(2009/07/02)
Jack Russell has never had a real job. He started being a rock star three decades ago and, at 48, is still going strong.
(2009/07/02)
You can see the WInona Symphony Orchestra perform a free pops concert at 8 p.m. today at Lake Park. The
(2009/07/02)
Music fans in Winona this Fourth of July will have two opportunities to hear Northwoods bluesman Charlie Parr, recently back from tours of Australia and the British Isles. Parr will be performing at 6 p.m. Saturday outside of Winona State University’s Performing Arts Center as part of the Great River Shakespeare Festival. Later that evening, about 10 p.m., Parr will perform at Ed’s (no name) Bar, 252 E. Third St. Both shows are free. For more information visit, www.charlieparr.com.
(2009/07/02)
Tickets still are available for the L.A. Guns July 9 concert at Jefferson’s Riverside Center, 58 Center St. Get them for
(2009/07/01)
They aren’t Shakespeare’s most familiar plays. They aren’t his most popular.
(2009/07/01)
The Great River Shakespeare Festival isn’t just Shakespeare. It’s music — lots and lots of free music all summer long.
(2009/06/24)
The Minnesota Beethoven Festival has featured some of the most important international concert artists of our time including Joshua Bell, Marc-André Hamelin and Branford Marsalis.
(2009/06/17)
PLAINVIEW, Minn. — Plainview, population 3,100, might not seem like the perfect setting for professional theater. But for the past decade, The Jon Hassler Theater has called the small town about
(2009/06/17)
Winona has made quite a name for itself for fine art, especially in summer. But as much as I enjoy the Great River Shakespeare Festival and Minnesota Beethoven Festival, they can’t give me my 1980s fix.
(2009/06/10)
They don’t play often. They never rehearse. But when schedules coincide, Punts for Pints has a great time putting on a memorable show of traditional and original Irish music.
(2009/06/10)
The Fountain City River Players will hold auditions for their upcoming production of “Guys n’ Dolls” from noon to 4 p.m. June 20-21 at the Fountain City Auditorium, 42 N. Main St., Fountain City Wis.
(2009/06/10)
The sixth annual Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming will be held Saturday and Sunday at Unity Park at East Lake Winona. Events will kick off with a sunrise ceremony at 5:30 a.m. Saturday and include talk circles, a unity feast, educational activities and the Bob Bone North American Moccasin Tournament both Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
(2009/06/10)
Stupid on an epic scale or epic on a stupid one, "Land of the Lost" is as close as Will Ferrell comes these days to a "kid friendly" movie.
(2009/06/03)
plenty of themselves in ‘Odd Couple’ roles
(2009/06/03)
The sixth annual Chocolate, Shakespeare and Champagne event will be from 7 to 9 p.m. June 13 at the Alexander Mansion B&B, 274 E. Broadway.
(2009/06/03)
The Winona and Blufftown Fiddlers will give a concert at 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, at the Winona Middle School, 1570 Homer Road.
(2009/05/18)
In Kinney Rorrer’s family, you play music. It’s just what you do.
(2009/05/18)
Let’s face it. Most of us have less cash to spend this summer.
(2009/05/18)
Drum and bass. It’s the heart of any reggae song.
(2009/05/18)
Gotta Dance will present “Express Yourself 2009” at 1 and 6 p.m. May 23 and 24 at Saint Mary’s University’s Page Theatre.
(2009/05/13)
The economy is in the tank. Unemployment rises by the day. And the word pandemic is floating around, along with the swine flu.
(2009/05/13)
There should be a self-healing book for film performers titled “When Bad Scripts Happen to Good Actors.” And the cast of “Sunshine Cleaning” should get a group discount. Amy Adams, Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin are three of the funniest people onscreen today, but Megan Holley’s screenplay deals them gags with all the snap of wilted celery.
(2009/05/13)
Art lovers are invited to the 10th annual Fresh Art Spring Tour this weekend in Pepin and Pierce counties in Wisconsin.
