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SUMMARY:Pistol Whippin' Party Penguins
DESCRIPTION:It’s time for a party!! Just in time for the 100-mile garage sale\, the Pistol Whippin’ Party Penguins are coming for a good ol’time.  \nFriday\, May 2nd\nDoors: 6:30pm\nShow: 7pm\nTickets: $15 advance/$20 day of show \nMeet the PPWP:\nStraight from the great Mill City comes the Pistol Whippin Party Penguins. Don’t let the name fool you! This is not a violent group of flightless aquatic birds looking for a party\, but rather 6 self proclaimed gentlemen\, 2 guitars\, a mandolin\, a bucket of fiddles\, bass\, wheatstick drums\, and a 4 part vocal harmony that will make a grown man cry. As they celebrate their 4th studio album\, this group from Minneapolis strives to maintain the original spirit of traditional american music while continuing to play new original music and creative cover songs. The combination of folk\, rock\, blues\, bluegrass\, and the occasional stage banter will create an experience that anyone can enjoy!
URL:https://www.almatheater.com/event/pistol-whippin-party-penguins/
LOCATION:Big River Theatre\, Big River Theatre\, 121 S. Main Street\, Alma\, WI\, 54610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dean Magraw & BluLuna Live Recording
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a LIVE recording of BluLuna\, made up of Minneapolis legends Dean Magraw\, Rick Carlson\, Steve Pikal\, and Jay Epstein right here at Big River Theatre Friday May 9th at 7pm! \n  \nDoors: 6:30pm \nShow: 7:00pm \nTickets: $15 advance/$20 day of show \n  \n\nDean Magraw: guitar\nRick Carlson: piano\nSteve Pikal: bass\nJay Epstein: drums\n\n\n\n\n     BluLuna was formed by four veteran musicians out of their love for myriad genres of the jazz idiom without restraining themselves to one specific branch of the music. By focusing on familiar melodic compositions\, this bias-free approach has allowed them to concentrate on playing very fresh and sparkling ideas honoring the wide range of America’s 1st original sonic art. The result is a startlingly warm delivery of a strong yet hyper-sensitive mélange of enchanting moments.\n\n     Dean Magraw studied at the University of Minnesota and Berklee College of Music in Boston. He spent five years in Beantown\, playing professionally and teaching. After returning to his hometown St. Paul\, he’s had a life of music – playing\, composing\, arranging\, producing\, & recording. Magraw’s music is impossible to pigeonhole. For 15 years\, he was half of a duo with mandolinist Peter Ostroushko. He has collaborated with Masahiro Nitta\, who plays the traditional Japanese shamisen; with Nigel Kennedy\, Britain’s bad boy of the classical violin; with Nirmala Rajasekar\, South Indian vocalist and player of the vina; with the singers Bruce Henry\, Ruth MacKenzie\, and Claudia Schmidt; with the Irish supergroup Altan. As a jazz cat\, he leads his own trio\, performs with Chris Bates & Jay Epstein as Red Planet since 2002\, and more recently has formed BluLuna.\n\n     Rick Carlson has been the pianist for the Wolverines Big Band since 1980. He has performed on concert stages from London to New York City\, and has appeared with Count Basie drummer Butch Miles\, horn stars Warren Vaché\, Delfeayo Marsalis\, Evan Christopher and Wycliffe Gordon. His credits as musical director\, arranger and pianist include the Guthrie Theater presentation of “Coward’s Women”\, the Capri Theater “Legends Series” and in various concert and cabaret presentations internationally. He once opened for Rosemary Clooney\, has accompanied Kathryn Crosby in cabaret shows\, and counts Madeleine Peyroux among his many unwitting fans.\n\n     Steve Pikal is highly regarded as a first call bass player from the Minnesota jazz scene. He has had the pleasure of backing shows with legendary performers such as Cab Calloway\, Bob Hope\, and Margaret Whiting. Some of his additional playing credits include the Jim Cullum Jazz band\, Butch Miles\, Artie Shaw Orchestra\, the Barbary Coast Dixieland Show band\, Dick Hyman\, Delfeayo Marsalis\, Jon Weber\, Danny Coots\, Brian Holland\, the Wolverines Big band\, Butch Thompson\, Hal Smith\, John Cocuzzi\, Jeff Barnhart\, The Midiri Brothers\, and the Bill Evans New Orleans Jazz band.\n\n     Jazz drummer Jay Epstein has an extensive career as a performer\, recording and touring artist. He’s been on seven European tours with pianists Bill Carrothers & Giacomo Aula. Some of the notable artists he has performed with include the rock band Gypsy\, and jazz artists Barney Kessel\, Richie Cole\, Manfredo Fest\, Sheila Jordan\, Karrin Allyson\, Kenny Werner\, Howard Levy\, Toots Thielemans\, Bob Dorough and Sarah Vaughan. His CDs featuring bassist Anthony Cox and pianist Bill Carrothers\, have garnered luminous reviews in the international press. Current bands include Red Planet\, Framework\, StableMates\, Firebell\, Gypsy Mania\, and BluLuna.