Duluth Dylan Festival Songwriter Contest
Duluth Dylan Fest is an annual celebration in Duluth, Minnesota of Bob Dylan's work and influence. The songwriter contest features 12 singer/songwriters selected to perform an original song and a Bob Dylan cover. The event is held at Sacred Heart Music Center.
Homegrown: Western Wednesday at Mr. D's
The annual Homegrown Music Festival runs April 28th - May 5th. Our set is Wed, May 1st 10 PM at Mr. D’s.
Mayfest
Breanne and Evan are playing at Mayfest - St. Scholastica’s annual end of year celebration!
One Week Live Album Release Show
One Week Live Vol. 21 Album Release Party featuring:
Fri April 19 Roe Family Singers * Breanne Marie & the Front Porch Sinners * Slabtown Ragband $10 advance / $15 at the door
Breanne Marie at Whit's Craft
Whit's Craft is a self-pour taproom primarily focused on Minnesota crafted beers, ciders and seltzers. This is an all ages family friendly venue. Snacks are available for purchase or have food delivered in from one of the nearby downtown options!
SafeHaven Celebration
It’s time to celebrate! Why? March is SaveHaven’s 46th birthday + we’re now halfway through our Rebuilding Lives $100,000 matching challenge sponsored by Karen and Royal Alworth!
How are we celebrating? With a casual party at Hoops Brewing, including music by Breanne Marie.
Breanne Marie broke into the Minnesota music scene as a solo performer with an acoustic guitar and a repertoire of country covers. The success of her first album in 2013 set the stage for the formation of her full-blown backing band The Front Porch Sinners; As a songwriter, Breanne has a sentimental storytelling style with lyrics that speak to the hard times and natural beauty of rust belt communities like Duluth, MN.
Personal ties to Safe Haven: “In 1988 my mom, brothers and I spent about a week in the shelter and I vividly remember the resources we all received even though I was just 7 years old.”
Breanne Marie + Emma Jeanne
Breanne Marie
Breanne broke into the Minnesota music scene as a solo performer with an acoustic guitar and a repertoire of country covers. The success of her first album in 2013 set the stage for the formation of her full-blown backing band The Front Porch Sinners; As a songwriter, Breanne has a sentimental storytelling style with lyrics that speak to the hard times and natural beauty of rust belt communities like Duluth, MN. Evan Tepler will be joining her on guitar.
Emma Jeanne
Minneapolis based punk rock artist Emma Jeanne plays as both a solo act and duo and recently in the band Yonder. With influences stemming from early 2000s female-led acts, she brings an intense, fast-flowing, and melodic energy in her music. Hattie Peach will be joining her on fiddle.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Pre-Party
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
with special guest Palehound
TICKETS
Ticket Prices: $49-$139
PRE-PARTY
Live Music from Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners
Paulucci Hall
Doors open at 6pm, Music at 6:15pm
Food & Beverage available for purchase.
**Must have a ticket to the Jason Isbell concert to attend.**
About the band:
It’s Great Lakes Country from a front porch in Duluth, MN. Bringing foot-stomping hometown country jams and soulfully sentimental ballads, Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners delivers high-energy Americana.
Featuring singer/songwriter and sometimes trumpeter Breanne Marie on lead vocals, the band blends traditional pedal steel and fiddle with guitar lines, driving bass and drums which Americana Highways described as “a brilliant blend of 90s indie and country.” Whether winding through creative sonic landscapes or laying down toe-tapping bluegrass, their heartfelt lyrics and songwriting aim to warm even the coldest nights.
The band was formed in 2013 for Breanne’s debut album. Current members include Breanne Marie, Evan Tepler, Kailyn Pelerin, Johnny “Blaze” Peterson, Matt Groom and Tarek Makky. The band’s 2021 release “Juniper” features nine tracks including fan favorite “Central Hillside ‘91.” The group is headed into the studio with plans for a late 2024 full album release.
ABOUT JASON ISBELL
A Jason Isbell record always lands like a decoder ring in the ears and hearts of his audience, a soundtrack to his world and magically to theirs, too. Weathervanes carries the same revelatory power. This is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and then strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two stops equaling four once you reach certain age — and carry a certain amount of scars.
“There is something about boundaries on this record,” Isbell says. “As you mature, you still attempt to keep the ability to love somebody fully and completely while you’re growing into an adult and learning how to love yourself.”
Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive. The record features the rolling thunder of Isbell’s fearsome 400 Unit, who’ve earned a place in the rock ‘n’ roll cosmos alongside the greatest backing ensembles, as powerful and essential to the storytelling as The E Street Band or the Wailers.