(2009/05/13)
The 2008-09 performance season at Saint Mary’s University concludes with the Dance Repertory Company’s annual spring concert, “Time To Move,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 15, and 3 p.m. Saturday, May 16, in SMU’s Page Theatre.
(2009/05/13)
The Lanesboro Art Council presents jazz vocalist Jennifer Grimm in concert at 8 p.m. Friday, May 15, at the St. Mane Theatre in historic Lanesboro, Minn.
(2009/05/06)
There always is great anticipation for the slate of big-budget movies that fill local movie theaters during the summer.
(2009/05/06)
Feeling nostalgic for big hair and dresses with poofy sleeves?
(2009/05/06)
Tickets for the third annual Minnesota Beethoven Festival, held June 27 to July 19, go on sale Friday.
(2009/05/06)
The second part of Alma’s first Alma Ice Break continues this weekend.
(2009/05/06)
Auditions for Prairie Fire Children’s Theater’s original musical production of “Pinocchio” will be held at 2:45 p.m. Monday, May 4, at Ridgeway Community School in Ridgeway, Minn. Up to 65 local young people are needed. Two professional actors/ directors from Prairie Fire will direct the production and play the roles of Geppetto and Tempesto, the puppet master and the fox.
(2009/04/29)
Paul Vance has never really considered himself a conductor.
(2009/04/29)
A recital of Saint Mary’s University student chamber ensembles is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, April 26, in Figliulo Recital Hall, located in the Performance Center. Performing groups will include the Flute Choir, Clarinet Quartet, Brass Quintet, String Ensemble and Wind Ensemble. The ensembles are coached by SMU music faculty members Janet Heukeshoven, Eric Heukeshoven and Ned Kirk. This recital will feature a variety of music by Mozart, Vivaldi, Schubert and Schumann.
(2009/04/29)
Write some music. Play every gig you can. Hope to get a record deal.
(2009/04/22)
If you haven’t heard the Skillet Lickers, Adam Kiesling thinks you should.
(2009/04/22)
The community is invited to listen to and learn from world-renowned saxophonist David Liebman today and Friday as he completes a two-day residency at Saint Mary’s University.
(2009/04/22)
The Rushford Area Society for the Arts will hold adult auditions for “Honk!” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 23, and 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 25, in Rushford-Peterson High School’s choir room in Rushford, Minn. Youth auditions for ages 5 to 15 will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. April 25, also at the high school.
(2009/04/22)
Four graduating art students will present their work at a Senior Show April 22-29 at Winona State University’s Paul Watkins Gallery.
(2009/04/22)
Saint Mary’s University senior art students’ work will be on display through May 9 at the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries in the Toner Student Center.
(2009/04/22)
ST. PAUL -- There’s some good news for Bruce Springsteen fans who are trying to watch their budgets.
(2009/04/15)
LANESBORO, Minn. — The Commonweal Theatre Company is revisiting “Hedda Gabler” to open its 2009 season as part of the 12th annual Ibsen Festival.
(2009/04/15)
Commonweal Theatre will sponsor its 12th annual Ibsen Festival starting Friday, April 17, through next Sunday in downtown Lanesboro, Minn.
(2009/04/15)
You wouldn’t know it by the chilly temperatures we’ve been enduring, but it’s spring. And summer will be here before we know it, fingers crossed.
(2009/04/15)
As part of the Ibsen Festival, the Lanesboro Art Council will present a concert by Nordic Angst, a traditional Nordic ensemble with a contemporary sound, at 8 p.m. Friday, April 17, at the St. Mane Theatre in Lanesboro, Minn.
(2009/04/08)
Even though his band’s van has broken down, Jason Nott isn’t about to complain. It’s one of those rites of passages for a young band. And Drive A, Nott’s band, is a very young band.
(2009/04/08)
Winona Oratorio Chorus conductor Harry Mechell always wanted to direct the “St. John Passion.” He had sung the Johann Sebastian Bach piece as a doctoral student and always loved its beautiful melodies.
(2009/04/08)
Winona State University’s String Ensemble will perform a recital of chamber music at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Performing Arts Center Recital Hall.
