“Bennett has the personality, pizazz and powerful pipes to fill an arena” – Star Tribune Local theatre and music icon and three-time Grammy winner Jamecia Bennett brings her new blues show to the Dakota! This new production will feature her favorite jazz and blues classics, several originals from her upcoming album, and pop-urban hits that illustrate the […]

“Armand Hammer raps from another dimension, it’s on us to catch up ” – NPR It is rare that two acclaimed solo artists, each just reaching their creative prime, come together to create something completely new. Nevertheless, two of NYC’s most innovative MCs, billy woods and Elucid, have joined forces as Armand Hammer. Both rappers have gained reputations as prolific […]

“lush, precise, expressive voice, with its pearls of vibrato” – Minnpost Singer Prudence Johnson and pianist Dan Chouinard are well-known for their collaborations focusing on the works of a particular songwriter -Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael and Bacharach to name a few. In “The World According to Randy Newman,” they explore the “slippery storytelling, pointed social observation […]

“One of the Twin Cities’ most sophisticated songwriters.” – Star Tribune Musician and writer Dylan Hicks was born in Austin, Texas, in 1970, and has lived since 1983 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His most recent recording, 2022’s Airport Sparrows, was recorded with Small Screens, a six-piece band—Zacc Harris, Michelle Kinney, Christopher Thomson, Charlie Lincoln, Peter Hennig, and Hicks—that blends pop, jazz, R&B, […]

“reckless and super high energy, but also soulful.” – Music In MN Who Are They? – See it, feel it, touch it. To portray The Who it’s gotta be about their untouchable, levitating energy. They were a maximum band, maximally in the moment, and that’s what Who Are They? is all about.  **This is not a […]

NEARLY SOLD OUT. Please contact the box office at 612-332-5299 for seating options. “conjures up the spirit and the songs of Ireland’s greatest export” – Chicago Tribune The Belfast Cowboys is a nine-piece, horn-driven band from Minneapolis that specializes in the music of Van Morrison, mixing rock, blues, roots and soul sounds. Led by veteran songwriter and guitarist […]

NEARLY SOLD OUT. Please contact the box office at 612-332-5299 for seating options. “mélange of contemporary jazz, beat-heavy hip-hop, and neo-soul melodies.” – Rolling Stone Robert Glasper is the leader of a new sonic paradigm with a career that bridges musical and artistic genres. To date, he boasts 4 Grammy wins and 9 nominations across 11 categories, and […]

NEARLY SOLD OUT. Please contact the box office at 612-332-5299 for seating options. “mélange of contemporary jazz, beat-heavy hip-hop, and neo-soul melodies.” – Rolling Stone Robert Glasper is the leader of a new sonic paradigm with a career that bridges musical and artistic genres. To date, he boasts 4 Grammy wins and 9 nominations across 11 categories, and […]

NEARLY SOLD OUT. Please contact the box office at 612-332-5299 for seating options. “mélange of contemporary jazz, beat-heavy hip-hop, and neo-soul melodies.” – Rolling Stone Robert Glasper is the leader of a new sonic paradigm with a career that bridges musical and artistic genres. To date, he boasts 4 Grammy wins and 9 nominations across 11 categories, and […]

NEARLY SOLD OUT. Please contact the box office at 612-332-5299 for seating options. “mélange of contemporary jazz, beat-heavy hip-hop, and neo-soul melodies.” – Rolling Stone Robert Glasper is the leader of a new sonic paradigm with a career that bridges musical and artistic genres. To date, he boasts 4 Grammy wins and 9 nominations across 11 categories, and […]