2006 CD Songs of SteppingStone Theatre: No Picnic Being Cheese and

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Rue is noted for his work in theater, which he said dates back to 1981 when he complained to his roommate at the time, David Goldstein, that he was tiring of playing music in bars. Goldstein, who was director of the Actors Theater in St. Paul, said, “Well, I have a friend who is opening up a new play here in about three months and he needs some new music written, so how would you like to do that?’ Yes, Rue said he would like that. His first show was writing music for A Careless Love by John Olive, who has gained fame as an award-winning playwright. Rue then did a lot of work with the Illusion Theater in downtown Minneapolis, thanks to co-producing directors Michael Robins and Bonnie Morris. Rue also composed the music for Amazing Grace in 1984-85 in which National Public Radio tracked one of the first AIDS couples. Then in 1994, Rue got a call from Steppingstone Theatre for Youth Development at 55 Victoria St. N. in St. Paul to finish a show of an absentee composer. Since then, Rue has done around 40 shows for them as composer-in-residence. Rue said he takes a rough draft of words from playwrights and “I mold them and change and tweak and push and pull and make them into a lyric for a song” and then he writes the music for it. Examples of such songs are It’s No Picnic Being Cheese, Good to Be a Goat, Stepsisters and Cinderella and Enjoy Us While You Have Us. In 1998, Stinky Cheese Man by Kent Stephens, with music by Rue, was commissioned by SteppingStone and has been performed in theaters across the U.S., including the Dallas Children’s Theater, which took the show on a national tour in 2006 and even to Shanghai for an international children’s theater festival. Rue estimated that he has been creator or co-creator of close to 90 musical theater scores, with more than 2,000 regional, national and international performances. At St. Paul’s History Theatre (30 East 10th St.), he has been music director for Buddy! The Buddy Holly Story three times and won an Ivey award for Twin Cities theater for that role in 2011. In 2009, Jerry Allison and Sonny Curtis of Holly’s band, the Crickets, attended a performance and gave it their stamp of approval. In 2010, Rue was inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, the same year Rue and the Sensational Sleepers were put into the Mid-America Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rue wrote the music and lyrics of Chopin’s Heart (with book and additional lyrics by Dan Pinkerton), a comic-tragic musical set in 1939 in Warsaw, Poland, which premiered last month, May 15 and 16, at Open Eye Figure Theatre in Minneapolis. It resulted from a $10,000 Minnesota State Arts Board grant and he considers it his best work yet. He is currently

working on music for Dan Pinkerton’s adaptation (book and lyrics) of Charles Dickens’ Hard Times. Rue has been an adjunct instructor of songwriting, Creating Music Theatre and Music Business at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul since 2007. He has a son, Tyler, and two granddaughters, Hailey (11) and Kira (8). Rue’s current Sleepers rock band was formed in Northfield in 2012 and now consists of Rue on guitar, Northfield’s Gordon Oschwald on bass, Tilly (from Plymouth) on drums and Gary Gratz (from Elk River) on keyboard and guitar. (Member Victor Johnson died last February of cancer at age 59, after participating along with Rue at an emotional John Lennon tribute at First Avenue on Dec. 8.) Gary Rue, shown with his partner, Laura MacKenzie, was inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in November of 2010, the same year he was inducted into the Mid-America Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Sensational Sleepers. Courtesy Gary Rue

“I am still discovering Gary’s amazing performance and arranging skills, along with his deep and diverse legacy of composition, though we’ve been together for almost eight years! From his many delightful musicals for youth (appropriately challenging!) to leading a ’60s beat boom rock ‘n’ roll band (he knows all the RIGHT cool chords and harmonies – a rare thing!) to conducting a stage orchestra from the piano while beautifully crooning ALL the songs of a Gene Pitney review show (how does he know ALL those songs – I never hear him practice?!) to composing and producing a new musical evocative of a 1940s Warsaw cabaret (wow!) to stepping out with solo shows of his own brilliant pop songs (played with virtuosic guitar stylings) to accompanying the traditional Irish and Scottish music of my life’s work with his fresh, unique, highly creative yet totally supportive guitar and vocal work (in a genre new to him!), I am accustomed to being stunned. And he’s a super nice guy to boot.” – Laura MacKenzie

