The Slamming Doors perform during the Great Northern Radio Show on March 22, 2014 at the Mesabi Range College theater in Virginia, Minnesota. PHOTO: Shelly Hanson
It’s been a good summer for live music in Northern Minnesota. Though I was too busy to write about it back then, the KAXE Mississippi River Festival last month, featuring past Great Northern Radio Show acts like Actual Wolf and the Roe Family Singers, was fantastic.
The same venue — the Rotary Tent outside KAXE studios on the Mississippi River in Grand Rapids — will host another quality festival this Saturday, Aug. 9.
Northbound Caravan features the red hot Minneapolis singer/songwriter Erik Koskinen and his band, along with Iron Range based The Slamming Doors, Twin Ports band Brothers Burn Mountain and Bemidji’s Sonny Johnson. All these groups have either appeared on my Great Northern Radio Show, or will in the future and just don’t know it yet.
Northbound Caravan starts at 5 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 9, with Johnson, followed by Brothers Burn Mountain, The Slamming Doors and closing with the Koskinen band. Tickets cost $12 and you can buy them in advance here.
And don’t forget, over on the other side of the Range you can see the ’90s super group Live play Merritt Days in Mt. Iron, along with the St. Louis County Fair and various other activities in Chisholm.
I’ll be setting out on another road trip, but if not for that I’d be pretty jazzed to see that lineup at Northbound Caravan. Give it a try. You won’t be disappointed.
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