(2009/04/08)
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum will open the new exhibit “Art of the Canoe” for museum members with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the museum, 800 Riverview Drive.
(2009/04/08)
The Gotta Dance! studio at 1733 Service Drive is holding ballroom, Latin and swing dance lessons from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays through May 11.
(2009/04/08)
Winona State University’s Paul Watkins Gallery will host a Senior Show for six graduating graphic design students April 8-15. An opening reception will be held at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 8.
(2009/04/01)
Most people try to avoid going to the doctor. Not Argan in “The Imaginary Invalid.”
(2009/04/01)
If at first you don’t succeed, stay tuned. It’s a lesson Mac Cherry learned after recording the Big River Radio Wave variety show in the hope that Wisconsin Public Radio would pick up the show. He submitted a demo of the show more than two and a half years ago after a series of recording sessions in front of a live audience at his Big River Theater in Alma, Wis.
(2009/04/01)
The Winona Arts Center, 228 E. Fifth St., will present an evening of jazz music by the SMU Workshop Jazz Combo and a slide lecture given by Vittorio Colaizzi, WSU assistant professor of art history, titled “Inspired by Jazz: on Painter Robert Ryman” at 7 p.m. Friday.
(2009/04/01)
Tickets are now on sale for Winona State University’s spring concert Friday, April 3, in McCown Gym.
(2009/03/25)
Most of us don’t dream of being on Broadway like the characters in “A Chorus Line.”
(2009/03/25)
Saint Mary’s University will present the ninth annual Taylor Richmond Benefit Dance from 8:30 p.m. to midnight Saturday, March 28, at SMU’s Toner Student Center Dining Room.
(2009/03/25)
The combined choirs of Winona State University and Saint Mary’s University will present a program of choral music titled “The Spirit of Venice” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Chapel of Saint Mary of the Angels.
(2009/03/25)
The Winona Film Society will present “Viva Cuba” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Winona Arts Center, 228 E. Fifth St.
(2009/03/18)
“Hairspray” is a bouffant froth of a musical, filled with outrageous hairstyles and costumes and danceable music.
(2009/03/18)
Willie Waldman’s van just broke down. He’s a bit stranded, not sure what will happen next.
(2009/03/18)
The Saint Mary’s University Concert Band, under the direction of Janet Heukeshoven, will present “The March Tradition” during its 3 p.m. March 22 performance in St. Cecilia Theatre at Cotter High School.
(2009/03/18)
Tickets are on sale for the 7:30 p.m. May 11 Bryan Adams concert at the Mayo Civic Center’s Presentation Hall in Rochester, Minn.
(2009/03/18)
The Winona Arts Center, 228 E. Fifth St., is showing a “Members Exhibition” through April 29. A reception will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday.
(2009/03/15)
Martha Greenwald’s mind was filled with art. The 54-year-old Winona artist pictured playful frogs, sly foxes and views of the Mississippi Valley that none of us would have seen had she not put the images she saw in her head on canvas.
(2009/03/15)
Winona State University’s Paul Watkins Gallery presents “Six McKnight Artists: Ceramics Exhibition” March 11 through April 1. The annual exhibition will feature the works of McKnight fellowship and residency artists Joseph Kress, Mike Norman (pictured), Hide Sadohara, Lisa Marie Barber, John Utgaard and John Lambert.
(2009/03/15)
The Winona Film Society will present the 1993 film “Theremin” at
(2009/03/15)
Express Yourself, a youth art workshop, will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 23-27 at the Winona Arts Center, 228 E. Fifth St. This workshop will focus on the discovery and expression of one’s self through visual and performing arts including sketching, collage, improvisation, mask making, journaling, movement and music. This workshop is open to children and youth ages 6-15.
(2009/03/15)
A new exhibit titled “Blood, Steam and Tears: A Century on the Great Lakes” can be seen through May 23 at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, 800 Riverview Drive.
(2009/03/15)
Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, March 6, at the St. Mane Theatre in Lanesboro, Minn.
