Bring a lawn chair or bring a blanket, but be sure to bring a friend! Enjoy one of the best music series this summer in the Museum's sculpture garden while Museum Trustee Rick Mercil runs the BBQ grill.
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Season tickets: $25, Advance tickets: $5 At the door: $7
Free admission for children twelve and younger
To puchase season tickets call 701-777-4195.
Musical groups interested in being a part of the 2011 Concerts in the Garden series should contact Matthew Wallace at 701-777-4195 or mwallace@ndmoa.com For sponsorship opportunities contact the Museum.
North River Ramblers
June 22, 7 pm
Currently playing in Grand Forks, North Dakota. James Feist, Kris Leirfallom, twiddlin' Josh Driscoll, Xavier Pastrano, and Katy Diers combine such instruments as acoustic guitar, harmonica, fiddle, mandolin, banjo and didgeridoo into an old-time bluegrass style not heard too much around this area. Everyone shares a love for roots and old-time music which is illustrated in both their traditional arrangements and original.
Performing at NDMOA's Concerts in the Garden
Hoots and Hellmouth
with June Panic
July 6, 6 pm
Philadelphia-based Hoots & Hellmouth creates new music for old souls. Their second full-length effort, The Holy Open Secret, MAD Dragon Records (ADA/WEA), continues to blaze a trail forward in the name of progressive revival. Rob Berliner, Andrew Gray and Sean Hoots return as the core trio of string slingers and harmonious vocalizers, co-producing in collaboration with Bill Moriarty (Dr. Dog, Man Man) at Philadelphia’s American Diamond Studio.
Blending the twisted roots of American music in a fierce and fiery alchemy, this ragtag bunch seeks a revival of spirit. Soulful three-part harmonies co-mingle with acoustic guitars, a mandolin, an upright bass and foot stomps building a synergy that bursts from both stage and speaker with aural aplomb.
July 20, 6 pm
Alison Scott
with June Panic's Wife
Alison Scott is the strongest new voice to come out of the Minneapolis music
scene in many years; her soulful, organic sound completely ignores the "rules of
cool" that limit so much of today's music. Working with platinum and Grammy-winning guitarist Kevin Bowe (Paul Westerberg, Etta James, Jonny Lang),
drummer Peter Anderson (Polara, Honeydogs) and bassist Steve Price (Rex
Daisy) the band sold out the Dakota a week in advance for their recent CD release
party, a new record for the venue. They are also headlining on weekends at the
Fine Line, The Varsity Theater, The Guthrie Theater and other venues as well as
performing at several festivals, exclusive benefits, corporate functions and opening dates for Chris Isaak, Nancy Griffith and others. Cities 97 has jumped right on board, giving both of her releases regular airplay as well as live-in-studio gigs. Alison's new EP “Hiding Under The Covers” was listed by the St. Paul Pioneer Press as one of the year's 10 best!
2010 Series Sponsors
UNDERWRITTEN BY
Sponsors
Supporters
El Roco Bottleshop, Bar and Grill
Rite Spot Liquor Store, Inc.
Sanders 1907 Restaurant
Charlie Parr grew up in Austin, Minnesota, in a house filled with the music that would
inform his style. His late father loved the music found on collections like the field
recordings by Alan Lomax released on the Folkways / Smithsonian label and Harry
Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. The elder Parr's first-hand accounts of
growing up during the Depression, riding the freight trains and traveling to places like the
Piedmont region (a North Carolina country blues mecca), made the music all the more
visceral to Charlie.
Parr picked up the guitar around age eight, however, music lessons never held his
interest. He's one of those self-taught guys who inevitably brings his own twists to
music. Over the next decade-plus, Parr continued to hone his style and took up songwriting in
earnest. Parr also earned a degree in philosophy and became an outreach worker for the
homeless, working for the Salvation Army in Minneapolis. His experiences in social
services can be heard in his songs, the way any songwriter is impacted by their life
experiences. Don't, however, look for any one person's story in Parr's songs.
Post-Traumatic Funk at NDMOA's Concerts in the Garden, 2009.
Post-Traumatic Funk Syndrome
August 24, 7 pm
Back for their fourth year! Post Traumatic Funk Syndrome is Fargo’s newest and hottest classic rock / horn band. This twelve-piece group (six horns, keyboards, bass, drums, guitar, male and female vocals) performs the best of classic horn band hits.
