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7 New Shows On Sale Now!
FEB 4: MacPhail Center for Music Presents: The Dakota Combo
FEB 25: Trace Bundy
FEB 28: Davina and The Vagabonds
MAR 21: L.A. Buckner & BiG HOMiE + OBI ORIGINAL ™
APR 6: Skerryvore
APR 14: The Great Guitars: Bireli Lagrene Official, Martin Taylor & Ulf Wakenius Artist Page
APR 23: Tinsley Ellis
https://www.dakotacooks.com/2025/01/30/just-announced-63/

Star Tribune Concert Picks! Chastity Brown, Chief Adjuah (CHRISTIAN SCOTT QUINTET), Albert Lee & Jeremy Clyde, and Garfunkel, Manilow & Campbell (Jeff Dayton) are all featured. Read More>> https://www.dakotacooks.com/2025/01/29/chastity-brown-chief-adjuah-and-more-featured-in-star-tribune/

Chief Adjuah (CHRISTIAN SCOTT QUINTET) featured in Racket's Event Horizon! Tickets>> bit.ly/3YOrEDK

"Formerly known as Christian Scott, the artist now known as Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah has been one of the 21st century’s more innovative trumpeters in the music he dislikes calling jazz, preferring the term “stretch music.” But on his latest album, Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning, released in 2023, Adjuah abandoned the trumpet in favor of the West African n’goni and homemade stringed instruments of his own design, while drawing on the polyrhythms and chants of New Orleans “Black Indian” music toward bold ends—the title track celebrates a heroine who torches an ICE facility. But that was two years ago. Who knows how much further Adujah has travelled in the time since."

Ashley DuBose on the Current Gig List! Get your tickets here>> bit.ly/4aeNqFG

The Gig List for January 27: Geordie Greep; Ashley DuBose; The Cactus Blossoms The Gig List for Monday, January 27

This Week at The Dakota:
JAN 27: Ashley DuBose
JAN 28: Kavyesh Kaviraj & Omar Abdulkarim
JAN 29: Legends of Fingerpicking w/Pat Donohue Music, Tim Sparks & Phil Heywood
JAN 30: The Beatles Reimagined w/Jeff Perry, Tim Sparks, Zacc Harris & Chris Olson
JAN 31-FEB 1: Chastity Brown
JAN 2: Chief Adjuah (formerly CHRISTIAN SCOTT QUINTET)

8 New Shows On Sale Now!
FEB 6: Southside Aces: A Night in New Orleans
FEB 10: Ahmed & the Creators feat. Omar Abdulkarim
FEB 18: All Sweet Things: A Celebration of Black Love w/Mayyadda, Traiveon and Candi, Jackson Hurst
MAR 9: Howie Day
MAR 14: St. Paul Peterson & the Mpls Funk All-Stars
APR 13: Della Mae
APR 21: The String Queens
MAY 20: Matt Andersen

My old friend Leo Kottke came to my show at the Dakota in Minneapolis last week. We got some long-overdue hang time and he did a couple of tunes on his own. A treat for all — especially me!

TR

Davina and The Vagabonds on The Current Gig List! Still a few tickets left>> bit.ly/4iTrUKR

The Gig List for January 23: Davina and the Vagabonds; Jake LaBotz; Lena Elizabeth The Gig List for Thursday, January 23

JUUT Salonspa named The Dakota in an article on favorite Twin Cities third places, "places that bring us joy and help cultivate meaning." Read More>>

Try a Twin Cities third place to nurture connection | JUUT Social connections are essential to living a full and vibrant life. So, we’re sharing our favorite Twin Cities third places that may help you cultivate meaning, like they have for us.

Star Tribune concert picks! NUR-D, Tribute to Anita Baker w/Ginger Commodore/Kendra Johnson Glenn/Monique Blakey, Ashley DuBose, Kavyesh Kaviraj & Omar Abdulkarim, Pat Donohue Music/Tim Sparks/Phil Heywood are featured in Best Concerts of the Week. Read More>> https://www.dakotacooks.com/2025/01/22/nur-d-anita-baker-tribute-ashley-dubose-more-featured-in-star-tribune/

Rebirth Brass Band on The Current Gig List! Still a few tickets left for the second show>> bit.ly/4eSaPhG

The Gig List for January 20: The Cactus Blossoms; Rebirth Brass Band; Nikki & the Ruemates The Gig List for Monday, January 20

This Week at The Dakota:
JAN 20: Rebirth Brass Band
JAN 21: The Headhunters
JAN 22: Jontavious Willis
JAN 23: Davina and The Vagabonds
JAN 25: NUR-D
JAN 26: Tribute to Anita Baker w/Ginger Commodore, Kendra Johnson Glenn, Monique Blakey

Cab Calloway. Louis Jordan. B.B. King. Bettye LaVette. Lil' Ed stands next to these immense musical personalities with such powerful stage presence that they become the music itself. Downbeat Magazine praises his "Outrageous Chicago blues slide-guitar… Piping hot energy… forceful… A star of the first magnitude."
Don't miss Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials tonight, JAN 17>>

Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials Discover the electrifying blues sound of Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, a Chicago-based band with over 30 years of blues experience.

5 New Shows On Sale Now!
JAN 27: Ashley DuBose
JAN 29: The Legends of Fingerpicking w/Pat Donohue, Tim Sparks & Phil Heywood
JAN 30: The Beatles Reimagined w/Jeff Perry, Tim Sparks, Zacc Harris & Chris Olson
FEB 11: shaun johnson Big Band Experience
APR 8-9: Hiromi's Sonicwonder

Listen to this great interview Sean at Jazz88 did with Bruce A. Henry! Then see him Saturday with his great new show>> bit.ly/48UmDhh

A Celebration of Unity and Love, Bruce A Henry is bringing his band to the Dakota this Saturday and will use Martin Luther King Jr. as a point of departure to build community with the audience. Henry speaks with Sean about how music bridges gaps between people and much more here: https://www.jazz88.fm/2025/01/13/bruce-henry-uses-music-to-build-community/

Dakota Bruce Henry