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Live music: Dead Pigeons at The Folk Forum Oct. 7

Oct 5, 2017

Another season of the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum concert series begins Saturday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m. with a performance by Dead Pigeons. If the group’s name sounds familiar, you may remember it from the time the Americana group headlined the Water Ski Days beer tent stage. Tickets are $15...

Joe and Vicki Price, Saturday at the Folk Forum

Apr 26, 2017

On Saturday, April 29, people can come on down to the Oak Center General Store in Oak Center, where country blues mainstays Joe and Vicki Price will play a Folk Forum concert at 8 p.m. The Prices have opened for John Lee Hooker, the Rev. Al Green, and Greg Brown and are renowned for the interplay...

Ostroushko and Magraw  Saturday at the Folk Forum

Apr 20, 2017

Renowned fiddle and mandolin player Peter Ostroushko (above) and guitarist Dean Magraw will perform extra-terrestrial folk jazz together beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 22, at the Oak Center General Store. Tickets are $15: people with low income can inquire about reduced prices. Children’s...

Bellville’s Folk Forum show is a comeback (of sorts)

Mar 29, 2017

Katey Bellville, “The Twin Cities’ sweetheart of bluegrass, Americana and folk,” will perform Saturday, April 1, at the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum. She’s toured extensively in the Midwest and even performed a duet with Alison Krauss on “A Prairie Home Companion.” Saturday’s show will be...

Folk Forum welcomes Café Accordion

Mar 22, 2017

Regular “A Prairie Home Companion” guests Café Accordion will perfom Saturday, March 25, at the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum. Led by accordionist Dan Newton, the five piece ensemble pairs traditional Parisian cafe jazz with meanderings into folk and contemporary styles. The show begins at...

Party Penguins return  to Folk Forum Saturday

Mar 16, 2017

Minneapolis quintet The Pistol Whippin Party Penguins will play a mix of folk, rock, blues, and bluegrass during an 8 p.m. show at the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum Saturday, March 18. Tickets are $15: people with low income can inquire about reduced prices. Children’s tickets are available...

Bill Staines to take  Folk Forum stage again

Feb 23, 2017

The indelible Bill Staines has played over 30 shows at the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum: he’ll add one to that total at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26. Regarded as a folk treasure, Staines is known for virtuosic guitar work, incisive vocals and stories filled with laugh-out-loud humor. Tickets $15...

Mother Banjo at the Forum 

Dec 7, 2016

New England-raised, Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Ellen Stanley (aka Mother Banjo) and her band will perform at the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum on Saturday, Dec. 10, at 8 p.m. Ben Cook-Feltz will open. The show is one of three release shows for Stanley and Cook-Feltz’s Holiday EP, “...

Rad Lorkovic, Barefoot Wonder to perform

Nov 30, 2016

Classically trained Croatian multi-instrumentalist Radoslav Lorkovic plays the blues. He plays folk. He plays zydeco. He plays Saturday, Dec. 3 at the Oak Center General Store’s Folk Forum alongside Barefoot Wonder. Tickets are $15: people with low income can inquire about reduced prices. Children’...

Jillian Rae Band performs at Folk Forum Saturday

Nov 23, 2016

Violinist and singer-songwriter Jillian Rae and her band will perform at the Oak Center General Store Saturday, Nov. 26. Hailing from the iron range by way of Minneapolis, Rae claims a musical heritage that includes folk, country, bluegrass, rock, pop and even polka. Many of these styles are in...