Dan Preston $5 at the door 7:30 Friday March 15th at BoDiddley’s Dan Preston has been playing around St. Cloud for three decades in just about every format imaginable: rock bands (notably the Preston & Paulzine Band), duos, and the folky-country-swingy floating duo/trio/quartet called The Acoustic Project. His songbag is bottomless, or at least too capacious
Ordinary Folk $5 at door Fri. March 8th 2013 7:30pm at BoDiddley’s Downtown St. Cloud Ordinary Folk performs traditional music of America and the British Isles on a variety of Old Time stringed instruments. Members Dave Rogers, Gary Jorgensen and Phyllis Jorgensen can be found at St Joe Farmer’s Market, various Avon Area Arts events,
Tim Fast $5 at door Fri. March 1st 2013 7:30pm at BoDiddley’s Downtown St. Cloud Tim Fast could be a character in one of the gems-of-a-song he writes and sings. He’s a dust-covered man who has traveled the roads in search of whatever song is over the next rise. That sense of adventure has given
Anthoni Morrow $5 7:30 Friday Feb. 22nd at Bo Diddley’s Anthoni Morrow is a young, independent musician who writes music in an indie-alternative style. He is driven to reflect his thoughts for people to understand through music. He loves exploring the easy-to-hum, simplistic styles of musical composition, but also enjoys expanding that style. His musical
Bill Staines $18 Wed. February 20th 2013 7:30pm at Bo Diddley’s Downtown St. Cloud Bill Staines is a folk circuit perennial, with a resume that stretches from the legendary Club 47 hootenannies of the Sixties to Prairie Home Companion and includes nearly a half-century of singing, songwriting, and recording (more than two dozen albums). His peers pay him
Charlie Parr SOLD OUT $10 Friday February 15th 7:30pm at Bo Diddley’s Downtown St. Cloud Charlie Parr was raised in Austin, Minnesota and lives in Duluth, but he draws his musical inspiration from farther south and west: from Mance Lipscomb, Charley Patton, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Bukka White, Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, and Dock Boggs, among others.
Cathie English $5 7:30 Friday February 8th Bo Diddley’s Downtown St. Cloud, MN Cathie is a Central Minnesota folk singer/songwriter whose fingerstyle guitar playing artfully frames and propels her nuanced and expressive voice. She can be found playing her originals as well as other music at venues in the St. Cloud , Northern Minnesota, the
The Barley Jacks with Brian Wicklunds $16 Friday February 1st 2013 7:30pm at Bo Diddley’s Downtown St. Cloud Fiddler Brian Wicklund fronts this quartet of “musicians’ musicians”–Joe Cruz, guitar; Kevin Rowe, bass; and Joel Arpin, percussion. Their collective background includes bluegrass, blues, Celtic, jazz, and Latin, so expect a big-tent take on roots music. “A big, powerful acoustic
Lonnie Knight $10 Friday January 25th 7:30pm at Bo Diddley’s Downtown St. Cloud Photos from night of concert http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.455084727890878.102749.148320535233967&type=1 Lonnie Knight has been part of the Minnesota music scene since the Surfin’ Bird first flew our skies: Multiple Minnesota Music Awards winner; member of Jokers Wild and the Hoopsnakes (among other bands); session player and record producer; singer-songwriter. Tonight,
The Gackle Trucker Band (Featuring Jake Braking) $5 Fri Jan 18th 2013 at Bo Diddley’s St. Cloud A band with a name like that should be allowed to speak for itself: “Virgil Trucker (Doug Millaway) and Cleveland Gackle (Greg Sanders) have been writing and singing together for twenty years or so. Recently they have been joined on occasion
