Join us at the Loring Park Community Center.

Gloves and bags will be provided.

Garden with volunteers from the Friends of Loring Park!

Second Saturdays, 9am start time, May through October

Meet in the Garden of the Seasons.

Meet your neighbors and help tend the garden.

Tools, gloves, and friends are provided!

REGISTRATION

A program in cooperation with Minneapolis Community Education

To be held at the Recreation Center.

Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

Friends of Loring Park Board Meeting in the Loring Community Center.

Second Mondays at 4pm. All are welcome.

Come and join friends, family, and neighbors in an evening of song with Dan Chouinard. The program will be held in the Community Center. This is a free event but donations are gratefully accepted.

For nearly four decades Dan Chouinard has been pianist and accordionist of choice for a who’s who of Twin Cities performers, an enabler of community singalongs and a writer of hit shows for public radio, concert hall and theatrical stage.

Dan attended St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, then taught French and Italian at the University of Minnesota for four years while getting established as a pianist and accompanist around Minneapolis and St. Paul. Beginning in 1994, his radio series The Singer’s Voice was broadcast live every Sunday evening over six years from the Dakota Jazz Club (then at Bandana Square St. Paul).

He’s a writer and host of shows, having created many live programs for Minnesota Public Radio, the MN Historical Society, Twin Cities Public Television and others. In 2013 Steerage Song played in the Twin Cities and on tour throughout Minnesota, a show co-authored with Peter Rothstein about the Ellis Island era of immigration to the US as depicted in folk songs, newspaper clippings and Tin Pan Alley tunes.

His 2014 show Cafe Europa, about bicycling with an accordion from Naples IT to Normandy FR in search of Minnesota WWII stories, was broadcast and televised statewide. Civil War Homecoming played at the Fitzgerald Theater in April 2015 on the 150th anniversary of the end of the war, was broadcast statewide on MPR and continues to be shown on Twin Cities Public Television.

Rondo ’56: Remembering St. Paul’s Black Main Street, presented a dozen times since its 2010 premiere at the MN History Center, is a portrait in music, stories and archival photos of St. Paul’s thriving Black neighborhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, before it was sliced down the middle to make room for I-94.

His essays have been published in Minnesota Monthly, Saint John’s Magazine, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Showcase magazine and in the Minneapolis StarTribune.

He’s traveled often in France and Italy, with bicycle and without, and has presented French and Italian sing-alongs at the Alliance Française in Minneapolis. He spent the summer 2015 working in Italy on an independent Hollywood film, All You Ever Wanted, written and directed by Minnesota native Barry Morrow, and released in 2019.

He was a guest accompanist on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, and is the founder of a classic country band, Lush Country, comprised of Prairie Home Companion alumni.

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

To be held in the green space near tennis courts.

Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

A Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board Event

To be held at the outdoor stage area

Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

Garden with volunteers from the Friends of Loring Park!

Second Saturdays, 9am start time, May through October

Meet in the Garden of the Seasons.

Meet your neighbors and help tend the garden.

Tools, gloves, and friends are provided!

REGISTRATION

Friends of Loring Park Board Meeting in the Loring Community Center.

Second Mondays at 4pm. All are welcome.

A Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board Event. Held at the Loring Park Recreation Center.

Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

A Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board Event. Held at the Loring Park Recreation Center.

Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

A program of the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board.

Held in the grassy area by the shuffleboard courts.

Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

Friends of Loring Park Board Meeting in the Loring Community Center.

Second Mondays at 4pm. All are welcome.

A program of the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board.

Held in the grassy area by the shuffleboard courts.

Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

A Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board Event. Held at the Loring Park Recreation Center.

Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

Garden with volunteers from the Friends of Loring Park!

Second Saturdays, 9am start time, May through October

Meet in the Garden of the Seasons.

Meet your neighbors and help tend the garden.

Tools, gloves, and friends are provided!

REGISTRATION

A program of the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board.

Held in the grassy area by the shuffleboard courts.

Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

Come and join friends, family, and neighbors in an evening of song with Dan Chouinard. The program will be held in the Community Center. This is a free event but donations are gratefully accepted.

For nearly four decades Dan Chouinard has been pianist and accordionist of choice for a who’s who of Twin Cities performers, an enabler of community singalongs and a writer of hit shows for public radio, concert hall and theatrical stage.

