For the first segment in the ArtZany Radio Studio, Paula Granquist welcomes Celtic musician and Master Folk artist Laura MacKenzie to preview the Brass Lassie performance at Armory Square in Northfield.
For the second segment in the ArtZany Radio studio Paula Granquist welcomes theater artists from the Northfield Arts Guild – Mishia Edwards from the production The Revolutionists and Sebastian Lawler and Susan Carlson from the production The Outsider.
Events:
Brass Lassie at Armory Square – Fri, Oct 21 @ 7:30PM Armory Square, 519 Division St. S., Northfield, MN. We are delighted to be performing in Northfield again, and at this great venue. Brass Lassie will be joined by dancers Joe Chvala and Karla Grotting, of Flying Foot Forum!
Tickets $15 in advance (advance tickets advised!) Tickets also available at the door. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brass-lassie-at-armory-square-tickets-412957044637
BRASS LASSIE, a bold trad band based in the Twin Cities of St. Paul/Minneapolis, combines traditional tunes, songs and style with dazzling modern horn lines, sparking their own genre of eclectic, remarkable music. The ensemble performs extraordinary takes on Scottish, Irish and French music, traditional and new, featuring a powerful 4-piece horn section, a terrific rhythm section, fiddle, flutes, pipes and vocals, plus occasional percussive dance. Their smart, joyous horn arrangements are by top notch jazz arranger Peter Enblom, plus some great ensemble arrangements from David Milne.
Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 Third Street West, Northfield, MN
The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Mishia Edwards –
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.
The Outsider by Paul Slade Smith, directed by Deon Haider – Ned Newley doesn’t even want to be governor. He’s terrified of public speaking; his poll numbers are impressively bad. To his ever-supportive Chief of Staff, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur Vance sees things differently: Ned might be the worst candidate to ever run for office. Unless the public is looking for… the worst candidate to ever run for office. A timely and hilarious comedy that skewers politics and celebrates democracy.
