Category: Press

Peter Himmelman Returns Home To Play The Dakota On June 20

TC JEWFOLK FEATURE

After more than 40 years in music, Peter Himmelman is not only still making music, but he’s back together with...

Jun 13

Kandace Springs

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A former Prince protegee who penned her own piano songs, the Nashville songbird realized her potential as a jazz stylist...

Jun 8

Salif Keita

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As “golden-voiced” as his sobriquet advertises, Keita arose in the late ’70s as one of West African pop’s two great...

Jun 2

Cécile McLorin Salvant

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The much-celebrated, Grammy-grabbing jazz vocalist has distinguished herself with inspired interpretations of the genre's archives. On this year's "Ghost Song,"...

May 26

Curtis Stigers

WE HEART MUSIC REVIEW

On the second night at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis on Saturday night, American Jazz singer and songwriter Curtis...

May 24

Lisa Fischer

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After a winter visit to the Hopkins Center for the Arts, the wondrous vocalist returns to her familiar Twin Cities...

May 18

Vieux Farka Touré

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Vieux Farka Touré: After two years of tour delays from COVID, the second-generation Malian desert-blues guitar hero is semi-coincidentally making...

May 11

Curtis Stigers

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It’s been 30 years since Curtis Stigers’s debut album, which spawned international hits “I Wonder Why”, “You’re All That Matters...

May 10

Vieux Farka Touré

MSHALE FEATURE

More than half his life—and he’s only 41 years old—has been devoted to on-stage, live performance. Vieux Farka Touré revels...

May 4

Janiva Magness w/ Annie Mack

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The heralded blues-rock singer, who spent her salad days in St. Paul and won the 2009 Blues Foundation entertainer of...

May 4

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