On June 19 and 20, at 8 pm, as part of the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres’ concert series, the Sleepers will be presenting British Invasion Music 1964-66, featuring songs from such groups as the Hollies, the Animals, the Zombies, the Yardbirds, the Searchers and, of course, the Beatles. On Thursday, June 18, also at Chanhassen at 8 pm, Rue is presenting “Only Love Can Break a Heart: The Music of Gene Pitney,” with a 15-piece orchestra. Phone 800-362-3515 for box office information for these events. Other summer dates for Rue are free solo performances June 5, July 11 and Aug. 15 at Ward 6 supper club, 858 Payne Ave. in St. Paul, 9-11:30 pm, and free performances with his other rock group, Stray Voltage, at Lord Fletcher’s On The Lake in Spring Park on July 5, 3-7 pm and on Aug. 8, starting at 7 pm. Rue also teams up to play with his partner in music and life, Northfield native Laura MacKenzie (featured in Historic Happenings of June 2013). They play traditional Irish/Scottish music, with Rue on guitar and MacKenzie on all the windpowered instruments of that genre. Rue said this music is “way outside” his comfort zone, but he likes the challenge and does his best to “accompany her and support what she does musically” in the “stunningly melodic” songs and tunes. Rue told me that once he met MacKenzie in 2007, “everything else was off the table,” the attraction was instant. They moved from St. Paul to her hometown in 2011. Both appreciate the small town environment and cultural benefits of living in a college town. Rue is also glad that his “favorite trout stream is 30 miles away.” Rue said fly fishing ranks third, after writing music and performing, as a favorite thing to do. Rue has created a website, MusicalsForYoungAudiences.com, to license and publish theatrical works for young people for which he has written the music in collaboration with a wide variety of well-known playwrights. Currently 29 titles are available, with more to come. For further information about Rue, check out NewMusicArts.org, which represents both Rue and MacKenzie, and garyrue.com.

The new Sleepers, formed in 2012, play here at Bloomington Arts in the Park in the summer of 2013. (Left to right) Gordon Oschwald, Victor Johnson, Tilly and Gary Rue. Tilly and Rue have played together on and off for almost 50 years. Courtesy Gary Rue

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Gary Rue Remembers Gene Pitney Paul Simon and Pitney himself plied their trade. Among the Bacharach/David songs that Pitney recorded are The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (#4 in 1962), Only Love Can Break A Heart (#2 in 1962, behind He’s a Rebel, a song written by Pitney for the Crystals) and 24 Hours from Tulsa (#17 in 1963).

Gene Pitney (seated, center) hits it off with the Rolling Stones in late 1963. (Left to right) Pitney’s publicist and Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman. Pitney recorded the Jagger/ Richards song That Girl Belongs to Yesterday in 1964, the first commercial songwriting success of the Rolling Stones. Courtesy Gary Rue

One of the albums which Gary Rue remembers loving most in his youth was Gene Pitney’s Greatest Hits. He could hardly have imagined that years later he would be working with his idol. Rue first played with Pitney in 1987 and became his North American music director from 1989 until Pitney’s death in 2006. Pitney was one of the most prolific artists of the 1960s, scoring 16 Top 40 songs in the U.S. from 1961 to 1968 (four in the top ten) and even more in the United Kingdom into the 1970s. A native of Connecticut, Pitney became a successful songwriter early on, with hits for Bobby Vee (Rubber Ball) and Rick Nelson (Hello Mary Lou) in 1961. Rue told me, “I was in his office with him when Hello Mary Lou crossed the one million play mark for radio which means you get double the royalty for air time every single time it gets played. And, so uncharacteristic of him, he let out this big ‘WHOOP!’ and jumped up and down when the phone call came in about it.”

