| S | M | T | W | Th | F | Sa |
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1 Beethoven's
9th Colin Hay |
2 Craftstravaganza Free Comic Book Day Lisa Lampanelli Maple Grove Crafts Queensryche |
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3 Flight of
the Conchords May Day Pow-wow & Crafts St. Olaf Handbell Choir |
4 |
5 Cinco
De Mayo Elton John & Billy Joel |
6 Earth Crisis | 7 |
8 Cursive Movie: Star Trek 11 |
9 Black
Dog Block Fishing Opener Hopkins Crafts Manchester Orch Scottish Fair & Highland Games |
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10
Mother's Day Mogwai Race for the Cure Tony Bennett |
11 Bruce
Springsteen |
12
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13 |
14 Keith
Urban Taste of Lakeville |
15 Foreigner Keane Lorie Line Tainted Love |
16 Steven Wright |
| 17
Critical
Mass |
18
Paula
Poundstone |
19 |
20
Chaska
Taste |
21 Diane
Keaton RetroRama |
22 |
23 Andre Rieu |
| 24 |
25 Memorial Day Powwow WWII Flyover |
26 |
27 |
28
Yanni |
29 Prospect
Park Tower Sara Evans Slice of Summer Car Show |
30 Demetri
Martin Foreclosure Auction Hutchinson Crafts Northern Lakes Run WBL Crafts |
| 31 |
| Apr 30-May 2 | play skating |
Dames
at Sea, Pearson Theatre, Concordia University Silver Skates Ice Revue, Minnetonka Ice Arena |
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| Apr 30-May 3 | fair | Festival of Nations, RiverCentre | ||
| Friday | May 1 | music music |
Beethoven's
9th Symphony, Northrop Auditorium (8pm) Colin Hay (Men at Work), The Cedar (7pm) Overkill on YouTube |
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| May 1-2 | holiday skating music |
Cinco
de Mayo, St. Paul (May 1st - 4-9pm & May 2nd 9am-6pm) That 70s Skating Show, National Sports Center, Blaine Vince Gill, Mystic Lake (8pm) |
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| May 1-3 | crafts | Southtown Mall Arts & Crafts, Southtown Mall, Bloomington (Fri & Sat 10am-9pm,Sun 11am-4pm) | ||
| May
1-3, 8-10, 12-14, 22-28 |
baseball | Minnesota Twins, Metrodome | ||
| Saturday | May 2 | craft fair comics comedy music craft fair |
Craftstravaganza,
Fine Arts Center, Minnesota
State Fairgrounds (9am-5pm) Free Comic Book Day, Big Brain, Comic Book College, Midway Books, Source, Uncle Svens... Lisa Lampanelli, Orpheum Theatre (8pm) Queensryche, Myth, Maplewood (6pm doors) Spring Arts, Craft, and Gift Sale, Maple Grove Community Center |
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| May 2-3 | show kids |
Living
Green Expo, Minnesota State Fairgrounds (Sat 10am-6pm, Sun
10am-5pm) Thomas & Friends, Target Center |
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| Sunday | May 3 | comedy-music fair, parade powwow music |
Flight
of the Conchords, Northrop
Auditorium (7:30pm) >> New Zealand's 4th most popular guitar-based digi-bongo accapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo May Day (Tree of Life ceremony - festival - parade), Powderhorn Park (1-7pm) Pow-wow and Craft Fair (12th), Grand Casino - Mille Lacs (powwow noon-5pm, crafts 10am-7pm) St. Olaf Handbell Choir Spring Concert, Boe Memorial Chapel, St. Olaf College, Northfield (2pm) >> Three handbell choirs perform in one concert: the Manitou Handbell Choir, the Chapel Ringers, & the St. Olaf Handbell Choir. Having heard just the St. Olaf Handbell Choir perform in November of 2008, I said everyone needs to hear them. Here's your chance! |
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| Tuesday | May 5 | holiday music |
Cinco
de Mayo (see May 1-2) Elton John & Billy Joel, Xcel Energy Center (7:30pm) >> The Rocket Man & the Piano Man both hit the piano. |
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| Wednesday | May 6 | music | Earth Crisis, Station 4, St. Paul (6pm) | |
| May 7-8 | music | Beach
Boys, Grand Casino Mille Lacs (8pm) >> Mike Love & Bruce Johnston from the original Beach Boys -- here's Don't Worry Baby |
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| May 7-24 | musical | Venus, Ritz Theater, Minneapolis | ||
| Friday | May 8 | music movie |
Cursive,
First Avenue mainroom (8pm) Star Trek 11 |
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| May 8-9 | fishing | Minnesota Governor's Fishing Opener, White Bear Lake | ||
| May 8-10 | dance dance |
Minnesota Dance
Festival (Ballet Minnesota), Fitzgerald Theater Riverdance, State Theatre |
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| May 9-10 | fair | Shepherd's
Harvest Sheep & Wool Festival, Washington County
Fairgrounds, Lake Elmo >> Sheer fun. |
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| Saturday | May 9 | music music craft fair fair |
Black
Dog Block Party, 4th & Broadway, St. Paul (noon-7pm) >> Tarace Boulba, Brass Messengers, El Arco Iris, Maria Isa, Cafe Accordion Orchestra, Aviette, Junkyard Empire, & Farewell Plut. Manchester Orchestra, Station 4, St. Paul (7pm) -- here's I Can Barely Breathe Spring Arts, Craft, & Gift Sale, Hopkins Pavilion Arena, 11000 Excelsior Blvd (9am-4pm) Scottish Fair & Highland Games |
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| Sunday | May 10 | holiday music run music |
Mother's
Day Mogwai, First Avenue mainroom (8pm) Race for the Cure, Mall of America (7:25am) Tony Bennett, Mystic Lake Casino (7pm) |
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| Monday | May 11 | music | Bruce Springsteen, Xcel Energy Center (7:30pm) | |
