Graphic: New Year's Eve Cancellation Notice. With COVID-19 numbers rising steeply in the United States, performing arts organizations everywhere are taking stock of how to end the year. In a spirit of caution, First Avenue in Minneapolis has rescheduled several end-of-year concerts:The Suburbs @ Palace Theatre (New Date: Saturday, February 12, 2022) The

Jazz pianist David Benoit, percussionist Dan Schnell, vocalist Courtney Fortune, and bassist Roberto Vally played the Dakota Jazz Club last night in Minneapolis, MN. Last night’s performance at The Dakota traces back to a television show from 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas. The music for that animated special – the first to

The Champagne Drops (Emily Dussault, left; Leslie Vincent, right) will make their debut on Crooners' Mainstage in Fridley, Minnesota on December 19. A dinner with family might make you feel clammily, but a concert a week makes you feel pretty chic.  Aphorisms and strained rhymes notwithstanding, Thanksgiving marks the formal start of

The JazzMN Orchestra will play its annual holiday concert at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres on December 13. Around the Twin Cities, households are stocking up on turkeys, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin, and other fall foods. Thanksgiving feasts are just around the corner, which by all predictions will bring many long-separated families back together.

Trumpeter Chris Botti and his all-star lineup played at the Dakota Jazz Club last night, with five more shows to come over the weekend. For those who are shy and introverted, the lockdown isolation of the early-stage COVID-19 Pandemic was tolerable, perhaps even welcome. But for someone like Chris Botti, who