They make a big noise, as Isbell puts it, and he feels so comfortable letting them be a main prism through which much of the world hears his art. He can be private but with them behind him he transforms, and there is a version of himself that can only exist in their presence. When he plays a solo show, he is in charge of the entire complicated juggle. On stage with the 400 Unit, he can be a guitar hero when he wants, and a conductor when he wants, and a smiling fan of the majesty of his bandmates when he wants to hang back and listen to the sound.
The roots of this record go back into the isolation of the pandemic and to Isbell’s recent time on the set as an actor on Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. There were guitars in his trailer and in his rented house and a lot of time to sit and think. The melancholy yet soaring track “King of Oklahoma” was written there. Isbell also watched the great director work, saw the relationship between a clear vision and its execution, and perhaps most important, saw how even someone as decorated as Scorsese sought out and used his co-workers’ opinions.
“It definitely helped when I got into the studio,” Isbell says. “I had this reinvigorated sense of collaboration. You can have an idea and you can execute it and not compromise — and still listen to the other people in the room.”
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Front Porch Fridays: Here Kitty Kitty Night
The full band, along with special guests, are gonna heat things up in January and February at The Caddy Shack in Lincoln Park. Every week, the Front Porch Sinners will perform their original Great Lakes Country music followed by a theme related to their special guest(s). No cover! 21+
Here Kitty Kitty Night features The Trash Cats! Check them out here: https://trashcatsduluth.com/
The Market at Center Court
The Market at Center Court at the Holiday Center on Superior Street is a new event featuring food, fun, unique vendors & music on February 14, 21 and 28! Breanne will be performing solo from 11:30-12:30 on Wednesday, February 21st.
Front Porch Fridays: All Hat No Cattle Night
The full band, along with special guests, are gonna heat things up in January and February at The Caddy Shack in Lincoln Park. Every week, the Front Porch Sinners will perform their original Great Lakes Country music followed by a theme related to their special guest(s). No cover! 21+
All Hat No Cattle Night features hip hop artist C-Silence! Check out his music here: https://c-silence.bandcamp.com/album/bomdotcom-ii
Harvest Moon Gala - A Benefit for KTWH
A very special annual gala. Enjoy social time, taco bar dinner and desserts, music by Tracy Parks, Gene & Amy and Breanne Marie and Evan Tepler of Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners and the awesome silent auction with many items to bid on, some are one of a kind. $25 presale ticket includes dinner (doors open at 5, dinner at 6) - purchase at the KTWH Studio in The Harbor Landing Building or Cedar Coffee/Spokengear. Music and silent auction only - $10 at the door, opens at 6:45. All proceeds benefit Two Harbors Community Radio - Your grass roots, volunteer driven, listener and community supported radio.
Backroads PBS Taping
This event is not open to the public. We’re heading over to Bemidji, MN to record an interview and live performance for Lakeland PBS’s “Backroads” program. We’re so excited to share some new songs and to be a part of this new season. Click here to see archived shows.
One Week Live
One Week Live Vol. 21 featuring
7 PM Tommy Wotruba
8 PM Breanne Marie & the Front Porch Sinners
9 PM Woodblind in dub
Tickets $10 available online and at the door.
Weeklong passes available online for only $40
all ages!
Duluth Does the Trio: Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
More than two dozen Twin Ports musicians will pay tribute to Dolly, Emmylou and Linda. This is a fundraiser for Sacred Heart. Breanne will perform a Dolly Parton song accompanied by Evan!
SquashFest
The Great Northern Squash Festival is two full days of music and camping with over 30 musical acts and live artists showcasing their original work. Family friendly camping as well as a kids tent and activities. Food and art vendors will be on site throughout the weekend.
More info, tickets or sign up to be a volunteer at www.squashfest.org
Thorstock
Welcome to Thorstock!
8 bands over the course of 2 evenings Labor Day Weekend!
BYOB
As well as Disc Golf, Bocce Ball, Horseshoes and, Bags!
Stay for an evening or pitch a tent! Bring a chair!
There will also be a merch tent!
I’m asking for a $10 donation
General Disclaimer: This takes place at my private residence so please remain respectful to the property and all other attendees. It’s fun to have fun but it’s not cool for it to be at the expense of others. Don’t be that person.
(If you are asked to leave you will be expected to respectfully do so.)
The food?
Curbside Crepes is putting together a special menu, Yum! Check back soon for more details!
The Fun!
Saturday bands:
(Tentative times)
10:00-12:00 The Imports
8:00-9:30 G’narwals
6:00-7:30 Big Into
4:00-5:30 Townline Trio
Sunday Bands:
(Tentative Times)
9:00-10:30 Pine & Fire
7:00-8:30 Thor Leseman
5:00-6:30 Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners (trio)
3:00-4:30 Eli Little
It’s going to be a great weekend! I invite you all to come enjoy yourselves!
