Bernie King in the Guilty Pleasures might be tough to bracket but they sure are easy to enjoy. A little bit blues, a little bit blue grassroots, a little bit rock, and a little bit kitchen sink, a style of music that some fans have come to call “blues-grass”. You’ll hear some great original songs inspired by the styles of Shane McGowan, Johnny Cash, the Rolling Stones and Bill Monroe. With a rough and tumble mix of guitar, banjo, mandolin, string bass, washboard, snare drum and accordion, Bernie King and the Guilty Pleasures are exactly what the doctor ordered.

Bernie King and the Guilty Pleasures
Sept. 17th 7:30 PM
State Theatre
Tickets online $18
$20 at the door

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Lamont Cranston Band – At The Zumbrota State Theatre

This legendary Midwest band has played with every one from Muddy Waters to Bonnie Raitt to The Rolling Stones.  Their 80’s hit “Upper Mississippi Shakedown” still gets regular radio airplay all over the country.  In 2010, the band was inducted into the Mid-America Music Hall Of Fame.  Their 30^th anniversary in 2009 included being honored with their own “Lamont Cranston Day” by the City Of St. Paul and the State Of Minnesota, a lifetime achievement award, a City Of Duluth “Ambassadors Of The Blues Award”, and an induction into the Minnesota Music Hall Of Fame.  A rockin’ party band that can’t be beat.  Dan Aykroyd says “No one infects venues with the party virus quite like Lamont Cranston”.

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America’s longest-running multicultural song and dance company, the Duquesne University Tamburitzans is a unique ensemble of talented young folk artists dedicated to the performance and preservation of the music, songs, and dances of Eastern Europe and neighboring folk cultures. Crossings brings the Tamburitzans to the State Theatre.

The Tamburitzans’ goal is to enrich lives by entertaining and educating their audiences. Each year the Tamburitzans present a new two-hour program that represents the joy of life and beauty of the cultures that it represents. The work is based on the countries and ethnographic regions of Armenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Poland, Romania, and Russia. The troupe combines colorful traditional costumes, authentic instruments, and beautiful voices to create a spectacular evening’s entertainment.

When the Tamburitzans perform, their stage becomes a kaleidoscope of sight and sound. Songs are sung in many languages and dialects. Footwork is articulated in hundreds of styles. Along with the more conventional accordion, clarinet, violin and guitar, folk instruments such as the bandura, tambura, gadulka, and cimbalom are plucked, picked, bowed and hammered.

Costuming alone is a great reason to see a Tamburitzans show. During the course of a single performance, more than 400 original and authentically reproduced costumes are worn by the performers. Each costume design is meticulously researched for authenticity, then created for the stage. The result is a carousel of style and color from the first note to the final stomp.

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Fans of that early Nashville sound won’t want to miss “The Music and Magic of Patsy Cline,” back by popular demand at the State Theatre. The show features Cassie and the Bobs performing Cline’s music with impressive authenticity.

Cassie Wiesner’s powerful portrayal of Patsy Cline takes audiences on a trip down memory lane as she sings “Crazy,” “Walkin’ After Midnight,” “I Fall To Pieces,” and many more of the songs that made Cline famous and admired. No one comes closer to sounding like Cline than Wiesner, and the Bobs are a full group of accomplished musicians, dedicated to sounding as true-to-the-spirit of the original recordings as possible.

Cline was a pioneer of the 1960s Nashville sound and as a female headline performer. She had attained great success by age 30, when she died in a private plane crash. She remains a major influence for many singers and is one of the most acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th Century. She was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame – the first female soloist to receive that honor.

In addition to Wiesner, the Bobs feature many talented musicians, including current or former members of bands like Silverado, Oh Aces, The Salty Dogs, Skilly and Duff, Patty and the Pinetones, The Waybacks and Little Henry.

Cassie and the Bobs have been touring Minnesota and eastern South Dakota for seven years and have gathered rave reviews wherever they play. The group continues to draw hundreds of people to their performances, a testimony to the quality of their show and the enduring popularity of Patsy Cline more than 50 years after her death.

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Songs of Hope, the concert tour resulting from a six-week camp for children from around the world performing the music of their countries, stops in Zumbrota for the sixth year in a row. The free concert is at the State Theatre. Crossings and the Zumbrota Area Arts Council are sponsoring the performance.

