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Friday, February 3, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Robby Vee's Rock-n-Roll Revue presents
"The Day the Music Died"
In recognition of the plane crash in Clear Lake, IA that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper Robbie Vee presents his tribute show.
Join us for an evening of electricity and music hosted by international touring artist ROBBY VEE a Rockabilly Original, second generation rocker & Canadian Rockabilly Hall of Famer!
Robby hails from one of popular music's most hallowed legacies- “the Rock ‘N’ Roll family. Named after his father Bobby Vee (Take Good Care of My Baby, the Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Rubber Ball, Devil or Angel, Run To Him, Come Back When You Grow-up Girl, Love You More Then I Can Say), and family friend, Brian Hyland (Sealed With a Kiss, Gypsy Woman), both legendary pop music icons, he’s steeped in rock’s timeless tradition of pop, swing, rockabilly and bop. Robby’s talent, creativity and perseverance as a singer/ guitarist/ songwriter and entertainer has captured the attention of audiences and respected industry professionals world wide for more than a decade. He has learned from, and shared credits and stages with the architects and legends of Rock ‘N’ Roll, such as Little Richard, the Everly Brothers, Carl Perkins, Sir Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Dion, The Righteous Brothers, Buddy Holly’s Crickets, Dick Clark and his ‘Caravan of Stars Rock ‘N’ Roll Show’ and many more. For more info and tour dates visit:
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
SATURDAY - February 11, 2012 - 7:30 pm
SUNDAY - February 12, 2012 - 2:00 pm
Dairy-Aire Theatrics Presents: Heroes
A Tom Stoppard translation of a play by Gerald Sibleyras
Three World War One veterans are whiling away their days in a French Sanatorium in 1959. But their humdrum lives are rejuvenated when they hatch a daring plan to escape their confines and the murderous clutches of their keeper, Sister Mary Madeleine. Winner of the 2006 Laurence Olivier BEST NEW COMEDY Award, it’s been described as “Cuckoo’s Nest” meets “Waiting for Godot.”
Starring:
Patrick O’Brien; An Eau Claire native, he’s returned to the Twin Cities after 22 years in LA. He’s appeared in over a hundred films (Benjamin Button, Pleasantville, Stuart Little, Intolerable Cruelty…) and TV shows (Saved by the Bell, ER, CSI, Monk, West Wing, Reba, Night Court, Baywatch, Sabrina, Home Improvement…) He’s glad to be back in Hayward, having performed his one man show, “Underneath The Lintel” at the Park a couple years ago.
Laurence Ripp is a 32 year veteran of the Twin Cities theater scene with many shows under his belt, some of which being his own productions. A former radio announcer and commercial copywriter, Larry enjoys writing his own material and has produced a number of award winning short plays.
John Gottskalkson: Has been performing character roles for over 25 years. He was most recently seen as Dave Moss in Sweet Charity’s production of Glengarry Glen Ross, for which he won Best actor award for the MACT Festival. John has performed for several other theaters around town including Park Square, Lyric (John Hassler Theater) TRP, and the Minnesota Shakespeare Company.
Tickets are $15 in advance and at the door. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Mojo Lemon
Mojo Lemon is a spirited blues-rock outfit that in 1999 emerged from the fountain-o-blues that is the Eau Claire metro area. Mojo's high-energy in-your-face shows have become legendary on the Wisconsin & Minnesota club scene, not to mention they have been voted "Best Blues Band in the Chippewa Valley" by readers of VolumeOne Magazine three years in row. In its 12-year run, Mojo has become the "go-to" band as opener for national headlining acts as well as headlining themselves at clubs and festivals all over God's green earth.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 4:00 pm
American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation presents Vegard Ulvang
Vegard Ulvang, a six-time Olympic medalist, is skiing the Birkie this year, and otherwise participating in the weekend, He is an ambassador for Multiple Sclerosis as part of our "Skiers for Cures" program. There are details in the press release below. His talk will be about the expedition he is on right now to the South Pole!