(2009/03/04)
Get a day job. It’s what many musicians are told by friends and family who worry about the practicality of following one’s musical dream.
(2009/03/04)
All aboard for Cosmic Railroad. The Kenosha, Wis.-based jam band will play an all-ages show at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Holzinger Lodge, 61 E. Lake Blvd. Tickets are $5.
(2009/03/04)
Winona’s Great River Shakespeare Festival will offer up to eight roles for young people, ages 10 to 18, for its production of “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” Roles are both speaking and nonspeaking, and will include four teenage attendants to the King of Navarre, along with several village children and students of school master Holofernes.
(2009/03/04)
The Lanesboro Art Council is seeking artists for its 29th anniversary Art in the Park Festival June 21 at Sylvan Park in Lanesboro, Minn.
(2009/02/25)
Winona Symphony Orchestra conductor Paul Vance always likes to mix things up at concerts.
(2009/02/25)
When it comes to playing music, the guys in Dharma Bums don’t loaf around. All five members of the Minneapolis-based group also play in other bands.
(2009/02/25)
The Winona Film Society will present “Under the Bombs” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Winona Arts Center, 228 E. Fifth St.
(2009/02/25)
Auditions for “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” will be held from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday and 1 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Rock Solid Youth Center, 75 W. Third St.
(2009/02/25)
Home and Community Options has chosen “Beauty and the Beast” for its annual musical production.
(2009/02/25)
The Saint Mary’s University Chamber Singers will give a homecoming concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at Chapel of Saint Mary of the Angels on the Saint Teresa campus.
(2009/02/25)
Cut a rug with the River City Ballroom Dancers. The group is holding a dance Saturday at the Winona Athletic Club, Fifth and Mankato streets. Dance lessons are available from 7 to 8 p.m., with the dance going from 8 to 10:30 p.m.
(2009/02/25)
Seats are available for school matinee performances of “Einstein Alive!” March 12 at Saint Mary’s University’s Page Theatre. The one-man show is part of SMU’s Page Series and has performances at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. March 12. The show is recommended for students in grades three through eight.
(2009/02/19)
For nearly 20 years, Dancescape has given students the opportunity to express themselves with original choreographed pieces. Many work their way from dancer one year to choreographer the next, discovering the joy of a new form of creative expression.
(2009/02/19)
The Fountain City River Players will hold auditions for their spring play “The Senator Wore Pantyhose — a Comedy in Two Acts” from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Fountain City Auditorium, 42 N. Main St., Fountain City, Wis.
(2009/02/19)
“Old Media, New Ideas and New Media, Old Ideas” — featuring the work of two Chinese-American artists — will be on display Feb. 16 through March 20 at the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries of Saint Mary’s University.
(2009/02/19)
“Word Paintings,” an exhibit by Winona artist Audre Ionia, will be on display through February at the Winona Public Library’s Bell Art Room on the second floor.
(2009/02/11)
Chris O’Brien is stuck in the past, musically speaking.
(2009/02/11)
Jazz is back at Jefferson Pub & Grill starting this Friday.
(2009/02/11)
The second annual Long Weekend will be held at various locations throughout Winona starting Friday and ending Sunday.
(2009/02/11)
Winona State University’s Department of Music Concert Choir will present dessert music theater featuring “The Melody Lingers On: The Music of Irving Berlin” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Performing Arts Center Dorothy B. Magnus Open Stage Theatre.
(2009/02/11)
The Winona Film Society will present “The Trap” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Winona Arts Center, 228 E. Fifth St. The film is a German, Serbian and Hungarian collaboration. It will be shown with English subtitles. Run time is 115 minutes, and it is not rated.
(2009/02/11)
“Waterbourne,” an exhibition of watercolor work from some of the finest watercolor artists in the region, opens Feb. 10 and runs through March 4 at Winona State University’s Paul Watkins Gallery.
(2009/02/04)
One person usually rides a bike at a time. Maybe two if you’re getting crazy. But the National Acrobats of China like to ride with 15 — or 17 if the theater is big enough.