\n\n     “I can only imagine that the Billy Strayhorns and Matt Dennis’s of songwriter world would consider it a good day when these gentleman bring their paper to life. “BluLuna”. Find them and see them.” 🎶 – Judi Vinar.\n\n\n\n     “With four of our favorite musicians comprising BluLuna\, we were prepared for a great night of improv. They even exceeded our expectations\, as was evidenced by the great audience response!” – Mike Wolsted.\n\n     “Dean Magraw’s music transcends\, transports and lifts the soul to a higher level as he weaves\, cajoles\, and entices every note from his instrument . . . at one with one’s art” –Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
URL:https://www.almatheater.com/event/dean-magraw/
LOCATION:Big River Theatre\, Big River Theatre\, 121 S. Main Street\, Alma\, WI\, 54610\, United States
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SUMMARY:World Migratory Bird Day: Winged Migration
DESCRIPTION:WORLD MIGRATORY BIRD DAY is May 10th\, 2025!\n\nThis year we are partnering with Wings Over Alma to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day. We will be showing the 2001 French film\, Winged Migration!\n\nSaturday\, May 10 • 7pm\nFREE admission\nDonations highly cherished\n\nFull day lineup:\n\n1:00 Wings of Change: Protecting Pollinators for the Future presented by Dr. Danielle Vogler-Bos\, ND @ Wings Over Alma (WOA) \n2:00 Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project update\, provided by by Ben Campbell\, Environmental Biologist with Dairyland Power @ WOA \n3:00 Wings Over Alma sponsored Amateur Photography show\, featuring wildlife\, birds\, landscapes and pollinators. Enjoy a snack! \nDoor prize drawing! @ WOA \n4:00 Chimney Swift news from Grant Schuth @ WOA \n5:00 Live Raptor demonstration from River Valley Raptors @ WOA \n7:00 Big River Theater presents\, “Winged Migration” film @ Big River Theatre
URL:https://www.almatheater.com/event/world-migratory-bird-day-winged-migration/
LOCATION:Big River Theatre\, Big River Theatre\, 121 S. Main Street\, Alma\, WI\, 54610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Monthly Mindful Drumming
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a relaxing and meditative drum circle\, hosted by Alma’s Cheri Bunker. No experience needed. Every third Thursday of the month. All are welcome! \n$10 entry.
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SUMMARY:Sofia Talvik
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of music by Sofia Talvik Wednesday\, May 21st at 7pm! We are excited to welcome her BACK after her show was canceled in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. \n\nDoors: 6:30pm \nShow: 7pm \n$17 advance/$20 day of show \n\nMeet Sofia: \nSofia Talvik – Americana / Folk with Swedish Roots \nSofia Talvik is a rare artist and an avid storyteller with a voice comparable to giants like Joni Mitchell\, or as the Folk/Americana Magazine NoDepression said it ”A singer/songwriter who is able to evoke the essence of Laurel Canyon circa the ‘60s as expressed in the work of Joni Mitchell\, Judy Collins\, Buffy Sainte-Marie and others who were able to paint beautiful tapestries from words and music.”. \nPrepare yourself for a unique and intimate evening\, not unlike the 70’s coffeehouses and speakeasy’s. You will be up close and personal with a world class act that has played big festivals like Lollapalooza and SxSW and opened for artists like Maria McKee and David Duchovny (X-files\, Californication). It is in this kind of setting where she can casually joke and communicate with the audience that her strength as a performer shines the most. \nHer delicate songs are performed in an intimate way\, showing off Sofia’s angelic voice enhanced only by a tasteful mix of harmonies and delays\, accompanied by the steady picking of her acoustic guitar and the rhythm section consisting of her own two feet\, bells and a stomp box.