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​Revel Brewing in Park Rapids hosts weekly live music year-round, twice weekly in summer on Thursday and Saturday nights. They also host an Open Mic on the 1st Saturday. Check out their website: www.revelingbrew.com
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​Popple Bar in Laporte host occasional live music on weekends, and when it does, it is poppin' at the Popple, with one of the boot scootin'ist dance floors around. You can usually find live music there on most holiday festivities, too. They host a year-round Open Mic on Wednesdays, as well. Call 218.224.2281 for upcoming schedule.

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​Logjammerz (Cass Lake) occasionally hosts live music in the rock, country, sometimes reggae or hip-hop, genres. Call 218.987.2133 for current line up.
​Iron Horse in Nevis hosts music frequently throughout the year. Call them 218.652.3898 for current info.
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​Headwaters Music & Arts (Bemidji) local arts & music school that hosts concerts by visiting performers several times per year, focusing on original songwriting and globally inspired tunes. They also host an Open Mic & Coffeehouse on the First Friday of each month, September-June. See their current concert schedule at their website: www.headwatersmusicandarts.org.

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​The 502 Restaurant at Chase on the Lake in Walker hosts live music every Friday & Saturday night. Call 218.547.7777 for the current line up.
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​Bridgid's Irish Pub in Bemidji hosts local and regional groups in the folk & folk rock genre, often on Saturday evenings. They also host a Thursday night Open Mic and Bluesday Tuesdays with Corey Medina. Call 218.444.0567 for their current schedule. 

Acoust Hicks & a Chick, based in Bemidji, offer covers you'd forgotten you loved, strong female vocals, tight harmonies and driving rock n roll. 

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About...

On any given weekend in glades and glens carved into stands of pines, upon a nearby shore, someone is singing. Often from the heart. Usually accompanied by some virtuosic twizzle of a bandmate's guitar, fiddle, keyboard, or loop station. Many times, people are listening, singing along, shimmying their shoulders and letting their hips declaratively wiggle while their feet can't help but tap.  


A few years ago, I learned music as we know it is only possible here on Earth. Music, as it soundtracks our moments of days, like water, is a sign of planetary life. It only happens here, on this Pale Blue Dot. What we hear each weekend in our bars, restaurants, and concert halls isn't possible in The Big Quiet beyond Earth's atmosphere. 


Since knowing this fact, I haven't been able to unknow it.


This website is an attempt to link the Signal Fires of live music, of life, that buzz, hum, and wiggle the strings weaving us together in community in these Northwoods. If you need a place to listen to music, or an artist to listen to, hopefully you'll find something here to celebrate what it means being Earthlings with your neighbors.


Take care, 

Mary O.


P.S. ​If you are one of these venues or artists and want to update your info, drop me a line. If you want to be added, also drop me a line.

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