(2009/02/04)
It might be tempting to hibernate in these cold winter months, but come on. There’s great live music to hear and see. And some of it is actually free.
(2009/02/04)
The Winona Oratorio Chorus is holding auditions for its upcoming performance of Bach’s “St. John Passion,” which will be held on Palm Sunday, April 5, at Central Lutheran Church.
(2009/02/04)
It’s no ordinary pig tale. Audience members will learn why it’s probably poor judgment to give a pig a pancake Friday, Feb. 6, at Saint Mary’s University. The Page Series presentation “If You Give a Pig a Pancake,” which begins at 6:30 p.m., features Theatreworks USA in this familiar children’s story where offering a pig syrup leads to baths, baths lead to bubbles, bubbles lead to rubber ducks, and rubber ducks lead to wanting a trip to the farm.
(2009/02/04)
The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts will host auditions for the Dance Repertory Company’s annual spring concert beginning at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at the Valéncia Arts Center, 1164 West 10th St.
(2009/01/29)
The Winona Oratorio Chorus is holding auditions for its upcoming performance of Bach’s “St. John Passion,” which will be held on Palm Sunday, April 5, at Central Lutheran Church.
(2009/01/28)
Classic ballet isn’t about change. It’s about tradition.
(2009/01/28)
After more than two years, And Hope to Die is reuniting Saturday for Metal Fest at the Warehouse in La Crosse, Wis. The show will feature the original lineup of Will Maravelas on guitar, Aaron Lanik on drums, Dan Young on vocal, Erik Zidek on lead guitar and Blake Boesen on bass.
(2009/01/28)
Winona’s Frozen River Film Festival continues through Sunday with events at Winona State University, Saint Mary’s University and other locations throughout the city.
(2009/01/28)
set for Jan. 29 Anyone interested in the arts is invited to attend the Fine Arts Commission open forum at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, at the
(2009/01/21)
You wouldn’t necessarily categorize films from the Frozen River Film Festival as action. Yet FRFF director Crystal Hegge says that’s what they’re about — just not in the Sylvester Stallone sense of the word.
(2009/01/21)
In “Quantum of Solace” the villains buy up the water rights of Bolivia so they can gouge the citizenry for every life-sustaining sip.
(2009/01/21)
The Winona Arts Center, 228 E. Fifth St., will host a members exhibition of recent work from March 6 through April 29.
(2009/01/21)
Winona State University’s Department of Music presents the American Choral Directors Association Composers Recital “Mostly Mendelssohn” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in WSU’s Performing Arts Center’s Recital Hall.
(2009/01/21)
The Winona Art Center’s new exhibit will feature paintings by Sherri Lisota through Feb. 28. The opening reception is from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, with a gallery talk at 6 p.m. Gallery hours are 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays and 3 to 6 p.m. Fridays.
(2009/01/14)
You don’t need to travel far to see talent. Just show up Saturday to Winona State University’s Performing Arts Center’s Main Stage.
(2009/01/14)
Reid Kennedy doesn’t know what’s going to happen next in his music or his life. And he likes it that way.
(2009/01/14)
Husband-and-wife blues duo Joe and Vicki Price will perform a free show at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Trempealeau Hotel in Trempealeau, Wis. The Lansing, Iowa, couple has been playing the blues for decades. Joe is known for finger-style guitar in the Elmore James/Muddy Waters tradition, while Vicki’s speciality is an intuitive, swinging blues style with a light fingered touch.
(2009/01/08)
The works of Larry Holmes and Jason Bronner will be displayed inside the Saint Mary’s University Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries through Feb. 6.
(2009/01/07)
You can sit at home and watch the ball drop or you can enjoy an evening counting down 2008 with live music.
(2009/01/07)
Eight years ago, you could’ve seen Mudvayne at the Warehouse in La Crosse for $9. Now, it’ll cost you $27 in advance, $29 day of show, for the Illinois metal band’s Friday, Feb. 6, gig at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minn.
(2009/01/07)
WWE Raw is coming Jan. 10 to the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester and Jan. 17 to the La Crosse Center in La Crosse.
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