Crossing Arts' Second Saturday event planned
The Crossing Arts Alliance announces its Second Saturday events for August.
Dan Devine will be the featured member artist at The Crossing through the month of August. As part of TCAA's Second Saturday events, Devine will be in the Crossing Arts Gift Shop from noon to 2 p.m. Aug. 13 with a selection of his handmade pottery. Devine has been teaching art education for the past seven years. He's worked with many art mediums and has created pieces done in clay, drawings, paintings and graphic arts.
Alyssa Marvin will teaching children to make their own fabric kites from 10 a.m. to noon in the cafeteria on the lower level of the Franklin Arts Center. Children will make stamps and decorate their fabric before using a template and dowels to create a kite to fly or use as decoration. Crossing Arts Kids classes are offered for a suggested donation of $3 per child/$5 per family but no child is turned away due to need. No pre-registration is needed.
The Crossing Arts Alliance activities are held in the Franklin Arts Center, 1001 Kingwood St. Brainerd. Call 218-833-0416, visit www.crossingarts.org or email info@crossingarts.org for more information.
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Children's performance at Brainerd library
The Brainerd Public Library will host a children's performance at 11 a.m. Friday with the Lakes Area Music Festival.
Members with the LAMF's international roster will share musical storytelling and perform movements from Saint-Saëns' "Carnival of the Animals."
Call the Brainerd Public Library at 218-829-5574 for more information.
Raedeke to present next organ recital
NISSWA-Organist Laura Raedeke will present the next Lakes Area Summer Organ recital at noon Wednesday at Lutheran Church of the Cross in Nisswa.
Raedeke is the organist at the Nisswa church and at First Congregational in Brainerd. She will perform a Bach Prelude as well as the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Toccata by Johann Froberger, a Phantasy on "Holy, Holy, Holy" by Piet Post, and her own composition on "Finlandia."
Contact Cathy Taylor at 218-963-2229 with more information.
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Music in Crosby park planned
CROSBY-Brendan Flynn and Emily Hammer will perform from 5-8 p.m., Aug. 11, for Cuyuna Lakes Chamber's Music in the Park at Crosby's Memorial Park.
Flynn plays high-energy acoustic folk-Americana music throughout Minnesota for the past 15 years. He plays a combination of original, traditional and reinterpreted popular cover music.
Local singer/songwriter, Hammer, has timeless vocals accompanied by interpretations of classic rhythm and acoustic soul.
Music in the Park continues on the second and fourth Thursday night through August. People may bring lawn chairs or blankets and sit back and enjoy live music. The schedule is available at www.cuyunalakes.com or by calling 218-546-8131.
Muddy Waters in the bandstand
The Muddy Water's Band will perform at 7 p.m. tonight, Aug. 4, in the Gregory Park Bandstand. Jack Franzen's bands have been playing for more than 30 years. He has played with several bands during that time; The Orbits, C and R Express and then the Muddy Water Band. He has played with many local musicians, along with three of his sons. For tonight's bandstand concert he will have son, John on the drums and Jim Olsen on bass. The music they perform ranges from old country, country rock and some southern rock.
Franzen was inducted into the Rock and Country Hall of Fame in 2004 for his time in The Orbits. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hall of Fame for his dedication, service to the music recording and entertainment industry. He received an honor award from the New York Pro/Am Song Jubilee for his song "I keep hanging onto to you." This song is on his latest CD.
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Franzen's son John has played with several bands over the years. Olsen has played the guitar for many years and has performed single gigs and with groups. He fills in on bass when needed. He also has performed for many years in the band for the Geritol Frolics.
The concert is free and open to the public. People can bring a lawn chair and enjoy live music. Concert funding has been provided in memory of Helen K. Mills. Rainout site is The Center, 803 Kingwood St., Brainerd. If the concerts are moved indoors, signs will be posted on the bandstand and it will be announced on WJJY radio.
Concerts in the park are a collaboration between Brainerd Parks and Recreation Department and The Center.
Mikko and Friends to take Staples stage
STAPLES-Mikko and Friends will present a night of "songs you know by heart" at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Music in the Park Series at Northern Pacific Park in Staples.
The ensemble consists of duo Mikko Cowdery and Chuck Wencl of the Alexandria area; and percussionist Doug Millaway of Avon.
Cowdery and Wencl have performed together at a number of events over the years from the Twin Cities area to the Dakotas. Their repertoire includes old pop, folk and country music and Americana tunes to old standards.
