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SUMMARY:Louis Michot
DESCRIPTION:Louisiana’s Louis Michot is coming for Big River Theatre! His impressive bio is worth a read. \nFriday\, March 6 • 7pm \nTickets:\nAdult: $17/$20\nYouth 11-17: 1/2 price\nKids 10&under ALWAYS FREE \n  \nMeet Louis: \nLouis Michot \nLouis Michot is best known as the fiddle player and lead singer for the Lost Bayou Ramblers\, but his passions for Louisiana French\, local folklore\, and sustainability in the fastest-disappearing landmass in the world are what fuel his career as a musician. With two Grammy Awards\, six film scores and over 20 LPs under his belt\, his music career continues to push the boundaries of Louisiana French music traditions. \nIn 2025\, Louis embarks on his first major solo tours\, supporting the release of SEAUXLEAUX\, an audio and video album recorded at Dockside Studio by Tony Daigle. The recordingrepresents Louis’ live solo shows\, a dynamic performance featuring guitar\, fiddle\, voice and an effected-samples stomp box\, with a collection of songs that tell his stories and those of the Louisiana French experience. The SEAUXLEAUX tour will visit both U.S. coasts\, along with shows in the South beyond his artistic home of New Orleans\, with 30 dates across the U.S. and Canada\, scheduled between tours with the Lost Bayou Ramblers and Louis Michot & SWAMP MAGIC\, as well as collaborations with Leyla McCalla and other Louisiana artists. \nIn 2024\, the Lost Bayou Ramblers kicked off the year with their second Grammy win for Live: Orpheum Theater NOLA\, a collaboration with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Louis also received six nominations in New Orleans’s Best of the Beat Awards\, including Artist of the Year\, Album of the Year\, and Song of the Year for “Boscoyo Fleaux. \n” He rang in the Mardi Gras season as king of the Krewe of Joan of Arc\, then entered his second year performing with Louis Michot & SWAMP MAGIC\, a four-piece band featuring Michot on fiddle\, accordion\, guitar\, and vocals; Evan Ceaser on drums; the Ramblers’ Jonny Campos on pedal steel; and Bryan Webre on bass\, synths\, and samples. Rêve du Troubadour\, Michot’s solo debut\, released in 2023\, includes special guests: Nigerien Tuareg guitarist Bombino and critically acclaimed singer and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla. He began work on the album by tracking original songs in his dry-docked houseboat\, Sister Ray\, during lockdown. Recording was completed at Mark Bingham’s Piety Studio\, engineered and mixed by the Ramblers’ Kirkland Middleton. In 2021\, Michot faced the unique challenge of trying to perform live during a pandemic\, while also leading hurricane-relief efforts (covered in a Rolling Stone article\, “Can This Cajun-Punk Musician Protect His Culture From Climate Change?”) and raised funds to provide solar panels and generators to homes in rural Louisiana after Hurricane Ida (covered in The New Yorker’s “The Lost Bayou Ramblers Get Lit”). \nLouis was named Louisianian of the Year in 2020\, alongside his brother\, Andre. The previous year\, the Lost Bayou Ramblers celebrated their 20th anniversary with a live album and documentary DVD release\, Asteur/On Va Continuer. The documentary aired around the world on the Francophone television network TV5Monde. This followed their first Grammy win\, for 2017’s Kalenda. A few years earlier\, Louis’s singing and playing were featured in the score for the Oscar-nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild. \nListen here: https://youtu.be/r6sJFl2-yvA?si=LFdthwzQ2Fqi5M-i
URL:https://www.almatheater.com/event/louis-michot/
LOCATION:Big River Theatre\, Big River Theatre\, 121 S. Main Street\, Alma\, WI\, 54610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sleeping Jesus