Dan attended St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, then taught French and Italian at the University of Minnesota for four years while getting established as a pianist and accompanist around Minneapolis and St. Paul. Beginning in 1994, his radio series The Singer’s Voice was broadcast live every Sunday evening over six years from the Dakota Jazz Club (then at Bandana Square St. Paul).

He’s a writer and host of shows, having created many live programs for Minnesota Public Radio, the MN Historical Society, Twin Cities Public Television and others. In 2013 Steerage Song played in the Twin Cities and on tour throughout Minnesota, a show co-authored with Peter Rothstein about the Ellis Island era of immigration to the US as depicted in folk songs, newspaper clippings and Tin Pan Alley tunes.

His 2014 show Cafe Europa, about bicycling with an accordion from Naples IT to Normandy FR in search of Minnesota WWII stories, was broadcast and televised statewide. Civil War Homecoming played at the Fitzgerald Theater in April 2015 on the 150th anniversary of the end of the war, was broadcast statewide on MPR and continues to be shown on Twin Cities Public Television.

Rondo ’56: Remembering St. Paul’s Black Main Street, presented a dozen times since its 2010 premiere at the MN History Center, is a portrait in music, stories and archival photos of St. Paul’s thriving Black neighborhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, before it was sliced down the middle to make room for I-94.

His essays have been published in Minnesota Monthly, Saint John’s Magazine, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Showcase magazine and in the Minneapolis StarTribune.

He’s traveled often in France and Italy, with bicycle and without, and has presented French and Italian sing-alongs at the Alliance Française in Minneapolis. He spent the summer 2015 working in Italy on an independent Hollywood film, All You Ever Wanted, written and directed by Minnesota native Barry Morrow, and released in 2019.

He was a guest accompanist on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, and is the founder of a classic country band, Lush Country, comprised of Prairie Home Companion alumni.

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

A program of the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board.

Held in the grassy area by the shuffleboard courts.

Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

A program of the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board.

Held in the grassy area by the shuffleboard courts.

Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

Garden with volunteers from the Friends of Loring Park!

Second Saturdays, 9am start time, May through October

Meet in the Garden of the Seasons.

Meet your neighbors and help tend the garden.

Tools, gloves, and friends are provided!

REGISTRATION

Friends of Loring Park Board Meeting in the Loring Community Center.

Second Mondays at 4pm. All are welcome.

This program is presented by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

Come and join friends, family, and neighbors in an evening of song with Dan Chouinard. The program will be held in the Community Center. This is a free event but donations are gratefully accepted.

For nearly four decades Dan Chouinard has been pianist and accordionist of choice for a who’s who of Twin Cities performers, an enabler of community singalongs and a writer of hit shows for public radio, concert hall and theatrical stage.

Dan attended St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, then taught French and Italian at the University of Minnesota for four years while getting established as a pianist and accompanist around Minneapolis and St. Paul. Beginning in 1994, his radio series The Singer’s Voice was broadcast live every Sunday evening over six years from the Dakota Jazz Club (then at Bandana Square St. Paul).

He’s a writer and host of shows, having created many live programs for Minnesota Public Radio, the MN Historical Society, Twin Cities Public Television and others. In 2013 Steerage Song played in the Twin Cities and on tour throughout Minnesota, a show co-authored with Peter Rothstein about the Ellis Island era of immigration to the US as depicted in folk songs, newspaper clippings and Tin Pan Alley tunes.

His 2014 show Cafe Europa, about bicycling with an accordion from Naples IT to Normandy FR in search of Minnesota WWII stories, was broadcast and televised statewide. Civil War Homecoming played at the Fitzgerald Theater in April 2015 on the 150th anniversary of the end of the war, was broadcast statewide on MPR and continues to be shown on Twin Cities Public Television.

Rondo ’56: Remembering St. Paul’s Black Main Street, presented a dozen times since its 2010 premiere at the MN History Center, is a portrait in music, stories and archival photos of St. Paul’s thriving Black neighborhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, before it was sliced down the middle to make room for I-94.

His essays have been published in Minnesota Monthly, Saint John’s Magazine, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Showcase magazine and in the Minneapolis StarTribune.

He’s traveled often in France and Italy, with bicycle and without, and has presented French and Italian sing-alongs at the Alliance Française in Minneapolis. He spent the summer 2015 working in Italy on an independent Hollywood film, All You Ever Wanted, written and directed by Minnesota native Barry Morrow, and released in 2019.