Check back for updates, pictures, and discussion!
Farmer's Market
The Lincoln Park Farmers Market is open June 15th-September 28th every Thursday from 3-6 pm. Breanne will perform solo from 3-4:30 pm while you shop!
Bryant Lake Bowl - Let's Try This Again!
After having to cancel our original date for our Bryant Lake Bowl debut due to COVID, we are so excited to announce the rescheduled date of Saturday, July 8th. Even more exciting is that our friends Whalen & The Willows will be joining us. This alt rock band is going to rock your socks off and you’ll be singing their memorable songs long after the show has ended. Truly some of the nicest people ever and we can’t wait to all get together with you. Tickets will go on sale soon. Check back here or follow on social media for that link when it’s ready.
Vintage Marketplace & Music
It’s time for marketplace and music days at the Vintage Pub in Askov! We are so excited to be performing as a trio (Breanne/Evan/Johnny) for this event.
Songwriter Rounds
Songwriter Rounds at the White Squirrel Bar in St. Paul. More details to come.
Becky Schlegel & the 48s
Becky Schlegel performs original Minnesota music, drawing on the influence of classic country, bluegrass, folk, and a unique thoughtful spirit. Schlegel’s incredible voice floats, whispers and soars above music of the highest quality. She takes listeners on a musical journey, exploring new places and meeting new people in every song.
Becky Schlegel and The 48s will perform live and in-person on the Sacred Heart Music Center altar stage at 7:30 pm, Saturday, June 3. Duluth-based Americana songwriter Breanne Marie will open.
Schlegel has performed on the Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor and the Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour, is a 2016 inductee into the Legends of South Dakota Country Music Association, a Minnesota Music Awards recipient and MBOTMA’s Favorite Band/Vocalist 25th Anniversary Award Recipient. She is also a five-time IBMA Songwriter Showcase Participant.
The 48s include fiddler Eric Christopher, bassist Rich Casey, guitarist Clint Birtzer and banjo player Anthony Ihrig.
E-Tickets will be available for $20 on Eventbrite HERE beginning at 10am Friday, April 28. Paper tickets will be available at Globe News in Superior and Zenith Bookstore in West Duluth. Tickets will be available at the door for $25 while supply lasts. Doors at 6:30pm. Music at 7:30.
Homegrown Music Festival at the DECC Arena
Homegrown Music Festival at the DECC
Tuesday, May 2nd
7:00 - 11:00 PM
DECC Arena
All ages, wristband required (night-long for $15 or week-long for $40)
FENESTRA FUNK
Humble doom-funk band just trying to get to space.
BOSS MAMA AND THE JEBBERHOOCH
Soulful country blues.
THE GEMSTONES HONORING AFROGEODE
Reimagined jazz-influenced covers and originals.
BREANNE MARIE & THE FRONT PORCH SINNERS
Great Lakes country music from a front porch in Duluth.
Tony Don Tracy * Breanne Marie & the Front Porch Sinners
Tony Don Tracy
TDT has been busy recording new material that he wrote when living in Nashville, TN and Austin, Texas.
Breanne Marie & the Front Porch Sinners
Great Lakes country music from a front porch in Duluth, MN. Breanne Marie broke into the Minnesota music scene as a solo performer with an acoustic guitar and a repertoire of country covers and originals.The Front Porch Sinners consists of Evan Tepler on guitar; Johnny Peterson on pedal steel and mandolin; Kyle Gondik-Anderson on bass; Matt Groom on drums; Kailyn Spencer on fiddle and Danielle Gondik-Anderson on background vocals. The group plays "Great Lakes country music" which is an alt-country sound using classic country instruments mixed with lyrics that speak to the hard times and natural beauty of rust belt communities like Duluth, MN.
Tickets & table reservations starting at $7 available online
$10 at the door
Sugar on the Roof and Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners in Hibbing
Sugar on the Roof:
Old-timey string-band, country, and swing music from the '20s, '30s, and '40s, and a dash of original.
Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners:
Great Lakes country music from a front porch in Duluth. 7 piece alt-country band playing mostly original tunes.
No cover charge.
Breanne + Johnny at The Ore House
Join Breanne and Johnny at The Ore House for a nice little Thursday early evening show in Gilbert, MN.
Great Lakes Country Music from a front porch in Duluth, MN.
Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners and Kelley Smith
Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners perform Great Lakes Country from Duluth and Kelley Smith is a folk artist from the North Country.
Northstars, Sinners and Misisipi Oh My!
A night of original country, Americana and rock n' roll music. Don't forget to stretch for those high kicks.
Acoustic Sinners at Duluth Cider
Acoustic 5 pc version of Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners performing originals and covers.