Live Music

Dinner and cocktail seating and service begins one hour before showtime. Joyful Interactive Group Singing Oh, the Nostalgia!! Jay and Doug will lead, and together you will belt out the songs that always take you right back to the fun times and great music of Summer in the 70s! Including hits by The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Carole King, Jimmy Buffett, Jim Croce, ABBA, Billy Joel, Peter Frampton, and more. Bring your cell phone or iPad (if you need bigger text), and put on your favorite 70’s clothes. Jay Fuchs piano, vocals, song leader Doug Anderson vocals, guest song leader Jay Fuchs is a renowned entertainer, music director, and music educator. For 25 years he has been the musical partner of Erin Schwab, the “Bette Midler of the Twin Cites”. Together they create and perform popular shows at top venues throughout the area! Jay is the founder and director of Dr. Jay’s Cabaret, which produces a series of fun and inspirational shows at a variety of popular entertainment spots. He has served as music director for the Governor’s Inauguration Ball, the Charlie Awards, the US Foods Awards Ball, the Basilica of Saint Mary Annual Fund Raiser, Children’s MN, and many more. For 27 years Jay was the Music Theory Department Head at McNally Smith College of Music. Doug Anderson is a veteran actor/dancer/performer in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. He has performed at the Guthrie, Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Hey City Theater, Center City Theater, and many others. He has also performed in London at The St. James Theater, Piaño, Crazy Coq’s, The Music Café and The Phoenix Arts Club.

Dinner and cocktail seating and service begins 1 hour before showtimes. Jazz, Soul Come groove to your favorite songs from Motown, the most prolific soul music hitmakers of the 20th century, with an acoustic jazz twist. You’ll enjoy the smooth baritone vocals of Geoff Jones as he interprets jazz standards and songs by Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations and others. The scintillating vocalist Chreese Jones will join the combo as special guest. Geoff Jones, vocalsNancy Bierma, pianoJim Bierma, bassNathan Norman, drums Geoff Jones was a longtime featured vocalist with the Grammy-winning Sounds of Blackness and has performed worldwide. The husband and wife team Nancy and Jim Bierma have been playing as a duo for decades, and are in the Iowa Jazz Hall of Fame. Nathan Norman is an accomplished drummer having played with countless combos and ensembles for over 40 years. “I absolutely loved (the) performance at Crooners!” – M.D. “…enjoyed the amazing Swinging Motown show. Fun night!”- L.B. geoffjonesmusic.com

Dinner and cocktail seating and service begins 75 minutes before showtimes. New Orleans Jazz For nearly two decades the Southside Aces have been playing the repertoire of the Jazz Age greats and beyond. From the early New Orleans of Jelly Roll Morton to the Chicago joys of Louis Armstrong. The evocative compositions of the young Duke Ellington to the barrel house sounds of Preservation Hall. And with the 2022 release of their 8th album, Minneapolis Bump, they’ve added fifteen originals to the jazz canon. Treat yourself to a century’s worth of New Orleans Jazz. Tony Balluff, clarinet Dan Eikmeier, trumpet Eric Johnson, trombone Erik Jacobson, sousaphone Robert Bell, guitar Dave Michael, drums Besides Crooners, Southside Aces have performed at the Dakota, Vieux Carre, Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival, Twin Cities Jazz Fest, and Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest, to name a few. They’ve driven dancers to a frenzy at national dance competitions in Denver, Omaha, Chicago, Des Moines, and all across the great state of Minnesota — which, if you’re keeping score, makes them a “territory band.” “Some 1500 miles from New Orleans and the Mardi Gras, and what do you think? It’s bouncing around the Mississippi River up here close to the Northern Star.” Leigh Kamman—The Jazz Image www.southsideaces.com