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’tis the season…to be Trashy?  Well, heck yeah, if we’re talkin’ ’bout Minnesota’s favorite Honky Tonk band, Trailer Trash…especially if they’re playin’ in Northfield, down here where the oak savannah meets the hardwood forest, doin’ their ever-popular holiday show, with an opening set by Northfield’s own Bratlanders.  Would Ann North be shocked?  Nah, she’d be bangin’ out the boogie-woogie on that piano she had John drag across the iced-over Cannon River.

Thursday, December 15th: A Trashy Little Xmas, 6:00 p.m., Grand Event Center; High School and Middle School Orchestra Concert, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., Middle School Auditorium; Celtic Cat and Prairie Dog, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m., Contented Cow; Mark Mraz, 8:30 to 11:00 p.m., Tavern Lounge; Rice County Roosters, 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., Contented Cow; and D J Karaoke, 9:00 p.m., Froggy Bottoms. (more…)

St. Olaf College’s Christmas Festival is one of the oldest musical celebrations of Christmas in the United States.  Started in 1912 by St. Olaf Music Department founder F. Melius Christiansen, the Festival is celebrating 100 years of incredible music by student artists.  The shows are all sold out, but you can enjoy the tribute to the Christmas Festival at the Nortfield Historical Society, open Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

…and, as always, there’s a lot of other great live music available in Downtown Northfield, MN. (more…)

It seems more than a little Northfield-esque.  Little Women, set in a New England town, shaped in part by the political and economic forces of the Civil War, filled with abolitionists and transcendentalists, and peopled by educated women and heroic men.  Opening Friday night at the Arts Guild Theater.

Friday, November 4th: Occasional Jazz and Fang Tango, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., Contented Cow; Ben Aaron, 7:00 p.m. Hogan Brothers Cafe; West Side Story, 7:30 p.m., Northfield High School Auditorium; Little Women, 7:30 p.m., Northfield Arts Guild Theater; Agnes A Cappella, 7:30 p.m., Lion’s Pause on the St. Olaf College campus; Semaphore Fall Dance Concert, 7:30 p.m., Weitz Center on the Carleton College campus; Marty Anderson and the Goods, 8:00 to 11:30 p.m., Tavern Lounge; Stone Soup, 8:30 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., Contented Cow; Fox & Coyote, 9:00 to 11:00 p.m., 620 Grill; Karaoke, 9:00 p.m., Rueb’N'Stein; and Giraffes Love Dinosaurs, 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., 620 Grill. (more…)

Okeh, I admit it, I wanted to illustrate this post with a picture of J. S. Bach.  The Bach Society of Minnesota performs at Boe Memorial Chapel on the St. Olaf College campus this Sunday afternoon.  But you gotta admit, in this illustration, J. S. be jammin’…

Friday, October 28th: Opening Reception: Earth, Water, Fire, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Flatten Museum on the St. Olaf College campus; Talun, 7:30 p.m., Northfield Arts Guild; The Tempest, 7:30 p.m., Weitz Center Theater on the Carleton College campus; High School Choir and Orchestra Concert, 7:30 to 10:00 p.m., Middle School Auditorium, Carleton Symphony Band Concert, 8:00 to 9:30 p.m., Concert Hall on the Carleton College campus; Midnight Collision, 8:00 to 11:30 p.m., Tavern Lounge; 3 AM, 8:00 to 11:00 p.m., Contented Cow; and Karaoke, 9:00 p.m., Rueb’N'Stein. (more…)

There were several events competing for the top spot on my “Weekend Update” and Dean Kjerland won.  The Art of Mathematics in Wood – a special evening of mathematical puzzles, games, and art at ArtOnWater Gallery, this Friday evening.  This Northfield event is part of the international Celebration of Mind in honor of Martin Gardner, the renowned mathematical expositor and longtime author of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American.

Loren Larson, professor emeritus of mathematics at St. Olaf College, constructed many of these pieces while working with award-winning mathematics writer Barry Cipra.  Come play with the puzzles and join Loren and Barry for an evening of entertaining mathematics.  It’s free.  Light refreshments will be served. (more…)