Pitney became an international star, often touring 11 months of the year at home and abroad. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Rue described Pitney as being “an absolutely fabulous professional to work with,” not egocentric at all. Pitney was a “spit and polish” performer, “honest and fair.” Rue said Pitney put on a “solid show,” which ranged from simply singing Harry Belafonte songs with an acoustic guitar to having full orchestral accompaniment. Since Rue was a sometimes scrabbling working musician, he told me that he appreciated “show biz as it should be,” with limousine rides, hotel suites, not having to pick up “one single bag, guitar or suitcase,” all of which “allowed us to relax, just think about the music and blow ‘em away.” Pitney was in tune with Rue’s feelings, as well, and they became friends during their long association. Asked to describe Pitney’s distinctive voice, Rue said, “Well, three octaves, for one thing, which was really quite amazing.” Carole King had written a song for Pitney called Every Breath I Take. When Pitney died in 2006, Rue said, she was playing at Radio City Music Hall. She got to one note that was really high, stopped playing the piano and said, “We’ll leave that one for Gene, I can’t hit it.” Rue said, “It was a distinct honor to have performed with Pitney for all those years, arguably the highlight of my life in show business, and I still miss him dearly.”

Pitney’s first Top 20 single (reaching #13) was his emotional rendition of the theme song for the 1961 movie Town Without Pity, starring Kirk Douglas. Pitney performed the nominated song at the Academy Awards of April 9, 1962 (Moon River won the Oscar for best song). Rue noted that Pitney was “the first purveyor of Burt Bacharach/Hal David tunes,” even before Dionne Warwick. Rue’s own music has been influenced by the “Brill Building” era, which refers to the Manhattan offices and studios where such legendary tunesmiths as Bacharach/David, Carole King/ Gerry Goffin, Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller, Neil Diamond,

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Gary Rue (right) with Gene Pitney at a rehearsal in spring of 2003 for a show at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. Rue was Pitney’s North American musical director from 1989 to 2006. Courtesy Gary Rue

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507/732-7616 Classes in the arts for preschoolers through adults. Crossings Summer Camps Registration Open: One- and two-week, half- and whole-day experiences in all the arts, ages three through high school. Draw your avatar, knit and sew, build a battle robot, practice performance magic, experience improv or musical theater, learn to throw pottery on the wheel, sculpt in metal or found objects, hand build clay faces, learn the art of printmaking, and more. Full details online, or email publicity@crossingsatcarnegie.com to request a brochure. Sign up online or call to register. Camp fees $128-$238. Glass Garden Beads – glassgardenbeads.com Glass Garden Open Beading (Free) – first and third Mon, 6-9pm – This is a good starting point to learn beginning beading techniques. Bring a project or start a new one. Make ’n Take Third Thursday – June 18, 5-7pm – Bring a friend and create a funky ring, bracelet or necklace in just a few easy steps. Everyone is welcome. Just Food Co-op, Northfield – 507/650-0106 • justfood.coop Container Gardening Design and Edibles – June 2, 6:30-8pm – Join Landscape Project Manager/Designer Amy Voight for Container Gardening Design and Edibles! Bring your kids and discover together how to design and plan your container. You will learn many tips and tricks on how to maintain your plants throughout the growing season. Sign-up through our website. $12 for adults, kids free. Lakeville Area Arts Center – 952/985-4640 Find art-related classes at lakevilleareaartscenter.com Northfield Arts Guild – 507/645-8877 Dance to the music! – Ballet, modern, folk, tap, ballroom, Mexican folklórico: The Arts Guild has it all for ages five years and up. Too young to dance? Bring your tots to Music Together instead. Northfield Buddhist Meditation Center – Children’s Circle Class (ages 3-9), Sundays, 3-4pm. Children and their parents

meditate, do yoga and learn about Buddhism in a fun, peaceful atmosphere of exploration. Everyone welcome. Northfield Community Band Rehearsals – Wednesdays: May 27-June 24, 7-8:30pm, Northfield High School Band Room – Interested in performing in the Northfield Community Band? Instrumentalists may simply show up at rehearsal. The Community Band performs at Bridge Square every Thursday evening June 4-25, 7-8pm. Northfield Garden Club – thenorthfieldgardenclub.org

