Multi-generational jazz trio featuring Twin Cities-raised musicians Will Kjeer and Charlie Lincoln, paired with international drum mainstay Dave King (The Bad Plus, Happy Apple). This show will be live at Crooners and also live-streamed for free in partnership with the Twin Cities Jazz Festival through the KEEP MUSIC LIVE fund.

In Person AND Pay Per View Robert Robinson is reason to believe that the greatest music reaches every name and crosses every boundary, from audiences in the Pontiac Silverdome to troops in South Korea. Standing five foot five and sipping Diet Coke, Robert is “God’s canary.” He possesses the ability to sing any song and […]

"It’s very clear: Our love for George Gershwin is here to stay ... What you notice when you listen is how pure the songs sound, how spare and intimate. When she sings, Johnson sometimes imagines wrapping them in velvet. Her lush, precise, expressive voice, with its pearls of vibrato, is best unadorned. A smart, sensitive pianist – like Chouinard, an […]

This night we carry on the Artists Quarter tradition of B3 Organ Night with Pierre Lewis. St.Paul native Pierre Lewis has been keyboardist for the Commodores for the past 12 years. He spent his formative years as twin cities organ legend Bobby Lyles’ sub and regular organist for another Twin Cities saxophone legend Morris Wilson. […]

Johnnie Brown's raspy baritone voice delivers Teddy Pendergrass better than anyone in the country. His 14-member band headed by George Parrish delivers the music of “the Sound of Philadelphia” like it was meant to be played. Johnnie Brown has been selling out shows all over town for the last 7 years. You will not want to […]

Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Lesley Gore - just their names evoke memories! Now, "The Girls Singers" have a new show, "Sirens of the 60s" that recalls the great songs and memories of a musically and culturally transitional period of time.

Michael Monroe lives and records on the North Shore of Lake Superior in his solar powered log cabin studio. His instrumental music is seen across the nation on PBS and Canada in the award winning documentary, “Chased By The Light”, about Jim Brandenburg, National Geographic photographer and best selling author.

In Person AND Pay Per View Celebrated vocalist Joyann Parker treats us to a tour through the life and career of Patsy Cline, performed dozens of times at Crooners and back by popular demand!

The musicians of the JazzMN Quintet are all members of the JazzMN Orchestra, the Twin Cities premier professional jazz ensemble. The JazzMN Quintet will present a historical view of various artists that employed this instrumentation beginning with its infancy  in the swing era, into its standardization in bebop, through its heyday of the hard bop […]

The Sophia Kickhofel Quartet consists of several accomplished Twin Cities jazz musicians, with Ted Olsen on bass, Ben Ehrlich on drums, Lasse Corson on piano, and Sophia Kickhofel on alto saxophone. In addition to modern music, the Sophia Kickhofel quartet will be performing jazz standards, including tunes composed by John Coltrane and the great pianist Chick Corea

The New Standards return! Twin Cities musicians and raconteurs Chan Poling (The Suburbs) on piano, bassist John Munson (Trip Shakespeare, Semisonic), and Steve Roehm (Billygoat, Electropolis) on vibraphone. This dazzling trio creates jazz arrangements of recognizable hits and deep tracks alike, drawn from diverse musical genres ranging from pop, glam and soul, to rock and […]

A group of Twin Cities musicians that get together to perform now and then and explore music from various artists. The group for this performance includes Joe Mayo saxophones, Dave Brattain saxophones, Ted Godbout piano, Ted Olsen bass, and Mac Santiago drums. Some of the artists we’ll be exploring may include: Kevin Daily, Stanley Clark, Kenny […]