Red Stag Supperclub Entertainment Calendar
Enjoy happy hour specials and music from Kitchen Patrol - a duo playing an eclectic mix of old country, old folk, and swing.
Enjoy a lovely evening of music with Andrew Foreman and Ben Abrahamson performing a mix of spanish, Brazilian, and American Jazz.
Peterson Limousin Farms is a family operation specializing in producing premium-quality beef with naturally superior cattle - Limousin. Our farms are nestled along the beautiful St. Croix River and have been our passion since 1969. Our family consists of Wayne and Christine, Andy, Elizabeth, and Ryan. We produce naturally leaner, tender, and tasty beef by raising Limousin cattle. We monitor everything that goes into the production of our beef. This includes genetics, feed, vaccines, and living conditions. The pillars of why we produce all-natural beef from Limousin cattle are founded on ancient history, human health, and our farm's environmental sustainability. We believe better, healthier beef can be achieved without antibiotics and growth hormones by using time-honored Limousin genetics. Although it's our secret now, Limousin cattle were kept secret for centuries by French chefs. The cattle were coveted for fine cuisine because the beef was naturally leaner without sacrificing tenderness. Today, we carry on the tradition of producing delicious Limousin beef wrapped up in a nutritious package. Please visit www.petersonlimousin.com for more information.
Facts about our operation:
- Cattle are fed a vegetarian diet with no added antibiotics or growth hormones.
- 100% traceability - we know everything about each and every calf we raise.
- All of our beef is custom-processed at local meat processing plants.
- Small carbon footprint - our beef travels ten times shorter than many beef brands sold in the Twin Cities.
- We sell directly to consumers through quarter, half, and whole freezer beef packages.
The guy and his guitar (and sometimes his backing band) has been done to death, but every so often something new comes along and demands that people take notice. John Swardson and Get Gone are the latest band in this vein to rear their bearded, denim-jacketed selves, and have quietly started garnering accolades. Swardson and company have played only a handful of live shows in the past couple of years due to multiple lineup changes, but this stellar dream of a triple bill should finally start the ball rolling the right direction. The sharp lyrics and occasionally quirky arrangements should quickly lay to rest any "Oh, it's just another guy strumming his guitar and wailing about life"-type reservations you may have, and by the end of the set you'll find yourself wanting more. It's easily accessible while not having been constructed out of easily identifiable, recycled material. Sure, the usual influences are there, but they're referred to on the sly, instead of being used as a shopping excursion. Pat O'Brien, City Pages
Join MPLS.TV and Gimme Noise as we screen videos from our landmark series, City of Music. Performance videos by: Four on The Floor, Lookbook, Zoo Animal, Communist Daughter, The Goondas, Prof, Rogue Valley, Wide Eyes, Fort Wilson Riot and Dark Dark Dark. Featuring live music from The 4onthefloor, Holly Newsom of Zoo Animal, and a DJ Set by Communist Daughter.
No cover
A farm to table dinner featuring the best farm fresh bounty that Minnesota has to offer prepared by Chef Kevin Kathman from Barbette and Chef Jason Blair from Red Stag Supperclub. You'll enjoy this outdoor dinner on the beautiful grounds of Garden of Eagan located in Farmington, Minnesota. Proceeds benefit the Organic Field School (www.organicfieldschool.org) and Emergency Foodshelf Network (www.emergencyfoodshelf.org).
5pm-9pm, $75
Dirty Darlings consists of Bunny and Bri (and occasionally some other cool cats) from St. Paul, MN. They started playing together in 2008 and had their first gig at the Black Dog Coffeehouse for Katie Ka Vang's Chapbook release party in December 2008. Later came more gigs and newer sounds. Dirty Darlings has played at Station 4, Big V's, CHAT Radio on KFAI, and many other musical places. They sound a little indie, folky, garage, and pop, showing variety in every song. The sounds are always changing, but the dirty is always there to stay.
Take one part Bluegrass fiddling and combine with Classical technique and compositional chops, add a range of improvisation, especially Jazz flavor, and you might get a recipe for the Orange Mighty Trio’s fresh new music. The Minneapolis-based instrumentalists define themselves with the tongue-in-cheek term “bluegrassical,” and have used humor, spontaneity and onstage interaction to capture a growing audience for their adventurous violin, piano and bass pairing.
The Trio received acclaim for their self-titled EP and has followed up with the June 2009 release, “Infrastructure.” The album draws its theme and tune titles from transportation, a wry nod to the many traditional fiddle tune titles about roads and travel. Kris Swanberg’s film, “It was Great but I was Ready to Come Home” featured music from the new album. The group plans to score husband Joe Swanberg’s new film, “Silver Bullets,” and will be touring with Swanberg to play the soundtrack live in select cities in 2010.
"At first listen to Davina and the Vagabonds, you imagine the tones escaping from a 300-pound blues musician. It seems unlikely that much power is coming from the slight frame of one Ms. Davina. It sounds like an unnatural force, pulled from some secret spot in the belly no other singer has yet discovered. It's a low bellow, most closely aligned with Amy Winehouse's walloping alto. But Davina takes "retro" back further than Winehouse and her Phil Spector reminiscing. She beckons an age when bad girls wore red lipstick and pin curls. Her music may be adorned with exceptional groaning trumpets, rat-a-tatting drum rolls, and staccato piano lines, but nothing deserves the complementing position to her voice. She’s in a league of her own."
