Dinner and cocktail seating and service begins 1 hour before showtimes. French Songs and Travel Stories The third annual Bastille My Heart show: An effervescent evening of French and French-American songs and stories to celebrate the French national holiday from this quartet of compagnons de voyage: star vocalists Prudence Johnson, Maud Hixson and Bradley Greenwald, hosted by Dan Chouinard on piano and accordion. Dan Chouinard: Host, Piano and Accordion Bradley Greenwald: Vocals Maud Hixson: Vocals Prudence Johnson: Vocals Dan Chouinard is a St. Paul-based all-purpose pianist, street accordionist, sing-along enabler and bicycling vagabond who’s traveled across Europe with an accordion and written about it for MPR in a show called Café Europa. –– Bradley Greenwald is an actor, singer, writer, and director. His original cabarets of music and spoken word create illuminating portraits of Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the year 1918, among others. –– Maud Hixson has been hailed in New York and London as a singularly elegant exponent of great songs, familiar and not. She and Dan appear together on her 2024 Bistro Award-winning album Permanent Moonlight: Songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. –– Prudence Johnson has been on the musical theatre stage, in two feature films (A River Runs Through It and A Prairie Home Companion), on national radio and on concert stages across North America and Europe, including Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. “Eclectic Minnesota accompanist Dan Chouinard is ‘everyone’s go-to guy.’ “ — Kim Ode, StarTribune 2017

Dinner and cocktail seating and service begins 90 minutes before showtimes. Great Songs by the Legendary James Taylor “Minnesota’s Acoustic Music Master” (Star Tribune) Michael Monroe, sings tunes by folk/pop favorite singer-songwriter James Taylor. You’ve Got A Friend is the first song Monroe sang professionally in 72’ at Asbury Park in NJ for 4000 attending the music festival. Expect to hear the best of James Taylor, with songs like Fire & Rain, Shower The People, Close Your Eyes, Sunny Skies, Sweet Baby James, Handy Man, October Road, Carolina In My Mind, How Sweet It Is, and of course You’ve Got A Friend. JT has always been a huge inspiration to Michael and a perfect fit for his tribute shows. Michael Monroe: Vocals and Guitar Tony Axtell: Bass Michael Pilhofer: Drums Dan Thayer: Electric Guitar “MN Acoustic Music Master,” (Star Tribune) Michael Monroe, performs original/acoustic cover tunes on vocals, crystal/bamboo flutes and Seaton Guitars crafted on the Gunflint Trail with reclaimed 200 year-old wood from the bottom of Lake Superior. Monroe’s award winning instrumental soundtracks are featured on PBS/CBC, in Jim Brandenburg’s (National Geographic) documentary, “Chased By The Light.” and received an Emmy for Jason Davis’ On The Road, program, “Soaring On Mended Wings.” A recipient of many MN State Arts Board grants from the 90s through 2023. michaelmonroemusic.com