Minnesota Bluegrass June 2014

June 2014

Pert Near Sandstone knows something about leaving p. 5In this issue: Fletcher Brock p. 7 | Review: Tunes of Leonard Finseth p. 14 | Phil Nusbaum p. 23 | Calendar p. 25 | Coming Up p. 26

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7th Annual Minnesota Irish Music WeekendMusicians, singers, dancers, and music appreciators of all ages will find something of interest in the wide range of workshops, lectures, sessions and concerts that span the 7th Annual Minnesota Irish Music Weekend in St. Paul, June 13–15.

Visiting artists from Ireland, recognized for their musical mastery, will offer insights and techniques to help learners tap into the deep roots of traditional Irish music. We are pleased to welcome Oisín Mac Diarmada (fiddle), Catherine McEvoy (flute and whistle), John McEvoy (fiddle), John Blake (guitar, piano and flute), and Rita Gallagher (song) to MIM for the first time.

Regionally-based artists, well-known for their musician-ship and teaching, will broaden the weekend’s program: Kate Dowling (whistle), Randy Gosa (banjo and mandolin), Tom Klein (uillean pipes), Brian Miller (bouzouki and accom-paniment), Brían Ó hAirt (Irish language song, sean-nós dance and concertina) and Dáithí Sproule (interviews, song and lilting). Workshops such as “Up or down? Pick direction on tenor banjo and mandolin,” and “A view from outside: Exploring your piping” will offer opportunities to consider unique aspects of the music.

The Great Session Experience on June 13 will bring together the Twin Cities Irish music community with six simultaneous sessions, free and open to the public, including one dedicated to song. The MIM Master Concert on June 14 will highlight the virtuosity of the five visiting artists.

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Cover story

Pert Near Sandstone knows something about leavingBy JoAnne Makela

I like to tell people “I’m not from here” when I run into Midwesternisms that I do not understand. I’ve lived in Minnesota for almost 30 years now, and still scratch my head at the low-key, self-effacing, don’t-toot-your-own-horn stance of some folks whose horns should be blaring loud and clear.

Take, for instance, local band Pert Near Sandstone. Here’s their latest PR on their new CD, The Hardest Part of Leaving, (released April 15):

“Pert Near Sandstone’s fifth studio album yields a powerful collection of new material put together during a marathon songwriting session in the Winter of 2013. The lyrical content for this album was gathered over the last three years during times wrought with the personal trials and tribulations faced by a band ten years deep into its journey of traveling the country in their rugged and rambling fash-ion. Ever eclectic in their approach to the broad spectrum of American folk music they represent, the band unearths some of their most potent and hard-hitting songwriting to date. The Hardest Part of Leaving is an honest album, written with the matu-rity Pert Near now brings to the acous-tic song craft. It finds Pert Near col-laborating with many of the talented musicians in the historic and ever growing hot bed of folk music nestled in the polar vortex of Minneapolis. The Hardest Part of Leaving walks the line between the signature Pert Near sound and a more experimental approach by the blue-collared stew-ards of the modern string-band music scene.”

I agree with this assessment of this collec-tion. That’s the beauty of having skilled marketeers sum things up for you, you end up nodding your head, thinking, I couldn’t have said it better. So, I was surprised to hear from Kevin Kniebel, front man and banjo player for the band, that the band had never been profiled in this magazine. After attending their release party for the new CD and witnessing their com-fortably full house at the Fitzgerald Theater on April 12, it seems this review is long overdue.

Ten years, five albums, a national reputation for being a go-to bar band that plays old-time and bluegrass—sounds like an MBOTMA success story to me. But I have come to under-stand that success does not necessarily mean popularity, and that dues-paying is a task taken as seriously as an Italian vendetta in this neck of the music world.

Kniebel and I met over coffee in Dinkytown during one of the last hours he had before leaving for a 13-gig tour spanning four weeks, ten states, and ten cities in the Northwest and a few closer to home. He knows something about leaving.

“We have a good following out west,” said Kniebel. “We were doing

120 shows a year for a long time, now we’ve got it down to 70, making sure they are the right shows, the right audience. We’re done crashing on dirty college basement floors.” The CD release tour, put together by local Periscope Artist Management, will wrap up in July and then Pert Near will return focus to their audience here, which is substantial, gauging by the turnout for the concert at the Fitz.

Not only did their fans and family show up, but a who’s who of the local roots, Americana, and a smidge of the pop world joined them at some point on stage. The final encore included Cajun fiddler Anabel Njoes (Ana and the Bel-Tones), Sans Souci mandolin player Eric Larson, Ryan Young and Dave Simonett of Trampled by Turtles, The Voice finalist and piano man Nicholas David, and the Wild Goose Chase Cloggers, with six-time National Jig Dancing Champion Matt Cartier. Now, Nicholas David was a treat, but the clogging was the highlight. No drums in bluegrass, right? Clogging

Finale at the Fitzgerald on April 12. All photos: Sunshine Joy Hedlund

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covers my rock-n-roll need for a back beat. Reminiscent of old jugband, and engaged in an Appalachian sensibility, it’s amazing what feet and a sound board can accomplish.

Pert Near belongs to a close-knit family of established musicians, like Trampled by Turtles, Pocahontas County, Corpse Reviver, the Pistol Whippin Party Penguins, The Brass Kings, and Ana and the Bel-Tones, who play with each other and for each other in the bar and club scene that feeds the ravenous fans of roots music throughout the Twin Cities. Married to Wild Goose Chase Clogger Anna Mason, Kniebel commented that it can be hard to find your place in the family-friendly traditional bluegrass world for mid-career artists who are still playing the 11:30 to close slot at places like the Cabooze or the Hexagon Bar, where they first fostered an old-time music showcase years ago. Jobs and kids make them appreciate the 8 p.m. shows at venues like the Cedar Cultural Center and the Fitzgerald Theater. But, playing in bars has long been the bread and butter of musicians making a living (at least part of it) as musicians. It’s where they first got a taste of the life, listening to the Front Porch Swingin’ Liquor Pigs, The Mill City Grinders, and the Ditch Lilies at bars like the Viking Lounge.

Bandmates Kniebel, guitarist J. Lenz, and mando/fiddler Nate Sipe have been friends since high school. Their first exposure to live string-band music was at the MBOTMA August festival. Nate, Kevin, and fiddler Ryan Young (Trampled by Turtles) would listen to old records to figure out how to play the tunes they were learning. Nate was excited to see Peter Rowan and Tony Rice playing at the 2004 August Festival and convinced his friends to go camping with him to hear

them at the festival just over 10 years ago. That year they saw the Wilders perform the festival too, which made a very big mark on their approach to playing live music.

They developed their twangy, for-lorn sound by trial and error, listening to a vast catalog of traditional bands. Guitarist J. Lenz had formal music training as a brass player and had been playing in other sorts of bands for years. His knowledge of composition and music theory brings depth and boundary-stretching innovation to the band’s sound. Young has since gone on to play with other bands (joining his old friends when he can). They have a roster of bass players out on the road; Adam Kiesling most consistently takes the job closer to home, but bassists Justin Bruhn, Eric Struve, and Matt Walvatne can all be seen playing bass with the band around the country. Their unique percussion sound is pro-vided by clogger and washboard player Andy Lambert, and Matt Cartier has increasingly joined them on the road as well when Andy is unavailable.

Sipe and Kniebel are steeped deep into the Americana tradition that adds the authentic flavor to this modern string-band. Sipe is now based in L.A., a modern hobo, of sorts, not afraid to hop trains and take dares to further his knowledge of the road and the hard life that fuels so much of traditional Americana and the band’s haunting lyrics. Flying him back and forth for gigs is the band’s biggest expense.

Kniebel taught himself the banjo, because that’s what the band needed. He almost threw in the towel several times. But, Craig Evans convinced him not to give up and Bill Cagley gave him a one-hour lesson to show him the frail. The week following that lesson he was playing on stage (poorly, accord-ing to him), but he credits Bill with

making sense of it for him. He has no problem with his instrument of choice now, as evidenced by some lovely banjo picking on the cut “25th & Riverside.”

