Gear Daddies frontman Martin Zellar is stepping out for a solo supper-club gig.
MARTIN ZELLAR
MAY 7 • 7PM
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Gritty California bluesman Tommy Castro, who is nominated for three 2026 Blues Music Awards including album of the year for “Closer to the Bone,” returns to the Dakota with the Painkillers.
TOMMY CASTRO & THE PAINKILLERS
MAY 8 • 7PM
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Empathetic Minneapolis folk singer Larry Long is back with his American Roots Revue featuring Robert Robinson, Tonia Hughes Kendrick and J.D. Steele.
AMERICAN ROOTS REVUE
MAY 9 • 7 & 9PM
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Women Who Cook
They started out as a one-off all-women performance on what’s now called TPT, and they became an off-and-on group with special occasion appearances, including a 1988 concert tour of the Soviet Union. All the singers have enjoyed noteworthy careers on their own in the Twin Cities, and they will reunite for the first time since 2002 for two Mother’s Day concerts that will include a salute to their late matriarch Jeanne Arland Peterson, who died in 2013 at age 91.
WOMEN WHO COOK: A MOTHER’S DAY REUNION
MAY 10 • 4 & 7PM
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After his Dakota appearances last fall working solo and then with bass titan Christian McBride, influential jazz pianist Brad Mehldau is back with his trio, Jorge Rossy and Felix Moseholm.
BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO
w/Jorge Rossy & Felix Moseholm
MAY 11-12 • 7PM
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Artemis, the all-star women’s jazz ensemble led by pianist Renee Rosnes, explores the music of Miles Davis, who was born 100 years ago.