DESCRIPTION:Sleeping Jesus is coming to Big River Theatre! Friday\, March 20th at 7pm. Get your friends and come on down!! \nMeet the band: \nSleeping Jesus is a Rock and Roll band started by Nick Elstad in Winona\, MN. The now five-piece Minneapolis band\, featuring Tyler Steinley\, Andy Bauer\, Seamus St. Clair\, and Dante DeGrazia\, just released their new album\, Hollywood Smile\, which peaked at #22 on the NACC top 200. Hollywood Smile sees the band ditching the hazy dream pop stylings of their debut album and dipping their toes into the waters of Rock and Roll and Americana for the very first time. After celebrating the release at First Avenue’s 7th St Entry\, the band will be touring and playing festivals throughout 2024. \nListen Here:
URL:https://www.almatheater.com/event/sleeping-jesus-2/
LOCATION:Big River Theatre\, Big River Theatre\, 121 S. Main Street\, Alma\, WI\, 54610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dirk Quinn Band
DESCRIPTION:The Dirk Quinn Band joins us Saturday\, April 18th at 7pm! \nTickets: \nAdult:$17 advance/$20 day of show\nYouth 11-17: 1/2 price\nKids 10&under ALWAYS FREE \n  \nMeet the band: \nThe American band The Dirk Quinn Band\, from Philadelphia\, is a dynamic group that specializes at jazz and jazz fusion. With their distinctive fusion of sophisticated melodies\, throbbing rhythms\, and improvisational skill\, this quintet of gifted musicians has mesmerized audiences. \nThe Dirk Quinn Band\, who take their cues from jazz greats like Miles Davis and John Coltrane\, give their music a contemporary touch by adding elements of funk\, rock\, and soul. Masterful solos\, syncopated grooves\, and fluid transitions that keep the audience on the edge of their seats characterize their explosive performances. \nThe Dirk Quinn Band produces a sound environment that is both intriguing and invigorating because to their superb musicianship and close-knit chemistry. Audiences are taken by their music to a place where barriers are broken and the jazz spirit is alive and well. These talented musicians play with such passion and heart that every note they play evokes a variety of emotions\, from joy and excitement to meditation and contemplation. \nThe Dirk Quinn Band stands out as a major force in the world of jazz and jazz fusion. Their cutting-edge and alluring sound pushes the limits of the genre and leaves a lasting effect on everyone who has the pleasure of listening to it. The Dirk Quinn Band is the band to turn to if you’re in the mood for a musical journey that will excite your senses and leave you wanting more.
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SUMMARY:Mike Munson Trio
DESCRIPTION:Mike Munson joins us the weekend of the 100-mile garage sale! Fit to be a party. \nSaturday\, May 2nd • 7pm \nTickets: \nAdult: $17 advance/$20 day of show\nYouth 11-17: 1/2 price\nKids 10&under ALWAYS FREE \nThe Mike Munson Trio elevates and enhances Mike’s rich catalog of songs that feature his adept slide guitar playing and a reverence for tradition. He is joined by the powerful rhythm section comprised of Nick Salisbury on bass and Lars-Erik Larson on drums. Each member brings years of experience and an inclination for improvisation to the stage. Together they explore new territory\, creating a sound that dances between early American rock and roll\, gritty blues and modern jazz.
URL:https://www.almatheater.com/event/mike-munson-trio/
LOCATION:Big River Theatre\, Big River Theatre\, 121 S. Main Street\, Alma\, WI\, 54610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kray Van Kirk
DESCRIPTION:Join us after your day at Fire in the Shire for the lovely voice and lyrically driven Kray van Kirk!\n\nSaturday\, June 6 • 7pm\nTickets:\nAdults: $15/$18\nYouth 11-17: 1/2 price\nKids 10&under ALWAYS FREE\n\nFolk Americana with Celtic roots\, aimed at new stories and new myths for the 21st century so that absolutely everyone\, of all identities and histories\, can know they have a verse in the shouted poetry of dawn. \n—————————————————————————————————————————–\n\n\nThe room was almost empty after Van Kirk’s show at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh\, Scotland. A man with shirt-sleeves rolled up in the August heat walked over to him and stood hesitantly for a moment before thrusting out his hand. \n“I use to sing for my wife in the evenings\, but she has dementia now and doesn’t remember me. That song about the lost lovers and the dance hall…” \nHe stopped for a moment before his Scottish reserve reasserted