CHARLEY WAGNER--Friday, NOV 22, 2024 in Nisswa
Friday, NOV 22, 2024
This is the final show of the fall concert season from the all-volunteer series that has been serving the region since 1988.
For Charley Wagner music and writing have been lifelong passions. Working as an arborist, climbing trees around the world, he collected stories and perspective. His travel spawned music that captures the human experience and reverence for nature.
“A wise man once told me that the first half of your life you’re living to learn, about mid-life you make the switch to learning to live,” Wagner said. He crafts his songs to capture moments, perspectives and emotions gifted though life.
With the use of a guitar, harmonica and foot percussion (bass cajon drum and tambourine) he tells his stories.
He also takes to heart renditions of some of his favorite artists’ stories to include Jon Prine, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, and Gordon Lightfoot.
Blessed with a passion for arboriculture, he makes a living climbing and caring for trees around the world. With a recipe of fresh air, hard work and tree dust he serves up a healthy perspective of life texture.
"Charley is an authentic local musician who paints sometimes thoughtful, sometimes humorous pictures through his music. Whether playing alone or with his band, Charley is always the consumate entertainer and storyteller. If you know him, you love him. If you don't, you soon will. . . ." John Sumption
GRASSROOTS CONCERTS are held at the LIVE WELL NIGHTCLUB AND COFFEE BAR at the Journey Church, 5459 Lakers Lane, Nisswa, MN.
Admission is $15 at the door for adults and $5 for children under 12 with listening attention, when accompanied by an adult. At all shows, seating is first-come, first-served.
Show-time is 7:30 PM (doors open at 6:30), and you are encouraged to come early to claim your choice of seats.
At each concert, decidedly the best family entertainment in the Brainerd Lakes area, GRASSROOTS welcomes your nonperishable food (or cash) donation to a local food shelf.
"Grassroots Concerts are the nonprofit cultural offerings of a small, happy society of largely omnivorous but gentle folk dedicated to the preservation of live entertainment in vicarious times."
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2024 --LUCY KAPLANSKY
Lucy Kaplansky is an acclaimed singer-songwriter as well as a former clinical psychologist. She started out singing in Chicago folk music clubs as a teenager, then took off for New York City where she found a fertile community of songwriters. Kaplansky's latest release, Last Days of Summer, was created during the Covid pandemic, offering a mix of both the personal & political. "Utterly beautiful and affecting. Lucy sings songs from her life that have resonance in ours." -Scott Simon, NPR
LARRY LONG & PETE WATERCOTT--Friday, Oct 18, 2024 http://www.larrylong.org
Throughout their early 20's, Larry Long and Fiddlin' Pete Watercott hitchhiked and hopped freight trains throughout the West performing music deeply rooted in American song tradition, songs of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Hank Williams and Bob Wills. Now fifty years later, both have had successful solo careers. Join us as Long and Watercott are coming back together along with bassist Larry Dalton for this 2024 Reunion Tour celebrating five decades of friendship.
CHARLEY WAGNER--Friday, NOV 22, 2024 https://www.charleywagnermusic.com
Charley Wagner is a singer/songwriter from the town of Longville in the woods of northern Minnesota. Music and writing have been passions and good friends to Charlie since an early age. He has worked as an arborist most of his life, climbing trees around the world, collecting stories and perspective. Charley now making his stories in song a priority, creating original music that captures the human experience and reverence for nature, and he hopes you find a connection.
Thank you for helping to continue quality concerts in the Lakes Area! We need volunteers to carry on this series. Please consider becoming a volunteer.
COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS FOR CONCERTS: Masks are optional and will be available for anyone who would like one.
For updates and videos of previous artists visit Grassroots' Facebook page.
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