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Thursday, April 17, 12:00 p.m., Carol Bergquist, flute, and Jill Cronk Schendel, piano, performing before, during and after the service, St. Michael's Lutheran Church ELCA, 1660 County Road B W., Roseville.
Maundy Thursday Service
Berceuse for Flute and Piano - Carol Bergquist, flute, and Jill Cronk Schendel, piano
#Berceuse
#PhilippeGaubert
●Saturday, April 19, Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Carol Bergquist, flute, at the Basilica of Saint Mary for the Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Celebration of the Resurrection,at the Basilica of Saint Mary, 1600 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, in-person and streaming.
●Wednesday, April 23, Private Event
●Friday, April 25, 8:00-10:00 p.m., CD Release for Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series, with the Larry McDonough Quartet (LMQ), Larry McDonough, piano and vocals, Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry, Greg Stinson, bass, and Dean drums, Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414. Families and students are welcome. $15.
In 2023, the Larry McDonough Quartet (LMQ) and the Aster Café in Minneapolis, MN, embarked on an ambitious project: a monthly series with LMQ performing classic jazz of a different artist each month. With all of the LMQ members (Larry McDonough, piano and voice; Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry; Greg Stinson, acoustic and electric bass and guitar; and Dean White, drums) being busy working musicians, rehearsals would be limited to once a month for each new show. Each month, McDonough wrote a new set of arrangements for the next show.
The result was 12 months of concerts covering the music of Chet Baker, Chick Corea, Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Miles Davis, Jim Hall and Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Geraldo Vespar, the Sidemen of Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock, culminating with the LMQ holiday show Festivus and Other Twisted Holidays. Guests included trumpeter Josh May, flutist Carol Bergquist, bassist Matt Senjem, and guitarist Joel Shapira. McDonough recorded each show, and now we have Larry McDonough Quartet Live, Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series.
Video Sample: A hot bop version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series
Reservations
Call 612-379-3138 to save your spot!
On Line:
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●Saturday, April 26, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Fusebox, a new progressive jazz fusion trio performing odd-metered originals, with Larry McDonough, keyboard, Craig Matarrese, bass, and Eron Woods, drums, at Studio 20 at Cadenza Music, 149 Snelling Ave. N., Saint Paul, MN 55104 (Snelling & Selby Avenues).
Fusebox
Sample - Snot Boogie
Cadenza Event
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●Saturday, April 26, 5:00-8:00 p.m., Larry McDonough, piano and voice, Ingredients Café, 4725 Highway 61 North, White Bear Lake, 651.426.6611. Larry McDonough returns to Ingredients Café. Expect music of Bill Evans, Tony Bennett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and originals, and great food.
Very Early Performed by Larry McDonough
Ingredients Café
Reservations recommended!
●Sunday, April 27, 10:00 a.m., Larry McDonough, piano and vocals, and Richard Terrill, saxes, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Rochester, 1727 Walden Lane SW, Rochester, MN 55902-0901.
●Thursday, May 1, 7:30 p.m., Quantum Mechanics Album Release with JoJo Green and Poor Lemuel, The Zen Arcade Stage at The Hook and Ladder's Mission Room, 3010 Minnehaha ave, Suite #420, Minneapolis, MN, 55406.
Quantum Mechanics features the powerful vocals of Cara Lucille, award winning jazz artist Larry McDonough on keys, Eli Hoehn on electric banjo, Zach Sproles on guitar, Mark Krogmann on bass & Eric Bunde on drums. Supported by funk/soul titans JOJO Green and harmony-driven indie rockers Poor Lemuel, it’s a prime opportunity to spin up your particles and stretch your branes! https://www.facebook.com/quantummechanicsband
Watch "Quantum Entanglement" by the Quantum Mechanics, performed at the White Squirrel in Saint Paul, MN, video by Carol Bergquist.
Tickets $10.00
Hook and Ladder Event
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●Sunday, January 4, 7:00 p.m., The Parkway Theater’s Larry McDonough Jazz Film and Live Music Series Presents Casablanca Jazz! - The Movie Casablanca and Live Music from the Movie by the Larry McDonough Quintet, at the Parkway Theater.
The Larry McDonough Quintet will perform a set of jazz from the award-winning movie Casablanca followed by the movie. Come for one of the best movies of all time and one of the best movie soundtrack of jazz.
