Artist Talk & Slide Show: Standard Issue Iron Pour

Thursday, July 22, 7:30 p.m.

FREE event!

Led by Karl Unnasch, iron artists in Lanesboro for the Standard Issue Iron Pour residency will talk about their work.  Fifteen artists will be working on molds July 18-24 at Sylvan Park in Lanesboro, with the iron pour on Saturday, July 24, 12 - 5 p.m.  The public is invited for the pour as well, to witness 2700 degree molten iron transformed on-site.  An Iron Workshop is also being held for the public.

Kent DuChaine: American Delta Blues

Friday, Aug. 13, 7:30 p.m.

$12 regular / $10 Arts Center member

Tickets in advance 507-467-2446 and at the door one hour prior

Featuring Kent DuChaine with Leadbessie, a beat up 1934 National Steel Guitar that wows and astounds audiences when the equally beat up case she travels in is opened and her extra heavy strings are furiously played!  Kent Duchaine started in music when his father taught him to play the ukulele at the age of six, at thirteen he got his first electric guitar and formed a band with his buddies in his hometown of Wayzata, Minn. He immersed himself into the blues music of Johnson, Muddy Waters, Lightening Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, Bukka White and never looked back. In 1970 he opened a show for one his hero’s, the slide guitar genius, Bukka White. From 1972-1975 Kent performed in a band with Kim Wilson from the present day “Fabulous Thunderbirds.” The band backed up blues greats such as Fenton Robinson, Boogie Woogie Red, Luther Tucker, Hubert Sumlin and Eddie Burns. Kent discovered and looked up a legendary blues man with the name of Johnny Shines in 1989.  They traveled together for three years and performed over 200 shows together. Since going solo in 1982 and hitting the roads, riding the rails, flying the skies and sailing the seas, Kent and Leadbessie have probably by now clocked up over two million miles together including over 80/81 overseas tours.   www.kentduchaine.com  - Check out his music!

The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra
Progressive Bluegrass Fused with Jazz and World Elements

Friday, Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m.

$12 regular / $10 Arts Center member

Tickets in advance 507-467-2446 and at the door one hour prior

It’s country.  It’s rock.  It’s jazz.  It’s bug-eyed bluegrass from Zeta Reticuli.  It’s swing.  It’s interstellar folk music . . . whatever it sounds like to earthlings, there’s no mistaking the virtuoso strains and the star trekking fun of The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra!  “Musically inventive and sonically charged . . . what a terrific show!” says one presenter.  The performance features original music plus vocal covers of country and bluegrass greats like Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and Bill Monroe.  Featuring Dan Neale on guitar, Lisi Wright on fiddle, John Wright on bass, and Mark O’Day on drums & percussion.  http://galacticcowboyorchestra.com/media.html  for music samples.