The State Theatre will be temporarily closed for the summer of 2024, but exciting things are happening! The restoration of the old lobby will be done during this time. We hope to have it completed in early fall, if not it will still be functional as a venue while we complete this project.
We are working on the fall schedule.
Additional shows will be added and ticket links up soon.
Here is what we have so far…….
Late September / early October – Manhattan Film Festival
10/2 Reminiscing Concert
Whether you “lived the 70s or just love the 70s”, come reminisce with us as we perform your favorite hits the way you remember them! Sing along with us as we play classics from England Dan and John Ford Coley, The Little River Band, Pablo Cruise, and many others. You’ll hear “Baby Come Back”, “Still the One”, “I Go Crazy”, “Lido Shuffle”, “Wildfire”, “Whenever I Call You Friend” and so much more. We feature three lead singers backed by a stellar Minneapolis band. You can look forward to LOTS of harmonies, stories behind the songs plus more fun stuff.
https://reminiscingmusic.com/
10/26 Jackson Browne Tribute
Boyd Lee and his band will be adding Jeff Engholm (Collective Unconscious) in this fabulous tribute the music of Jackson Browne
11/2 Mick Sterling
MEMPHIS AND THE MEANTIMES / The Songs of The Grand Ole Opry and Sun Records
11/9 Belfast Cowboys
is a nine-piece, horn-driven band from Minneapolis that specializes in the music of Van Morrison, mixing rock, blues, roots and soul sounds. Led by veteran songwriter and guitarist Terry Walsh and powered by a four-piece horn section, the Cowboys have flourished in the renowned Minnesota music scene and have consistently packed houses and wowed crowds since 2002.
11/23 Disco Kingz
If you missed this show last year, don’t let this one pass you by.
https://discokingz.com/
Billy McLaughlin Holiday Show – date not yet confirmed
The following events are at The Zumbrota State Theatre.
Event Information:
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Fri26Apr2019Reception at Crossings: 6:30pm Program at State Theatre: 7:30pm
Poet-Artist Reception
Crossings Event at the Zumbrota State Theatre
Exploring Collaboration, the Annual Poet-Artist Collaboration Returns to Crossings
Crossings’ XVIII Annual Poet-Artist Collaboration exhibit, celebrating a pairing of two art forms, is on display March 25 through May 4. Read the poems and determine for yourself how the artists were inspired. Fifty poets and visual artists took part in this years’ exhibit which can be seen free of charge during regular business hours. A reception and poetry reading takes place Friday, April 26, at 6:30 p.m. both at the gallery and next door at the State Theatre.Over 100 poets and artists participated in this year’s event by entering up to three poems each, or submitting artistic work samples. Jurors winnowed more than 200 poems down to just 26. Other jurors selected 26 artists from those who entered. For this exhibit, each artist chooses one poem from which to create an artwork. Poems and the work they inspired are displayed together.
The poems share many familiar life experiences, from living in Minnesota or the countryside or in warmer climates. Partings are painfully, lovingly shared, as are happy moments of the poets’ lives. The artists turned their vision of the poem given to them into works using a variety of mediums, including oil and watercolor, mixed media, weavings, encaustic and more.
Elizabeth Weir, of Wayzata, MN, wrote “A Thing Not to Be Missed,” set in Namaqualand, Namibia, which begins:
We hurry into the setting sun in search of Namaqualand’s brief promise
of a desert strewn with the hues of sudden daisies. Disappointment
thrums beneath our tires; a few snatches of color here and there.
We speed on, blind with haste, our habit to search and consume,
never enough time to know the world and live in its gift.Inspired by a different poem, Alison Anne McClocklin of Rochester created “Wove.” About her process, she says: After a quiet pause when I first read this gentle poem, my natural response was with playful curiosity—I said, "darn it!" and slid a lightbulb into one of my treasured, holey, handknit socks. Thus, a mama sock doll was born and a world of woven children in a colorful, patched together, mended up circle celebrating the joys of homespun motherhood, resourcefulness, and creativity. It was a joyful chance to explore the aesthetics of weaving, darning, patching, and craftiness, all with salvaged scraps of fiber, to honor the quiet, but beautifully rich, moment of life this poem expresses.
