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The Good Intentions coming Saturday to Oak Center General Store's Folk Forum

Mar 7, 2016

The Good Intentions, a traditional bluegrass band led by Chris Silver, will perform Saturday, March 12, at 8 p.m. at the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum. The band counts Hot Rize, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Tony Rice, and J.D. Crowe among their influences. Their sets are a mix of songs...

Folk duo Curtis and Loretta to bring songs of resiliency to Folk Forum March 5

Mar 2, 2016

Curtis and Loretta’s Saturday, March 5, performance at the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum will feature many songs from the duo’s new album “When there’s Good to be done.” “All 12 songs are ones I wrote about real-life people who have overcome great challenges in their lives,” Loretta Simonet...

Bill Staines to take Folk Forum stage again Feb. 28

Feb 22, 2016

The indelible Bill Staines has played over 30 shows at the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum: he’ll add one to that total at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28. Regarded as a folk treasure, Staines is known for virtuosic guitar work, incisive vocals and stories filled with laugh-out-loud humor. Tickets...

Reina del Cid and band to make Folk Forum debut Saturday, Feb. 20

Feb 17, 2016

Reina del Cid will perform at Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20. From the band’s website: “Faced with the question of influences, (band leader) Reina del Cid cites literary rather than musical heroes. She commands a flexibility of language reminiscent less of Regina...

Rad Lorkovic Valentine show comes to Oak Center Feb. 13

Feb 10, 2016

Croatian multi-instrumentalist Radoslav Lorkovic will perform his take on the traditional American styles of folk, blues, jazz and zydeco at the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum Saturday, Feb. 13, beginning at 8 p.m. Descended from renowned classical pianist Melita Lorkovic, the lifelong...

Peter Ostroushko and Dean Magraw to perform here Saturday night

Feb 3, 2016

Renowned fiddle and mandolin player Peter Ostroushko (above) and guitarist Dean Magraw will perform together beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Oak Center General Store. Tickets are $5 to $15: patrons pay what they can. Children’s tickets are available in exchange for a freewill donation...

Joe and Vicki Price to perform in Oak Center Jan. 23

Jan 21, 2016

Country blues mainstays Joe and Vicki Price (above) will play a concert at the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum Saturday, Jan. 23, at 8 p.m. The Prices have opened for John Lee Hooker, the Rev. Al Green, and Greg Brown and are reknowned for the interplay of their steel, electric and acoustic...

Coming to Oak Center Nov. 7, The High 48s

Nov 5, 2015

Bluegrass band The High 48s will make their Oak Center General Store Folk Forum debut with an 8 p.m. performance on Saturday, Nov. 7. The band takes their name from railroad slang for the boxcars originally used to transport troops on the front lines in WWI that could carry 40 soldiers or eight...

Meyer, Kipper to play in Oak Center on Halloween

Oct 28, 2015

Rockabilly balladeer Barbara Meyer, long-time collaborator Stan Kipper and their band will perform at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31 for what her website promises will be a “spooky, spell-casting Hallowe’en party” at the Oak Center General Store. Meyer and Kipper are former members of the Minneapolis...

The Sudden Lovely's coming to Oak Center this weekend

Oct 7, 2015

Self-described “aggressive folk” duo The Sudden Lovelys will return to the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum on Saturday, Oct. 10, for an 8 p.m. performance. Based in northeast Minneapolis, Daniel and Paige Ferrarro first met through Craigslist in 2008. In 2010 they formed the Sudden Lovelys, a...