Jun
1
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Jun
8
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Jun
15
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Jun
22
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Sing-along with Dan Chouinard
Jun
23
7:00 PM19:00

Sing-along with Dan Chouinard

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.

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Jun
29
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Jul
6
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Jul
13
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Sing-along with Dan Chouinard
Jul
14
7:00 PM19:00

Sing-along with Dan Chouinard

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.

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Jul
16
5:30 PM17:30

Family Fun Night

Enjoy games, music, dancing, and entertainment at this year's Loring Park Family Fun Night!

Adults and kids can enjoy all sorts of activities a few will include, canoeing, bounce houses, games for all ages and a DJ dance party!

Co-sponsored by Citizens for Loring Park Community, The Friends of Loring Park.

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Jul
20
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Jul
27
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Jul
30
6:45 PM18:45

Annual Dog Show (an MPRB event)

Join us for the 6th annual Loring Park Dog Show. We hand out a ton of prizes for all the unique dogs we get to meet! Your dog can compete for the waggiest tail, best costume, silliest trick, and more! The dog show be held at the stage area near the tennis courts, registration begins at 6:45 pm and competition will start at 7 pm. Many vendors will be onsite to participate!

Everyone is welcome to come and cheer on all the dogs of Loring Park who compete for the 2026 6th annual dog show awards! A movie will follow at sundown.

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Aug
3
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Aug
10
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

View Event →
Sing-along with Dan Chouinard
Aug
11
7:00 PM19:00

Sing-along with Dan Chouinard

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.

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Aug
17
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Aug
24
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Aug
31
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Sep
7
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

View Event →
Sing-along with Dan Chouinard
Sep
8
7:00 PM19:00

Sing-along with Dan Chouinard

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.

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Sep
14
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Sep
21
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Sep
28
7:00 PM19:00

Shuffleboard

It may be the Pickleball Era, but further down the path leading toward the sleeping Berger Fountain are shuffleboard courts that date to 1939. I walk by the empty courts often, but it wasn't until last summer that I saw people actually playing shuffleboard, a regular Monday night occurrence from 7-9PM, June 1 through September, it turns out, weather permitting.

When they were first installed, the shuffleboard courts were so popular, according to the MPRB, that reservations were necessary to use them in the evening. According to James Ockuly, a member of the Loring Park Shuffleboard Club, the courts have experienced several periods of disuse since 1939. It was thanks to a Loring Park resident named Al Galazen in the 1980s, who bought up old equipment, and to the Park Board, that spruced up the courts, that the Club was established and will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026 (there is even a Facebook page for the Club).

So if the pickleball courts are full one Monday evening this summer, you might stroll down to the shuffleboard courts to watch or better yet play. Membership is free and comes with a free lesson. The club owns its own gear so you need only be equipped with the curiosity to learn about this recreational activity that has stood the test of time. The lovely group of shuffleboard aficionados who have kept the courts alive are eager to welcome you.

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Sing-along with Dan Chouinard
May
12
7:00 PM19:00

Sing-along with Dan Chouinard

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.

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May
2
10:00 AM10:00

Gardening Kick-off Brunch

The gardening season begins next week! Join us for a light brunch to reconnect with friends and neighbors or meet friends and neighbors who share our love of Loring Park. Hear from Loring Park resident Lee Frelich. Learn about this year’s gardening and invasive species pulls projects. To help us with our planning, please RSVP here: Brunch SignUp

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Sing-along with Dan Chouinard
Apr
21
7:00 PM19:00

Sing-along with Dan Chouinard

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.

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Sing-along with Dan Chouinard
Mar
10
7:00 PM19:00

Sing-along with Dan Chouinard

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.

View Event →
Sing-along with Dan Chouinard
Feb
10
7:00 PM19:00

Sing-along with Dan Chouinard

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.

View Event →
Sing-along with Dan Chouinard
Jan
13
7:00 PM19:00

Sing-along with Dan Chouinard

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.

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