Community Calendar

🎶 HighKey Mondays + Industry Night Are BACK! 🍻
Live local music | Drink specials | 6–9p

High Key Monday is FRIYAY for many of our industry partners—and we’re roll with it. Calling all restaurant, bar, liquor store, and brewery professionals in the Twin Ports - get on down to the Paddle for Industry Night!

Show a worker ID or pay stub for $1 off all Bent Paddle beverages. Thank you for keeping our paddles in the water!

Everyone is welcome! Come for the tunes, stay for the conversations, delicious beverages, and good times.

This month to kick off and celebrate the return, we invite you to connect with local organizations making waves in the Twin Ports—like WE Health, Trans+ Northland, Twin Ports Artists Collective, and Men As Peacemakers. Org’s may vary based on who available each week, but the good vibes are guaranteed!

🎶 HighKey Mondays + Industry Night Are BACK! 🍻
Live local music | Drink specials | 6–9p

High Key Monday is FRIYAY for many of our industry partners—and we’re roll with it. Calling all restaurant, bar, liquor store, and brewery professionals in the Twin Ports - get on down to the Paddle for Industry Night!

Show a worker ID or pay stub for $1 off all Bent Paddle beverages. Thank you for keeping our paddles in the water!
Everyone is welcome! Come for the tunes, stay for the conversations, delicious beverages, and good times.

This month to kick off and celebrate the return, we invite you to connect with local organizations making waves in the Twin Ports—like WE Health, Trans+ Northland, Twin Ports Artists Collective, and Men As Peacemakers. Org’s may vary based on who available each week, but the good vibes are guaranteed!

“Misisipi” Mike Wolf is a traditional folk and country singer/songwriter who performs both solo and in enough bands to fill a summer music festival lineup. He writes songs with the same heart and humor as greats like John Prine, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. Wolf recently won first place in the Duluth Dylan Fest songwriters contest and holds down weekly residencies throughout the Twin Ports, most recently at the Cedar Lounge. His local band projects include Boxcar, Neatneatneat, Actual Wolf, Crooked Mile and Eldri Snow’s Wintry Mix.

With a discography simultaneously transcendental in nature and grounded in roots music, Charlie Parr is the humble master of the 21st century folk tradition. Parr started recording in Duluth in 2002, where he lives today. Life in the port town on Lake Superior has a way of bleeding into his work the same way his childhood in Austin, Minnesota does. Parr self-released his debut album, Criminals and Sinners, and did the same for his sophomore album 1922 (2002). With growing popularity abroad, Parr signed with Red House Records in 2015, where he recorded break-out albums Stumpjumper (2015) and Dog (2017). Parr’s music has an overwhelming sense of being present and mindful, and his sound is timeless. Sonja Martin opens the show.

8PM Every Thursday in February

Erik Koskinen is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose music is not categorized by sub-genres. Stylistically he is on his own. Influenced by roots music of the Americas and the world, the rhythmic integrity and musical tone are as important as the lyrical content and the artistic intent. || Erik Koskinen’s Burning the Deal (released June 28, 2019 on Real Phonic Records/Tone Tree Music) is steeped in American roots traditions. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, raised in Northern Michigan and upper New York state, then living in urban Minneapolis and now, rural Minnesota, Koskinen grew up with the rhythms of weather, factory towns, and farmlands. Koskinen worked in construction for years as he developed his music career, and he now resides on a farm near where he owns a recording studio in Cleveland, Minnesota, population 717.

Cedar Lounge Taproom

“Misisipi” Mike Wolf is a traditional folk and country singer/songwriter who performs both solo and in enough bands to fill a summer music festival lineup. He writes songs with the same heart and humor as greats like John Prine, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. Wolf recently won first place in the Duluth Dylan Fest songwriters contest and holds down weekly residencies throughout the Twin Ports, most recently at the Cedar Lounge. His local band projects include Boxcar, Neatneatneat, Actual Wolf, Crooked Mile and Eldri Snow’s Wintry Mix.

Armchair Boogie is bluegrass at full throttle, infused with the energy of a jam band and the
swagger of rock ‘n’ roll. Hailing from Madison, WI, this electrifying quartet blends jamgrass, funk,
and country into a sound that’s as infectious as it is unexpected. Known for their tight
harmonies, blistering solos, and dance-fueled live shows, they’ve quickly become one of the
most exciting acts on the circuit.

8PM Every Thursday in February

Erik Koskinen is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose music is not categorized by sub-genres. Stylistically he is on his own. Influenced by roots music of the Americas and the world, the rhythmic integrity and musical tone are as important as the lyrical content and the artistic intent. || Erik Koskinen’s Burning the Deal (released June 28, 2019 on Real Phonic Records/Tone Tree Music) is steeped in American roots traditions. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, raised in Northern Michigan and upper New York state, then living in urban Minneapolis and now, rural Minnesota, Koskinen grew up with the rhythms of weather, factory towns, and farmlands. Koskinen worked in construction for years as he developed his music career, and he now resides on a farm near where he owns a recording studio in Cleveland, Minnesota, population 717.

Cedar Lounge Taproom

“Misisipi” Mike Wolf is a traditional folk and country singer/songwriter who performs both solo and in enough bands to fill a summer music festival lineup. He writes songs with the same heart and humor as greats like John Prine, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. Wolf recently won first place in the Duluth Dylan Fest songwriters contest and holds down weekly residencies throughout the Twin Ports, most recently at the Cedar Lounge. His local band projects include Boxcar, Neatneatneat, Actual Wolf, Crooked Mile and Eldri Snow’s Wintry Mix.

Between a guitar, mandolin and an array of sound effect devices, Erik Berry (Trampled by Turtles), singer-songwriter Marc Gartman (Two Many Banjos, Glitteratti) perform sets of Grateful Dead music. The duo perform actual and specific shows and song lists from that date, Friday the 13th, recreating the show.