July 2021
Celebrate summer by boating to Sunset Point on beautiful Pokegema Lake for a FREE concert featuring The Christopher David Hanson Band!
Free-will donations will be accepted on behalf of the Reif Youth Arts Fund.
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Ann & Dan Chisholm!
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Enjoy a FREE Concert at Tioga Beach with the Daytrippers! Playing everything from the classic Beatles’ tunes to modern classics. Fun for the whole family! Enjoy the music from your boat or your favorite chair on the beach.
Free-will donations will be accepted on behalf of the Reif Youth Arts Fund.
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August 2021
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Outdoors (covered) under the Jerry and Shirley Miner Family Pavilion at the IRA Civic Center
- Rain or shine
- Bring a chair
- No outside food/drink
- Beer/Seltzer options available
- No readmission
- Designated smoking areas
- No firearms
- No tents
- FREE PARKING!
John Mueller’s “Winter Dance Party”® is the official live and authentic re-creation of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper’s final tour and the only show endorsed by the Holly, Valens and Richardson estates. Each live concert performance includes over two hours of unbridled, high voltage entertainment featuring all the hit songs of the 50’s era: That’ll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Oh, Boy, Rave on, La Bamba, Chantilly Lace, and many, many more. Mueller is the critically acclaimed former star of the U.S. touring version of the London/ Broadway hit musical “Buddy… The Buddy Holly Story,” he performs as Buddy Holly with Linwood Sasser as the Big Bopper and Ray Anthony as Ritchie Valens. The show as been performed in front of over 2 million people on national TV for the Jerry Lewis Telethon, has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada at theaters, performing arts centers, ballrooms, corporate events, casinos and even for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with John Mellencamp, Marshall Crenshaw and others.
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Little Red Riding Hood and the Storybook Mysteries: The Quest to Save the Knave
Featuring area students in grades 3 – 12!
The Quest to Save the Knave is the sequel to Little Red Riding Hood and the Storybook Mysteries. Red, a young detective leads a cast of hilarious characters as she sets out to uncover the truth behind the Queen of Heart’s missing tarts!
A FREE Community Celebration of Thanks! Featuring The Bill Berguson Band, The Christopher David Hanson Band, Torn & Frayed, Adessa and the Beat, Coyote Wild, and World According To Garth | The [...]
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Be our guest! Dress up like your favorite princess or prince and enjoy a spot of tea with other community royalty! Get your picture taken with Cinderella’s carriage and take the royal tour of the Reif Education Palace (stages/studios). Open to royalty of all ages. You do not have to be a participant of Reif Education to celebrate. Guests encouraged!
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Sunday, August 22, 2021 - 6PM
Myles Reif Performing Arts Center, Grand Rapids
Program:
Amanda Maier- Röntgen
Piano Trio in E flat major
Antonín Leopold Dvořák
Piano Trio no. 4 in E minor, op.90 "Dumky"
TCCC Artists:
Natalia Korenchuk - violin
Evgeny Zvonnikov - violin
Magdalena Sas - cello
Guest Artist:
Mary-Ellen Haupert - piano
Sunday, August 28, 2021 - 7PM
Watermark Art Center, Bemidji
Program:
"Wood Works" - Nordic Folk Tunes arranged by the Danish String Quartet
TCCC Artists:
Natalia Korenchuk - violin
Evgeny Zvonnikov - violin
Pedro Oviedo - viola
Magdalena Sas - cello
Emmy Rozanski - trombone solo
Third Coast Chamber Collective is a group of emerging musicians from diverse backgrounds, devoted to promoting the transformative power of chamber music. TCCC artists perform internationally and appeared in the world's most renowned concert halls such as the Carnegie Hall in New York City, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria, BOZAR in Brussels, Belgium, Herkulessaal in Munich, Germany, Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Poland, to mention a few.
This Summer, during the first edition of the Third Coast Chamber Collective Festival, artists from Russia, Poland, Paraguay and the USA come together to explore the beauty of compositions inspired by Scandinavian and Bohemian landscapes and traditional melodies. Songs of Our Home is a celebration of the rich and diverse heritage of nationalities that immigrated to the Iron Range and whose legacy, culture, and traditions are still deeply rooted in the area.
For more information about the Festival concerts please visit www.thirdcoastchambercollective.com www.itascaorchestra.org.
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Outdoors (covered) under the Jerry and Shirley Miner Family Pavilion at the IRA Civic Center
- Rain or shine
- Bring a chair
- No outside food/drink
- Beer/Seltzer options available
- No readmission
- Designated smoking areas
- No firearms
- No tents
- FREE PARKING!
