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Right Brain?
An Outdoor Urban Summer Concert Series
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
Welcome to Mischievous Underworld! An OUTDOOR All Hallows’ Eve celebration that you won’t soon forget. Shannon Blowtorch will be weaving musical spells on the turntables while MplsAdonia will be your supernatural chaperone for the evening. The night will be filled with salacious delights featuring: an otherworldly DJ set by Charity Purple Queen, devilish burlesque acts by Nadi A’marena & Queenie von Curves, and divine readings by Akaytra ~Lemtutu.
"Off The Hook" Halloween Festival features performances by Venus DeMars & All The Pretty Horses, Big Salt, Red Eye Ruby, Mad Mojo Jett, Papersleeves DJ
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.
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.
Chris Castino is currently touring with Chicken Wire Empire THIS Fall of 2021 with a stop at The Hook and Ladder Theater on Thursday November 4!
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.
Jill Sobule, the award-winning singer-songwriter whose 1990s hits include "Supermodel" and the original "I Kissed a Girl," returns to the Twin Cities.
Sound Unseen Presents: "I Really Get Into It" Official Film Screening After-Party with Live Performances by Low Rats, Lot Lizard, James Eugene Russell
Sound Unseen Presents: Witness Underground Official Film Screening After Party with Live Performances by HighTV, Ryan Sutter + special guests
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.
The Scarlet Goodbye is a musical adventure, spawned out of the chance meeting of two Minnesota Music veterans who come from different sides of the street. Daniel Murphy and Jeff Arundel may seem like an unlikely mash-up, but they weave their pasts together in an intoxicating (and at times intoxicated) mix that recalls Big Star and The Hollies… musical, melodic, loud, soft… and above all, emotive.
THANKS! ~ A Celebration of Rock, Hip-Hop, & Electronic Music featuring Smokin' Joe, DJ Elsewhere, Brandon Pulphus, Earth to Clark, MC Animosity
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.
An intimate performance space nestled inside the Firehouse Performing Arts Center
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.
Sound Unseen Presents: "Ugly Pop" a documentary about Skating Polly - Official Film Screening After Party with Live Performances by Black Widows and Honey Dick
Live Streaming Concert Fundraisers for Minnesota Artists & The Hook & Ladder Theater!
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