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A new month means a new Twin Ports Comedy Showcase! The phenomenal Maggie Farris is joined by Julie Bane and Brian Robertson for a hilarious lineup! Doors: 6 PM · Show: 7 PM $15 · 21+ Tickets available here: https://www.twinportscomedy.com/events/twin-ports-comedy-showcase-w-maggie-farris FREE karaoke to follow! 🎙
Stop on over for a night of live jams from Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners, Grand Holler, and Dan Munthe! 🎙 Doors: 6 PM · Music: 7 PM $5 · 21+
It’s that time of year again! 💃 Join the Duluth Dolls for their 13th year of their annual “Anything Goes” show! ✨ You won’t want to miss it! Doors: 8 PM · Show: 9 PM $15 · 21+
We’re cranking the volume way up on live music and local creativity because it’s 218 Days in Minnesota, our annual, shared celebration of what makes the 218 area code bold, vibrant, and one-of-a-kind. All week long, businesses, artists, and makers across the region are showing up for our local roots and small businesses. This Saturday night, we cap it off right. Come gather with your people and celebrate live, local sound, great food, and community vibes. Cosmic Stage ~ Ian Hopp’s One-Night-Only Extra Saucy Funk Band | 7–9 PM ~ A funky, one-off local project loaded with extra special sauce. Good to Know ~ Food Partner — Bowlz N Thangz serving Midwest Comfy Goodness ~ All Ages ~ No Cover 218 Days Deals ~ Say “218 Days Deal” for $1 off any beverage ~ Buy 2 packs of Bent Paddle Hemp-Derived THC Gummies, get 1 FREE
In 1977, aboard the Voyager space probe, humans sent a message of hope and good will into space for whoever might find it… a golden record album containing music from across the globe. Now, in 2025, composer/arranger Russ Kaplan has taken this “global mixtape” as inspiration for a unique concert that highlights our shared humanity. With an 8-piece ensemble comprised of only the most universal instruments — voices and percussion — Kaplan and his musicians present stirring and innovative new arrangements of highlights from the Golden Record, as well as original pieces created with multicultural collaborators. From China to the Republic of the Congo, from Bach to Chuck Berry, “Music From Earth” is a truly optimistic and international musical experience. No Cover | All Ages | Family-Friendly Russ Kaplan is a fiscal year 2025 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made…
Creation Spirituality — A spiritual tradition that reconnects all the dots of everyday life in this generous, creative Universe. Creation Spirituality, with its emphasis on Original Blessing and the four paths of the Via Positiva, Via Negativa, Via Creativa and Via Transformativa, celebrates joy and our sensory/sensual experiences; honors grief, silence and darkness; awakens / acknowledges our creativity and inner artist; and calls us to social and ecological justice. CS provides a vocabulary for naming and framing our lives, and views our spiritual and earthly experiences as one, not as the “sacred and profane.” Drawing inspiration from the mystical traditions of world religions, wisdom of Indigenous peoples, insights from science and cosmology, and the real world experiences of all human and non-human beings, Creation Spirituality invites back into harmony all that has been alienated by dualistic, patriarchal religions and human institutions. Richie Townsend is a musician, tai chi / qigong…