Red Stag Supperclub Entertainment Calendar
Stage Line Up:
3:00-3:35 Jack Klatt & the Cat Swingers w/Dakota Dave Hull
3:50-4:25 Romantica
4:40-5:20 Chastity Brown
*STREET - Epitome No Question
5:35-6:15 Mayda
*STREET - Epitome No Question
6:30-7:10 The Honeydogs
*STREET - Epitome No Question
7:25-8:05 Kill the Vultures
8:20-9:00 Rogue Valley
9:15-10:00 All Tomorrow's Petty
Also featuring Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theater, North Star Roller Girls, and MC Foxy Tann.
Free! Outside Rain or Shine. A Zero Waste Event
Thanks to our sponsors!
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This is a hot asphalt event, please leave your dogs at home!!
Formed in 2009 with guitarist Park Evans, bassist Graydon Peterson, & drummer Jay Epstein, Firebell plays original jazz compositions and reconfigured arrangements of other material with an emphasis on unified improvisation. Every new musical expedition undertaken by Firebell serves to solidify it's reputation as one of the finest, most adventuresome jazz trios playing today - and one of the few with a unique style that is all their own.
Raised in Austin Minnesota, Bethany grew up a preacher’s daughter with three older brothers. She began singing with the church choir at the age of five and picked up guitar at fifteen. Moving on to college, Bethany maintained a love for music while studying classical voice. She began performing at more traditional venues in 2006 such as The Acadia Café. Since then she has moved up the scale, most notably performing for the debut of The Southern Songbook “Lush Life” with local band Heiruspecs, backing her on the jazz standards “My Funny Valentine” and “Someone to Watch over Me.”
When We Reach The City might be a sophomore album for Bethany, but it shouldn’t be overlooked. It retains all the trademarks of a sophisticated musician. Recorded at Humans Win! studios, this album brings Bethany Larson & The Bee’s Knees to the forefront of the Twin Cities music scene.
“…Her music takes on a more vivacious persona, adding in electric guitar flourishes and slide guitar wails to achieve something approaching alt-country. Fans of Lucinda Williams, Patsy Cline, and locals Roma di Luna will all find something to enjoy in Larson’s developing, slightly edgy folk-rock songs” – Andrea Swensson, Citypages
At the age of thirteen Ian Thomas Alexy picked up the guitar with the earnest intention of playing rock and roll. His parents had artistic leanings and encouraged Ian to pursue his musical dreams which he did. At first he thought he would just be a rhythm guitarist like Izzy Stradlin in his favorite band Guns N Roses.
After a few years of rocking on the guitar Ian discovered the music of Neil Young and Bob Dylan and he began to sing and write songs. Over the next several years Ian developed his skills as a writer, singer and an instrumentalist.
When he was 19 Ian attended Boston’s Berklee College of music for a year before transferring to the radical liberal arts school Goddard, which is nestled in the woods of central Vermont. During this time he spent a semester in West Africa traveling and taking guitar and drum lessons along the way.
Ian is the kind of musician that can not only write and sing songs but is also an accomplished guitarist and instrumentalist that can approach his songs from many different angles. To be able to play those different roles is a lost art that is only continued by old troubadours like Willie Nelson, and a small group of young songwriters.
Doug MacRostie, of KAXE radio in Grand Rapids, writes: “occasionally someone steps up and delivers beyond a single track. Ian Thomas Alexy recently released Are You Listening, a masterful EP that continues to reveal his musical genius and creative mind. Channeling the muse of several musical styles, but strictly adhering to none of them, Ian is the kind of genuine songwriter you recognize instantly and ‘know’ without meeting.
Known for both his work as a solo artist, and with the national-touring americana roots duo Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank, Ian Thomas Alexy has had a total of seven releases since relocating to Minnesota and starting CIC Records in 2004 with his brother and bandmate Teague Alexy. Ian Thomas Alexy has toured the country many times over with Hobo Nephews and as a solo artist. He is currently working on an introspective solo recording about his birthday, which is on All Saints Day, and the first Day Of The Dead, November 1st.
Guitarist Zacc Harris has become one of the busiest jazz musicians in the Twin Cities since moving here in 2005. He co-leads Atlantis Quartet, named Citypages Best Jazz Artist 2011, as well as Vital Organ, Monk In Motian, and the Zacc Harris Group. This night will be a farewell concert of sorts for bassist Cody McKinney who is moving to New York a few days later.