| May 13-17, 19-24, 26-31 | play | The Phantom of the Opera, Orpheum Theatre | ||
| Thursday | May 14 | music fair |
Keith
Urban, Xcel Energy Center (7:30pm) Taste of Lakeville |
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| May 14-17 | skating | Roseville Open, Roseville Skating Center | ||
| Friday | May 15 | music music music music |
Foreigner,
Treasure Island Casino (8pm) Keane, Myth, Maplewood (7pm) Lorie Line, Maplewood Community Center (7:30pm) Tainted Love (new wave music from the 80s), Fine Line Music Cafe (9pm) |
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| May 15-16 | fair | Golden Valley Days (May 15th - Brookview Park & May 16th City Hall) | ||
| May 15-17 | kids ballet |
Dora
the Explorer, State Theatre St. Paul City Ballet Spring Gala, E.M. Pearson Theatre, Concordia U >> Met the company in October 2008 at the Landmark Center. Nice group of people. It's interesting that they started dancing as early as 3 and as late as 18 years old. It's also interesting that pointe shoes cost between $60-80 and last only a few weeks. Machine made shoes cost less and can only last a day. |
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| Saturday | May 16 | comedy | Steven
Wright, Fitzgerald
Theater (8pm) >> Steven Wright is the funniest peripheral visionary ever. |
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| Sunday | May 17 | music | Critical Mass, Minnesota Music Cafe (6-11pm) | |
| Monday | May 18 | comedy | Paula
Poundstone, Guthrie Theatre (8pm) >> Paula Poundstone & the Lube Rack Case |
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| Tuesday | May 19 | music | Taking Back Sunday, First Avenue mainroom (5pm) | |
| May 19-24 | baseball | St Paul Saints, Midway Stadium | ||
| Wednesday | May 20 | fair | Chaska Area Taste, City Square Park, Chaska | |
| Thursday | May 21 | lecture fashion show |
Diane
Keaton, Connected Conversations,
Orchestra Hall Fashion Comes Full Circle, RetroRama Fashion Show by Anna Lee, MN History Center |
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| Saturday | May 23 | music | Andre Rieu, Target Center | |
| May 23-24 | craft fair craft fair |
NSC Cup Craft
& Gift Sale, National Sports Center, Blaine >> Target audience? Soccer moms. St Cloud Spring Arts, Craft, & Gift Sale, St Cloud Armory, 1710 Veteran's Dr, St Cloud 56303 |
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| May 23-Aug 26 | exhibit | Native
Words, Native Warriors, a Smithsonian traveling exhibit,
Minnesota History Center >> Native American languages were used during WWI & WWII as frontline code talkers. During WWI, Choctaw was first used in October 1918, leading to Comanche, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Osage and Yankton code talkers. The irony was that back in the U.S., government policy prohibited the use of native languages. During WWII, Navaho Marines were standard communicators, while the Army used Assiniboine, Cherokee, Chippewa, Choctaw Kiowa, Comanche, Dakota, Hopi, Lakota, Menominee, Muscogee Creek, Oneida, Pawnee, Seminole, and Meskwaki (Iowa) soldiers for communications. (Frank Sanache, last of the Meskwaki code talkers, died in Aug 2004.) Some code talkers also served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. On June 23rd, the MN History Center will celebrate the Dakota Code Talkers. |
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| Monday | May 25 | holiday powwow exhibit |
Memorial Day Memorial Day Pow-wow, Mille Lacs Indian Museum (noon-5pm) >> 12 miles north of Onamia on the southwest shore of Lake Mille Lacs (U.S. Hwy. 169) Minnesota's Greatest Generation exhibit - World War II flyover, MN History Center (10am-5pm) |
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| May 26-27 | music | Rickie Lee Jones, Dakota Jazz Club (7pm) | ||
| Thursday | May 28 | music | Yanni, Target Center (7:30pm) | |
| May 28-30 | music music |
Heliotrope Six,
Ritz Theater, Minneapolis >> underground music including International Novelty Gamelan, Knife World, Lungs, Mach FoX, Milo Fine & Davu Seru, Moonstone, Paul Metzger, Skoal Kodiak, Vampire Hands, & Wrong. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 by Vänskä, Hough, & the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra Hall |
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| Friday | May 29 | view music cars |
Prospect
Park - Tower Hill Witch's Hat Tower observation deck (5-8pm) >> This is the one day a year the observation deck is open. Sara Evans, Grand Casino - Hinckley (8pm) Slice of Summer Car Show, downtown North St. Paul (6-10pm) |
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| Saturday | May 30 | crafts comedy recession crafts run |
Crafted Together Craft
Show, Avalon Mall, 2179 4th St, White Bear Lake (9am-3pm) (map) Demetri Martin, State Theatre (8pm) Foreclosure Auction, Minneapolis Convention Center room 200 Hutchinson Spring Craft Show, Mcleod County Fairgrounds Commerical Building (10am-3pm) Northern Lakes Run 5k, 10 mile, & 30k, White Bear Lake (8am) |
| Classic Rock | Classical | Country | Easy Listening | Rock |
| The
Beach Boys Billy Joel Bruce Springsteen Colin Hay Elton John Foreigner |
André
Rieu Beethoven Tchaikovsky |
Keith
Urban Sara Evans Vince Gill |
St
Olaf Handbells Tony Bennett Yanni |
Keane Mogwai Queensrÿche Taking Back Sunday |
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