August 2021
A FREE Community Celebration of Thanks! Featuring The Bill Berguson Band, The Christopher David Hanson Band, Torn & Frayed, Adessa and the Beat, Coyote Wild, and World According To Garth | The [...]
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Be our guest! Dress up like your favorite princess or prince and enjoy a spot of tea with other community royalty! Get your picture taken with Cinderella’s carriage and take the royal tour of the Reif Education Palace (stages/studios). Open to royalty of all ages. You do not have to be a participant of Reif Education to celebrate. Guests encouraged!
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Sunday, August 22, 2021 - 6PM
Myles Reif Performing Arts Center, Grand Rapids
Program:
Amanda Maier- Röntgen
Piano Trio in E flat major
Antonín Leopold Dvořák
Piano Trio no. 4 in E minor, op.90 "Dumky"
TCCC Artists:
Natalia Korenchuk - violin
Evgeny Zvonnikov - violin
Magdalena Sas - cello
Guest Artist:
Mary-Ellen Haupert - piano
Sunday, August 28, 2021 - 7PM
Watermark Art Center, Bemidji
Program:
"Wood Works" - Nordic Folk Tunes arranged by the Danish String Quartet
TCCC Artists:
Natalia Korenchuk - violin
Evgeny Zvonnikov - violin
Pedro Oviedo - viola
Magdalena Sas - cello
Emmy Rozanski - trombone solo
Third Coast Chamber Collective is a group of emerging musicians from diverse backgrounds, devoted to promoting the transformative power of chamber music. TCCC artists perform internationally and appeared in the world's most renowned concert halls such as the Carnegie Hall in New York City, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria, BOZAR in Brussels, Belgium, Herkulessaal in Munich, Germany, Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Poland, to mention a few.
This Summer, during the first edition of the Third Coast Chamber Collective Festival, artists from Russia, Poland, Paraguay and the USA come together to explore the beauty of compositions inspired by Scandinavian and Bohemian landscapes and traditional melodies. Songs of Our Home is a celebration of the rich and diverse heritage of nationalities that immigrated to the Iron Range and whose legacy, culture, and traditions are still deeply rooted in the area.
For more information about the Festival concerts please visit www.thirdcoastchambercollective.com www.itascaorchestra.org.
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Outdoors (covered) under the Jerry and Shirley Miner Family Pavilion at the IRA Civic Center
- Rain or shine
- Bring a chair
- No outside food/drink
- Beer/Seltzer options available
- No readmission
- Designated smoking areas
- No firearms
- No tents
- FREE PARKING!
Mollie B, the multi-instrumentalist and award-winning vocalist who is the host of the Mollie B Polka Party TV show, has been performing music all her life. Mollie started her career performing with the Jim Busta Band when she was only a child and due to her hard work and dedication, Mollie B now performs nation-wide -- live performances, as well as on TV and the movie screen, most often, but not exclusively with the band SqueezeBox. Mollie not only has performed on over 35 recordings, she has shared her many God-given talents with fans in over 30 states and eleven countries and continues to inspire young musicians with her love for music.
In July of 2011, the first Mollie B Polka Party aired on RFD-TV. Mollie was a creative director and co-producer of these shows. The Mollie B Polka Party currently airs in over 55 million homes on RFD-TV on Wednesday at 6:30pm and Saturday at 10:00pm ET. The show will soon be available on Farm and Ranch TV, a streaming network that can be viewed on all devices linked to the internet.
In 2018, Mollie B & SqueezeBox appeared as “Mollie B & her band” in a scene of the Warner Brothers movie, “The Mule,” directed and starring Clint Eastwood. In this scene Mollie plays piano, trumpet, sings, has one line, and dances with Clint Eastwood.
Mollie’s talents have also been showcased in front of a live audience during The Mollie B Christmas Shows both at RFD-TV the Theatre and the Jim Stafford Theatre in Branson, Missouri; as well as the CAL Center in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. The holiday special took place in 2011-2014, 2016-2018. Mollie has performed, directed, wrote, produced, choreographed, and hosted these two+-hour live performances. Mollie’s cast has featured up to 36 renowned musicians and artists in front of audiences up to 1300.
Mollie has won the title of the “Favorite Female Vocalist” award numerous times, both from the United States Polka Association and the International Polka Association. She has also won multiple awards from the Polka America Corporation for her polka recordings with Ted Lange. Additionally, Mollie has won the "2013 Polka Promoter of the Year" award, from the Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Iowa Polka Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2018, she became the youngest inductee into the International Polka Association Hall of Fame.
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Diane & Collin Clough
Outdoors (covered) under the Jerry and Shirley Miner Family Pavilion at the IRA Civic Center
- Rain or shine
- Bring a chair
- No outside food/drink
- Beer/Seltzer options available
- No readmission
- Designated smoking areas
- No firearms
- No tents
- FREE PARKING!
When Dean was 3, the documentary “This Is Elvis” was being broadcast on television. He immediately cleared the coffee table, jumped on top of it and started trying to imitate Presley’s every move. Not long after, Dean’s mother made him his first Elvis jumpsuit, and he was on his way.” The first song I sang on stage was ‘Jailhouse Rock.’ Every time I shook the audience would scream, and I’ve been shaking ever since.” Z said.