Press Release:
http://www.birkie.com/news_article/show/108214?referrer_id=104650
Expedition Blog:
http://sorpolen2011.npolar.no/en/
Tickets
$20 per person at the door or ... use your "Ski for the Cure" Pin.
Click Here to buy your "Ski For The Cure" Pin online for $20.
Pins are also available for sale at the Birkie office and New Moon Ski & Bike in Hayward, and at the Birkie Expo. Wear this pin on your race bib on Feb. 25 for a chance to win one of many great door prizes!
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Michael Perry and the LongBeds
Michael Perry is a humorist and author of the bestselling memoirs Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, Truck: A Love Story and Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting, as well as the essay collection Off Main Street. Perry has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Backpacker, Orion and Salon.com, and is a contributing editor to Men’s Health. He has performed and produced two live audience humor recordings (I Got It From the Cows and Never Stand Behind a Sneezing Cow) and he performs regularly with his band the Long Beds. Perry lives in rural Wisconsin, where he remains active with the local volunteer rescue service.He can be found online at www.sneezingcow.com.
Raised on a small dairy farm, Perry equates his writing career to cleaning calf pens – just keep shoveling, and eventually you’ve got a pile so big, someone will notice. Perry further prepared for the writing life by reading every Louis L’Amour cowboy book he could get his hands on – most of them twice.He then worked for five summers on a real ranch in Wyoming, a career cut short by his fear of horses and an incident in which he almost avoided a charging bull. Based on a series of informal conversations held around the ol’ branding fire, Perry still holds the record for being the only cowboy in all of Wyoming who was simultaneously attending nursing school, from which he graduated in 1987 after giving the commencement address in a hairdo combining mousse spikes on top, a mullet in back, and a moustache up front – otherwise known as the bad hair trifecta. Recently Perry has begun to lose his hair, and although his current classification varies depending on the lighting, he is definitely Bald Man Walking.
Perry has run a forklift, operated a backhoe, driven truck, worked as a proofreader and physical therapy aide and has distinguished himself as a licensed cycle rider by careening into a concrete bridge completely unassisted. He has worked for a surgeon, answered a suicide hotline, picked rock in the rain with an alcoholic transvestite, was a country music roadie in Switzerland, and once worked as a roller-skating Snoopy. He can run a pitchfork, milk a cow in the dark, and say “I don’t understand” in French, Greek and Norwegian. He has never been bucked off a horse, and contends that falling off doesn’t count. He is utterly unable to polka.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
Friday, March 2, 2012 - 7:30 pm
A Celebration of Christian Music
More info to come.
Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 2:00 pm
A Celebration of Christian Music
More info to come.
Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Warren Nelson Ensemble
More info to come.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Take 3
St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Take 3 artists Tom Draughon, Lisa McGinley, and Kevin McMullin are consummate musicians whose delicate vocal arrangements and clear warm harmonies set them apart from almost all other groups in the contemporary acoustic music scene.
As individual artists, each has been performing for over 25 years, honing their musical skills and showmanship in front of a wide array of audiences. All three are multi-instrumentalists and strong vocalists with extensive performing and recording backgrounds and performance credits.
Take 3's instrumentation includes guitar, fiddle, bass, whistle, bodhran, autoharp, and banjo, and their musical styles range from traditional Appalachian to Celtic to Swing. Joining together in a tightly knit presentation of original and traditional music and songs, their impeccable musicianship and innovative vocal and instrumental arrangements combine to create a concert that will be enjoyed by even the most discerning listener.
Their premier performances were a rave at the 2006 Ashland Folk Festival, Northland College, Ashland, WI, and 2006 Ashland Chamber Music Society series.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
A Benefit Concert to Support School Music Programs
More info to come.
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 7:30 pm
The Whitesidewalls
More info to come.
Tickets are $20 in advance and at the door. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
Friday, April 13, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Lamont Cranston
More info to come.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Michael Monroe
More info to come.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Tickets for students are $5. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 7:30 pm
WOJB presents: "Maudlin"
More info to come.
Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Brian Miller and Randy Gosa
"Music of the Lumberjacks"
More info to come.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Tickets are available in advance at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd Street or may be purchased ONLINE.
Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Bill Staines
More info to come.
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