Saturday, June 16, 2018
Cities 97 Stage (Water Power Park)
MN Sinfonia
11:00 am – Saturday, June 16 – Cities 97 Stage (Water Power Park)
The MN Sinfonia orchestra’s professional freelance musicians come from all over the world.
Every year, the Sinfonia plays up to 80 free-admission concerts and features award-winning national and international guest soloists. According to the Star Tribune, “…the Sinfonia’s performances are easily on par with that of any major Minnesota ensemble.”
https://www.mnsinfonia.org/
Hot Pink Hangover
1:00 pm – Saturday, June 16 – Cities 97 Stage (Water Power Park)
Hot Pink Hangover is a cupcake filled with dynamite! Their whimsical lyrics, on-stage shenanigans, and class-clown personae create a playground that would make any elementary prankster envious. Hot Pink Hangover builds a macabre dystopian landscape, and then filters it through rose-colored lenses, appealing to the escapist within us all!
https://www.hotpinkhangover.com/
The Von Tramps
2:10 pm – Saturday, June 16 – Cities 97 Stage (Water Power Park)
The Von Tramps are an original rock band fronted by the power duo of vocalist/guitarist Jenna Enemy and guitarist Chelsea Oxbourough. The group has an eclectic style offering a healthy blend of sludgy Ramones-esk punk tunes, cynical and slightly comedic homages to fellow Minneapolis group The Replacements, the energy and pulse of No Doubt, topped off with a flair for the dramatic reminiscent of our favorite divas from days of yore.
www.thevontramps.com
Mild Manner
3:20 pm – Saturday, June 16 – Cities 97 Stage (Water Power Park)
Eclectic but focused, rowdy but controlled; Mild Manner’s definition is as contradictory as their title. A four piece of twenty somethings sprouting from the same five-mile patch of a Twin Cities-adjacent suburb, Mild Manner offers a homeostatic performance that’s constantly in flux between a hip-shaking chaos and quiet energy.
https://www.facebook.com/MildMannerBand/
Yesterdawn
4:30 pm – Saturday, June 16 – Cities 97 Stage (Water Power Park)
Yesterdawn is a jazz-rock fusion group led by guitarist, composer, and local Julian Manzara. The band is dedicated to performing dynamic, improvisation-driven music as well as the baddest tunes in jazz-fusion history. This includes the work of artists such as John Scofield, Santana, and Jeff Beck.
www.julianmanzara.com/band
Larry Wish & His Guys
5:40 pm – Saturday, June 16 – Cities 97 Stage (Water Power Park)
Larry Wish has been composing bedroom prog music since 2007 with over fifty albums. His songs are often melodramatic and existential, exploring daily observations, reflections, interactions, and trying to understand love and life without
https://www.facebook.com/larrywishmusic/
Rich Mattson & the Northstars
6:50 pm – Saturday, June 16 – Cities 97 Stage (Water Power Park)
Northern Minnesota cosmic folk/rock group featuring songwriters Rich Mattson (Ol’ Yeller, Tisdales, Bitter Spills, Sparta Sound) and Germaine Gemberling.
www.richmattsonmusic.com
Purple Funk Metropolis
8:00 pm – Saturday, June 16 – Cities 97 Stage (Water Power Park)
Purple Funk Metropolis is a charismatic six-piece band with a lively sound inspired by rock, jazz, and old-school soul. With driving melodies at the forefront of the groove, they build the party from the ground up with every performance. Whether in a Como basement or a downtown dive bar, Purple Funk’s energy notoriously gets the whole room dancing.
purplefunkmetropolis.bandcamp.com
Jack Klatt
9:15 pm – Saturday, June 17 – Cities 97 Stage (Water Power Park)
Part balladeer and part bluesman, Jack is a dedicated songwriter and finger-style guitarist. His unique sound defies genre with influences that pull from a wide range of American music. In the words of Americana Roots UK “Jack doesn’t rely on other writers for his diversity, he can write in pretty much any musical style of his choosing.”
https://www.jackklatt.com/
Star Tribune Stage (Father Hennepin Park)
Wilkinson James
2:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – StarTribune Stage (Father Hennepin Park)
Wilkinson James is the band project of Liz Wilkinson and AJ Scheiber, who blend their love of folk, honky-tonk, and jazzy torch songs into a sound that one fan once described as “the bastard offspring of June Carter Cash and Townes Van Zandt.