Hard life and hard work are reflected in the music. There is a common rough edge to their love stories in songs like “You’re No Good to Me,” with its cheerful, danceable rhythm yet low-down blues, accusatory lyrics, in the same vein as fan-favorite “Solid Gone,” from their 2011 release Paradise Hop. Or, the modern-day, old-time lament of “Hellfire” with the lyrics: “You know that I’d move moun-tains/ and swim across the sea/ I’d walk through the Hellfire/ to get you back to me.”

They reveal and revel in the life of the itinerant musician in the cau-tionary “His Island” (“look out/ as far as I know/ you can’t join a one-man show”). And there is a seamless bal-ance between the upbeat twang and the nostalgic sweet-and-low through-out the songs on the CD. The reality of the day-to-day for this longtime project is that the band members have their day jobs and other commitments, but are dedicated to their music. They are always leaving for somewhere, and desperate to get back home.

The band was on the road out west the whole month of May, then commit-ted to a few closer festivals in June and July, including Big Top Chautauqua in Bayfield, June 14. Kniebel says they plan to lie low for the rest of the summer and pick up again with shows at First Ave this fall and the Cedar in early 2015. In the meantime, they’ll be looking for the jam and taking notes.

Pert Near Sandstone’s The Hardest Part of Leaving is in stores now via Pert Near Music. They are online at www.pertnearsandstone.com.

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When the Coen brothers make a movie about luthiers, central casting would be hard-pressed to find a better lead than Fletcher Brock. Among the scores of high-end mandolin makers work-ing today, few produce as excellent an instrument at such a modest price. He has gained a reputation as a “player’s luthier,” with instruments that meet the musical demands and budgets of work-ing musicians.

You’re related to Alice Brock of “Alice’s Restaurant.” Sounds like you had a rich musical influence early in life.

Alice is my stepmother and mar-ried my father when I was 8 or 9, but I mostly grew up with my mother and stepfather on Cape Cod. There was a variety of music in both households. My mother was a proficient nonprofes-sional classical pianist, which petered out with the rearing of four children. My father played folk guitar and had a beautiful singing voice. He was involved in the 1960s folk scene when we lived in NYC, notably the jams in Washington Square. My parents divorced when I was in second grade and we moved with our mom to Cape Cod. My dad Ray and Alice, eventually ended up in Stockbridge, Mass., where they landed jobs at Stockbridge School. Ray taught sculpture and Alice was the librarian. They had a little house on campus, which became a hang-out. It was teeming with activity, especially music. Arlo Guthrie was a student at the time, and he and Alice and Ray became fast friends. There were jams at the house almost daily, with every-one coming and going and learning to sing and play folk instruments.

Folks were trying to track down the roots of American folk music at the time, so we were listening to Mississippi John Hurt, Doc Watson, Leadbelly, and too many others to list. You could still take guitar lessons from Rev. Gary Davis for $5 if you happened to be in New York City. I started on guitar and eventually picked up the mandolin and fiddle. Guitar is the only one that has stayed with me, and I play daily. Back in the day, people entertained them-selves, played instruments, fixed their own cars, and built their own boats and houses.On your journey from Cape Cod to California, what were the most important inflection points?

I dropped out of the University of Massachusetts after two years and moved back to New York to work in a cabinet-making shop. Music and art were my MO and had equal pull at the time. I lived a block from Tony Trishka and Matt Glaser (a fiddler) and got introduced to the New York bluegrass scene through coat-tailing them. It was a great time, musically, to be in New York. After about a year, some friends from UMass invited me to play man-dolin in a band they were forming in Seattle. At one point while in Seattle, I was offered a crew position delivering a sailboat down the Atlantic coast, in the middle of the winter. Another of the crew was building a big house

for a client in Ketchum, Idaho and he invited me to do all the furniture, exte-rior, spiral staircase, and green house. It was a huge house, a three-year proj-ect, so I ended up in Idaho and put down some roots. For the next 30 years I split my time between Seattle and Ketchum.

One of the highlights of Seattle was working with Anchor Jensen, the legendary Seattle boat builder. After Anchor died in 2000, I moved my instrument shop into the sail loft in the space where he built the famous Slo-mo-shun hydroplanes that dom-inated the Gold Cup during the ’50s. About a year and a half ago, my wife and I finally broke that back-and-forth pattern and moved to the central coast of California. It’s great to be back in a maritime climate, and back on the ocean, which is a block and a half from my shop. What does boat building teach you about instrument building?

Boats and mandolins have very few straight lines, have wild joints,

Meet the masters

Fletcher Brock: mandos in the boatyardBy James Kent

Fletcher Brock in his workshop. Photo: Caylin Huttar

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making octave man-dolins, and that might change, but right now it’s good for me. Mandolin sales have gone down, some due to the recession, some because the market is saturated with excel-lent instruments built by the current stock of talented luthiers. How did your connec-tion with Sarah Jarosz happen?

Really by chance. I was in Nashville and had a booth at the IMBA with a few spec instruments. Sarah came around with some friends who took turns playing the octave I had brought to the show. She had been looking for one for a while, and this one spoke to her, so she bought it. It was that simple. I was familiar with her from when she was an early teen playing at festivals. She’s got serious chops—a great song writer, great musician. There was a while when every phone call was “Hey, I just saw Sarah and how do I get one of those things?” It still happens but ... this made me laugh … last week I got an email that started: “I want to know about your octave mandolins, and not because I just saw Sarah Jarosz.”Where did your interest in mandos on steroids come from?

The first octave mandolin that everyone seemed to know is the one Mike Kemnitzer built for Tim O’Brien years ago. I’m sure there are others around, but that’s the one every-one knew about. My commission came from Chad Fadley, who lives in Montana. Chad had approached Bill Bussman, who lives in New Mexico, to build him one, and the way I heard the story was that Bill told Chad to “find

weird angles, and compound cuts all over. In both you’re bending wood and fitting joints that have to be perfect. On a boat, if the joints don’t hold, you sink, so you’re putting people’s lives in your hands. Boat building teaches you to visualize in three dimensions, which is also handy when building instruments (anything really). When built right, mandolins and boats are beautiful but, ultimately, they’re tools. An F-5 is the weirdest, gaudiest thing on the planet—but it’s gorgeous. It’s a masterpiece.

I was lucky to work with Anchor Jensen. There was a saying: there’s a right way, a wrong way and Anchor’s way—which is a notch above the right way. He typically gave me the hardest projects in the yard. I’d give him three or four ways to go and he’d come up with another that was clearer and cleaner—and was so obvious once you saw it. He impressed on me the impor-tance of doing things correctly, with no short cuts.You produce a large range of instru-ments—guitars, citterns, bouzoukis to the whole mandolin family. How many instruments do you make per year, and what proportion of each?

Since turning full time in 1993, I’ve built 165 instruments. It was slow for a number of years, but filled in over time. Now I’m making roughly one instrument a month with about a two-year list on paper. In reality, it’s prob-ably less. I have always worked alone. For a long time I diversified because I had to take anything that came in the door. But now I mainly build octave mandolins.*

Today I have four flat-top guitars going, which is unusual, and one octave mandolin. My carving out the octave niche has everything to do with Sara Jarosz and Ben Winship. There are not too many people playing or

someone closer.” So I got the call, then used some ideas from the Nugget, and some from Bill Bussman, and made sure it would fit in a classical guitar case, and cut a Martin fret board off at the third fret, etc., until I had a design that Chad and I liked. That first instrument turned out to be really successful, which is not always the case. It was great right out of the box. Since then I changed bridge height and nut width a very little, but it is mostly the original design and each one has sounded good.

I mostly build octaves these days. Last year I had time for just three F-5s. They’re also fun to build, and it’s a whole different set of challenges going from an octave mandolin. It’s always fun to make a pile of wood sound good and play easily. I love going to work.You seem to have a reputation as a “player’s luthier,” making excellent quality instruments that mortals can afford. Was this intentional?

