John Gorka in Concert
Saturday, February 27th

Coming to the Festival Theatre stage is highly-acclaimed singer-songwriter John Gorka. From his college days playing a Pennsylvania coffee house to touring Europe last year, John Gorka has traveled an inspiring musical journey.

With a love for energetic acoustic folk music, John has become a peer to such names as Claudia Schmidt, Bill Morrissey, Nanci Griffith, Shawn Colvin, and Mary Chapin-Carpenter, sharing music that is not a trend, not a fad, but an expression of everyday life.

Tickets are $35

Leo Kottke to Perform at Festival Theatre

Legendary singer-songwriter Leo Kottke will perform at St. Croix Festival Theatre on January 9th & 10th, 2009. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. and tickets $50 per seat.

“We’re very pleased to be presenting Leo again,” said Danette Olsen, Festival Theatre’s director. “Festival’s season ticket holders have the first opportunity to purchase tickets in the front five rows, but that leaves about 300 great seats available since the back row is only 70 feet from the stage!. This is sure to be a stellar concert event. We sold out months in advance of his February 2007 concert and turned away hundreds of fans, so we’ve booked a two night stand for 2009.”

For more information or tickets call the Festival Theatre box office at 715-483-3387 or 888-887-6002.

Letters from Lagos
Friday, June 12th at 7:30pm

In 2006 Carrie Classon (co-founder of Festival Theatre) moved to Lagos Nigeria with her deaf cat, Lucy. What happened next—how she not only survived but transformed herself and her life—will surprise you. Reserve your seat now for this entertaining and uplifting evening of stories and letters from Lagos.

“Lucy spent her days getting wheeled about in a doll carriage festooned with jingling scarves from Dubai like some sort of feline pasha. I spent my days contemplating how I had managed—in such a remarkably short time—to go from a happily married businesswoman in Wisconsin to a homeless, unemployed, single woman in Lagos, wanted by the Nigerian police.”

Tickets are $30.00 to benefit Festival Theatre’s Performing Arts Fund

For more information or tickets call the Festival Theatre box office at 715-483-3387 or 888-887-6002.

Shawn Colvin
Friday, August 21st
8:30 pm

Festival Theatre is proud to present Shawn Colvin for a Special Event Concert in August!

Colvin may be best known for her Grammy Award-winning 1996 album “A Few Small Repairs” which include the single “Sunny Came Home” which won the Grammy for Song of the Year and was Colvin’s first song to reach the Top Ten in the United States.

Shawn Colvin was born in South Dakota and raised in Illinois, where she began playing guitar when just ten-years old. Her first public concert was at age 15 on the campus of the Univeristy of Illinois-Carbondale. Colvin cites Jonie Mitchell as a primary music influence. In the late 1970’s, Colvin began working in the music scene in earnest, first in Austin, TX and then nationally. She moved to New York City in 1980 and has performed with an amazing array of musicians (John Hiatt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Bruce Hornsby to name a few), but has also performed on television – even on “The Simpsons” and singing “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon” with Ernie on Sesame Street.

Once called an “archetypal folkie” by People Magazine (1996), that reviewer went on to say “In today’s pops world, populated by cartoonish rappers, grunge rock poseurs and annoying techno-sweebs, a lone woman with an acoustic guitar can sound downright innovative.” We couldn’t agree more and we know that the Festival Theatre stage is the ideal place to hear Shawn Colvin.

Tickets go on sale June 15th and are $55.00.
(Flex Passes may not be used for this Special Event).

For more information or tickets call the Festival Theatre box office at 715-483-3387 or 888-887-6002.

Special Event!
Prudence Johnson
with Dan Chouinard
Sunday, September 27th, 2:00 pm
The Golden Age of Radio

As part of the Minnesota History Center’s Greatest Generation Exhibit, Prudence & Dan are on tour with a show that evokes the golden age of radio! Join us for their interpretations of classic standards of the 30’s & 40’s.

Adults $23 reserved / $25 at the door
Students $16 reserved / $18 at the door

For more information or tickets call the Festival Theatre box office at 715-483-3387 or 888-887-6002.