My Musical Family: July 2016

Show Your Crazy Love for Music and Get Downtown

The Vintage Band Festival is here! Get yourself to downtown Northfield today for Crazy Daze and an afternoon and evening of free concerts by international, national and Minnesota brass bands. We also have concerts going on tonight in the nearby communities of Cannon Falls, Faribault, Owatonna and Red Wing. Check the Vintage Band Festival online schedule for up-to-date times and locations.

In other exciting news, VBF is mentioned today on Minnesota Public Radio’s Art Hounds feature (thanks, Jessica Paxton!). Here’s the link: Art Hounds: Minnesota Public Radio

If you can’t make it to Northfield today, the festival continues through Sunday evening. And on Saturday at 4:30 p.m., I’ll be giving my Cowboy Band presentation at the Northfield Historical Society.

Get Your Horns, Boys, the VBF is Coming!

The 2016 Vintage Band Festival kicks off on Thursday, and I could not be more excited! If you have not previously attended the multi-day music event (held in Northfield, Minn., every three years) you have been missing out on a great time. But it’s not too late to make plans to attend this year; the free, family-friendly event officially begins Thursday, July 28, and runs through Sunday, July 31.

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