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Save the weekend for the Twin Cities Jazz Festival
Each year in June, Steve Heckler, the founding executive director of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, turns “Jazz is dead” into “If you play it, they will come.”
Pamela Espeland
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Northern Spark this weekend; ‘Dry Powder’ is wicked fun
ALSO: The inaugural Bach Roots Festival starts June 16 and continues through June 24 with concerts in breweries, a Vespers service, and two performances of the B Minor Mass.
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‘Cosi’ to be last opera in Mill City Museum’s Ruin Courtyard; Haunted Basement heading to Rosedale
ALSO: Dominick Argento Memorial Concert coming up at Ted Mann; Juneteenth at Bethune Park; and more.
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A big boost for SpringBOX; Stone Arch Bridge Festival is coming up
ALSO: Kathleen Spehar to leave the O’Shaughnessy; Vänskä Conducts Mahler’s Tenth in Minnesota Orchestra’s season finale; and more.
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New artistic director at Theater Mu; Zenon Dance’s final performances
ALSO: Maceo Parker at the Dakota; Lowertown Sounds at Mears Park; and more.
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Behind the scenes of the 2019 Minnesota State Fair commemorative art
R.J. Kern, whose art was unveiled Thursday at a special event on the fairgrounds, is the first photographer to be chosen as the fair’s official commemorative artist.
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‘To Let Go and Fall’ is a love story across ages; ‘Remembering Rondo’ at the Weisman
ALSO: The 25th Annual Stone Arch Bridge Festival is this weekend; Acoustic Deathwish at Vieux Carré; and more.
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Minnesota Humanities Center has new CEO; Aizuri Quartet returns to Sundin Hall
ALSO: ‘All Is Calm’ wins Drama Desk Award; Schubert Club announces new composer-in-residence; and more.
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St. Paul music club Vieux Carré to close; ‘Magnificent Desolation’ sci-fi series at the Trylon
ALSO: Flying Foot Forum’s “Heaven” to open at Park Square; Print Matters 2019 at Hook and Ladder; and more.
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‘Blood Knot’ is powerful theater; Rex Reed (yes, that Rex Reed) at Crooners
ALSO: The 50th Annual St. Anthony Park Arts Festival; Open Streets Lyndale in south Minneapolis; and more.