September 2021
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This activity is made possible by voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
POSTPONED: Re-scheduled for Tuesday, April 12, 2022
The stellar Twin Cities-based trio with a global following, The New Standards join special guest vocalists and a big band to play songs and themes from their favorite cult and classic films, presented with flair and filtered through their inimitable style. For this concert, the trio puts its spin on movie soundtrack gems by jazz greats like Bacharach and Mancini, riff on European film scores that embody the moody cool of the 60’s and 70’s, and explore the genre-spanning musical themes of movies ranging from Bond to Batman to Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune praised The New Standards's 2016 Orchestra Hall concert saying “There were moments in Saturday's performance that truly were revelatory.”
The New Standards, which started in 2005 as an off-shoot project between three Minneapolis-based musicians and friends, has grown into a globe-spanning adventure—filling theaters and clubs around the world and spawning several CDs, videos, cartoons, and dance and theater projects that have charmed and delighted an ever-multiplying legion of faithful fans.
The three core members of The New Standards all come from illustrious Twin Cities bands. Chan Poling founded the seminal Punk/New Wave band The Suburbs. John Munson was an original member of Trip Shakespeare and the chart-topping Semisonic. Steve Roehm started on drums in the Texas punk outfit Billygoat and the avant-jazz Electropolis. Sensing a lack of interesting jazz trio repertoire beyond the usual “old standards,” they got together originally to play and sing their favorite songs—from every era, particularly post 1960’s pop music—in a stripped-down acoustic setting, making room for solos and arrangements with the freedom of jazz, and yet never fully abandoning the modest soul of pop and rock. More: thenewstandards.com.
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A.J. Croce performs Croce Plays Croce, a special night of music featuring a complete set of classics by his late father Jim Croce, some of his own tunes, and songs that influenced both him and his father. This special event features such timeless songs as “Operator,” “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim,” “Time in a Bottle,” (a song written for A.J.), “Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy), and “Lovers Cross”, to name a few. Classic covers may include songs by Lieber and Stoller, Bessie Smith, and other folk and roots artists.
Jim Croce was an American folk singer with a short-lived professional recording and touring career, and decades of posthumous fame as one of the greatest songwriters and artists ever. With sales surpassing 50 million records, including three #1 songs and 10 Top 10 hits, Jim Croce’s short career and long-lived legacy are well-remembered through his era-defining standards like “Operator,” Time in a Bottle,” and “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.”
A.J. Croce’s 25-year touring and recording career has produced nine studio albums that have been released via both major and independent labels, and have charted 17 Top 20 singles and all nine albums on the radio including on Top 40, Americana, and Blues. A virtuoso piano player, he has performed at a TED Talk and gave a master class at the University of Barcelona. Croce has performed on major talk shows and news programs including The Late Show, The Tonight Show, The Today Show, CNN, MTV, and VH1. He’s toured with such esteemed artists as Willie Nelson, Lenny Kravitz, Earth, Wind, and Fire, and B.B. King. A.J.’s latest album project Just Like Medicine was released last summer by Compass Records, features Vince Gill and Steve Cropper, and was produced by Muscle Shoals legend Dan Penn. Last Fall he released a single of “I Got A Name” which was a song made famous by his father in 1973.
October 2021
Music, dance, laughs, and the age-old tale of “boy meets girl”.
Anything Goes is a Family Friendly hilarious shipboard romp, wrapped around one of Cole Porter’s most magical scores.Music and Lyrics by Cole PorterOriginal Book by P.G.Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel CrouseNew Book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman
This version of ANYTHING GOES was originally produced on Broadway by Lincoln Center Theater in 1987.
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Rachel Ries, the writer, multi-instrumentalist and producer behind Her Crooked Heart, demonstrates immense vulnerability and multifaceted musical craftsmanship in delivering personal and profound musical soliloquies on love, leaving and the life that follows after burning it all down. With To Love To Leave To Live (May 2019), Her Crooked Heart presents a debut record unique in form, made up of cyclical narratives and intertwining histories, each informing the next. The result is a transformative song cycle, led by a charismatic personality,wholly indifferent to expectations of genre and instrumentation. Ries has enlisted a powerful group of women; women who can, in their way, take on the feminine, humanist mantle of Her Crooked Heart and make it their own: Siri Undlin (Humbird), Adelyn Strei (Adro), Hilary James (We are the Willows, Bathtub Cig). The quartet blends classical and electric guitar; piano and vintage synths; cello, woodwinds and drum triggers. This merging of acoustic and synthetic sounds is all in service of the voice: four part vocal harmonies that shift from ethereal to an elemental wail, always telling a story of transformation.
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Experience the artistry of Larry Yazzie (Meskwaki) as he performs flamboyant movements passed down by his ancestors through Native American song and dance. He is a charismatic performing artist: a Champion Powwow Men’s Fancy Dancer, an Eagle Dancer, a Native American Flutist, Lecturer, Master of Ceremonies, Model, Actor, and Singer. He founded Native Pride Productions, Inc., a Native American theatrical, dance, and performing arts company based in Minnesota (2003) and has performed throughout the world sharing his culture. Larry is from the Meskwaki Settlement near Tama, Iowa and has been dancing since he was 7 years old. His mission is to educate, inspire, motivate and empower diverse communities to bridge cultural gaps through Indigenous traditions.