Twin Cities Jazz Festival
Multiple Venues, Artists Listed All Over Twin Cities
FIGHT! For Your Civil Rights!
The Hook and Ladder Theater 3010 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis#gap-214739967 { padding-top: 31px; } EVENT DETAILS RSVP ON FACEBOOK #gap-338328030 { padding-top: 15px; } The Hook and Ladder Theater Doors 2:00pm :: Music 2:00pm – 7:00pm :: 21+ GA: $35 Box-Office / $38.55 Online / $40 Door BOX-OFFICE Tickets Are Available at The Hook & Ladder Box Office or The Zen Arcade (Open During Hours of Operation.) For More Information visit www.ZenArcadeTHC.com EVENT DESCRIPTION #gap-1808162642 { padding-top: 15px; } Minnesota Music Resistance Event To Benefit The American Civil Liberties Union FIGHT! For Your Civil Rights! featuring: Turn Turn Turn, The Muatas, The Silent Treatment, Dad Bod; Ganser; Christy Costello, The Daily Norm, Walken Schweigert of Open Flame, Strong Buffalo, M.A.Y. The Minnesota Music Resistance presents our inaugural awareness and fundraising event – Fight for YOUR Civil Rights – supporting ACLU MN. We’ll be gathering Sunday June 22 at the Hook and Ladder Theater and presenting entertainment that represents a variety of genres on multiple stages from 2:00 – 7:00 PM. Our Goal Is To: Help our community through funding/donating to the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota Foundation. Inform and educate the attendees through direct conversation and printed materials as well as continued access to community. Entertainment includes: Main stage: Ganser (last) Christy Costello Turn Turn Turn The Silent Treatment The Muatas Dad Bod (starting at 2pm) Lounge Stage: The Daily Norm, Walken Schweigert of Open Flame, Strong Buffalo, M.A.Y. The Hook’s outdoor space will also be utilized for non-profit organizations to share information and conversations time. Additionally we will have Open Flame Theatre performing sets. The Minnesota Music Resistance uses music, good trouble and grassroots, collective activism to raise resources and to support and connect communities. We are committed to human rights, inclusion and the fight against authoritarianism that threatens all of our livelihoods and existence. #gap-1073968948 { padding-top: 22px; } #image_1768570888 { width: 100%; } This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. #col-155979831 > .col-inner { padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0px -21px 0px; } #row-490001674 > .col > .col-inner { padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; } #col-940577260 > .col-inner { margin: 0px 0px -27px 0px; } #row-1206983915 > .col > .col-inner { padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px; }

Peel Me a Grape – Songs by Dave Frishberg with Connie Evingson & Jon Weber
Main Stage Showroom 6161 Hwy 65 NE, MinneapolisDinner and drinks service starts 1 hour before showtimes. An Evening of Classic Vocal Jazz Connie explores the Dave Frishberg Songbook from the witty and swinging (“My Attorney Bernie”, “Peel Me a Grape”) to the senstive and sublime “Listen Here”, “You Are There”). Pianist Jon Weber and bassist Steve Pikal join Connie in playing selections from her CD of Frishberg songs “Little Did I Dream” as well as other Frishberg favorites. Connie Evingson: Vocals Jon Weber: Piano Steve Pikal: Bass Vocalist Connie Evingson is known for exploring a wide variety of musical styles. She has been a featured guest artist with Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis, the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Doc Severinsen, Vocalessence, the JazzMN Orchestra and other esteemed organizations. She is a longtime member of the popular vocal jazz group Moore By Four, and is a two-time recipient of both the McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians and the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. Evingson captures the essence of Frishberg’s lyrics, appropriately sassy in “Peel Me a Grape”, delighting in the exotic “Zanzibar” and swinging like mad in “Can’t Take You Nowhere” … – Ken Dryden, All About Jazz www.connieevingson.com
DISPATCH W/ JOHN BUTLER ( WITH BAND ) at Surly
SURLY BREWING FESTIVAL FIELD 520 Malcolm Ave SE, MinneapolisSUMMER TOUR 2025 with Donavon Frankenreiter and Illiterate Light

The Birthday Club with Dan Chouinard and Prudence Johnson
Dunsmore Jazz Room 6161 Hwy 65 NE, MinneapolisDinner and drinks service starts 1 hour before showtimes. Songs to Celebrate June Music Birthdays Pianist Dan Chouinard invites a guest singer to join him in raising a musical toast to the music birthdays and other anniversaries of the month. Prudence Johnson joins Dan to celebrate, among others: Tom Jones (June 7), Nancy Sinatra (June 8), Judy Garland (June 10), Paul McCartney (June 18), Brian Wilson (June 20) and, of course, National Accordion Month. Dan Chouinard: Piano and Host Prudence Johnson: Featured Guest Singer For nearly four decades Dan Chouinard and Prudence Johnson have enjoyed a musical friendship, performing and touring the country together. Both are veterans of A Prairie Home Companion, and have performed together and individually on theater and concert stages with many and diverse musical projects. Each has appeared on the other’s recordings, and their collection of Gershwin songs features the duo in the pure simplicity of one piano and one voice. The two traveled across the US with humorist Garrison Keillor in the 2022-23-24 seasons. They both indulge their love of classic country music in the 7-piece band, Lush Country. “Eclectic Minnesota accompanist Dan Chouinard is ‘everyone’s go-to guy.’ “ — Kim Ode, StarTribune 2017 danchouinard.com/calendar
Tina Schlieske – Rooftop Concert Series at Hewing
The Hewing Hotel Concerts 300 N Washington Ave, Minneapolis
FREEDOM, LOVE and LIGHT: A Musical Celebration
The Belvedere at Crooners 6161 Highway 65 NE, MinneapolisDinner and cocktail seating and service begins 1 hour before showtimes. Juneteenth, A Musical Celebration of Strength and Hope This musical evening features the music of Mahalia Jackson, The Staple Singers, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin and more. With a special dedication to the music of two powerful musical “Freedom Fighters” and “Greats gone 2 soon” that have recently left us…Roberta Flack and the soulful legendary Powerhouse vocalist, song writer, producer, actress…Ms. Angie Stone. Kathleen Johnson: Vocals Cornisha Garmon: Vocals Rhonda Johnson: Vocals Courtnie Johnson: Vocals Kevin Jackson: Vocals The Band: William Duncan Anibal Soares Brad Steine Derrick Holleman Ethan Ostrow These songs shed a direct spotlight on the struggles of freedom for all. This is a show celebrating not only “Juneteenth”, but also “African American Music Appreciation Month” as well as the highly celebrated birth month of our Brother “Prince” who was one of Kathleen Johnson’s greatest in-house Paisley Park studios “Mentors”…. Prince who fought hard for all fairness and freedom of artistic creativity in the recording and live music industry. www.musician4musicians.com www.greatsgone2soon.com