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We are closing out the rest of August 2015 with some of these shows, events, concerts in the Minneapolis/St Paul area.
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Minneapolis Music Guide.
MEKAAL HASAN BAND
at Cedar Cultural Center
Wednesday, 08/26/2015, 7pm ($20)
thecedar.org
Guitarist
Mekaal Hasan is bringing his Indo-Pakistani band
Mekaal Hasan Band to the Cedar Cultural Center next Wednesday, August 26th.
If you like world music, you definitely need to check out the band on their first ever North American tour (which started at SXSW 2015).
Band members: Mekaal Hasan - Guitars, Composition, Mohammad Ahsan Papu - Flute, Gino Banks - Drums, Sheldon D'Silva - Bass, and Sharmistha Chatterjee - Lead Vocals.
Upcoming tour dates:
Aug 21 - Bloomington, IN - Player's Pub
Aug 26 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
Aug 30 - New York, NY - Joe's Pub
Sep 5 - Los Angeles, CA -The Markaz
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 Def Leppard
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MINNESOTA STATE FAIR
at Minnesota Fair Grounds
08/27/2015 - 09/07/2015 ($12 to $67)
mnstatefair.org
Despite my protests, we end up going to the
Minnesota State Fair every year. This is the "Great Minnesota Get-together", where everyone goes to enjoy eating something on a stick. I think it can get really expensive, so I recommend buying a coupon book and splitting it with some of your friends. Your food options will be somewhat limited, but at least you save a couple of bucks.
Already legendary hard rock band
Def Leppard sold out their MN State Fair appearance.... but not to worry, I know the band will be back in town soon.
Also, I don't think there's been a replacement for the
Meghan Trainor yet, she had to cancel her remaining tour because of a throat surgery.
NOTE: In order to see the Grandstand concerts, you'll have to pay the MN State Fair's entrance fee in addition to the Grandstand prices.
Grandstand shows:
• Aug. 27: Def Leppard with Styx and Tesla
• Aug. 28: Keith Urban
with Kelsea Ballerini
• Aug. 29: Carrie Underwood
with Native Run
• Aug. 30: Alan Jackson
with Brandy Clark
• Aug. 31: The Turtles with Flo & Eddie
• Sept. 1: Meghan Trainor (canceled)
• Sept. 2: Pattie LaBelle
with the Commodores
• Sept. 3: Lynyrd Skynyrd
with Collective Soul
• Sept. 4: A Prairie Home Companion
• Sept. 5: The Avett Brothers
• Sept. 6: Amateur Talent Contest
• Sept. 7: Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson
with Sturgill Simpson
If you're a cheapskate like me, the Fair does offer some great free shows. We usually attend the Leinie Lodge Bandshell shows:
Aug. 27 - 28: Gaelic Storm
Aug. 29 - 30: Terri Clark
Aug. 31 - Sept. 1: Andy Grammer
Sept. 2 - 3: Lou Gramm "The Voice of Foreigner"
Sept. 4 - 5: Reel Big Fish
Sept. 6 - 7: Home Free
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X
at Mill City Nights
Saturday, 08/29/2015, 8pm ($20)
millcitynights.com
The original Los Angeles punk band (and impossible to Google)
X will be in town on August 29th. I'm not entirely sure if their guitarist and X co-founder
Billy Zoom will be joining them on this tour, as he is undergoing some bladder cancer treatment, thanks to the $50k plus donation and T-Shirt campaign of "Support Billy Zoom – Nice guy, punk legend". If anything, I'm sure you can pick up the Billy Zoom shirts at their upcoming show to show support.
Dead Rock West to open the show.
Tour dates:
08/28/15 Milwaukee, WI Juneau Park
08/29/15 Minneapolis, MN Mill City Nights
08/30/15 Des Moines, IA Wooly's
09/01/15 St. Charles, MO Bottleneck Blues Bar
09/02/15 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill's Duck Room
09/04/15 New Orleans, LA House Of Blues
09/05/15 Birmingham, AL Saturn
09/06/15 Nashville, TN City Winery Nashville
09/08/15 Athens, GA Georgia Theatre
09/09/15 Atlanta, GA Terminal West
09/11/15 Annapolis, MD Rams Head On Stage
09/12/15 Hopscotch Music Festival
09/19/15 Del Mar, CA Kaaboo
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CHELSEA WOLFE
at Triple Rock Social Club
Monday, 08/31/2015, 8pm ($14)
triplerocksocialclub.com
We previously caught
Chelsea Wolfe at
Roy Wilkins in 2014 (with Queens of the Stone Age), and at
Fitzgerald Theater in 2014 (with Eels)... so we're pretty familiar with her work.
Wolfe's currently headlining a tour in support of her new album
Abyss, which came out August 7th on Sargent House.
Denver's
Wovenhand (aka David Eugene Edwards) also on the bill.
US tour dates:
08/27/15 Las Vegas, NV Backstage Bar
08/28/15 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
08/29/15 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
08/31/15 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock
09/01/15 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall
09/02/15 Cleveland Heights, OH Grog Shop
09/03/15 Toronto, ON Lee's Palace
09/04/15 Montreal, QC Théâtre Fairmount
09/05/15 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair
09/09/15 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall
09/10/15 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
09/11/15 Washington, DC U Street Music Hall
09/12/15 Hopscotch Music Festival
09/14/15 Atlanta, GA Aisle 5
09/15/15 Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge
09/17/15 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks
09/18/15 Houston, TX Rudyard's
09/19/15 Austin, TX The Mohawk
09/20/15 Dallas, TX The Kessler Theater
09/22/15 El Paso, TX Tricky Falls
09/23/15 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad
09/24/15 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar
09/25/15 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theater
09/26/15 San Francisco, CA Regency Ballroom
09/28/15 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
09/29/15 Seattle, WA Neumos
09/30/15 Vancouver, BC The Rickshaw Theatre
10/02/15 Bellingham, WA The Shakedown
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