Yeison Landero
at the Cedar (July 16, 2025)
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Every Wednesday, music fans can experience Summer at the Cedar for free at the Cedar Plaza (outdoors). There are limited seating, so the venue suggests you can bring
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July 16, 2025 Wednesday
Yeison Landero
at Cedar Cultural Center
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From San Jacinto in Colombia’s Montes de María province near Cartagena,
Yeison Landero will be bringing his Latin music to the Cedar Cultural Center on July 16, 2025.
Every Wednesday, music fans can experience
Summer at the Cedar for free at the Cedar Plaza (outdoors). There is limited seating, so the venue suggests you can bring your own chairs.
Summer at the Cedar
July 9 - Sinkane
July 16 - Yeison Landero
July 23 - Abinnet Berhanu’s Ahndenet
July 30 - Buddha Prince
August 6 - Combo Daguerre
August 13 - The Burroughs
August 20 - Ukrainian Village Band
Trapper Schoepp at Sunset Series (July 17, 2025)
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The Summer series takes place every Thursday evening, starting June 12 and ending August 21, in Downtown Park, 40 Ninth Avenue S, Hopkins.
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Trapper Schoepp has some fun with this one (how could you not?), borrowing a few lines he overheard a kid lament during the ride: “I feel weird, I feel
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July 17, 2025 Thursday
Trapper Schoepp
at Hopkins Downtown Park
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Trapper Schoepp is headlining Hopkin’s
The Sunset Series on Thursday, July 17, 2025. The Sunset Series is a free outdoor concert series, showcasing local favorites to emerging new talent taking place every Thursday evening, starting June 12 and ending August 21, in Downtown Park, 40 Ninth Avenue S, Hopkins.
Bring a chair and some friends! If there’s rain, they may move the show indoors at The Depot (9451 Excelsior Blvd). An announcement will be made by 3pm of the concert date.