Patty Cake Infant Lapsit – Tue, 10-11am – Specially designed to encourage development of language and motor skills by incorporating books with simple songs, rhymes and fingerplays. For ages 6-24 months with parent or caregiver. Toddler Rhyme Time – Wed, 9:30am and 10:30am – A time to encourage development of language and motor skills by integrating movement, songs, books and rhymes for kids ages two to three with parent or caregiver. KIDS Club – Sat, 1-3pm – for kids K-5. Explore a different topic every week – it could be transportation, crafts, cooking/baking, travel, sports or animals. Learn about using the library, how to find books and then expanding the topic with reading, crafts and activities. Northfield Senior Center – northfieldseniorcenter.org 507/664-3700. Programs for active older adults in a premier fitness facility with an indoor pool and certified fitness instructors. Bike club, hiking trips, ping pong, nutrition talks, art classes, writing classes, card groups, dining center, fitness classes and more. Northfield Yarn – 507/645-1330 – northfieldyarn.com Open Stitching – Thursdays, 5-7pm, Fridays, 10am-12pm – Bring a project and share in the fun. Free. Summer Knit – Mondays, 5-7pm at the Tavern Owatonna Arts Center – 507/451-0533 • oacarts.org Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault – 507/332-7372, paradisecenterforthearts.org. Community Iron Pour and Scratch Tile Workshop – workshop June 13, 10am and 2pm; iron pour June 20, 4pm – At the scratch tile workshop Iron Head Sculptural Services will guide you through how to scratch, mark and draw on your own preformed sand block mold. You will be carving into the sand block to create a relief sculpture. The sand block molds will be transported to Lockerby sheet metal June 20 where Iron Head Sculptural Services will break up iron with sledgehammers, melt the iron in their portable furnace and pour the molten metal in your sand block mold. No experience necessary. All ages are welcomed. Tuition: $45, includes the scratch tile workshop, iron pour and materials. Prairie’s Edge Humane Society prairiesedgehs.org, 507/664-1035 Prairie Pond Winery – 105 Main St E, New Prague,

952/758-7850, prairiepondwinery.com Rice County Historical Society – 507/332-2121 • rchistory.org Cannon Valley Civil War Roundtable – third Thu, 7-9pm River Bend Nature Center, Faribault, 507/332-7151, rbnc.org Offering a variety of classes throughout June, including summer camps for children and youth ages three to 17. More at rbnc.org/ summercamp. Offerings for seniors include Cork & Canvas on the Prairie (June 3) and the OWLS luncheon series on dragonflies and damselflies (June 17).

Northfield Public Library

507/645-6606 • ci.northfield.mn.us/library First Steps Early Literacy Center – Mon, Fri, Sat, 10-12pm – Hands-on fun for children and their caregivers. Drop in anytime and you will find a fun-filled room with many early learning toys and books. A volunteer is on hand to assist you.

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Dairy Queen – 900 N Highway 3, Northfield

DINING Alexander’s Supper Club

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31 3rd Street NE. Faribault • 507/334-5868, alexanderssupperclub.com – Tues-Sat 11am-9pm, Sunday Brunch 9am-2pm. Fine supper club dining, featuring menu by acclaimed Twin Cities Chef Ian Gray. Fresh ingredients, classic and innovative cooking techniques and an eye toward great food at an affordable price. Steak, salmon, and walleye, chicken, burgers, and a selection of fine wines and beer. Archer House Bittersweet Cafe

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212 Division St, Northfield • 507/645-5661 – Mon-Fri 7am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-5pm. Truestone coffee, fresh fruit smoothies, organic juices, fresh baked goods including their famous popovers and cinnamon sugar popovers, oatmeal, breakfast burritos, sandwiches, soup and desserts.