My intention has been to build very functional instruments that are easy to play and sound good, for a reasonable price. For me, there is nothing more satisfying than hearing a great musi-cian play an instrument I built. So it

Fletcher Brock, right, showing Lawrence Smart and Michael Heiden a jig he built for cutting tapered dovetailed neck joints for an F-5. “It was an idea I got from Don Macrostie” [Red Diamond mandolins]. Photo: Bruce Harvie

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was intentional, and I hope that the instruments will sell themselves. I get inspired when going to festivals where these young kids can just rip. I imag-ine that a lot of them couldn’t afford to buy a bicycle, let alone an F-5, so I’d like to see these talented players be able to afford instruments that match their abilities. It makes me feel like the future of music is in good hands. And as an aside, I built my first mandolin because I couldn’t afford to buy one. My dad said, “It’s just wood and glue. Figure it out.”What is the essence of your interpre-tation of the Loar F-5? What makes it a Brock?

I have always wanted to know the names of the folks who built the Loars —the people who glued them together, as opposed to the guy who signed the label. My point being that we are all kinda copying Loars. All working off the same plans. But somehow a Kimble sounds like a Kimble, and an Ellis sounds like an Ellis. I don’t know what makes them different, other than there are an infinite number of variables and our hands know different stuff and it gets passed into the instrument.

Mike Kemnitzer is a guy who has gone as far into the Loar mystique as anyone I’ve ever talked to. He builds great stuff, but again, same plans, but they end up Nuggets and not Loars. I read an interview with Eugene Clark, the great classical guitar maker, and he said, in effect, that your hands learn things that your brain can’t compre-hend. I really liked that, and try to develop an intuitive approach to build-ing. Then, of course, there’s the wood. I imagine wood today is different than it was back in 1924. The guitars I’m currently building have Honduran mahogany that has been air drying for almost 40 years. It rings like Brazilian rosewood.

Talk about your wood choices.Traditional choices here. Sugar

maple and red spruce for mandolins. Sometimes Engelmann tops. For octave mandolins, I use Engelmann spruce, braced with red spruce for tops, red maple for sides and back, and sugar maple for necks, with an ebony fingerboard. I’d like to try some Sitka sometime, but with my work load, I don’t have much time for experiment-ing these days.And finishes. Have you settled on a secret sauce?

I love French polish, but have done it on only a few instruments. I need to learn how to do it. I usually spray shellac on mandolins, and lacquer the bigger instruments—octave mandolins on up. I had some bad experiences with spirit varnishes on the bigger instruments, combined with hot sun in black cases, resulting in furry instru-ments. So I went back to lacquer.Do you have a most important teacher?

I look to the luthier community, which seems completely open to dis-cussing the “secrets.” We all talk freely and compare notes constantly.

There’s a picture floating around that was taken at IBMA a few years ago, and there were like 20 or 30 of us luthiers. Those people are my teachers. Great folks. We are all teachers and students.What was the most important advice you’ve received?

Teach yourself to see and to hear. Emulate the good stuff. Try to figure out what makes it a cut above, and do that. Be humble about what you’re doing, as on one level it’s so deep, you’ll never get to the bottom of it, and on another, they’re just mandolins. I’m grateful that my work is better than it was 10 years ago, and that I learn new things daily. I’m dialing in color and

aesthetics better. An F-5 scroll is hard to get right. There is more there than meets the eye.What was the most educational mistake you made starting out as a builder?

Lessons about finishes are never over. It’s a fine balance between “do it the way it’s been done for centuries” and “everything you’re thinking about as a cool new idea has been tried and rejected.” If you’re going for a tradi-tional sound, the old ways work really well.Where does your inspiration come from?

I’m still floored by amazing tone. It’s still magical to me. I also hope I’m adding something to humanity, and now that I’m almost 60, I’m not sure what else I could do. Kinda painted myself into this corner. Lastly, bills, which are inspiration for many of us.If you got yourself a mandolin from another maker, what would it be?

I guess I’d take a Nugget, although I don’t need any more mandolins. I’d rather have a really good sunburst Les Paul, or a 50s Telecaster.What is the most important advice you give customers?

Break it in. Play it hard and often in the first year and keep your eye on the neck, especially in the first six months. After that, things usually settle in. Necks bend slowly and people often don’t notice. I’ve had to fix only one instrument.What is your motto?

To do the best I can.

*Fletcher’s octaves have a 21.5-inch scale, the

same as a Martin D-18 or D-28 guitar sawed

off at the third fret.

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MBOTMA Community Concert Series: more communities, more bands?MBOTMA has been sponsoring Community Concerts in out-state Minnesota for over 10 years. This year, Moose Lake and Bemidji enjoyed performances by Barton’s Hollow and Sloughgrass in February, and by Copper Creek and the EelPout Stringers in April.

For the 2015–16 season, MBOTMA hopes to spread the fun by expanding the Community Concert Series, sending 10 bands to 10 communities. Each commu-nity would have an evening concert featuring two MBOTMA-member bands. There would be five teams of two bands, each team performing in at least two communities, generally on consecutive evenings. There also might be opportuni-ties for the musicians to lead afternoon workshops or community jam sessions.

While MBOTMA and concert ticket receipts have covered costs for the Community Concert Series as it currently exists, MBOTMA is applying for a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board for this program expansion. The grant funds would cover costs for the additional concerts and could be used to increase accessi-bility through lower admission prices for community members.

The concerts run through the grant period from spring 2015 through spring 2016, avoiding the high festival season from May through September. If the grant proposal is not successful, the Community Concert Series will continue in its cur-rent format.

In its grant application, MBOTMA must provide detailed information about each Community Concert, identifying participating venues and bands. We are gathering information on potential sites and bands now until the end of June. Member bands will be receiving an email with additional information.

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The Minnesota Association of Songwriters (MAS) has been awarded a Community Arts award from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council to provide workshops with professional songwriters over the next 15 months. All workshops are open to the public; the entry fee is $25 per workshop. MAS has partnered with Schmitt Music stores, which will provide space for these events.

On June 21, Wisconsin-based song-writer Johnsmith will open the series. A winner of the New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival, he has also won songwriting awards at the Telluride, Rocky Mountain Folks, and Falcon Ridge Folk Festivals.

Andrea Stolpe, a Los Angeles-based songwriter, author, performing artist and educator, will conduct the second

workshop on August 9. She has worked as a staff writer for EMI, Almo-Irving, and Universal Music Publishing, with songs recorded by such artists as Faith Hill, Julianne Hough, Jimmy Wayne, and others. Stolpe wrote Popular Lyric Writing: 10 Steps to Effective Storytelling, and teaches songwriting at the University of California’s Thornton School of Music.

On October 25, award-winning songwriter Mark “Brink” Brinkman will bring his skills to the third work-shop in the series. His songs have been recorded by a wide variety of artists, and many have appeared on Billboard magazine’s Top Ten list. His work-shops focus on the creative aspects of songwriting, teaching the “how-to” of song approach, capturing emotion, and imagery construction.

Grammy-winning songwriter Jon Vezner, a Minnesota native, will close the series on June 13, 2015. Vezner’s hit “Where’ve You Been” won the Grammy for Best Country Song in 1990, along with Song Of The Year honors from Nashville Songwriters Association, Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music. Vezner has penned cuts by dozens of nationally known recording artists, including Kathy Mattea, Martina McBride, Janis Ian, John Mellenkamp, Nanci Griffith, and Faith Hill.

For more information about the upcoming MAS songwriting work-shops, please contact MAS President Wayne Hamilton at 612-508-0768.

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What’s the BUZZ?!The BUZZ is a Blues Ukulele JaZZ and Swing tune instructional jam, led by Brian Barnes, well known local musician and ukulele teacher. BUZZ is sponsored by MBOTMA Underground.

BUZZ sessions are ukulele work-shops within a regular jam. Brian will introduce a song, then teach the chords (many of them alternate fingerings or moveable chords), strumming/picking patterns, and transitions. He will also teach some improvisation and melody playing, and encourage more adventur-ous souls to improvise a break. BUZZ jammers will explore blues progres-sions and chord patterns beyond the familiar I, IV, V pattern. Beyond the instructional component, we spend the majority of the time playing and singing. These jams are geared for advanced beginner to advanced uke players.

