John Kerns is a dynamic musician who brings a fresh and unique approach to live performance. With a deep catalog of original songs and an extensive repertoire of covers, he crafts engaging and immersive musical experiences that keep audiences hooked from start to finish. Using guitar, percussion stomp boxes, looping pedals and a telephone microphone,…
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What's new? These bands! The Terrace and Aitkin County Friends of the Arts presents "The Kids are Alright", an ongoing showcase featuring young artists and musicians around the region creating innovative or interesting approaches to performing arts. Showcase 3 - August 16, 7-9pm, doors open 6pm .... MVRROW (8pm) is a 6 piece hard core…
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Thursday Tunes at The Terrace with a Side of Local Produce
Stop in at The Terrace on the first and third Thursdays of June, July and August for Farmers Market and tunes by amazing musicians.
The Lowdown Drifters are a hard living, hard loving and hard leaving group of Ft. Worth based musicians blending country, rock and Americana into a sound of their own; the epitome of a rock band with a fiddle problem. With heartfelt and sincere melodies crafted by their accurately named frontman Big John Cannon, the Drifters…
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Event Details JD Graham is an Americana singer/songwriter and Oklahoma native. His songs are confessional, frank and often brutal. At the same time, there’s a poetic quality to the lyrics that conveys some powerful imagery, and the unrelenting darkness in Graham’s songs can be downright cathartic. His 2023 release “A Pound of Rust” propelled him…
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With twangy guitars, luscious harmonies, B3 organ blasts, honky-tonk piano and a horn section, J.Bell & the Lazy Susan Band straddles Americana, Blues & Country, while maintaining that they are simply “straight up rock & roll”. Influenced by Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Old 97s, Counting Crows, Soul Asylum and many more, this Minnesota rock band…
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Big Shiv, aka Thomas Mizner, is a music producer and CEO of Big Shiv Productions, based in Aitkin, MN. His main artists have gained the moniker “Bar Starz” and genres range from Hip Hop, R&B, & Pop to Trap, World, Afrobeat, Boom Bap, and more.
Folksinger/songwriter Kelley Smith is a hopeless romantic who fancies old poetry and grandpa sweaters. All at once whimsical and haunting, Smith delivers deeply affecting lyrics with wry charm and a time traveler's voice. Prone to melancholy and daydreaming, Kelley spent her childhood roaming the woods of Minnesota and singing to forest animals. To this day,…
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Brendan & Leane Flynn are a husband & wife duo based in Brainerd, MN. Brendan has played extensively throughout the Brainerd Lakes region for the past 15 years.
Event Details Justice For Stringbean is a progressive bluegrass band based in Fargo, North Dakota, dedicated to delivering high-energy performances that blend traditional bluegrass with modern influences. Tickets: $15 members, $20 non-members Doors open at 6 Your purchase toward any Aitkin County Friends of the Arts concert directly sustains & supports the future of performing…
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Prize winner of international competitions, Polish cellist Magdalena Sas performs across Europe, Asia and the Americas, and appeared in renowned concert halls such as Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, BOZAR in Brussels, Witold Lutoslawski Studio in Warsaw, NCPA in Mumbai. She is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Fellowship,…
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