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dairyqueenofnorthfield.com • 507/645-8912 – Feb-Apr: 10am-9pm, May-Aug: 10am-10pm, Sep-Oct: 10am-9pm – Dairy Queen treats and cake, homemade or southern style BBQ brisket sandwiches and famous juicy Polish hotdogs. Home of the Blizzard. Dawn’s Corner Bar

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El Tequila

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Railway Street, Dundas • 507/663-0593 Mon-Fri, 9am-1 -am, Sat 8am-1am, Su 9am- 6pm – Full Menu with salad bar. Burgers and daily specials. Cold Beer. Breakfast Buffet Saturday and Sunday. Happy hour 3:30 to 6 pm. 1010 Hwy. 3 S., Northfield • 507/664-9139 – 11am -10pm – Family restaurant offering authentic Mexican cuisine as well as wonderful margaritas and more. Fireside Lounge and Supper Club

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214 Division St., Northfield • 507/645-2462 • chapati.us Cuisine of India. Variety of curry and Tandoori entrees including a large selection of vegetarian items. Wine and beer.

37540 Goodhue Ave., Dennison • 507/645-9992 • firesidelounge.net Tue-Sun 10am-close, closed Mon. A menu to satisfy all tastes, from burgers and sandwiches to steaks and shrimp dinners. Friday night fish special, Saturday night prime rib special and Sat/Sun breakfast specials. Like FiresideLoungeSupperClub on Facebook and receive a coupon for a free appetizer – limited time offer.

Contented Cow

Froggy Bottoms River Pub/Lily PADio

Chapati

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302 Division St. S., Northfield • contentedcow.com • 3pm-close British-style pub with authentic British specialties and a variety of soups, salads and sandwiches. Extensive patio overlooking the Cannon River. Great selection of imported and domestic draft beer and a full selection of wine and spirits.

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307 S. Water St., Northfield • 507/301-3611 • Mon-Wed 11am-10pm, Thu-Sat 11-1am, Sun 11am-9pm – Upper-class bar food including appetizers, salads, burgers and more. Open for lunch and dinner. Entrees starting at 5pm.

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The HideAway Coffeehouse & Wine Bar

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J. Grundy’s Rueb ‘N’ Stein

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421 Division St., Northfield • 507/664-0400 – Mon-Fri, 6am-10pm, Sat-Sun 7am-10pm – Cozy bistro atmosphere serving unique appetizers and sandwiches. Coffee drinks, wine and beer specialties.

503 Division St., Northfield • ruebnstein.com • 507/645-6691 11am-close – Great burgers and famous Ruebens. Casual relaxing atmosphere. Huge selection of imported and domestic beers, fine spirits and wines. Game room, happy hour 3:30-6pm, Karaoke on Fridays at 9pm. L&M Bar & Grill

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224 Railway St. N, Dundas • 507/645-8987 – Great burgers, cold beer, pizza, breakfast cooked to order and daily lunch & dinner specials. The friendly place to go in Dundas. 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 take-out, since 1981. The Ole Store Restaurant

1011 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield • olestorerestaurant.com 507/786-9400 – 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. Pub 31

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31 3rd Street NE. Faribault (lower level of Alexander’s Supper Club) 507/334-8831 • alexanderssupperclub.com – Tue-Sat 3pm-close, Closed Sun/Mon (kitchen until 10pm Tue/Thu, until 11pm Fri/ Sat). Twenty ice cold tap beers, pub style food and live entertainment Fridays and Saturdays.