https://www.wilkinsonjames.biz/
Prairie Fire Lady Choir
3:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – StarTribune Stage (Father Hennepin Park)
The Prairie Fire Lady Choir is an all-female a cappella singing group of sixty members who raise their collective voices across the state in support of art, community, and creativity. PFLC can be heard singing unique arrangements of songs by artists such as Jeremy Messersmith, Twisted Sister, Lucius and Neutral Milk Hotel.
http://prairiefireladychoir.org
Lena Elizabeth
4:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – StarTribune Stage (Father Hennepin Park)
Lena Elizabeth is a singer songwriter from Minneapolis writing songs influenced by folk story telling with a strong voice rooted in the blues. Lena blends old and new to create a pop sound approachable across generations.
http://www.lenaelizabeth.com/
Emily Haavik & the 35s
5:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – StarTribune Stage (Father Hennepin Park)
Emily Haavik & the 35s are good friends who play lyric-driven folk/rock filled with rich strings and harmonies. The band lives in Duluth and Emily now lives in Minneapolis, so they frequently traverse I-35 to play together.
https://www.emilyandthe35s.com/
One Ukulele
6:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – StarTribune Stage (Father Hennepin Park)
A harmonious medley of three male voices combined with stringed instruments, a clogger, and of course at least One Ukulele. We have been playing at festivals, farmers markets, private events and more for nearly eight years. We love and create songs of peace, love, justice, and harmony.
oneukulele.com
City Pages Stage (Central Avenue Bridge)
Alex Schneider
12:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – City Pages Stage (Central Avenue Bridge)
Local songsmith, Alex Schneider is known for his raw, emotionally honest lyrics and innovative guitar work.
https://alexschneider.bandcamp.com/
Brooke Elizabeth
1:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – City Pages Stage (Central Avenue Bridge)
Brooke Elizabeth is a singer/songwriter from small town Wisconsin. Her first EP was released in August 2016 and has a Folk/Americana vibe. Described as “soothing and easy to listen to”, Brooke Elizabeth draws influence from a variety of genres that blend to create an eclectic mix and unique style.
https://www.brookelizabethmusic.com/
Graham Earley
2:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – City Pages Stage (Central Avenue Bridge)
Graham Earley is a songwriter from Minneapolis. He’s been playing around the city since middle school, when he showed up at a Mad Ripple Hootenanny in 2007. After several iterations on his songwriting process, he now sings introspective, fingerpicked folk tunes.
http://grahamearley.website/
Dan Israel
3:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – City Pages Stage (Central Avenue Bridge)
Dan Israel’s You’re Free is a response to personal, political, and cultural crises by a singer-songwriter who happens to be in midlife. As such, it sidesteps midlife-crisis clichés while searching earnestly for change, liberation, and the perfect guitar break. By turns anxious and joyful, sometimes even a bit reckless, it’s a cry of the heart delivered from the cab of a new-used convertible, or a jeremiad shouted from a seventies muscle car rejiggered to run on french-fry grease.
http://www.danisraelmusic.com/
M French
4:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – City Pages Stage (Central Avenue Bridge)
Matthew French’s music and lyrics catch at the strings of hope hidden within heartache. Guitar in hand, coffee cup nearby; the melody transports and the words tell a story. Our story. Matthew’s audiences feel themselves reflected in the warmth of his voice
https://www.mfrenchmusic.com/
Jeff Krause
5:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – City Pages Stage (Central Avenue Bridge)
Rooted in the tradition of classic Americana & Folk storytelling with a tip of the hat to Blues & Southern Soul, Jeff Krause pairs lyric-forward songs with a guitar style that moves from Acoustic coffee house strums to dusty bar Blues.
http://www.jeffkrausemusic.com/
Wendy C Johnson
6:15 pm – Saturday, June 16 – City Pages Stage (Central Avenue Bridge)
Wendy C Johnson received her degree in Classical Guitar Performance from the University of Minnesota in 2015. Wendy believes that music is one of the best ways to create understanding between people and empower them to be positive forces in the world. Wendy has performed in a variety of venues around the Twin-Cities both instrumentally and vocally.
https://wendycjohnsonmusic.com/
