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Patio Nights: June - August, 2008

MMAA Patio Nights

Every Thursday June – August 2008
7pm - All Ages
$7 / $5 for MMAA Members

June and August Monthly Pass - $24
July Monthly Pass - $30

St. Paul, MN– The Minnesota Museum of American Art (MMAA) is proud to announce the 2008 season of our annual summer concert series, Patio Nights. All information will be released to the public on our website May 5. Tickets will be available on our website, in the gallery and by calling 651-266-1030 during normal gallery hours. In addition to individual concert tickets, the MMAA will have monthly passes available. Quantities are limited to 100 monthly passes per month and 100 individual tickets per show.

Sponsoring the series this year is Radio K, KFAI, The Onion and Great Waters Brewery.

Awesome Snakes - The Talkers – The Vignettes 6/5/2008
Davina and the Vagabonds - Spaghetti Western String Co. 6/12/2008
Best Friends Forever - Switzerlind 6/19/2008
STNNNG - His Mischief 6/26/2008
The Battle Royale - We All Have Hooks For Hands 7/3/2008
Gospel Gossip - First Communion Afterparty 7/10/2008
Mark Mallman - Down and Above 7/17/2008
Kid Dakota - Story of The Sea 7/24/2008
Off With Their Heads - The Deaf 7/31/2008
Dance Band - Mel Gibson and the Pants 8/7/2008
Vampire Hands - MC/VL 8/14/2008
Storyhill - Mighty Fairly 8/21/2008
One For The Team - Now, Now Every Children 8/28/2008

To celebrate this years announcement watch this video of Hockey Night @ A Patio night on July 27, 2006

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Toby Keith is getting ready for his upcoming Biggest & Baddest Tour and has added some more stops to the current itenary.  Stops have been added in Stateline, NV; Mansfield, MA; Holmdel, NJ; and Syracuse, NY.  So if you are in those areas, get your tickets today!

Montgomery Genry has also been added to the tour to go along with Carter’s Chord, Mica Roberts and Trailer Choir.  It is a great supporting act for the Biggest & Baddest Tour so I’m sure it is going to be one of the hot country tours this summer.

June 2008
19 - Birmingham, AL - Verizon Wireless Music Center
20 - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
21 - Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
27 - West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre
28 - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre

July 2008
10 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion
13 - Craven, Saskatchewan - Country Jamboree
24 - Paso Robles, CA - California Mid-State Fair
27 - Stateline, NV - Harvey’s Outdoor Arena
31 - Maryland Heights, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis

August 2008
1 - Tinley Park, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
2 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
3 - Burgettstown, PA - Post-Gazette Pavilion
8 - Scranton, PA - Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain
9 - Bristow, VA - Nissan Pavilion
15 - Virginia Beach, VA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
16 - Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center
17 - Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
21 - Meadville, PA - Crawford County Fair
22 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
23 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
28 - Syracuse, NY - NY State Fair
29 - Allentown, PA - The Great Allentown Fair
30 - Essex Junction, VT - Champlain Valley Exposition

September 2008
1 - St. Paul, MN - Minnesota State Fair Grandstand
11 - Atlanta, GA - Lakewood Amphitheatre
13 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
18 - Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion

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“These shows are always far too short” moaned Tom McRae as he brought down the curtains on almost 3 hours of non-stop music that, frankly, would put most lesser artists to shame. In those 3 hours, we’d seen beard shaving, mass-singalongs, surprise special guests and more off-the-cuff jokes than most comedians manage in a year. All for a mere £15 too.

This was the second time that the Essex-based singer/songwriter had bought over his motley crew of artists from the US to play the Hotel Cafe tour, named after the famous venue in LA which plays host to a range of a wide range of artists for a cabaret-like performance where anything can happen. As they showed, anything really can happen when they decided to shave the beard of lead organiser Jason, live on stage towards the end.

Each playing one or two songs, Tom introduced each one with amusing tales, and before 9:30 had even swung round we’d already hurtled through three Tom McRae songs as well as songs from Catherine Feeny, Brian Wright, Jim Bianco, Cary Brothers, and Greg Laswell. Poor Greg hobbled around after spraining his ankle in Brighton whilst drunkenly chasing a fox, much to the amusement of the audience.

Part of the tradition of the Hotel Cafe shows are special guests - two years ago we got Aqualung, this time round Turin Brakes played previous single “Dark on Fire” and old favourite “Pain Killer”.

Tom then came back, joined by the rest of the performers for a rousing version of “Dose me Up”, which was quite amazing to hear everyone looping round the haunting chorus of “So dose me up / Once is not enough / I can still see the ground / And from this high rise view looking down on you / Im not the one wasting my time”. Personally, that was my highlight, but with time getting on the performers got back into the swing of things with renewed passion - Jim Bianco’s “striptease” routine provided a moment of amusement as his “smoky backroom” voice fitted the setting perfectly. Greg told us stories of his family, with tales of his Mum and Dad’s worries about him, and Catherine just played amazing songs whilst adding a sexy element to the male-dominated proceedings. Brian, well, what more can I say. The man can play. And has facial hair that would make lesser men weap, it’s so thick. Cary Brothers was the musical genius that needs more credit - amazing songs, he should be able to tour the UK more.

All too soon 11:30 had rolled around, and with one more sing along to “Silent Boulevard”, they were gone - too quickly for my liking, but still - £15 for 3 hours of brilliant entertainment - amazing.

Pictures will be added shortly.

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Music Schedule

The following is a list of musicians who have confirmed so far to play this year’s festival. Stay tuned for the complete line-up as well as a schedule of performance dates and times!

• ShugE and Heyduke Lives
• Swimmers
• Aaron Maus
• Spaghetti Western
• DJ Verb X
• Samosa
• Red Daughters
• Atlantis Quartet
• Spirits of the Red City
• Best Friends Forever
• Cadillac Kolstad
• Economy Team
• Brothers Quetico
• Gay Witch Abortion
• History
• The Absent Arch
• A Paper Cup Band
• Black Audience
• Big Game
• Imka
• Casanatra
• Lucy Michell