We are bringing back the lost art of the European “Salon”.
Art takes many forms - visual, performing, culinary. We’d like you to join us!
Judd Street Exchange, home of the Van Dell Studio & Gallery, is located above the historic Marine General Store and is a premiere gallery for visual arts exhibitions. The “Salon Series” features music, theatre, spoken word, dance, and more in monthly gatherings designed to fully immerse an intimate audience into the world of a specific art form. A combination of performance and creativity exchange, this new collection of live art will include events all year long.
Scroll down for a little "Salon" history and to see upcoming events!
Guest Artist: Curtis & Loretta
Guest Artist: Jen Burleigh-Bentz
Guest Artists: Jesse Nelson, Anthony Orlando
Performance + Art + Conversation
Folk singer-songwriter duo Curtis & Loretta’s music comes straight from the heart. The husband and wife duo’s extraordinary harmonies and proficiency on a parade of stringed instruments create an alluring frame for their poignant original songs, along with some carefully chosen traditional pieces. The current menagerie includes folk harp, mandocello, guitars, clawhammer banjo, and National steel ukulele, plus a bit of kazoo, harmonica, and percussion. Curtis’ down-home sense of humor and Loretta’s theater background engage the audience in an experience that runs the gamut of rolling with laughter to holding back tears, with plenty of side-trips in between.
Event Location: Judd Street Exchange - 101 Judd Street, Suite 4, Marine on Saint Croix, MN
Curtis & Loretta are a folk singer-songwriter duo, guided by their love of good songs and inspired by the stories of people they have met in their over 40 years of touring. Weaving together soaring harmonies with a wild menagerie of instruments that includes guitars, harp, mandocello, banjo, ukulele, kazoo, harmonica, and percussion, the duo performs their poignant originals with humor and heart. Curtis’ down-home sense of humor and Loretta’s theater background engage the audience in an experience that runs the gamut of rolling with laughter to holding back tears, with plenty of side-trips in between. They rack up countless miles each year, crisscrossing the country to deliver their own unique brand of folk singer/songwriter music. They’ve just been awarded the Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, which will enable them to present concerts in many small communities throughout Minnesota during 2024 - 2025.
Based in Minneapolis, husband and wife duo Curtis & Loretta have been named “Best Acoustic Performers of the Twin Cities” (City Pages), landed on Folk Radio Chart’s “Top Albums of the Year” and performed with such folk luminaries as Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Vassar Clements, Claudia Schmidt and Holly Near. Their latest album Lift the World, their 10th recording, is already being called “a generous cornucopia of beautifully crafted songs that speak from the heart of the struggles and joys of life, performed with honesty, grace, and uncommon musicianship.” (Chris Vallillo, Ginridge Music). Featuring songs that were written during the pandemic, the album celebrates what is really important in this life, from the heartwarming to the heart breaking.
For the duo’s previous album, When There’s Good to Be Done, Loretta wrote about real-life, ordinary people, who overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges in their lives, and came out stronger for the journey. She interviewed each of these unsung heroes, mostly Minnesotans, and crafted their stories into song. They are tales of courage, resilience, kindness and determination. Curtis & Loretta’s albums are featured on MNspin, a curated online music streaming platform presented by Hennepin County Library, and Loretta has been a finalist in the Tumbleweed Folk Festival Songwriting Contest in Richland, Washington, and the Minnesota Folk Festival Song Contest.
Loretta grew up in Stillwater and remembers lots of Sunday drives through Marine-on-St Croix, to visit her 100% Swedish grandma right up the road in Scandia. Curtis grew up in Texas, and the two met on the beach in Santa Cruz, California in the late 1970s. They married in Santiago, Mexico, in 1987.
"Curtis and Loretta are true treasures of Minnesota. Their music is stunning and their presence unforgettably lively and engaging. Loretta's recent songwriting is heartfelt and well-crafted, telling stories of the resilience of local Minnesota people while hitting pitch perfect universal themes. Their concert at the Folkhouse was a special event for everyone in attendance.” ... Folkhouse, Minneapolis
“… gems of the local folk music community…” Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis
“Curtis & Loretta are superb songwriters. They address the poignant issues of life that are common to all of us yet often neglected as the subject matter of song. Don’t miss them!”…Front Porch Music, Valparaiso, Indiana
"People emerge from Curtis & Loretta shows with tears of laughter as well as poignancy on their cheeks.” …The Columbian, Vancouver, Washington
PHOTO CREDIT: Jennifer Bong
$225/Ticket
Includes:
Next 10 Salons: March - December 2024
2 Friend Passes for first-time attendees
VIP Ticket for summer Concert on the Croix
(Value = $360+)
Thursdays, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
March 21
April 25
May 30
June 27
July 25
August 22
September 26
October 24
November 21
December 19
To reserve your tickets:
- Pay by card over the phone 651-300-9474
-Pay by check to Frosted Glass Creative - 270 5th Street, Marine on Saint Croix, MN 55047
-Click below to order online!
Directors Calyssa Hall and Randal Berger with Actors David Michaeli, Stephen Neff, Sarah Dickson, Cassidy Hall, and Michael Dufault
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Steve Clarke with Other Country Ensemble
Comedian Jason Douglas
A little history on the European "Salon”:
“Salons are nothing new, humans have been gathering together to discuss and debate ideas, and to share and savor new literature and music for centuries. They fall in and out of trend depending on the era, but for a solid 400 years or so, from about 1500 – 1900, salons were popular across Europe. The term salon suggests some modicum of regularity, and with that regularity came conversation, connection and community. Sometimes salons centered around a specific theme like poetry and at other times they were more general in scope. But the one central theme amongst them all was that the focus was on listening and speaking to each other, learning from those around you, your fellow guests at the salon.
While the roots of the salon can be found in Ancient Greece and Rome, the first recorded salons took place in Italy in the 15th Century, and these were a precursor to the Enlightenment Period. They were an opportunity for artists, poets, musicians, thinkers, the Renaissance intellectual glitteratti and their hangers-on, to come together across social classes to hob-nob and share ideas…” (Read more at this amazing source: thesalonhost.com)
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