Mollie B, the multi-instrumentalist and award-winning vocalist who is the host of the Mollie B Polka Party TV show, has been performing music all her life. Mollie started her career performing with the Jim Busta Band when she was only a child and due to her hard work and dedication, Mollie B now performs nation-wide -- live performances, as well as on TV and the movie screen, most often, but not exclusively with the band SqueezeBox. Mollie not only has performed on over 35 recordings, she has shared her many God-given talents with fans in over 30 states and eleven countries and continues to inspire young musicians with her love for music.
In July of 2011, the first Mollie B Polka Party aired on RFD-TV. Mollie was a creative director and co-producer of these shows. The Mollie B Polka Party currently airs in over 55 million homes on RFD-TV on Wednesday at 6:30pm and Saturday at 10:00pm ET. The show will soon be available on Farm and Ranch TV, a streaming network that can be viewed on all devices linked to the internet.
In 2018, Mollie B & SqueezeBox appeared as “Mollie B & her band” in a scene of the Warner Brothers movie, “The Mule,” directed and starring Clint Eastwood. In this scene Mollie plays piano, trumpet, sings, has one line, and dances with Clint Eastwood.
Mollie’s talents have also been showcased in front of a live audience during The Mollie B Christmas Shows both at RFD-TV the Theatre and the Jim Stafford Theatre in Branson, Missouri; as well as the CAL Center in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. The holiday special took place in 2011-2014, 2016-2018. Mollie has performed, directed, wrote, produced, choreographed, and hosted these two+-hour live performances. Mollie’s cast has featured up to 36 renowned musicians and artists in front of audiences up to 1300.
Mollie has won the title of the “Favorite Female Vocalist” award numerous times, both from the United States Polka Association and the International Polka Association. She has also won multiple awards from the Polka America Corporation for her polka recordings with Ted Lange. Additionally, Mollie has won the "2013 Polka Promoter of the Year" award, from the Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Iowa Polka Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2018, she became the youngest inductee into the International Polka Association Hall of Fame.
THANK YOU SPONSORS
Diane & Collin Clough
Outdoors (covered) under the Jerry and Shirley Miner Family Pavilion at the IRA Civic Center
- Rain or shine
- Bring a chair
- No outside food/drink
- Beer/Seltzer options available
- No readmission
- Designated smoking areas
- No firearms
- No tents
- FREE PARKING!
When Dean was 3, the documentary “This Is Elvis” was being broadcast on television. He immediately cleared the coffee table, jumped on top of it and started trying to imitate Presley’s every move. Not long after, Dean’s mother made him his first Elvis jumpsuit, and he was on his way.” The first song I sang on stage was ‘Jailhouse Rock.’ Every time I shook the audience would scream, and I’ve been shaking ever since.” Z said.
September 2021
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This activity is made possible by voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
POSTPONED: Re-scheduled for Tuesday, April 12, 2022
The stellar Twin Cities-based trio with a global following, The New Standards join special guest vocalists and a big band to play songs and themes from their favorite cult and classic films, presented with flair and filtered through their inimitable style. For this concert, the trio puts its spin on movie soundtrack gems by jazz greats like Bacharach and Mancini, riff on European film scores that embody the moody cool of the 60’s and 70’s, and explore the genre-spanning musical themes of movies ranging from Bond to Batman to Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune praised The New Standards's 2016 Orchestra Hall concert saying “There were moments in Saturday's performance that truly were revelatory.”
The New Standards, which started in 2005 as an off-shoot project between three Minneapolis-based musicians and friends, has grown into a globe-spanning adventure—filling theaters and clubs around the world and spawning several CDs, videos, cartoons, and dance and theater projects that have charmed and delighted an ever-multiplying legion of faithful fans.
The three core members of The New Standards all come from illustrious Twin Cities bands. Chan Poling founded the seminal Punk/New Wave band The Suburbs. John Munson was an original member of Trip Shakespeare and the chart-topping Semisonic. Steve Roehm started on drums in the Texas punk outfit Billygoat and the avant-jazz Electropolis. Sensing a lack of interesting jazz trio repertoire beyond the usual “old standards,” they got together originally to play and sing their favorite songs—from every era, particularly post 1960’s pop music—in a stripped-down acoustic setting, making room for solos and arrangements with the freedom of jazz, and yet never fully abandoning the modest soul of pop and rock. More: thenewstandards.com.