He was a guest accompanist on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, and is the founder of a classic country band, Lush Country, comprised of Prairie Home Companion alumni.

A fun and exciting show for all ages by Mixed Precipitation’s Pickup Truck Opera.

Look for the pickup truck near the Garden of the Seasons. 7pm start time.

Donations welcome! The hat will be passed.

In the not-so-distant future, scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Johann Faust faces a planet in crisis but no motivation to spare humanity its fate. He yearns to find a life of meaning and love. Méphistophélès, a mysterious extraplanar entity with a devilish charm, appears with a bargain: Relocate Earth’s climate refugees to a lunar colony and win the love of the brilliant physicist Marguerite. Together, Faust and his mysterious companion launch a fanatical quest to save humanity and reach beyond the limits of human potential. Dr. Faust finds himself torn between the love of his life and the conditions of his bargain. The music of Depeche Mode is laced into this tale, featuring the work of songwriters Vince Clarke and Martin Gore.

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

This program is presented by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. Registration and details for all Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board activities will be online at

www.MinneapolisParks.org/Activities-Events

Loring Park Community Arts Center

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

Location: Garden of the Seasons.  

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons. We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.    

Friends of Loring Park Board Meeting in the Loring Community Center.

Second Mondays at 4pm. All are welcome.

Garden with volunteers from the Friends of Loring Park!

Second Saturdays, 9am start time, May through October

Meet in the Garden of the Seasons.

Meet your neighbors and help tend the garden.

Tools, gloves, and friends are provided!

REGISTRATION

Come and join friends, family, and neighbors in an evening of song with Dan Chouinard. The program will be held in the Community Center. This is a free event but donations are gratefully accepted.

For nearly four decades Dan Chouinard has been pianist and accordionist of choice for a who’s who of Twin Cities performers, an enabler of community singalongs and a writer of hit shows for public radio, concert hall and theatrical stage.

Dan attended St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, then taught French and Italian at the University of Minnesota for four years while getting established as a pianist and accompanist around Minneapolis and St. Paul. Beginning in 1994, his radio series The Singer’s Voice was broadcast live every Sunday evening over six years from the Dakota Jazz Club (then at Bandana Square St. Paul).

He’s a writer and host of shows, having created many live programs for Minnesota Public Radio, the MN Historical Society, Twin Cities Public Television and others. In 2013 Steerage Song played in the Twin Cities and on tour throughout Minnesota, a show co-authored with Peter Rothstein about the Ellis Island era of immigration to the US as depicted in folk songs, newspaper clippings and Tin Pan Alley tunes.

His 2014 show Cafe Europa, about bicycling with an accordion from Naples IT to Normandy FR in search of Minnesota WWII stories, was broadcast and televised statewide. Civil War Homecoming played at the Fitzgerald Theater in April 2015 on the 150th anniversary of the end of the war, was broadcast statewide on MPR and continues to be shown on Twin Cities Public Television.

Rondo ’56: Remembering St. Paul’s Black Main Street, presented a dozen times since its 2010 premiere at the MN History Center, is a portrait in music, stories and archival photos of St. Paul’s thriving Black neighborhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, before it was sliced down the middle to make room for I-94.

His essays have been published in Minnesota Monthly, Saint John’s Magazine, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Showcase magazine and in the Minneapolis StarTribune.

He’s traveled often in France and Italy, with bicycle and without, and has presented French and Italian sing-alongs at the Alliance Française in Minneapolis. He spent the summer 2015 working in Italy on an independent Hollywood film, All You Ever Wanted, written and directed by Minnesota native Barry Morrow, and released in 2019.

He was a guest accompanist on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, and is the founder of a classic country band, Lush Country, comprised of Prairie Home Companion alumni.

Garden with volunteers from the Friends of Loring Park!

Lunch served at 11am - noon.

Meet in the Garden of the Seasons.

Meet your neighbors and help tend the garden.

Tools, gloves, and friends are provided!

REGISTRATION

Friends of Loring Park Board Meeting in the Loring Community Center.

Second Mondays at 4pm. All are welcome.

Come and join friends, family, and neighbors in an evening of song with Dan Chouinard. The program will be held in the Community Center. This is a free event but donations are gratefully accepted.

