Community Calendar

8:00 PM Show

The Blue Valentine band is a Tom Waits tribute group based out of Duluth, Minnesota. Instead of a traditional, slow-burning jazz approach, the trio takes hits from Tom Waits' massive catalog of junkyard tunes and slams them into up-tempo, punk-influenced grooves.

The Cedar Lounge

Thursday Night Vinyl Sessions continue!

Come and ~vibe on vinyl~ every first and third Thursday of the month!

Vinyl Sighting Presents: Northern Wax Crew
"We are a crew of vinyl addicts' way up north via Duluth, MN'

Curated DJ sessions from a rotating cast! You will hear sets from DJ ANIBODY, Saint John, DJ Fraudulent, DJ StaggaLee, Natty Nico, Steeze in the Breeze, Bog Boy, Moeview, and Al Pajamas!

6-9 PM
All are welcome!
~vibe on vinyl~

2:00- 6:00 PM

Featuring Earth Rider Fest Bier, Polka music by Duluth's very own The Polkarobics, and an afternoon of Oktoberfest Games with Game Meister Shawn Fennesey.

The Cedar Lounge & Earth Rider Fest Grounds

No Cover

Thursday Night Vinyl Sessions continue!

Come and ~vibe on vinyl~ every first and third Thursday of the month!

Vinyl Sighting Presents: Northern Wax Crew
"We are a crew of vinyl addicts' way up north via Duluth, MN'

Curated DJ sessions from a rotating cast! You will hear sets from DJ ANIBODY, Saint John, DJ Fraudulent, DJ StaggaLee, Natty Nico, Steeze in the Breeze, Bog Boy, Moeview, and Al Pajamas!

6-9 PM
All are welcome!
~vibe on vinyl~

8:00 PM Show

The Driftless Revelers formed in the second spring of the first global pandemic of the 21st century, with one ear turned toward the shellac platters and Victrola virtuosos of the early to mid 20th century, and the other ear glued to the soundscapes of the 1960's & 1970's American freak-folk scene.

​Since their debut tour in 2021, the band has billed with Grammy & IBMA winning bluegrass legends like Tim O'Brien, the Gibson Brothers, & Larry Stephenson, and toured extensively throughout the upper Midwest & West coast performing with other amazing artists like Big Richard, The Stillhouse Junkies, Willy Tea Taylor, The Pine Box Boys, The Montvales, Joseph Huber, Davey Allen & the Midnights, Dig Deep, and had breakout performances at several festivals and events (The Good Luck Campout, The Sol Grass Music Festival, Flatrock Bluegrass Jamboree, Mile of Music in Appleton, WI. featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, & The Midsummer in the Northwoods Bluegrass Festival).

The Cedar Lounge

8:00 PM Show

In two decades on the road Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums – “Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” (The New Yorker), "Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection” (Uncut), “Songwriting Brilliance,” (Irish Times) – he’s built a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following, one that includes luminaries like Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, and Don Henley.

In September of 2024 Jeffrey Foucault released THE UNIVERSAL FIRE (Fluff & Gravy, 9/6/24), his first album of entirely new material since 2018. A series of high-voltage performances cut live in one room, the album is both a working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 – and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss.

Augmenting Foucault's all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver (drummer John Convertino and producer/saxophonist Mike Lewis) THE UNIVERSAL FIRE sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the Universal Studios lot in California that destroyed the master recordings of some of our bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality, legacy, meaning, and calling.

The Cedar Lounge

Thursday Night Vinyl Sessions continue!

Come and ~vibe on vinyl~ every first and third Thursday of the month!

Vinyl Sighting Presents: Northern Wax Crew
"We are a crew of vinyl addicts' way up north via Duluth, MN'

Curated DJ sessions from a rotating cast! You will hear sets from DJ ANIBODY, Saint John, DJ Fraudulent, DJ StaggaLee, Natty Nico, Steeze in the Breeze, Bog Boy, Moeview, and Al Pajamas!

6-9 PM
All are welcome!
~vibe on vinyl~

8:00 PM Show

Award-winning Duluth-based musician, author, and storyteller Teague Alexy has a new six-piece band. Teague Alexy & The Common Thread perform songs from their new album coming in 2023 as well as songs from Teague’s extensive back catalog. Teague has long been a stalwart of the Minnesota music scene as well as one of the founding brothers in the national-touring Americana act Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank. Teague’s guitar, harmonica, and songwriting are clearly influenced by his home in Duluth, his childhood in New Jersey, and his life as a traveling musical hobo that includes lengthy excursions through blues, reggae, Irish music, bluegrass, hip-hop, country and folk. Teague's storytelling also has deeper roots to his Irish ancestry. A ‘Teague’ in ancient Ireland was a traveling storytelling poet. Teague’s book, The New Folklore: Lyrical Tales for Dreamers & Thinkers, was published by North Star Press in 2017.

The Cedar Lounge