itself. \n“I really liked that one.” \nA fine finger-style guitarist with a precise baritone\, Kray Van Kirk has a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska\, but he set science aside to write songs\, tell stories and summon heroes. \n“We are driven by myth and the seasons of the heart\,” he says\, “and the stories are all true. There is a dark cave inside each of us\, and monsters of all kinds lurk there\, all the more lethal for being hidden. The quest is to journey inside\, render the monsters powerless\, find whatever it is that burns at the core of your soul and bring it back into the light. In a world divided it is critical to write songs and tell stories that show absolutely everyone they get to be the hero. Nobody is left behind.” \nThus his songs: Thunderbird resurrects the Phoenix in an empty desert diner in the American Southwest (yes\, the Phoenix drives a Thunderbird)\, The Queen of Elfland plucks Thomas the Rhymer from the English-Scottish border in 1250 and drops him and the Queen into a subway car\, The Library Song has Superman moonlighting among the stacks\, Rosa and Hector ride through Sherwood Forest on canes and a wheelchair\, and The Midnight Commander celebrates an insane old man leading the city of New York to take up arms (and underwear) against hatred. \nOf this charming\, Quixotic\, and decidedly eclectic performer\, the Borderline Folk Club in New York wrote “it is what every singer-songwriter should aspire to. \n\n\n\nLIVE CONCERT VIDEO FROM CAFFE LENA w/ Joe Jencks:\nhttps://krayvankirk.com/video\nhttps://krayvankirk.com/video_2\n\nLast release was a live concert CD\, Kray Van Kirk – Live at the Acorn.  Selected as Album of the Month by Transatlantic Conversations on CelticMusicRadio.net – krayvankirk.com/acorn\n\nI’ve a number of shows in MN and WI this coming April\, but nothing closer to you than Minneapolis\, which is a wee bit of a drive for you to come out. :-p\n\n Thanks so much!\n Kray Van Kirk\n\n“what every singer-songwriter should aspire to”\n Borderline Folk Club\, New York\n\n “An enviable body of songs.. an intelligent and gifted writer.”\n Bob Leslie\, Transatlantic Conversations\n CelticMusicRadio.net\n\n “The singer-songwriter\, in his Edinburgh debut\, was not the reason I arrived early but was certainly why I stayed late”\nDaily Fringe Review\, Edinburgh\, Scotland\n\n“Every time I play cuts off The Midnight Commander\, listeners ask ‘Who’s that?’ It’s Kray Van Kirk and there’s none like him.”\n Auntmama\n‘Sunday Folks’ DJ\, KBCS\n Seattle\, WA
URL:https://www.almatheater.com/event/kray-van-kirk/
LOCATION:Big River Theatre\, Big River Theatre\, 121 S. Main Street\, Alma\, WI\, 54610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Corey Medina & Brothers
DESCRIPTION:Corey Medina & Brothers join us June 27th at 7pm – this is a fun one!!\n\nCorey Medina & Brothers//Blues\nSaturday\, June 27 • 7pm\nTicket Cost:\nAdult: $20 advance/$25 day of show\nYouth 11-17: 1/2 price\nKids 10&under ALWAYS FREE\n\nMeet Corey & Bros:\nCorey Medina & Brothers (CMB) is a Native-led blues-rock band based in Bemidji\, Minnesota\, on Anishinaabe territory. The band was formed in 2015 by Diné (Navajo) singer-songwriter and guitarist Corey Medina. What started as a project rooted in brotherhood and trust has grown into a powerhouse four-piece known for raw emotion\, soulful grit\, and immersive live shows. Their performances move easily from tender storytelling to foot-stomping rock\, inviting audiences to sing\, sway\, and dance together.\n\nCMB’s mission is to uplift and empower people through meaningful music. Their sound carries both Indigenous roots and modern blues-rock energy\, creating a connection that resonates with audiences across cultures and geographies.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITFvPJQr9o0\n\n\ninstagram.com/cmsaltclanman777/\nfacebook.com/coreybluesfolks\nyoutube.com/@CoreyMedinaBros\nhttps://coreymedina.com/index.html
URL:https://www.almatheater.com/event/corey-medina-brothers/
LOCATION:Big River Theatre\, Big River Theatre\, 121 S. Main Street\, Alma\, WI\, 54610\, United States
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