BUZZ jams are held the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at 6 p.m. at Elliot Park Recreation Center, 1000 14th St. E, Minneapolis. There is plenty of on-street parking. Suggested dona-tion is $5, or whatever is comfortable. If you cannot pay, please do not let that keep you from coming.

The Twin Cities Ukulele Club holds six ukulele jams a month in Minneapolis: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays —BUZZ (Blues, Uke JaZZ); 1st and 3rd Thursdays—UkeAmericana; 2nd and 4th Mondays—BUG (Bluegrass Ukulele Group).

For more information on the Twin Cities Ukulele Club, visit www.tcuke-club.com. All of our jams are open to the public. Join us! You know you want to.

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Review

“Clawhammer Mike” Sawyer has traveled long stretches of prairie, stopping only to dig through root cellars and scale rickety attic stairs in the farmhouses and storage bins of old farmsteads, on behalf of his Minnesota Fiddle Tunes Project. Mike is on a mission to find and preserve old fiddle tunes played in Minnesota and throughout the upper Midwest by gentleman farmers and master fiddlers from a time long past, when the barn dance and community festival were the main source of entertainment for most people living a rural life.

When he started, he hoped to find fiddlers who were still playing tunes that had been handed down from family members, but most of what he located were home recordings on reel-to-reel or cassettes that relatives had kept, often in dusty closets and attics. Mike started transferring these record-ings to MP3 and posted them to the Minnesota Fiddle website (minnesota-fiddle.blogspot.com). He also posted as much information as he could gather for each fiddler represented.

With funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Mike produced the first Minnesota Fiddle Tunes Project CD, released in 2012. Bands and groups involving over 50 Minnesota musicians were recruited to record the music from the repertoires of over a dozen master Minnesota fiddlers. For his second Minnesota Fiddle Tunes CD project, Mike is focusing on the music of one particular fiddler, Leonard Finseth (1911–1991). The new CD is funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign, for which Mike wrote:

“Leonard Finseth stuck out to me right away. He lived on the same farm his whole life, but seemed to be every-where in the region playing with many of the great old-time musicians of the upper Midwest. That he recorded much of these musical wanderings in home recordings is a real treasure. The problem is that the recordings have been stuck degrading in dusty archives and family attics until now.”

At 10-years-old, Leonard started playing guitar for dances with his uncle Ed Quall. Finseth went on to learn fiddle from his uncle as well as from Ingval Severson, a neighbor steeped in the Norwegian fiddling tradition. Although he spent his work life tending to his farm near Mondovi, Wisconsin, Finseth played fiddle in barn dances and festivals throughout the upper Midwest from the 1920s through the 1980s, continually picking up new tunes from fiddlers he met along the way.

Of the many tunes that he is preserving, Clawhammer Mike has selected about 20 to record on the second Minnesota Fiddle Tunes CD. As expected, there are schottisches and waltzes, but also polkas, a mazurka, and square dance tunes, including a variant of the “Sailor’s Hornpipe” called “Charlie’s Square Dance.”

Minnesota Fiddle Tunes Project CD Number 2: The Tunes of Leonard FinsethBy Bob Dixon with additional material by Mary Pat Kleven

Musicians playing on The Tunes of Leonard Finseth. L-R: Bob Dixon, Mike Sawyer, Anni Spring, Matt Edwards, Renee Vaughan, Ann Larson, Quillan Roe. Photo: Liz McMann

Minnesota musicians rehearsing and arranging these tunes for the new recording include Mike Sawyer, leader, banjo; Anni Spring, fiddle; Ann Larson, accordion; Matt Edwards, fiddle, pump organ, and harmonium; Renee Vaughan, nyckelharpa and pump organ; Quillan Roe, bass; Bob Dixon, guitar; Adam Kiesling, guitar and bass.

The musicians have listened care-fully to Leonard’s versions and Anni Spring has gone to great lengths to learn bowing patterns and the intrica-cies of his fiddle playing. The CD will include new arrangements with differ-ent combinations of instruments: some featuring the accordion with fiddle or nyckelharpa, others with just fiddle and guitar, as well as many with the full ensemble.

Mike emphasizes that is not just a recording project: the plan is to play for dances and to “set up shows to support it here in the upper Midwest—imagine, if you will, a VFW club in

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Bemidji.” As with the first CD, the intent is that fiddlers around the coun-try will start learning these tunes and play them at jams, dances, and perfor-mances. “One of the cool things from the first CD was hearing from folks from all over the country who listened to it. I heard from one fellow in Seattle who was learning all the tunes on the album,” said Mike.

The Minnesota State Fiddlers Association (MSFA) has taken on the project of learning and transcribing all of the fiddle tunes from the first CD. According to association president Mary Pat Kleven, “The MSFA isn’t responsible for the Minnesota Fiddle Tunes Project, we are just big fans who have transcribed the tunes from the first CD and are working on learning them. By June, we will have completed transcribing all of the tunes and they will be available free of charge at fiddlemn.com.”

The MSFA “SloJammers” began learning music from the Minnesota Fiddle Tunes Project in October, 2012, when Anabel Njoes taught the group “Old Red Barn” and “Steamboat Quickstep” (Medley, track 18). The CD quickly became a Slojammer favorite, and over the next several months, the group learned many more tunes from the project during monthly sessions.

Scott Gamble coordinated tran-scription assignments. Transcribers include Gamble, Charlotte Jensen, Tim Wankel, Carla Manning, LaJean Ernst, Walter Sigtermans, and Mary Pat Kleven. Many of the teaching sessions were recorded and posted on YouTube; search Minnesota Fiddle Tunes Project.

Kleven plans to work with Clawhammer Mike to teach and present the tunes from the second Minnesota Fiddle Tunes Project CD as well.

Inspired by the MSFA transcription effort, the Finseth project release will contain transcriptions of all the tunes and a notebook with information and archival pictures of Leonard Finseth and the musicians he worked with. Mike has gained access to additional material, including interviews and videos of Finseth playing in various groups. Some of these clips will go on the Minnesota Fiddle website. Mike hopes to release a DVD of the videos with Leonard playing the fiddle.

Recording and production of The Tunes of Leonard Finseth was completed this spring. Release and supporting concerts will happen this summer. Please check the Minnesota Fiddle website for updates: minnesotafiddle.blogspot.com.

MSFA SloJammersThe Minnesota State Fiddlers

Association SloJammers meets monthly for fiddlers wanting to learn old-time and ethnic tunes. Fiddlers volunteer to teach each month followed by a slow jam format that allows every-one to participate. Sessions are geared toward people who have taken violin lessons and want to try their hand at fiddling, or are accomplished in old time/bluegrass/Irish in another instru-ment and want to work on fiddling. Guitar players come to work on their back up skills, and more advanced fid-dlers participate to share their exper-tise or expand their tune repertoire.

The group meets at the Ridgedale Library in Minnetonka, on Saturday afternoons in one of the public meet-ing rooms as available. Schedules are posted on fiddlemn.com.

MSFA presented a workshop at the MBOTMA Winter Weekend in February to teach several of the tunes from the first Minnesota Fiddle Tunes Project CD to more than 20 fiddlers. Photo: Walter Sigtermans

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Minnesota Flatpicking GuitarChampionshipSaturday, August 30, 2014, 2 to 5 pmWest End Market Stage, Minnesota State Fair

GRAND PRIZEChampionship Round 1st Place:Hand-Built Guitar by David Vincent Guitars (retail value of $2,500)Trophies and cash prizes for 2nd $350; 3rd $250; 4th $150; 5th $100

Preliminary Rounda. Ages 21 & Under: 1st $40; 2nd $20; 3rd trophyb. Ages 22 to 55: 1st $40; 2nd $20; 3rd trophyc. Ages 56 & Up: 1st $40; 2nd $20; 3rd trophy

Minnesota Duet ChampionshipFriday, August 29, 2014, 2 to 5 pmWest End Market Stage, Minnesota State Fair

GRAND PRIZECash Prize of $200 plus a Pair of Baby Taylor Guitars in Gig Bags from The Podium (retail value $800) plus trophies and cash prizes for 2nd $200; 3rd $100; 4th $75; 5th $50

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BLUEGRASS JAM CAMP WITH MONROE CROSSINGThe members of Monroe Crossing will host a three-day bluegrass instructional camp. For beginners and intermediate level players, camp will include individual instrument instruction plus group playing and harmony singing dynamics. It starts on Tuesday, August 5 after 6 p.m. and continues in morning and afternoon sessions on August 6 & 7. The camp will wind up with a group recital in the Showcase Tent on Thursday evening. $95 registration fee before July 15; $120 after.