Cowdery plays banjo, guitar, ukulele and assorted instruments along with singing those great old tunes. Wencl plays sax, clarinet and penny-whistle licks. Crowd favorites they perform include "Sunny Side of the Street," "That's Amore," "Sixteen Tons," "Hey Good Lookin'" and "Five Foot Two."
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Mikko and Friends put a lot of emphasis on sing-alongs and laugh-alongs.
"Be prepared for an evening of fun, as Mikko interweaves his tunes with stories he's picked up on his musical travels throughout the United States, Canada and Ireland," it states in a news release.
In case of rain, the concert will be moved to Faith Lutheran Church.
The Music in the Park series is funded by the Staples Host Lions Club. The series is organized by the Staples Motley Area Arts Council, with the assistance of the Staples Motley Public Schools and the City of Staples.
Go to www.staplesmotleyarts.org for more information on the Music in the Park series.
Crosslake's Artisan's Fair to begin Aug. 14
CROSSLAKE-More than 25 artisans will be situated Aug. 14 throughout the Historic Log Village displaying crafts reminiscent of 1900. As in prior years artisans will demonstrate their crafts and have their creations available for sale.
The village, located across from the Crosslake Corps of Engineers Dam and Campground in downtown Crosslake, will host the annual family, friendly fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Crafts will include soap making, hand spinning, pottery, weaving and blacksmithing. There will be activities for the children including a scavenger hunt and corn-husking contest.
A new attraction this year will be live alpacas Dave and Esther Endicott will bring from Serenity Now Alpaca Farm near Jenkins. Many products are made from alpaca wool. Esther Endicott will demonstrate how to spin, weave, felt and knit with the alpaca yarn. Arlene Morrisette of Remer will bring goats and talk about the various products produced from goat wool and milk.
Blacksmith Jim Newgord of Pillager will demonstrate the skill in blacksmith shop. Local resident Mary Dischinger will render lard over a fire in her grandfather's kettle for soap making. Woodturner Allan Hochsprung will display bowls and vases he's made and Walter Grittner is a wood carver in his 90s who travels from St. Cloud to show off his craft. Pine Needle baskets will be constructed by Sharon Larson. Dave Hudson from Pennington is returning this year to show his talents as a potter. Eva Zech will display antlers, leather and salves.
Ken Benson will provide music on accordion and Kai and Bridget Allen will stroll the grounds playing guitar and fiddle. Author Candace Simar, who has written a series of novels woven around the life of an early Norwegian immigrant during the Sioux uprising with her "Ambercrombie Trail" will make an appearance.
All the buildings in the Historic Log Village will be staffed with volunteers in period costume. Step into Crosslake of 1900 and see the log building that was the first official school on the Whitefish Chain, the Ostlund home that was built by August Ostlund and his son, Charles in the
late 1800s, the first Watertown Township Town Hall and a replica of the first Crosslake store. Take a look in the Livery where the original Whitefish Chain Mail boat, a 1949 Chris-Craft, restored by Ronnie Schultz and Joe Ruttger and many other exhibits of Crosslake's past.
Parking will be available at the Frandsen Bank, on the street at the campgrounds and in the museum parking lot.
Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for children. Lunch will be available on the grounds.
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Anyone who would like to join the artisans and demonstrate a pioneer craft, contact Nancy Rudberg at 218-692- 2309 or Mary Dischinger at 218-692-3188.
The Cactus Blossoms to perform in Crosslake
CROSSLAKE-The Cactus Blossoms, with their 2016 Red House debut, "You're Dreaming," will perform Aug. 27 at Crosslake Town Square, as part of the Outdoor Music Series.
The Cactus Blossoms, born and raised in the working-class neighborhood in Minneapolis, brothers Jack Torrey and Page Burkhum found themselves drawn to classic folk and country music, honing their songwriting skills with weekly gigs at former country 1940s honkytonk and now music club The Turf Club in St. Paul.
According to a news release, it stated "With the kind of blood harmonies that make your scalp tingle, the brothers made the genre their own and started working originals into their weekly sets of classics; people couldn't tell the difference. A chance gig opening for JD McPherson brought him on board as a fan, he is the producer behind 'You're Dreaming.'"
Though they came from a musical family, the brothers didn't naturally inherit their deep understanding of early American music. By tracing their heroes' footsteps back to the roots, they came into their style in a genuine way.
The musicians have had press ranging from a Rolling Stone "Artist to Watch," NPR Heavy Rotation, NPR All Things Considered, Folk Alley, Noisey, Garden and Gun, CMT and A Prairie Home Companion.