The event showcases music from countries large and small mixed with U.S. songs chosen because they offer perfect entertainment for a warm summer’s night: folk, jazz, blues, rock ’n roll, and much more. Music originating from participating children’s homelands will be part of the show. In the past, children have come from Vietnam, China, India, Serbia, Albania, Italy, Greece, Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, and many other countries.

The annual Songs of Hope concert tour has a well-deserved reputation for lively, upbeat shows for all ages, and this year’s show promises to be better than ever. Children from many countries, ages 9 to young adults, participate in Songs of Hope, a six-week performing arts summer camp in St. Paul.
More than just a performing arts camp, the nonprofit Songs of Hope™ offers participants a unique opportunity to live in community with kids from other cultures while learning and performing music from many countries. Campers learn to look past prejudices, misconceptions and newspaper headlines as they live, sing and dance together. They practice six hours a day, six days a week for six weeks. Then, they take these songs of peace, love, and respect into neighboring communities in a joyous celebration of cultural unity, delighting their audiences along the way.
The whole company performs on every song, which means the performers from more than a dozen countries will be singing in several languages that may be entirely new to them. An additional pleasure is the chance to see rich and beautiful traditional costumes of many cultures.

These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Johnny Rogers will transport his audience back in time when you could go to your favorite malt shops with your favorite girl and dance to your favorite bands. “Buddy & Beyond: The History of Rock ’n Roll” is a tribute to the music of the legends of rock ’n roll.

His show will start with Rogers’ uncanny portrayal of Buddy Holly and go on with tributes to legends Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ricky Nelson and Chuck Berry. The show climaxes with his portrayal of the King himself, Elvis Presley.

Performing on stage with some of the biggest names in the business and entertaining for four U.S. presidents, among his many fans Rogers is already considered by many to be one of the best entertainers on today’s music scene.

His stage presence echoes the king of rock ’n roll and his guitar licks blend the skills of Chet Atkins and Jimi Hendrix. Rogers was nominated for best show in Branson, Mo. in 2009 and 2010, and Branson critic Gary Wackerly says he’s the best entertainer he’s seen in his 25 years.

Rogers has performed at the London Paladium and the Cavern Club, as well as the Surf Ballroom (site of Holly’s final show), the Clovis Music Festival, and the Music City Theater in Branson, Mo.

“I have been asked who put on the best show doing Buddy Holly. The guy I enjoyed hearing the most was Johnny Rogers. I’m also impressed with the way he does other artists and would like to hear him again. His performance, look, and mannerisms remind me of my brother.”
– Larry Holly (Buddy’s brother)

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Terry Lee Goffee has been a Johnny Cash fan since he was 8 years old. His long-running admiration for the music and the man is apparent in his performance as Cash in “The Ultimate Tribute to Johnny Cash.”

Goffee does more than play the music or “impersonate” Cash: like an actor in a play, he becomes his character from the moment he walks on stage until the end of the show. He plays the music so well audiences and reviewers rave. He plays the man so well, he was chosen to provide the moves for a Cash character on the Guitar Hero 5 video game.

He looks like Cash. He sounds like Cash. He moves like Cash: Nobody does Johnny Cash like Terry Lee Goffee.

Audiences will revel in 34 Cash songs, including classic such as “A Boy Named Sue,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” “I Walk The Line,” “Ring Of Fire, “Folsom Prison Blues,” and “Hurt.”

Cash – The Man in Black – is widely considered one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century. His music is primarily thought of as country, but his deep bass-baritone voice lent itself equally well to the genres of rock and roll, blues, folk, rockabilly and gospel.

He traditionally began his concerts with the simple “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” – a signature greeting supplied by Goffee for the Guitar Hero Cash character.

Goffee says his tribute, “Sprang from my appreciation and love, not only for the music of Johnny Cash, but for the man himself. A champion of the underdog, a voice for those who often have none, an ‘outlaw’ before it became fashionable. If you come away from this presentation with a better understanding of who Johnny Cash is, I will have succeeded in my vision for this endeavor.”

Goffee’s tribute show has taken him all across the United States, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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June 18th: State Theatre – Be a Friend! FREE ADMISSION  10:00 am – 3:00 pm Popcorn 5 cents- just like the old days- Theatre Tours and short movie – come on in  during Covered Bridge Festival and Art in East Park. Information on how to become a Friend of the Theatre will be available! https://sites.google.com/site/zumbrotastatetheatre/f