OLD-TIME STRINGBAND CAMP WITH THE VOLO BOGTROTTERSThe members of The Volo Bogtrotters will host a two day old-time band instructional camp on August 6 & 7. They will teach intermediate and advanced level old-time musicianship. Learn some basics of old-time music as well as a few new tunes, and gain experience playing with others. Instruction on student’s own instrument. $80 registration fee before July 15; $95 after.

SOUND WORKSHOP WITH ARMADILLODoug Lohman of Armadillo Sound will cover audio production and sound reinforcement for this inten-sive two-day workshop. The nature and characteristics of audio gear (analog and digital) and how to master it, along with the characteristics of a successful sound person will be the topics. Camp begins at 9 a.m., August 6. $80 registration fee before July 15, $95 after.

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Bernie King &The Guilty Pleasures

May 31 • Minnesota Homegrown Music Fest, Main Stage • Richmond • 2pmJune 7 • Plum’s Neighborhood Bar, St. Paul • 8pmJune 13 • Fitger’s Brew Pub, Duluth • 9pmJune 14 • The Thirsty Pagan, Superior, WI • 8pmJune 21 • Hell’s Kitchen, Minneapolis • 10amJune 28 • Manitou Station, White Bear Lake • 9pmJune 28 • Manitou Station, White Bear Lake • 9pmJuly 5 • The Tavern, Northfield • 8pm

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The Bluegrass Review in Minnesota Check www.bluegrassreview.com for a complete station list.

Station Day Time

KLQP-FM, 92.1 Madison Monday 8 PM

KMSU-FM, 89.7 Mankato; 91.3 Austin Sunday 10 AM

KBEM-FM, 88.5 Minneapolis Saturday 11 AM

KSRQ-FM, 90.1 Thief River Falls Sunday 11 AM

KQAL-FM, 89.5 Winona Saturday 9 AM

KDDG-FM, 105.5 Albany Saturday 9 PM

WTIP-FM, 90.7 Grand Marais Thursday 10 PM

KUMD-FM, 103.3 Duluth Saturday 4 PM

KRWC-AM, 1360 Buffalo Sunday 5 PM

KOJB-FM, 90.1 Cass Lake Sunday 6 PM

KSCR-FM, 93.5 Benson Sunday 6 AM

Bluegrass Saturday MorningBy Phil Nusbaum

Music ListingsWe’ve changed the way the music listings are done. For a long time, we’d take time out and read them on the air. As the majority of people now seem comfortable using the internet, we received more and more messages that we’d best be using it to list events. The listings are found at www.jazz88fm.com. To be precise, the URL is: http://jazz88.mpls.k12.mn.us/uploads/bgsmcalendartemplate_shows.pdf

Cross-CountryThinking that winter was safely in the rear-view mirror, I got in the car and headed for southern Indiana. My goal was to record interviews with players and scholars for broadcast on the Bluegrass Review show. It was cold when I stopped in Mount Horeb to visit my old friend Jim Leary. We recorded a couple of interviews about combinations of Upper Midwest ethnic music and old-time country music. After an enjoy-able conversation that I recorded, I packed up the gear and headed out to the car only to learn it was not only cold, but raining.

It rained all the way to Chicago, where I met with Jon Goldfine of the Henhouse Prowlers, and we talked about his composing. I finally made it to Bloomington, the town I lived in while finishing my education at Indiana University. I talked to Jamie Gans, former Twin Cities person, about the connections between Irish music and old-time tunes, and to Brad Leftwich about some of the fiddle masters he learned from in his early days of fiddling. I turned my motel room into a makeshift recording studio and got another piece with songwriter Kim Robins who likes to write about rela-tionships. I met a group called the Underhills rehearsing in an old deserted building. Out in southern Indiana, a group known as Blue Mafia is making a big sound. The group plays the modern beat, and I talked to guitarist, fiddler, songwriter Kent Todd. But he says I should talk to his sister-in-law Dara Wray who, when songs were needed for a CD, churned them out one after another. Maybe I’ll have a chance to talk with Dara sometime. But as it was, after talking to Kent, I headed back to my hotel, got some sleep, and then awoke to drive out. I stopped again in Wisconsin, this time to jam with former bandmates Dale and Pru Palecek and then to talk to fiddler Chirps Smith.

Let me tell you about the Indiana I was expecting to find on the trip. It is the Indiana I returned to after one particular Chicago Folk Festival a few decades ago. Chicago

was demonstrating why it is called the Windy City, and with every form of precipitation to boot. But on the day in my memory, somewhere between Indianapolis and Bloomington, someone took down the clouds and put up the blue sky, and made the temperature rise about 40 degrees, while turning off the wind. But the reality on my first day in Indiana in April 2014, it was 27 degrees.

I’m currently stock-piling pieces that will be broadcast in the fall into winter. This summer, during July and August, we’ll have a set of Bluegrass Review shows curated by Lyle Lofgren, Adam Granger, and me. We always have fun work-ing together to produce a set of shows that is informative and entertaining.

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Minnesota Homegrown Kickoff Music Festival May 30–June 1, El Rancho Mañana Campground & Riding Stable, Richmond, MN. Three-day outdoor music and camping festival with 20 regional groups performing blue-grass, old-time stringband, and related forms of acoustic music. Showtimes: 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. $15 to $25 daily at the gate. Weekend: $45 in advance includes camping ($41 members). Call 800-635-3037 or visit minnesotabluegrass.org.

The Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival, August 7–10, 2014, El Rancho Mañana Campground & Riding Stable, 27302B Ranch Rd 56368, Richmond, MN. $20 to $30 daily at gate or $77 for all four days in advance (including camping). Teens are $10 and kids are free. For information or tickets call 800-635-3037 or visit minnesotabluegrass.org (see ad page 11).

9th Annual Harvest Jam Acoustic Music Experience, November 21–23, Marriott Minneapolis West Hotel, 9960 Wayzata Blvd, St. Louis Park, MN. Call 800-635-3037 or visit minnesotabluegrass.org. To book lodging, contact the Marriott at 952-544-4400 and ask for the special Minnesota Bluegrass rate.

Supported by MBOTMAWBSM’s Monthly Bluegrass Jam, Sundays, 2–4 p.m., West Bank School of Music, 1813 S 6th St., Minneapolis, MN. Bluegrass musician Bill Cagley heads an open bluegrass jam the third Sunday of every month. Admission $5. Call 612-333-6651 or visit wbsm.org. Produced by West Bank School of Music.

Loring Park Acoustic Music Festival, Saturday, June 14, noon–8 p.m., Loring Park, Oak Grove & Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis. A day of fun-loving acoustic music featuring The New Riverside Ramblers, Mother Banjo, One Ukulele, The High 48s, Wain McFarlane & Jahz, Prudence Johnson & Tom Lieberman, Frank Hornstein, Keith Ellison, Larry Long & Friends. Free admission. For more information visit loringpark.org or call 612-874-9002 or [email protected]. Presented by Citizens For A Loring Park Community and the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board.

Fiddle Pal Camp Minnesota, Tuesday–Friday, June 17–20, St. Paul Lutheran Church, 609 5th St S. Stillwater. Four day music camp for kids and adults. $385–$495 (depending on date of registration). Call 651-275-0171 or visit fiddlepal.com. Produced by Fiddle Pal LLC.