The RueMates are Nikki Matteson, Rich Rue, Liz Draper, Jon Olson & Jimmy T. Nikki is the singer of the group & plays guitar. Rich provides backing vocals, and he plays slide and fingerstyle on many guitars, including a 1932 National Duolian resophonic. Liz and Jon round everything out playing upright bass, and Jimmy T. keeps a steady beat on the drums when The Ruemates play as a full band. Nikki & The RueMates' current CD, We All Live Together, blends country blues, folk, psychedelic, and features one spiritual, "Down On Me", and the beautiful country ballad, "Sleepless Nights." It is for sale at shows, the Electric Fetus in Minneapolis, MN & online at CDBABY.
As a jazz vocalist Lee has performed with combos and big bands at major Twin Cities restaurants/clubs such as the The Dakota, Artists’ Quarter, Hell’s Kitchen; and in New York at the Metropolitan Room and the TONY Lounge. She has also performed at jazz festivals such as Grand Marais, Jazz on the Prairie, and at the Twin Cities Hot Summer Jazz Festival every year since 2005. She also enjoys developing and producing concerts and cabaret, and has recently appeared at Bloomington Center for the Arts, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Old Log Theater, and Burnsville Performing Arts Center. In 2008 she was a participant of the prestigious Yale Cabaret Conference, and the current President of the Twin Cities Jazz Society.
In 2010 she recorded and released her second EP, In the Key of “L”, with several members of the renowned Twin Cities Hot Club. The CD has enjoyed regular radio play both locally and at a number of jazz stations around the country, and has received wonderful reviews by local and national reviewers, including LA Jazz Scene Magazine, and by our own Leigh Kammen former host of The Jazz Image™ on MPR. In the fall of 2011 she teamed up once again with these great musicians to record “A Hot Christmas” which was released December 1st and again received airplay and reviews.
It's not a swap meet, it's a crop meet! Shop the Pop Up Famers Market in the parking lot across from the Red Stag Supperclub on Thursdays from August 23 - September 27, 3-8PM. You can find produce and herbs, tea and flowers, canned goods, organic free range chickens, eggs, pottery and organic honey! The vendors are a range of urban and rural producers and include Bootstrap Urban Farm, Rebel Soil, Barefoot Farm, Hulgan House Heritage Farms, Comfort Community Farms, Birds & Bees Farm, Prinks Oakridge Farm, Growing Lots Urban Garden, Verde Productions, Beez Kneez, and Xiong Family Farm.
In the year 1982, a freak electrical storm sent superstar cover band The Sisters Magnet and Brothers Steel 20 years into the future. Imagine their surprise when they found demand for late-70s AM Gold at an all-time high. Today, they tour the Twin Cities, wowing audiences with such timeless classics as Let it Ride and The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.
In their own time, critics called the band "Old-Fashioned" and "Behind the Times" for insisting on performing Jackie Blue and Sister Golden Hair, but today, it has made them stars.
dVRG "Doctor Feel Hood" - keys & vocals
Steve Roehm - vibes & bass
Joey Van "Bite his shiny metal ass!" Phillips - drums
Elena, born and raised in South Minneapolis, has been singing, writing, dancing and dreaming since she learned to talk. Her deep passion for music took root at age 7, inspired by Leann Rime's version of "Amazing Grace". She began teaching herself guitar at 18, and a decade after a brief stint of piano lessons as a child, picked up keys as well at 19. She began training in the circus at age 7 and continues to train as an aerialist to this day. Her open mind and "try everything once" attitude fuels her drive to explore, travel the world and encounter all the strange people in it. Her vision is to use her influence as an artist to inspire and empower others to chase their dreams and to advocate for positive social and community progress, peace and acceptance. She currently resides in Minneapolis, but due to a consistent case of wanderlust she is always on the go, traveling as often as she can. She is currently gigging around town and writing new material. Her musical style is always evolving, but can be described as a jazzical-pop sound.
It's not a swap meet, it's a crop meet! Shop the Pop Up Famers Market in the parking lot across from the Red Stag Supperclub on Thursdays from August 23 - September 27, 3-8PM. You can find produce and herbs, tea and flowers, canned goods, organic free range chickens, eggs, pottery and organic honey! The vendors are a range of urban and rural producers and include Bootstrap Urban Farm, Rebel Soil, Barefoot Farm, Hulgan House Heritage Farms, Comfort Community Farms, Birds & Bees Farm, Prinks Oakridge Farm, Growing Lots Urban Garden, Verde Productions, Beez Kneez, and Xiong Family Farm.
Twin Cities-based improvisers Thomas Nordlund, Andrew Foreman, Zach Schmidt, and Ben Abrahamson could never hope to schlep the first Telharmonium to a performance—a 200-ton early synthesizer invented by Thaddeus Cahill in 1897. However, their sound owes as much to the bleeps and gurgles of electronic music as it does to the jazz of Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny.
Thomas Nordlund: guitar
Ben Abrahamson: guitar
Zach Schmidt: drums
Andrew Foreman: bass
