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An Outdoor Urban Summer Concert Series
5th Anniversary Friday Night Concert - It’s been a pretty incredible 5 years and we are proud of our eclectic mix of program activities, concerts and community engagements, with ongoing artist and community/Patreon support. We are inviting EVERYONE to join us over (2) days for our outdoor celebration Under the Canopy with food, drink, music, dance and live performance art from an exciting mix of MN acts!
5th Anniversary Saturday Festival - It’s been a pretty incredible 5 years and we are proud of our eclectic mix of program activities, concerts and community engagements, with ongoing artist and community/Patreon support. We are inviting EVERYONE to join us over (2) days for our outdoor celebration Under the Canopy with food, drink, music, dance and live performance art from an exciting mix of MN acts!
Thelma and the Sleaze is an independent all-female, queer rock band from Nashville, Tennessee that has released two LPS, and numerous singles and EPs. Their music combines heavy rock ‘n’ roll and southern old school blues.
Performing Pink Floyd's albums 'Meddle' (50th Year Anniversary) & 'Animals' in their entirety, plus other Pink Floyd hits! Join us for a two set evening under the lights tribute to Pink Floyd!!
2021 ARF Autism Benefit Concert
The Autism Recovery Foundation (ARF) invites you to a special benefit concert honoring the 2021 Minnesota "Autism Heroes", the individuals, parents, and staff who worked tirelessly this year ...
The Hook & Ladder Theater is proud to present a very special concert and fundraising event to benefit local musician, artist and long-time Hook friend and volunteer - Joe Roberto, whom was recently diagnosed with a rare blood disease. Joe will require constant care throughout his recovery and many of Joe’s friends are coming together for this special evening of performances and silent auction in an effort to help raise money towards his care.
As Wreckless Eric he needs little introduction — he wrote and recorded the classic Whole Wide World and had a hit with it back in 1977. Since then it's been a hit for countless other artists including The Monkees, Cage The Elephant and most recently for Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.
The story goes that The Big Wu, bound for rock stardom, sold their souls for a case of Old Style beer one thirsty night long ago. The legend and the band live on. Still rocking their powerful, moving, and energizing original music for the fans. A jam band with a unique style and presence, the Wu combine strong, free flowing improv and vocal harmonies, with finely crafted songs for all tastes. Oh, and their fans are famously friendly.
Find dozens of tables of vinyl & and music related goodies at The Record Show Every Other First Saturday of the month at The Hook!
Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound are the latest in fresh venerable. Benefitting from years of unassuming and understated hipness, they bring forth a funky, lyrically charged racket that sits comfortably with soulful sounds the world over. Intricate but free-swinging, explosive yet intimate, fresh and green as grass.
Josie Cotton had a new wave hit with "Johnny, Are You Queer?" but there's more to this underrated singer/songwriter than her shock-value novelty hit.
The Mistress of Soul Returns. Joined by some of the Midwest’s most beloved musicians and hosted by South Minneapolis’s prestigious Hook & Ladder Theater. Saturday, October 9th of the year 2021 marks the awaited return of soul singer, songwriter, and working class diva Jaedyn James. It’s a night your heart will never forget. “This isn’t a show where you come just for your favorite act, this is an experience where you stay all night and make memories you will cherish forever.”
Outpost, Minnesota's 21st century variety-show featuring local musicians and spoken-word artists, is back at The Hook & Ladder with a blockbuster fall show featuring award-winning poet Michael Kleber-Diggs ("Worldly Things",) keyboardist/composer deVon R. Gray (dVRG), author Junauda Petrus-Nasah ("The Stars and the Blackness Between Them",) and a quartet of musicians from the Minnesota Orchestra.
Joseph’s 2021 solo release, Vegas Motel, is a highly personal record rooted in the emotion of the year it was written (2020), yet reaching far beyond the confines of the times. Vegas Motel delicately emotes Joseph’s real-life experiences and relationships dating back to when he was a young man. Co-producer and drummer, JT Bates (Big Red Machine, Hiss Golden Messenger), and Engineer Alex Proctor (Grace Potter, Dead Man Winter), perfectly compliment the records musical tapestry further solidifying Joseph’s talent as a singer/songwriter and collaborator. Vegas Motel features 8 original tracks including the standout instrumental, Early Riser, featuring Ryan Young of Trampled by Turtles.
A Benefit For The Sacred Oaks Memorial Garden featuring Bigfoot County (2 sets), Joe Barron Band, & Geoff Fischbein
Soulful songwriting with a nod to the past and a head in the clouds. Friend Dog is the creative project of Vinnie Donatelle, fiddle player and vocalist of The Last Revel, that seeks to expand on prior efforts and find some new things. Friend Dog explores balance, the fleeting, the unspoken and the hopeful. Sometimes it’s an exploration of simple things like birds and squirrels and breakfast. ‘Tending A Timid Flame’ is Donatelle’s first solo effort and will be available October 18th.
In 1996 Jon Snodgrass started recording songs with ALL singer Chad Price under the name Drag the River. Since then, he has continued putting out music with various bands, as a solo artist, and as a member of Scorpios.
Featuring games, a silent auction, raffles, and local musicians The Bored, Katy Vernon & Flying Train Wreck, all coming together for the cause, in the hopes of one day finding a cure for Mesothelioma.
Davina and The Vagabonds offer “a modern take on old-time blues and jazz” (PennLive). They’ve created a stir on the national music scene with their high-energy live shows, level A musicianship, sharp-dressed professionalism, and Davina’s commanding stage presence. With influences ranging from Fats Domino and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Aretha Franklin and Tom Waits, the band is converting audiences one show at a time.
Supersuckers are an American rock band, formed in 1988, whose music ranges from alternative rock to country rock to cowpunk. AllMusic describes the band as "the bastard sons of Foghat, AC/DC, and ZZ Top after being weaned on punk rock, unafraid of massive guitar riffs, outsized personalities, or pledging allegiance to sex, weed, and Satan with a wink and a nudge."
Steely Dead is a musical hybrid of the Grateful Dead and Steely Dan. Sonic worlds collide, between the structure, arrangement and precision studio recordings of rock legends Steely Dan, cross-pollinated with the Grateful Dead’s free-flowing, melodic improvisation and masterful song segues
Agent Orange - The original surf punk power trio returns to Minneapolis. Plus a rare appearance from "the wild women of rock and roll", The Toxenes! Vinyl records before the show and between sets by America's most dangerous DJ duo: DJ Rock The Monkey
The Hook and Ladder Theater presents a wide variety of ticketed events with the very lowest ticketing fees in the Twin Cities.
Twin Cities rock legends Flamin’ Oh’s return to The Hook & Ladder Theater for another night of fun along with a full band performance by Monica LaPlante.
This unique event features a live Muskellunge reunion (Original Line-up) and record release show (for In a Mess, In a State, and a Second Too Late album, circa. 1991-'93 mastered and being released for first time) at The Hook & Ladder with The Hang-Ups headlining and The Go-Karts supporting.
Twin Tribes are a darkwave post-punk band from Brownsville, Texas. They formed the band in the summer of 2017 and released their debut album Shadows in January 2018.
Find dozens of tables of vinyl & and music related goodies at The Record Show Every Other First Saturday of the month at The Hook!
An intimate performance space nestled inside the Firehouse Performing Arts Center
Live Streaming Concert Fundraisers for Minnesota Artists & The Hook & Ladder Theater!
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