Takin’ Time’s Solstice Music & Arts Fair, Saturday, June 21, 5 p.m., 4529 128th St NW, Clearwater, MN. A family-friendly music and arts fair featuring local vendors, silent auction, and music by Thea Grace, Nikki & The Ruemates, and Under The Willow. Admission $10. Contact: 612-817-8942 or on Facebook at takintimelivemusic. Produced by Rhythm’s Way Community Music & Arts Center.

Caponi Art Park Bluegrass Festival, Sunday, September 14, noon to 6 p.m., Theater In The Woods, Caponi Art Park, 1220 Diffley Rd., Eagan. Featuring The Okee Dokee Brothers, Monroe Crossing, Roe Family Singers, and The Blackburn Trio, this community celebration and fund-raiser for Caponi Art Park starts with an open jam session and welcomes folks of all ages and families to this unique outdoor venue. $20 per person, kids 12 and under free. For more information call 952-454-9412 or www.caponiartpark.org. Produced by Caponi Art Park & Learning Center.

MBOTMA Calendar of EventsConcerts and events presented or supported by the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music AssociationThe following events are presented by the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association (MBOTMA) or supported in part by MBOTMA, and made possible in part 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.

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Coming Up

331C: 331 Club, 331 13th Ave, Mpls, www.331.mn3Cr: Three Crows, River Street, Delano, www.thethreecrows.com, 763-972-3399. Cover.ACA: Acadia Cafe, 329 Cedar Ave, MplsAGr: Amazing Grace Bakery and Café, 394 S Lake Ave, Duluth, 218-723-0075APHC: “A Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor, October–June. MPR.AST: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main St, Mpls, 612-379-3138BDD: Bo Didley’s Deli, 6th Ave & Division St, St. Cloud, 320-255-9811. Cover. Call ahead.BTC: Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua, Bayfield, WI, 888-244-8368, www.bigtop.orgCED: Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave S, Mpls, 612-338-2674. Cover.CP: Celt’s Pub, 14506 S Robert Tr, Rosemount, 651-322-7995CrH: Creek House Concerts, New Brighton, 651-633-5353, www.creekhouseconcerts.comDAK: Dakota Jazz Club, 1010 Nicollet Ave, Mpls, 612-332-1010, dakotacooks.com. Call for tickets/reservations.DUL: Dulono’s Pizza, 607 W. Lake St, Mpls, 612-827-1726EAG: Eagles Club (#34), 2507 East 25th St, Mpls, www.minneapoliseagles34.orgFITZ: Fitzgerald Theater, Wabasha & Exchange, St. PaulGINK: Gingko Coffeehouse, Snelling & Minnehaha, St. Paul, www.ginkocoffee.com

Venue abbreviations

June 1—Sunday• Minnesota Homegrown Kickoff

Music Festival, El Rancho Mañana Campground, Richmond, Presented by MBOTMA

• The Long Shots, MBOTMA Kickoff Festival, El Rancho Mañana,

GKb: Grand Kabaret, 210 N Minnesota St, New Ulm, 507-359-9222HB: Harriet Brewing, 3036 Minnehaha Ave, MinneapolisHOB: The Loft at Hobgoblin Music, 920 State Hwy 19, Red Wing, 877-866-3936HPP: Homestead Pickin’ Parlor, 6625 Penn Ave S, Richfield, 612-861-3308, www.homesteadpickinparlor.comHON: Honey, 205 E. Hennepin Ave., MplsHOPK: Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, 952-979-1111 KIP: Kieran’s Irish Pub, 601 1st Ave N, Mpls, 612-339-4499.KRAM: Kramarczuk’s Deli, 215 E. Hennepin Ave, Mpls, 612-379-3018OAK: Oak Center General Store. Lake City, 507-753-2080ROCK: Rockwoods, 9100 Quaday Ave NE, Elk River. Bluegrass and Roots, Thursdays, 7pm, [email protected], 763-222-4353SHL: Sheldon Theatre, 443 W 3rd St, Red Wing, 651-388-8700 or 800-899-5759TAP: Tapestry Folkdance Center, 3748 Minnehaha Ave S, Mpls, 612-722-2914, www.tapestryfolkdance.org. Cover.UMC: Underground Music Cafe (formerly Coffee Grounds), 1579 Hamline Ave N, Falcon Hts, 651-644-9959, undergroundmusiccafe.comZUM: Crossings at Carnegie, 320 East Ave, Zumbrota, 507-732-7616

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONSJune 22The Over and Back Band, Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour, 101 NW 6th St, Faribault, Heritage Days Ecumenical Gospel Service, www.overandback-band.com, 10am

June 5Sawtooth Bluegrass Band, City Square Park, Waconia, Waconia Summer Music in the Park. Outdoor concert, www.sawtoothbluegrass.com, 7pm

June 14Mighty River Bluegrass Festival, Lowertown, St. Paul. With the Barley Jacks, Eelpout Stringers, & Platte Valley Boys. Celebrate the opening of the Green Line.

To post gigs and events to this calendar, request the link to our online submission form to [email protected]

Richmond, www.longshotsblue-grass.com, 2pm

• Monroe Crossing, Mount Olivet Lutheran Church, Volunteer Sunday, 5025 Knox Ave S, Minneapolis. 9, 10 & 11am, 612-767-2263, www.mtolivet.org

• Flint Hills International Children’s Festival, Ordway Theater, St Paul

• The WoodPicks, CD Release Party for Going to the County Fair, Kezar Music Showroom, 315 Duluth Ave N, Thief River Falls, 218-681-2148, 6pm

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June 2—Monday • Pocahontas County, 331C, 6:30pm• Roe Family Singers, 331C, 9pmJune 3—Tuesday • June Conspiracy Series featuring

Jack Klatt, 331C, 10pmJune 4—Wednesday • KFAI House Party Presents Javier

Matos, 331C, 7pm• Monroe Crossing, Little Theatre, St

Mary’s College, Notre Dame INJune 5—Thursday • Claudia Schmidt & Dean Magraw,

GINK, 7:30pm• Mister Rowles, EAG, 7:30pm• Long Time Gone, Mayo Clinic

Health System, 701 Hewitt Blvd, Red Wing, 12pm

• Sawtooth Bluegrass Band, City Square Park, Waconia, Waconia Summer Music in the Park. Outdoor concert, www.sawtooth-bluegrass.com, 7pm

• High 48s, Coon Rapids Dam Concert Series, Coon Rapids

• Mary Cutrufello, ROCKJune 6—Friday • Steve Earle and the Dukes,

Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, 7:30pm

• The Frye, GKb, 8pm• Wild Ponies, ZUM, 8pm• Alan Munde with Dick Kimmel

and Adam Granger, New Ulm Public Library, Concert/workshop: Bluegrass in the modern age, 6pm

• Playing for Change, O’Shaughnessy Auditorium, 2004 Randolph Ave, St Paul, 651-690-6700 or http://oshag.stkate.edu/tickets, 7:30pm

• Tim Cheesebrow & Mark Keating, UMC, 8pm

• House of Mercy Showcase with Ross Willits, Noah Riemer, Adam Kiesling, GINK

Coming Up, cont’d

June 7—Saturday • The Back Porch Band, Gasthaus

Bavarian Hunter, 8390 Lofton Ave. Stillwater, 4pm

• Bernie King and the Guilty Pleasures, Plum’s Neighborhood Bar, St. Paul, 8pm

• Catfish Creek, CrH, 7pm• Contra Dance with Pig’s Eye

Landing, TAP, 7:30pm• Jivin’ Ivan and the Kings of Swing,

Signature Bar and Grill, 201 Central Av. N, Faribault, 507-331-1657, www.jivinivanandthekingsofswing.com, 7:30pm

• Adelyn Rose & Good Night Gold Dust, GKb, 8pm

• Monroe Crossing, Hancock UCC, Community Bluegrass & Gospel Concert, Lexington, MA, 7:30pm

• Barley Jacks with Brian Wicklund, DUL, 8pm

• Roe Family Singers, Dakota County Rhythm & Words Family Music & Book Fest, Burnsville Performing Arts Center, Burnsville, 9am