Trapper Schoepp at 7th St Entry (April 14, 2023)
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We’ve previously seen Annie Mack (
Dec 2024): “Mack has a voice built for the blues” and Trapper Schoepp (
April 2023): “The Trapper Schoepp Band was started when Trapper and his brother Tanner Schoepp were in high school. They recorded and released A Change in the Weather in 2007. Some band changes, which created Trapper Schoepp & the Shades… and that’s how we first heard of the group, in November 2013.”
Lineup:
June 12 - Katy Tessman and the Tumbuckels
June 26 – Zacc Harris, American Reverie
July 10 – Triple Fiddle
July 17 – Trapper Schoepp
July 24 – Annie Mack
July 31 – Westwind Big Band
August 7 – Salsa del Soul
August 14 – Power of 10
August 21 – Elska
Bachman-Turner Overdrive and The Marshall Tucker Band
at Treasure Island (July 19, 2025)
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Jefferson Starship is one of the most successful groups of the 1970s and 80’s, and continues to tour today with original member David Freiberg, drummer Donny Baldwin
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July 19, 2025 Saturday
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
and The Marshall Tucker Band
with Jefferson Starship
at Treasure Island
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I was recently at a Home Depot, in Jacksonville, when
Bachman–Turner Overdrive’s classic song “Takin’ Care of Business” came on the airwaves at the home improvement store. A young dude in the other aisle was absolutely singing along, finishing that line, “
Takin’ care of business - EVERYDAY!” This story is to illustrate what a great song it was that dominated the US Top 40 charts in the ‘70s… and carrying itself well into 2025, that a new generation is loving the infection song.
It looks like the Canadian rock group will be playing Treasure Island Casino, in Welch, Minnesota, on Saturday, July 19, 2025.
Co-headlining the event will be southern rock pioneers
The Marshall Tucker Band, famous for “Can't You See” and “Heard it in a Love Song”.
Support will be from
Jefferson Starship. Don’t confuse the band with the original
Jefferson Airplane or the evolution/breakoff
Starship (famous for “Sara” and “We Built This City”). Still, if you’ve seen one of these Jefferson-related bands, I think you can mark them all off on your Bingo card.
Summer US Tour Dates with The Marshall Tucker Band and Jefferson Starship:
July 18 – Council Bluffs, IA – Harrah’s Stir Cove
July 19 – Welch, MN – Treasure Island Casino
July 20 – Fargo, ND – Scheels Arena
July 22 – Interlochen, MI – Kresge Auditorium
July 24 – Appleton, WI – Neuroscience Group Field
July 25 – Terre Haute, IN – The Mill Terre Haute
July 26 – Huber Heights, OH – Rose Music Center
August 1 – El Reno, OK – Lucky Star Casino
August 3 – Amarillo, TX – Amarillo Civic Center Complex #
# Outlaws replacing Jefferson Starship as special guest
Summer US Tour Dates - BTO only:
July 28 – Bloomington, IL – Bloomington Center For The Performing Art
July 29 – Elk Grove Village, IL – The Village Green at the Charles Zettek Municipal Complex
July 31 – Jefferson City, MO – MU Health Care Capital Region Amphitheater
August 15 – Wendover, NV – Peppermill Casino
August 16 – Beaver Creek, CO – Vilar PAC
August 18 – Boise, ID – Western Idaho Fair
August 21 – Pala, CA – Pala Casino
August 22 – Ft. McDowell, AZ – We-Ko-Pa Casino
August 23 – Albuquerque, NM – Legends Theater at Route 66 Casino
August 26 – Dallas, TX – Majestic Theater
August 27 – Park City, KS – Park City Arena
August 28 – Tulsa, OK – The Cove at River Spirit
August 30 – St. Charles, MO – Family Arena
August 31 – Cedar Rapids, IA – Paramount Theater
September 17 – Puyallup, WA – Washington State Fair
September 19 – Grand Ronde, OR – Spirit Mountain Casino
September 20 – Lincoln, CA – Thunder Valley Casino
Minnesota Yacht Club (July 18-20, 2025)
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Minnesota Yacht Club Festival
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No surprises here, but Minnesota Yacht Club Festival (MYC) returns to Minnesota. Presale (lowest priced-tickets) will be made available today, January 30 at 10am
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Punk trio Green Day is pleased to announced their three nominations for iHeartRadio Music Awards for “Rock Artist of the Year”, “Alternative Artists of
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Ska/punk trio Sublime dominated the radio airways in 1997 with such hits as ‘What I Got’ and ‘Santeria’ from their third self-titled album... They were the
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One of the most popular voices from Ireland came to the heartland as folk-rock singer-songwriter Hozier played a long sold-out show in front of 18,000 fans
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311 w AWOLNATION, Blame My Youth, Grinders KC The rock/rap/funk band started in Omaha way back in 1990, and has been a local favorite ever since
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After previously naming an album 2.0, this could be considered version 3.0 of the career of Garbage, the Madison, WI based band who resumed work in
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Fall Out Boy brought So Much Stardust to end Night One of the 2023 NFL Draft held at Union Station in Kansas
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The second half of the show is Lara's music pick of The Alabama Shakes and why she loves them. Song of the show is "You Ain't Alone", which was
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The popular “Hey, Soul Sister” band Train is headlining the Surly Brewing Festival Field this September 11, 2023. Show up early to
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The evening opened strong with Sheryl Crow dueting with Olivia Rodrigo and Stevie Nicks with Laura Dern doing the induction duties before Peter Frampton joined
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Longtime Rockville MD alt-roots rock band O.A.R. (Of a Revolution) got things started with a 75-minute opening set, that properly warmed up the crowd
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Before he was Father John Misty, he was known as Josh Tillman, or rather by his billing stagename, J. Tillman. We caught J Tillman at the Music
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Due to popular demand (the original venue Fine Line Music Café sold out), the Beach Bunny (led by Lili Trifilio) show got an upgrade to First Avenue’s
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Steven Weeks-Johnson was fun, doing some 90s tunes like Sublime’s “What I Got” and Blind Melon’s “No Rain”. He even played Joe Walsh’s “Life's Been Good”.
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July 18, 2025 Friday
July 19, 2025 Saturday
July 20, 2025 Sunday
Minnesota Yacht Club
at Harriet Island
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Can you believe it? The biggest music event of Minnesota, the
Minnesota Yacht Club Festival (MYC) will be taking place this weekend, starting on Friday (July 18) and ending on Sunday (July 20). Pre-sale tickets sold out seven months ago!!! The lineup is incredible.
NOTE: Please note that
Blind Melon has replaced
Semisonic on Sunday night.