For nearly four decades Dan Chouinard has been pianist and accordionist of choice for a who’s who of Twin Cities performers, an enabler of community singalongs and a writer of hit shows for public radio, concert hall and theatrical stage.

Dan attended St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, then taught French and Italian at the University of Minnesota for four years while getting established as a pianist and accompanist around Minneapolis and St. Paul. Beginning in 1994, his radio series The Singer’s Voice was broadcast live every Sunday evening over six years from the Dakota Jazz Club (then at Bandana Square St. Paul).

He’s a writer and host of shows, having created many live programs for Minnesota Public Radio, the MN Historical Society, Twin Cities Public Television and others. In 2013 Steerage Song played in the Twin Cities and on tour throughout Minnesota, a show co-authored with Peter Rothstein about the Ellis Island era of immigration to the US as depicted in folk songs, newspaper clippings and Tin Pan Alley tunes.

His 2014 show Cafe Europa, about bicycling with an accordion from Naples IT to Normandy FR in search of Minnesota WWII stories, was broadcast and televised statewide. Civil War Homecoming played at the Fitzgerald Theater in April 2015 on the 150th anniversary of the end of the war, was broadcast statewide on MPR and continues to be shown on Twin Cities Public Television.

Rondo ’56: Remembering St. Paul’s Black Main Street, presented a dozen times since its 2010 premiere at the MN History Center, is a portrait in music, stories and archival photos of St. Paul’s thriving Black neighborhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, before it was sliced down the middle to make room for I-94.

His essays have been published in Minnesota Monthly, Saint John’s Magazine, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Showcase magazine and in the Minneapolis StarTribune.

He’s traveled often in France and Italy, with bicycle and without, and has presented French and Italian sing-alongs at the Alliance Française in Minneapolis. He spent the summer 2015 working in Italy on an independent Hollywood film, All You Ever Wanted, written and directed by Minnesota native Barry Morrow, and released in 2019.

He was a guest accompanist on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, and is the founder of a classic country band, Lush Country, comprised of Prairie Home Companion alumni.

Friends of Loring Park Board Meeting in the Loring Community Center.

Second Mondays at 4pm. All are welcome.

Come and join friends, family, and neighbors in an evening of song with Dan Chouinard. The program will be held in the Community Center. This is a free event but donations are gratefully accepted.

For nearly four decades Dan Chouinard has been pianist and accordionist of choice for a who’s who of Twin Cities performers, an enabler of community singalongs and a writer of hit shows for public radio, concert hall and theatrical stage.

Dan attended St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, then taught French and Italian at the University of Minnesota for four years while getting established as a pianist and accompanist around Minneapolis and St. Paul. Beginning in 1994, his radio series The Singer’s Voice was broadcast live every Sunday evening over six years from the Dakota Jazz Club (then at Bandana Square St. Paul).

He’s a writer and host of shows, having created many live programs for Minnesota Public Radio, the MN Historical Society, Twin Cities Public Television and others. In 2013 Steerage Song played in the Twin Cities and on tour throughout Minnesota, a show co-authored with Peter Rothstein about the Ellis Island era of immigration to the US as depicted in folk songs, newspaper clippings and Tin Pan Alley tunes.

His 2014 show Cafe Europa, about bicycling with an accordion from Naples IT to Normandy FR in search of Minnesota WWII stories, was broadcast and televised statewide. Civil War Homecoming played at the Fitzgerald Theater in April 2015 on the 150th anniversary of the end of the war, was broadcast statewide on MPR and continues to be shown on Twin Cities Public Television.

Rondo ’56: Remembering St. Paul’s Black Main Street, presented a dozen times since its 2010 premiere at the MN History Center, is a portrait in music, stories and archival photos of St. Paul’s thriving Black neighborhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, before it was sliced down the middle to make room for I-94.

His essays have been published in Minnesota Monthly, Saint John’s Magazine, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Showcase magazine and in the Minneapolis StarTribune.

He’s traveled often in France and Italy, with bicycle and without, and has presented French and Italian sing-alongs at the Alliance Française in Minneapolis. He spent the summer 2015 working in Italy on an independent Hollywood film, All You Ever Wanted, written and directed by Minnesota native Barry Morrow, and released in 2019.

He was a guest accompanist on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, and is the founder of a classic country band, Lush Country, comprised of Prairie Home Companion alumni.