Tickets
$15 Advance General Admission // $20 At The Door
(612) 822-8080
Parkway ticket link
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●Thursday, January 8, 6:00-7:30 p.m., Charmin Sings Carmen, with Charmin Michelle, vocals, Joel Shapira, guitar, Larry McDonough, piano, at Crooners Supper Club Dunsmore Jazz Room at 6161 Hwy 65 NE, Minneapolis, MN 55432.
Legendary jazz vocalist Carmen McRae’s famous tribute recording of all Thelonious Monk tunes is brought to life by local chanteuse extraordinaire Charmin Michelle. Joining her are two acclaimed Twin Cities veterans: Joel Shapira guitar, and Larry McDonough piano. Shapira and McDonough open the show with selections from their Bill Evans/Jim Hall tribute “Intermodulating Undercurrents”.
Tickets $32-43.
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●Monday, January 26, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m., performing in LEAGUE NIGHT: The Bowled and The Beautiful, A Public Reading of a New Musical Comedy!, at Crooners Supper Club Main Stage Showroom at 6161 Hwy 65 NE, Minneapolis, MN 55432. Doors open at 6:30 PM for Dinner and Drink service.
It’s opening night of the men’s fall bowling league at Lois’ Lanes and the perennial championship bridesmaids, The Bowled and The Beautiful, find their shot at the elusive title already drifting towards the gutter, when their best bowler, Danny Flannery, goes missing.
Thanks to league president Early Erickson’s divine intervention, Samantha ‘Sam’ Addams, the town’s new veterinarian, steps in and quickly becomes their anchor, helping Matt Kanasic, Robert Raymond and Jack Kellogg keep their dreams alive… both on and off the alley.
League Night is about first loves, second chances and third strikes. It’s about confidence, courage and community. It’s about humor, humility, and heartache. And yeah, it’s about bowling. For sure, bowling.
Featuring James Detmar, Jen Burleigh-Bentz, David Carey, France Roberts, Suzie Juul, Katie Carlson, Riley McNutt, Gabrielle Dominique and Larry McDonough
Crooners Supper Club Event
Tickets from $32 up.
●Friday, January 30, 5:00-8:00 p.m., Larry McDonough, piano and voice, Ingredients Café, 4725 Highway 61 North, White Bear Lake, 651.426.6611
Larry McDonough returns to Ingredients Café. Expect music of Bill Evans, Tony Bennett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and originals, and great food.
Very Early Performed by Larry McDonough
Ingredients Café
Reservations recommended!
●Friday, February 13, 7:00-10:00 p.m., Plattes, McDonough and Raynor Perform “Grappelli, Ellington, and More” at The Lexington, 1096 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105.
https://thelexmn.com/
Jim Plattes, violin, mandolin, and harmonica
Larry McDonough, piano
Gary Raynor, bass
Reservations recommended!
(651) 289-4990
Violinist Jim Plattes and pianist Larry McDonough packed the Aster Café with their show “Grappelli, Ellington, and More” in 2025. Now they add bassist Gary Raynor to bring the show to the Lexington. They will celebrate the collaboration of legendary French violinist Stéphane Grappelli with Duke Ellington, adding music from parings with George Shearing, Claude Bolling, and Oscar Peterson, and concluding with music from Paris, including the music of Grappelli partner Django Reinhardt.
Makin' Whoopee
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●Monday, February 16, 5:00-8:00 p.m. Larry McDonough, piano and voice, Ingredients Café, 4725 Highway 61 North, White Bear Lake, 651.426.6611
Larry McDonough returns to Ingredients Café. Expect music of Bill Evans, Tony Bennett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and originals, and great food.
Very Early Performed by Larry McDonough
https://youtu.be/dJui5rJFTHo
Ingredients Café
Reservations recommended!
●CANCELLED: Wednesday, February 18, 7:30 p.m., performing with Drums of Navarone, at Granada Theater, 3022 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN 55408.
●Saturday, February 21, 5:00-8:00 p.m. Larry McDonough, piano and voice, Ingredients Café, 4725 Highway 61 North, White Bear Lake, 651.426.6611
Larry McDonough returns to Ingredients Café. Expect music of Bill Evans, Tony Bennett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and originals, and great food.
Very Early Performed by Larry McDonough
https://youtu.be/dJui5rJFTHo
Ingredients Café
Reservations recommended!
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●Thursday, February 26, 7:00-10:00 p.m., performing with Drums of Navarone, at the Minnesota Music Café, 501 Payne Ave, St Paul, MN 55130.
Drums of Navarone
