 Sunday, October 18th is the “Harvest Festival” at the Karlstad Baptist Church of Karlstad, Minnesota beginning at 4:00 pm with music by the Popple Ridge Pickers. Supper will follow and everyone is welcome to attend.

 Tuesday, October 20th the “Twin Forks Chorus” will perform at the Stephen Community Arts Center in Stephen, Minnesota. Performance time is 7:30pm.

 The Crookston Community Theater presents “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” this weekend at the University of Minnesota Crookston – Kiehle Auditorium. Curtain time on Friday and Saturday is 7:30 pm. There is no Sunday matinee.

 Speaker and former Miss America Tara Conner will give a presentation at the University of Minnesota – Crookston campus on Wednesday, October 21st at 7 pm. The event is free and open to the public and will be held in Kiehle Auditorium. The talk highlights National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week on campus.

 The North Dakota Museum of Art is partnering with the University of North Dakota Music Department to provide a three-day music festival this weekend called “Celebrating Music.” More information at 777-4195. Also the NDMOA open two new exhibitions this Saturday, October 17th and the first in a series of Sunday afternoon classical music series opens this Sunday at the NDMOA – performance time is 2 pm.

 The Northwest Minnesota Arts Council has opened a traveling art exhibit at the Fosston, Minnesota Library and Arts Center. A wide variety of visual media will be on display. The exhibit will be available in Fosston through mid-November.

 The University of North Dakota Wind Ensemble and Band will perform at the Chester Fritz Auditorium on the UND campus – next Tuesday, October 20th at 3 pm.

The kids are back in school and the evenings are getting shorter, but there’s still time for one more summer concert at the Floyd B. Olson Park Gazebo in Thief River Falls.

You’re invited for an evening of music from The Clean Starts, a five-piece group from the Park Rapids/Bemidji area, September 17 at 6 PM.

The band plays tunes by Santana, Bob Dylan, the Spencer Davis Group, Neil Young, and Jefferson Airplane, as well as other folk, rock, and blues favorites.

This free event is sponsored by Pioneer 90.1, and made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

• The Pequana and Prairie Fire Children’s Theater presents “Sleeping Beauty” at 7:00 pm on Friday, July 31st at the Lake of the Woods School Auditorium in Baudette, Minnesota.

• A Vehicle Show & Picnic Supper is scheduled at the Kittson County Museum in Lake Bronson, Minnesota on Friday, July 31st from 4:00 until 7:00 pm.

• The annual “RiverFest” at the Hartz Park in Thief River Falls, July 31st through August 8th. There will be live music, food and craft vendors and other entertainment for the entire family.

• Saturday, August 1st there’s a Bluegrass Festival at the Historic Baudette Depot in Baudette, Minnesota featuring four bluegrass bands. The music begins at 3:30pm.

• August 1st through the Labor Day weekend an art exhibit will be available to the public, the 37th Annual Artist Show at the Kittson County Museum in Lake Bronson, Minnesota.

• The Lake of the Woods Steam Threshing Bee will be held in Roosevelt, Minnesota – August 1st and 2nd.

• World Class Artist Frank Covino will be conducting two week long seminars, August 3rd through the 7th and August 10th at the Laker of the Woods LOW School in Baudette, Minnesota.

• The Thief River Area Community Summer Theater will perform Suessical Junior, the musical at the Northland College Theater Tuesday, August 4th through Thursday, August 6th. Curtain time is 7:00 pm.

• August 7th through the 9th is “Moosefest in Karlstad, Minnesota.

• Grand Forks Summer Performing Arts presents Die Fledermaus”, Friday, July 31st and Saturday, August 1st at Red River High School in Grand Forks. Curtain time is 7 pm on Friday and Saturday, with a Saturday matinee at 3 pm.

• The North Dakota Museum of Art’s “Concert in the Garden Series” continues on Tuesday, August 4th – with a performance of Fred Eaglesmith. Gates open at 5:30, the opening act at 6pm and the Eaglesmith performance at 7 pm. Food will be available.

PIONEER 90.1 FM
“Weekly Arts Calendar”
Thursday, July 23rd through Sunday, July 26th

• The Summer Performing Arts of Grand Forks present “Once on this Island” at Red River High School in Grand Forks. Performances dates are Friday, July 24th through Tuesday, July 28th. Curtain time at 7:00 pm. The Sunday matinee on the 26th begins at 2:00 pm.

• The Marshall County Fair in Warren, MN runs this weekend through Sunday, July 26th.

• The summer music series called “Blues on the Red” continues this weekend in downtown Grand Forks. The opener at 6:00pm is RB Stone, followed by headline performer Reverend Raven and the Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys. The event is free.

• The North Dakota Museum of Art’s “Summer Concerts in the Garden Series” continues on Tuesday evening, July 28th. Featured performers include Joshua James from Salt Lake City, Utah. The gates open at 5:30, opening act at 6 followed by the headliner, Joshua James. Food will also be available.

• The musical group Porcupine Creek will perform on stage in the gazebo at Riverview Park in Roseau, MN on Thursday, July 30th at 6:30 pm.

• The Pequana and Prairie Fire Children’s Theater presents “Sleeping Beauty” at 7:00 pm on Friday, July 31st at the Lake of the Woods School Auditorium in Baudette, Minnesota.

• A Vehicle Show & Picnic Supper is scheduled at the Kittson County Museum in Lake Bronson, Minnesota on Friday, July 31st from 4:00 until 7:00 pm.

• The annual “RiverFest” at the Hartz Park in Thief River Falls, July 31st through August 8th. There will be live music, food and craft vendors and other entertainment for the entire family.

• Saturday, August 1st there’s a Bluegrass Festival at the Historic Baudette Depot in Baudette, Minnesota featuring four bluegrass bands. The music begins at 3:30pm.

• The North Star Stampede and Rodeo is scheduled this weekend through Sunday in Effie, Minnesota. Effie is north of Grand Rapids, near Bigfork, Minnesota.