Rob Ickes is the featured artist at this year's Bluegrass Masters Weekend at Lutsen Resort.
This is a great weekend to listen to bluegrass music. Dobro master Rob Ickes is the featured musician this year for the Bluegrass Masters Weekend at Lutsen Resort.
Ickes has played with a number of famous bands, including the bluegrass super group, Blue Highway and has been named the Dobro Player of the Year nine times by the International Bluegrass Music Association for his innovative work on the resonator guitar.
The weekend begins tonight with a jam session in the lobby at the resort. Tomorrow (Saturday) there are workshops all day, and more jamming and then tomorrow night a fantastic concert with Ickes and last year’s Masters Weekend headliner, mandolin player Mike Compton. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and is open to the public. Tickets are $20 at the door, $15 for workshop participants.
The read more about Ickes and listen to his music, click here.
Other live music this weekend includes the Bicycle Army Acoustic Trio which will play at the GunFlint Tavern on Friday and Saturday nights. The music begins at 9 p.m. On Sunday, Timmy Haus will play, starting at 6:30 p.m.
If you love swing and ballroom dancing, dance the night away at the Hovland Town Hall on Saturday night from 7-10 p.m. All welcome.
Lots of people turned up for the Empty Bowl fundraiser at the Congregational Church on Thursday.
In other art news, the Empty Bowls fundraiser for the Cook County Food Shelf was held Thursday night and was a resounding success. More than 250 showed up at the Congregational Church to pick out their favorite handmade bowl and then enjoy soup and bread donated by local restaurants and organizations. The final figures aren’t in yet, but at least $2,000 was raised for the Food Shelf in this annual fundraiser. The Silent Auction of bowls crafted by local and regional artisans was also a success. Check here for final results next week.
The 1910 Rock Shop has a new Web site. Take a look.
A whale bone and fossilized bone carving by Ron Apangalook. Photo by Troy Jones.
Sivertson Gallery has just received a new Inuit carving by Ron Apangalook. The carving will join the gallery’s outstanding collection of Inuit sculpture and prints.
Also, just a quick note. Watercolorist Howard Sivertson will give a presentation at the gallery on ”Lake Superior’s Painted Past: Little Known Stories of Fur, Fish and Forests” at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, as part of Winterer’s Gathering celebration hosted by North House Folk School.
The Grand Marais Art Colony will hold Life Drawing Sessions again this winter. They will be held on Wednesdays from 6:30-9 p.m. starting Dec. 2. For more information and to pre-register, call 387-2737.
The Wednesday Paint-Out plein air exhibit, which opened last week, will continue through December, but will be moved to the multi-media room.
Yvette Cheneaux, a Texas native, is now working at Betsy Bowen’s Studio. The studio has just received a collection of new handpaper paper necklaces by Ruth Nakelembe of Kampala, Uganda. Ruth is finishing her final semester of high school and the handmade necklaces are her way of paying for her schooling.
The Coho Cafe is exhibiting a series of photographs of food and landcapes by Kathleen Bade. Terry Weeks will be exhibiting her paintings in December.
Jane Shinners is teaching a class on making a bread basket and Bryan Hansel is teaching a class in writing haiku poetry through Community Education next week. For more info and to register, call 387-2000.
And last, but not least, a spectacular quilt show opens at the Johnson Heritage Post next Friday with a reception from 5-7 p.m. See a preview in next week’s blog.