Hozier at State Theatre (0June 2, 2019)
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For Friday,
Hozier is the headliner. The headliner is incredibly popular, playing to 18,000 in
2024. We caught Hozier in Minnesota, in
June 2019 and said, “What is even more impressive is that while the debut self-titled album only reached #2 on the US chart, Hozier’s sophomore album Wasteland, Baby! went straight to #1 - thanks to such strong singles as “Movement” and “Almost (Sweet Music)”. Although his international breakout single “Take Me To Church” (which the band closed out the show with), I think the real secret to Hozier’s success is his very excellent band and backup singers. They were all giving their 150%, and you can just tell how much they love playing these songs.”

Father John Misty at Rock the Garden (June 16, 2018)
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Also, on Friday is
Father John Misty, who we saw in
June 2018 and wrote, “As usual, the Rock the Garden did a great job organizing the music festival. Although the original scheduled was delayed about 30 minutes, because of the weather... once the music started, they did an amazing job getting things back on track. Father John Misty had a whole Minnesota orchestra behind him (players Leah Ottman/LOTT, Cameron Kinghorn, the Laurels String Quartet, Dan Lawonn, and Devan Moran).”

Weezer at Azura Amphitheater (June 11, 2023)
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On Saturday, the headliner will be Chicago’s popular band
Fall Out Boy (not to be confused with
Fallout’s Vault Boy), which we saw in
April 2023 … however, we probably more excited for
Weezer. We last saw Weezer in
June 2023 and said, “Weezer would begin as darkness filled the skies, illuminating the car dashboard stage set, themed around road trips and a large backdrop screen that showed animated versions of famous landmarks that could be visited on a road trip, as the band dipped into their entire three decade-plus musical catalogue. Singer Rivers Cuomo gained instant applause, sporting a I Heart KC t-shirt and at one point early on, Cuomo said "something is wrong" and he "turned up the volume" on the dashboard stage to keep the road tunes and fun atmosphere going.”

Garbage at Mystic Lake (July 21, 2017)
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Personally speaking, I’m more excited about Sunday’s lineup, which features punk legends
Green Day on the same bill as
Garbage and
Sublime! That’s totally nuts! We love Garbage and have seen them a few times, with the last in
July 2017: “After previously naming an album 2.0, this could be considered version 3.0 of the career of Garbage, the Madison, WI based band who resumed work in 2012 after a break, and is in support of last summer’s Strange Little Birds (on the band’s own Stunvolume Records) and also their own coffee table book, This is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake (Akashic Books). Their new one-off single, the brooding ‘No Horses’ opened their seventy-five minute set, with singer Shirley Manson literally shimmering in a sparkling dress hiding Dr. Martin-style boots underneath. The band (Duke Erikson-bass; Steve Marker-guitar; Butch Vig- drums) remains a musically tight as ever, working in all the radio hits, in addition to a fewer newer songs.”
As usual, we will be there early to cover all the bands - including local favorites like
Semisonic and
Raffaella.
Friday - July 18
Hozier
Alabama Shakes
Train
Sheryl Crow
Father John Misty
Gigi Perez
The 502s
Hamilton Leithauser
Mike Kota
Maygen & the Birdwatcher
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Saturday - July 19
Fall Out Boy
Weezer
Remi Wolf
OAR
Cory Wong
Motion City Soundtrack
Silversun Pickups
Jake Clemons
Raffaella
LAAMAR
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Sunday - July 20
Green Day
Sublime
311
Garbage
Beach Bunny
The Beaches
Blind Melon
Grace Bowers
Winona Fighter
Landon Conrath
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If your band is coming to the Minneapolis/St Paul area, please email details to
[email protected] with a good lead time. Thank you.
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