Quality Bakery and Coffee Shop

410 Division St., Northfield • 507/645-8392 – Opens 6 a.m. Tue-Sat 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. Quarterback Club

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116 3rd St. W., Northfield • 507/645-7886 • Mon-Sat 6am-9pm, Sun 10:30am-8pm – Family friendly dining in Northfield for 37 years. House specialties include broasted chicken, BBQ ribs and flame-broiled hamburgers. Tandem Bagels

317 Division St., Northfield • tandembagels.com 507/786-9977 – Mon-Fri 7am-5:30pm, Sat 7am-5pm, Sun 7:30am4pm. Genuine kettle-boiled and hearth-baked bagels. Made-from-scratch baked goods. Breakfast and lunch bagel sandwiches. Hot toasted specialty sandwiches. Fresh, seasonal, local and organic ingredients. Quality, soulful food in an inviting setting, leaving a small carbon footprint with ecofriendly serving materials. The Tavern of Northfield

212 Division St., Northfield • 507/663-0342 tavernofnorthfield.com – Sun-Thu 6:30am-10pm, Fri-Sat 6:30am11pm, 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 Thu-Sat.

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Quick, Quality Service While you Wait! 1201 South Highway 3 • 507-645-9600 • Mo-Th 7am-5:30pm, Fr 7am-5pm, Sa 8am-1pm

BUSINESS CLASSIFIEDS We are your hometown print shop.

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Center for Human Resources

A psychlogical counseling clinic

A quality resource serving Northfield and surrounding communities since 1976

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507-645-9304

CHILDREN ADOLESCENTS ADULTS COUPLES FAMILIES

Just Me Geralyn and Glass

Organic, Salad Bar, Grab & Go Deli. Local produce! 516 Water Street South www.justfood.coop • 507-650-0106.

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Gift Boxes Original Fused Glass Plates & Vases Alone Or With Olive Oil, Soap, Cheese, Chocolate, Dips Weddings, Moms, House Warming, Thank You, Business Gifts, Any Occasion

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DENNISON DAYS July 31-August 1 Friday: Tina & Lena On Stage Saturday: Chad Johnson and the 8th Steet Band 37540 Goodhue Ave, Dennison • 507-645-9992

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A Must See, One-of-a-Kind Event Featuring The USAF Thunderbirds!

JUNE

The world-famous United States Air Force Thunderbirds are bringing their high energy, precision aerobatic flying performance to the Minnesota Air Spectacular in Mankato. You’ve never seen anything like the Thunderbirds, “America’s Ambassadors in Blue,” and their F-16C Fighting Falcons!

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Bring the entire family and enjoy numerous exciting airshow performances, many fun ground displays, concessions and other attractions.

Team Oracle

The Minnesota Air Spectacular two-day event will take place at the Mankato Regional Airport, just north of Mankato. Mark your calendars now!

Performers include: • United States Air Force Thunderbirds • Team Oracle • U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team

• Dacy/Kazian Wingwalker • John Klatt Airshows • Kent Pietsch Airshows

U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team

Visit www.MNAirSpectacular.com for complete details! SPONSORED BY: Dacy/Kazian Wingwalker

Get Your Tickets!

Tickets to the Minnesota Air Spectacular are available at all Ticketmaster locations. Tickets will also be available on the day of the show at the Mankato Regional Airport. FREE Parking!

MANKATO REGIONAL AIRPORT | 507-389-3000 | MNAIRSPECTACULAR.COM

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Freeland FAMILY Tradition in Real Estate Let our family help yours in Real Estate transactions The housing market continues to improve • Interest rates remain low Call us for assistance in buying and selling your property!

Sonja & Al & Tim Freeland, Realtors® Experienced. Hardworking. Dedicated.

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The Freeland Team

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GRADUATION CAKES

School color sprinkles, mortarboard, decorations, cupcake flags and more.

FATHER’S DAY CAKES Pre-order your Father’s Day Cake.

GRILLING SEASON IS HERE

Fresh flavored brats from Edel’s Meats and the buns ready for you to take home and bake.

FOOD FOR A CROWD

Cookies, pastries, breadsticks, quiche and more.

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Tubs of Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream

200 Schilling Dr. • Dundas/Northfield

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OPEN: Sun-Wed 10-7 • Thurs-Sat 10-8

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