June 8—Sunday • Benson Family Singers, Grotto

of Redemption, West Bend, IA, BensonFamilyMusic.com

• Relativity, Cannon Valley Winery, 421 Mill Street W, Cannon Falls. Special guest Mike Hildebrandt on fiddle, www.relativitytheband.com, 1pm

• Catfish Creek, CrH, 7pm• John McCutcheon, ZUM, 7pm• Monroe Crossing, Hancock UCC,

Bluegrass Mass with Hancock Chancel Choir, Lexington, MA, 10am

• Minnesota Guitar Society Open Stage, UMC, 2pm

June 9—Monday • Barley Jacks, Harmony for Mayo at

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, 12pm• Cajun Dance with Bayou

Grenouille, EAG, 7:30pm

• Roe Family Singers, 331C, 9pm• Monroe Crossing, Carnegie Hall,

Bluegrass Mass with Masterworks Festival Chorus, New York, NY, 8pm

June 10—Tuesday• June Conspiracy Series featuring

Jack Klatt, 331C, 10pm• Open Mic, New York Mills Cultural

Center, 24 Main Ave N, New York Mills, 218-385-3339, 7pm

• Sawtooth Bluegrass Band, Plainview Community Center, Plainview, www.sawtoothbluegrass.com, 7pm

June 11—Wednesday• Folk Showcase with Larry

Carpenter, UMC, 7pmJune 12—Thursday• Alan Munde Trio with Dick

Kimmel and Adam Granger, AST, 9pm

• Monroe Crossing, Frying Pan Farm Park, Herndon VA, 7:30pm

• Alan Munde with Dick Kimmel and Adam Granger, Hanska Community Library, 201 Broadway, Hanska, Concert/workshop: Bluegrass in the modern age, 2pm

• Bernie King and the Guilty Pleasures, Sociable Cider Werks, 1500 Fillmore St NE, Minneapolis, 6pm

• Celtic Music Showcase with Paul Garding, UMC, 7pm

• John Gorka and Michael Johnson, DAK, 7pm

• Sherwin Linton, Coon Rapids Dam Concert Series, 9750 Egret Blvd, Coon Rapids, 763-755-2880, 7pm

• Southside Aces, EAG, 8pm• Brady Perl, ROCKJune 13—Friday• Bernie King and the Guilty

Pleasures, Fitger’s Brew Pub, Duluth, 9pm

• Bob Bovee, Artspire, LaCrosse, WI, 5pm

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June 13—Friday• Chris Silver Band, River Falls First

National Stadium Opener, River Falls, WI, 6pm

• Barb Piper and the Paradise Band, Paradise Center for the Arts, 321 Central Ave, Faribault. Tickets: $15 Members, $19 Non Members, $10 Students, www.paradisecenterforth-earts.org, 7:30pm

• Alan Munde Trio with Dick Kimmel & Adam Granger, GrK, 8pm

• Mother Banjo & Jaspar Lepak, ZUM, 8pm

• Bernie King and the Guilty Pleasures, Fitger’s Brewhouse, 600 E Superior St, Duluth, 9:30pm

• Alan Munde with Dick Kimmel and Adam Granger, Gaylord Public Library, 428 Main Ave, Gaylord, Concert/workshop: Bluegrass in the modern age, 4pm

• Mother Banjo with Jaspar Lepak, ZUM, Tickets: $15 / Reservations: 507-732-7616, 612-281-1364, www.motherbanjo.com, 8pm

• Becky Schlegel Band with Kenny Wilson, Gordon Johnson and Heath Loy, DUL, 8pm

• Barley Jacks, Manitou Station, 2171 4th St, White Bear, 8pm

• John Gorka and Michael Johnson, New York Mills Cultural Center, 24 Main Ave N, New York Mills, 218-385-3339

• Minnesota Irish Music Weekend with Oisin Mac Diarmada, Catherine McEvoy, John McEvoy, John Blake, Rita Gallagher, Celtic Junction. See p. 3.

June 14—Saturday• The Eddies, Mill City Farmers

Market, 704 2nd St S, Minneapolis, www.eddiesontheriver.com, 11am

• Bob & Lynn Dixon, Stone Arch Bridge Festival, Minneapolis, a

Coming Up, cont’d

weekend of art and music on the Minneapolis Riverfront, 11:15am

• Mother Banjo Band, Stone Arch Bridge Festival, Father Hennepin Park Stage, 420 Main St. SE, Minneapolis, 4pm

• APHC with Joe Newberry, Pokey LaFarge, Broadcast live from The Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis, 4:45pm

• Barley Jacks, Mighty River Bluegrass Festival, Lowertown, 4th St. between Wall and Wacouta, St. Paul. Ride the light rail to it on its first day. barleyjacks.com, 5:30pm

• Monroe Crossing, Mountain View Park, Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival, Wind Gap PA

• Contra Dance with Light Of The Moon, TAP, 7:30pm

• Robert Bell & Rhonda Laurie, GKb, 8pm

• Bernie King and the Guilty Pleasures, Thirsty Pagan Brewing, 1623 Broadway St, Superior, WI, 8pm

• Ellis Paul, GINK, 8pm• Loring Park Acoustic Music

Festival Loring Park, Oak Grove & Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis, 612-874-9002, 12pm

• Bob Bovee, Artspire, Lacrosse, WI, www.boveeheil.com

• Alan Munde with Dick Kimmel and Adam Granger, House Concert, Sandstone

• Eelpout Stringers, Mighty River Bluegrass Festival, 4th St between Wall and Waucouta, St. Paul


• Pert Near Sandstone with Cornmeal, BTC

• The Platte Valley Boys, The Mighty River Bluegrass Festival. See Special Attractions p. 27

June 15—Sunday • Ana & The Bel-Tones, St. Paul

Farmer’s Market, 290 E 5th St, St. Paul, 9am

• Greenwood Tree, Glewwe’s Castle (Root Beer) Brewery, 4620 207th St E, Prior Lake, 952-440-4558, 1:30pm

• No Man’s String Band, 318 Cafe Music Stage, Art On The Lake, Lake St, Excelsior, 1:30pm

• Benson Family Singers, Skonewood Christian Retreat, Cushing, WI, BensonFamilyMusic.com, 6:30pm

• Okee Dokee Brothers, Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, 6:30pm


June 16—Monday • Sawtooth Bluegrass Band, Harmony

for Mayo Concert Series, Peace Plaza, Rochester, Free outdoor concert, 12pm

June 17—Tuesday • The Fish Heads, Lighthouse at

Emily’s, Knife River, 218-824-2501, 6:30pm

• Fiddle Pal Camp Minnesota, St. Paul Lutheran Church, 609 5th St S, Stillwater, 651-275-0171, June 17–20. Music Day Camp for kids and adults

June 19—Thursday • Dick Kimmel & Co, Street Market

and Music Festival, Peace Plaza, 2nd Ave SW & 1st St SW, Rochester, 5pm

• Barley Jacks, Trinity Lutheran Church, 115 4th St N, Stillwater, 7pm

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• Mother Banjo Band, Lake Harriet Bandshell, 4135 W. Lake Harriet Parkway, Minneapolis, 7:30pm

• Natalie MacMaster with Donnell Leahy, BTC, 7:30pm

• No Man’s String Band & Sawtooth Bluegrass, HB, sponsored in part by MBOTMA. www.nmsbmusic.com, 8:30pm

• Sawtooth Bluegrass Band, HB, 9:30pm

• Monroe Crossing, Johnson Farm, Covered Bridge Concerts, 6401 161st Ave NE, New London MN, Freewill Offering, 6pm

• Brian Wicklund hosts Fiddle Masters Concert, Trinity Lutheran Church, 115 4th St N, Stillwater, Sponsored in part by MBOTMA. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com Search: American Fiddle Masters Concert, 7pm

• Jeff Ray, ROCKJune 20—Friday • The Eddies, Chisago City Farmers

Market, 10625 Railroad Ave, Chisago City, Great small town farmers market in lovely park, 651-500-2279, www.eddiesonthe-river.com, 4pm