\nShe’s an experienced international touring artist who has toured through 48 U.S states\, many of the countries in Europe and far away places like New Zealand. \nHer latest album “Center of the Universe” was released in 2023. Throughout the 10 songs on the album\, there is a broad range of topics of some of life’s most earnest moments\, ranging from the Ukraine War\, American women’s rights\, the thousands of missing children in the US and the torment of domestic violence survivors across the world. The album went straight into top 20 on the Folk Radio Charts USA in August 2023\, with the first single charting in the top 10. The album was considered for a Grammy nomination for “Best Folk album” 2023. \n”Swedish folk singer\, songwriter\, and guitarist Sofia Talvik has been making fine albums for many years now\, but this self-produced latest entry may be her best to date. Her angelic vocals\, which sound redolent of early Marianne Faithfull\, remain a major asset\, as are her original songs\, which combine lilting melodies with frequently profound lyrics. Too few artists today offer protest material\, but Talvik seems to have picked up the mantle from singer/songwriters like Joan Baez\, Buffy Sainte-Marie\, and Pete Seeger.” – Americana Highways \n“The roots music Talvik develops is of a similar tapestry to Joni Mitchell\, tapping into that same knack for soul-stirring clarity and resonance. Between\, however\, is something of a different nature. Open-air production sets the scene for an evocative and atmospheric release from the Swedish folk artist\, coming in the form of an upcoming album\, Paws of a Bear.” – PopMatters
URL:https://www.almatheater.com/event/sofia-talvik/
LOCATION:Big River Theatre\, Big River Theatre\, 121 S. Main Street\, Alma\, WI\, 54610\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Brothers Burn Mountain
DESCRIPTION:Duluth’s Brothers The Burn Mountain joins us at Big River Theatre Thursday\, May 29th for an incredible\, one of a kind performance! \n  \nThursday\, May 29 • 7pm \nTickets: $15 advance/$18 day of show \nIndie-Rock//Experimental \nMeet Brothers Burn Mountain: \nThey may be a blur of motion when they perform live\, but on their new release\, “When You Crave a Sweetness\,” The Brothers Burn Mountain show that they’re also inventive songwriters whose musical panorama extends beyond simple\, athletic energy. \nRecorded [in part] at Sparta Sound Studios in Sparta\, Minn.\, with Rich Mattson at the helm\, the new disc shows it’s impossible to pin this duo – brothers Jesse and Ryan Dermody – down to any definitive sound or style\, as they simply career from track to track with the abandon of a rabid dog in a vigorous mash-up of sensibilities. \nEven the word eclectic comes up short describing the brothers Dermody. \nUnlike most discs\, “When You Crave a Sweetness” seems divided like those big\, black round plastic things of days gone by\, into an A-side and a B-side. \nSide A has the more sensitive tunes with verse-chorus structure and a lighter vibe\, while side B sounds like Honeyboy Edwards\, Howlin’ Wolf\, Jimmy Page and Jack White thrown into a high-speed blender that elicits a blues-based brew that explodes like a nail-filled pipe bomb. \nSide A includes “My Crazy Daisy\,” which mingles jug-stompin’ old piedmont blues with laconic 1960’s pop harmonies\, hand-clappin’ and sticks on the drum shell clackin’ into a hazy daydream about Daisy\, “my fine wine; my drink in the park by the trees. \nLittle Song Bird” has a sonic juju intro that would do Robert Quine of Richard Hell and the Voidoids proud\, in a falsetto extravaganza that paints a portrait of a feathered creature fluttering on the window sill and Aquarius rising. \n“The Banging” bubbles up like something from The Band\, circa 1972. I almost can hear Levon Helm and Rick Danko harmonizing on this one. \nSide B features “A Study of the Thieves\,” a blast-furnace blues that owes more to Robert Johnson\, via Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown than anything more recent. \n“Sharpen My Knife on the Edge of My Mind” has a ka-thunka rhythm that sounds like a Ford Pinto with a flat tire going down the road at slow speed. Austin bluesmen actually call it a “flat-tire shuffle” or a backward shuffle. \n“Tickin’ Time Bomb” has the insistent driving feel of Muddy’s “Two Trains Runnin'” that Roy Alstad arranged years ago\, and intones time slippin’ through my hands. \nThat The Brothers Burn Mountain have energy is without debate. \nWhat “When You Crave a Sweetness” brings to light is that they’re talented musicians whose palette of aural shades and hues is so varied that they really are unclassifiable.” – John Ziegler\, The Duluth News Tribune \n  \nVideo Links: \n• “I Won’t Wait For a Ride” \n• “When We Play Music” \n• “Dishonest” \n 
URL:https://www.almatheater.com/event/brothers-burn-mountain-ticket-link-coming-soon/
LOCATION:Big River Theatre\, Big River Theatre\, 121 S. Main Street\, Alma\, WI\, 54610\, United States
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