-Erin Roof - City Pages 2009
Join us at our monthly discussion forum on environmental problems and solutions. Our next forum is September 21. We'll be talking about energy efficiency and how we can take advantage of it to benefit our local economy.
What: Energy efficiency
Cost: $15 includes: house-made breakfast pastries; sausage or bacon; organic eggs with hashbrowns, or fruit and house-made granola and yogurt; as well as juice and coffee.
(No contributions to Environment Minnesota will be necessary.)
This month’s speakers will include:
- Energy Smart (a program of Minnesota Waste Wise, a non-profit affiliate of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce)
- representatives from organized labor
-restaurateur Kim Bartmann of the Red Stag itself, which is Minnesota's first LEED-certified restaurant
Green Ideas & Ham is a breakfast forum hosted & facilitated by Environment Minnesota the second-to-last Tuesday of each month. September’s forum is co-hosted by the Metro Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs).
Their sound is lonesome, haunting, and almost classic country at times, yet sounds right at home in the world of independent rock music. Western Fifth creates a visionary sound, founded on heartfelt and often dark lyrics, blended with both classic and eclectic instrumentation.
The band recorded their shambling, country-tinged debut EP in a single weekend during the winter of 2006. Lasting nearly a day and a half, the mostly improvised sessions were tracked at Silver Ant Studio in Minneapolis.
Western Fifth started playing shows at various venues around the Twin Cities in the summer of 2006, and has since expanded to a six-piece ensemble. In addition to the traditional guitar, bass and drums, they incorporate a myriad of instruments into their music, including piano, lap steel guitar, Wurlitzer, trumpet, mandolin, organ, and banjo.
“…much of their stuff was like listening to The Replacements if they had hired Steve Earle to do their arrangements for them, and then tossed a trumpet in from time to time to round things out. The lyrics were rich in imagery and the music was spare at turns, despite having six group members onstage, but as they got rolling it sort of felt like you'd been hit in the head with a bar of soap shoved into a sock—it was a lot to digest, emotionally. The songs had a worn, frayed-at-the-edges feel as if they had emerged, fully formed, from the drawer of some long-forgotten piece of furniture in the basement of an even longer-forgotten, broken-down farmhouse.” - Pat O’Brien, howwastheshow.com
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/westernfifth#ixzz0xRHVejOU
Ashley Gold is a versatile singer/songwriter whose style ranges from spoken word to neo-soul. Her work is based on everyday struggles and triumphs, and has a universal appeal, with a voice and style that come off as nonchalant yet intentional at the same time. Ashley has worked with local heavyweights, Desdamona, Carnage, and Truthmaze. She is an artist and activist, and has donated her talents to various causes including Take Back the Night, The Great American Sleep Out, and B-Girl Be. She believes that all artists have a social responsibility to engage community and inspire people to create change.
Matt Latterell is a songwriter based out of NE Minneapolis. This summer Matt released his first full-length solo album, Charades. Matt will be performing songs from the album as well as songs from his previous project, The Sweetheart Boy of the Rainbow Cafe.
Come to expect a specific thing and you might get it switched on ya'. Head your a** on down to The Red Stag for the latest incarnation of Typoscura's Hump Day...SPEED SCRABBLE night! Go head to head with friends and strangers alike on the last Wednesday of every month in an all-out Speed Scrabble battle. Cheap drinks, cheap eats and fresh tunes from Millions Billions. Don't sleep!
Recorded as the summer got shorter in 2008 at Humans Win! in Northeast Minneapolis, The Wapsipinicon's San Geronimo saw its release in early 2010. The band, which began as a solo project for Shawn Neary (Cloud Cult, Seymore Saves the World) has evolved into an orchestra of multi-instrumentalists specializing in a slow-burning Americana. The record's arrangements are as the band is on stage: layered, full, awash in harmony and intensity.
"A rough-hewn folk-rock record bursting at the seams with impassioned performances, San Geronimo marks the official arrival of the Wapispinicon on the local scene. While a relatively new band, the Wapsipinicon's core is made up entirely of established local-scene veterans, whose résumés of past and present projects include such groups as Cloud Cult, the Glad Version, and Big Ditch Road.
Leading the charge is ex-Tapes 'n' Tapes bassist Shawn Neary, who manages to transfer some of that band's nervous energy to a largely acoustic setting in his new primary musical endeavor. Possessor of a quavering clear-eyed tenor that recalls Sufjan Stevens on the lightly strummed, pedal-steel powered "Get Out of My Town!," Neary could easily have opted for a low-key collection of modestly scaled ballads and been just fine; as it happens, San Geronimo is much, much more.
Making the most of his many collaborators' talents, Neary wisely doesn't skimp on ..the "rock.." part of the folk-rock equation; high points include the foot-stomping group-hollering call to arms "Vans on Dupont" and the simultaneously jaunty and jittery joys of "Vera Cruz." The Wapsipnicon are at their best when playing it loose, with gleefully pounded glockenspiels, buoyantly picked banjos, and fierce Rhodes fingerings all jostling for the listener's attention behind a massive wall of gang vocals. At just nine tracks and with perhaps a few too many dour ballads in the mix, San Geronimo isn't the instant knock-out it could have been, but it's still an exciting introductory chapter to a band that sounds well on their way to becoming the Twin Cities' finest raucous folk-rock collective."
-Rob van Alstyne
City Pages