• Bob Bovee with Chirps Smith & Dot Kent, Dreamacres Farm, Wykoff, Summer Solstice Barn Dance, www.boveeheil.com, 7pm

• Bockfest Boys, GKb, 8pm• Mary Flower, ZUM, 8pm• Brian Wicklund hosts Fiddle

Masters Concert, St. Croix Festival Theatre, 210 N Washington St, St. Croix Falls, WI. Advanced tickets at www.festivaltheatre.org, 8pm

• The Fish Heads, Lloyd Fest, Grand Rapids, 218-831-5181, June 20–22

June 21—Saturday • Benson Family Singers, First

Presbyterian Church, 1813 Fire Monument Rd, Hinckley, 6:30pm

• Greenwood Tree, Prior Lake Farmers Market, downtown Prior Lake, 9am

• The Eddies, St. Paul Farmers Market, Best urban farmers market in the Twin, 9am

• Ana & The Bel-Tones, Hosmer Library, 347 E. 36th St, Minneapolis, Hosmer World Music Series hosted by Dan Rein, 2pm

• APHC, Broadcast live from Ravinia Festival Pavilion in Highland Park, IL, 4:45pm

• Mary Flower, CrH, 7pm• Becky Schlegel with Kenny Wilson,

318 Cafe, 318 Water St. Excelsior, 7:30pm

• Contra Dance with Toss The Possum, TAP, 7:30pm

• Don McLean & Judy Collins, BTC, 7:30pm

• Bob Bovee & Chirps Smith with dance calling by Shawn Glidden, Lanesboro Barn Dance at Sons of Norway Hall, Lanesboro, Old time square dance, 8pm

• Hank Exoo, GKb, 8pm• Bernie King and the Guilty

Pleasures, Hell’s Kitchen, 80 S 9th St, Minneapolis, 10am

• Bob & Lynn Dixon, Fulton Farmers Market, 4901 Chowen Ave S, Minneapolis, 10am

• Monroe Crossing, Route 20 Outhouse, Party on the Prairie, 14001 Washington Ave, Sturtevant, WI, 7:30pm

• Johnsmith Songwriting Workshop, Schmitt Music Recital Hall, 2906 W 66th St, Edina, mnsongwriters.org, 1pm

• The Eddies, St. Paul Farmers Market, Best urban farmers market in the Twin, 9am

• Dick Kimmel & Adam Granger, Kakabeka Falls Bluegrass and Old Time Festival, Rosslyn, Ontario, Canada

• Eelpout Stringers, Hennepin County Fair

• Takin’ Time’s Solstice Music & Arts Fair, with Thea Grace, Nikki & The Ruemates, and Under The Willow, 4529 128th St NW, Clearwater, 612-817-8942, 5pm

June 22—Sunday • The Over and Back Band, Cathedral

of Our Merciful Saviour, 101 NW 6th St, Faribault, Heritage Days Ecumenical Gospel Service, www.overandbackband.com, 10am

• Curtis & Loretta, Munsinger Gardens, 1515 Riverside Dr SE, St Cloud, 320-257-5959, 3pm

• Dick Kimmel & Adam Granger, Kakabeka Falls Bluegrass and Old Time Festival, Rosslyn, Ontario, Canada

• Monroe Crossing, Faribault Area Hospice 30th Celebration, Trailside Center, River Bend Nature Center, 1000 Rustad Road, Faribault, 3pm

June 24—Tuesday • Bluegrass Showcase with Sarah

Cagley, UMC, 7pm• Chris Silver Band, Wall

Amphitheater, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI, 7pm

• The Fish Heads, Chester Bowl Park, Skyline Dr, Duluth, 7pm

June 25—Wednesday • The Flemming Fold, St. John’s

United Church of Christ, 19086 Jacobs Ave, Faribault, 507-789-5766, Summer Concert Series, 7pm

• Albert Lee and Cindy Cashdollar, DAK, 7pm and 9pm

June 26—Thursday • The Rockin’ Pinecones, EAG,

7:30pm• Brian Wicklund hosts Fiddle

Masters Concert, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Madison, WI. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com Search: American Fiddle Masters Concert, 7pm

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June 26—Thursday • Roots Music Showcase with Bill

Cagley, UMC, 7pm• Mother Banjo with Ernie

Hendrickson, AST, 7pm• Dead Pigeons, ROCKJune 27—Friday • The WoodPicks, Norman County

Fair, Ada, MN• Ace in The Whole, GKb, 8pm• Dan Israel, 3CR, 7:30pm• Eelpout Stringers, Bluegrass

Americana Weekend Square Dance, Central Park, Rosemount, 6pm

June 28—Saturday • APHC, Broadcast live from

Koussevitzky Music Shed in Lenox, MA, 4:45pm

• Contra Dance with Mary DuShane & Friends, TAP, 7:30pm

• Ghost Notes, GKb, 8pm• John Gorka and Michael Johnson,

Zumbrota State Theatre, Call ZUM for info, 8pm

• Becky Schlegel with the Midwest Country House Band, Midwest Country Theater, Sandstone MN, 3pm and 7pm

• Monroe Crossing, Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park, Yellow River Folk Music Festival, 8500 County Road U, Danbury, WI, 5pm

• Bluegrass Americana Festival with The Fish Heads, Sawtooth Bluegrass Band, The Fly Rite Girls, No Grass Limit, Central Park, 2893 145th St W, Rosemount, 952-255-8545

June 29—Sunday • Barley Jacks, Brookside Bar and

Grill, Judd St, Marine on St. Croix, 3pm

• Yonder Mountain String Band, BTC, 6pm

• Dick Kimmel & Adam Granger, Grand Kabaret Annual Fundraiser, New Ulm, GKb

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Sunday, June 1, 2014 9, 10, & 11:00 am

Volunteer SundayMount Olivet Lutheran Church, 5025 Knox Avenue South

Minneapolis, MN 612-767-2263

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:00 pmMoreau Center for the Arts Little Theatre (campus of St. Mary’s College), Highway 933

Notre Dame, IN 574-284-4626

Saturday, June 7, 2014 7:30 pmCommunity Bluegrass & Gospel ConcertHancock UCC, Congregational, 1912 Massachusetts Avenue

Lexington, MA 781-862-4220

Sunday, June 8, 2014 10:00 amThe World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass with Hancock Chancel ChoirHancock UCC, Congregational, 1912 Massachusetts Avenue

Lexington, MA 781-862-4220

Monday, June 9, 2014 8:00 pmThe World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass with Masterworks Festival Chorus and conductor Philip BrunelleCarnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Avenue

New York, NY 212-279-1147

Thursday, June 12, 2014 7:30 pmFairfax County Parks Summer Entertainment SeriesFrying Pan Farm Park, 2739 West Ox Road

Herndon, VA 703-437-9101

Saturday, June 14, 2014Time(s) TBA

Wind Gap Bluegrass FestivalMountain View Park, 206 East Mountain Road

Wind Gap, PA 973-584-2324

Thursday, June 19, 2014 6:00 pm Covered Bridge Concerts, Johnson Farm, 6401 161st Avenue NE New London, MN 320-796-2662

Saturday, June 21, 2014 7:30 pm Party on the Prairie, Route 20 Outhouse, 14001 Washington Avenue Sturtevant , WI 262-898-7900

Sunday, June 22, 20143:00 -6:00 pm

Faribault Area Hospice 30th CelebrationTrailside Center, River Bend Nature Center, 1000 Rustad Road

Faribault, MN507-332-4834

Saturday, June 28, 2014 5:00 pmYellow River Folk Music FestivalForts Folle Avoine Historial Park, 8500 County Road U

Danbury, WI 715-866-8890

January 8-12, 2015Danny Stewart’s Bluegrass Cruise! Five days, four nights of jamming and concerts from Tampa, FL to Cozumel, Mexico with Royal Caribbean International. Book today to lock in your rate: www.monroecrossing.com/bluegrasscruise.html

Monroe CrossingConcerts & Events coming up in 2014-2015

Go to www.MonroeCrossing.com for detailed information on all our concerts! Booking: Art Blackburn, AKBMusic.com 763-213-1349, [email protected]

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