Mac grew up on the West Coast (Los Angeles and the Bay Area). In 1983 he settled in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, where he currently makes his home. His experiences there have been wide and varied over the past twenty-five years. He has toured with the British rock band Badfinger and played regularly with the […]

TICKET TO BRASIL is a Bossa Nova, Afro-Brazilian Samba and Latin Jazz Fusion project created around a collective  love for the celebration of rhythm.   The group was founded in 1998 by classical and contemporary jazz guitarist Pavel Jany, and it is based in the Twin Cities,  Minnesota. Ticket to Brasil has opened for renowned artists […]

Joan Hutton is a Minneapolis-based performer, music educator and composer, originally from Toronto, Canada.  In 2017  she launched the Joan Hutton Jazz Project to perform her original jazz compositions and has since become a regular on the Twin Cities jazz scene. Joan and fellow multi-woodwind player David Milne use various combinations of woodwinds, ranging from […]

THIS SHOW HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR NOV 16, 2021. Existing tickets will be honored for the new dates, no further action is required. With the box office closed to the public until further notice, please contact the box office by email at boxoffice@dakotacooks.com to discuss your options. NOV 16 • 7PM Joe Louis Walker is a true […]

Praised by other musicians for her sense of time and ability to swing, jazz vocalist and composer Sarah M. Greer delights and entertains audiences with her warm, expressive vocals, inventive scat singing and refined use of improvisation. A busy singer, educator and presenter, Sarah created and has led Songtaneous, a monthly community singing project, since […]

Named after the Hank Mobley album, No Room For Squares is a bebop quintet that interprets many of the classic 50s and 60s recordings from Blue Note Records. The band, led by drummer Bill Stieger, began rehearsing in 2014 and has made regular appearances at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, the Black Dog Cafe, and […]

This Mother’s Day, celebrate the women in your life with this ensemble that honors the great women jazz artists in the Twin Cities—instrumentalists and vocalists—led by Patty Peterson. In 2016, the Jazz Women All-Stars made their unforgettable debut at the TC Jazz Festival in Mears Park and have been dazzling audiences ever since.  For this special […]

This Mother’s Day, celebrate the women in your life with this ensemble that honors the great women jazz artists in the Twin Cities—instrumentalists and vocalists—led by Patty Peterson. In 2016, the Jazz Women All-Stars made their unforgettable debut at the TC Jazz Festival in Mears Park and have been dazzling audiences ever since.  For this special […]

Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Katia was raised in a musical family on a diet of funk, soul and R&B. She grew up with an arts-centered education and moved to the Twin Cities to attend Macalester College in 2006. Since graduating, she has dedicated her life to the arts, working in various capacities with Pangea World Theater, […]

MOORE BY FOUR quickly established themselves as a fixture on the Twin Cities music scene when the group was created in 1986 at Ruby’s Cabaret in Minneapolis. The group performed sold out concerts at the Guthrie and Fitzgerald Theaters and went on to tour Europe and Japan, sharing concert billing with Harry Connick, Jr., Joe […]