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Season tickets: $25, Advance tickets: $5 At the door: $7
Free admission for children twelve and younger
To puchase season tickets call 701-777-4195.

Musical groups interested in being a part of the 2010 Concerts in the Garden series should contact Matthew Wallace at 701-777-4195 or mwallace@ndmoa.com For sponsorship opportunities contact the Museum.

Brass Kings
with short opening performance by Mud Bucket
June 30, 2009, 7 - 8:30 pm

The Brass Kings play their old-time instruments in very unexpected ways. With metal-bodied resophonic guitars, washtub bass & washboard they chart the bermuda triangle of old-time, middle-eastern and bluegrass music. Shifting from jug-band chugging into wild improv-isational ragas they blend folk music traditions into a pulsing groove. Their debut cd "The Brass Kings" made several top ten list of best cd's of 2006. Their latest cd, Washboard Rope Guitar made a Minneapolis Star Tribune top 10 list in 2008.

Punchgut studio of Fargo will be selling original posters, limited edition prints and artwork. Check out their on-line studio here.

2009 Series Sponsors

Sponsor Supporting Rite Spot Liquor Store Inc Economy Plumbing El Roco

Charlie Parr
with The North River Ramblers opening
July 7, 6 - 8:30 pm

Charlie Parr grew up in Austin, Minnesota, in a house filled with the music that would inform his style. His late father loved the music found on collections like the field recordings by Alan Lomax released on the Folkways / Smithsonian label and Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. The elder Parr's first-hand accounts of growing up during the Depression, riding the freight trains and traveling to places like the Piedmont region (a North Carolina country blues mecca), made the music all the more visceral to Charlie.

Parr picked up the guitar around age eight, however, music lessons never held his interest. He's one of those self-taught guys who inevitably brings his own twists to music. Over the next decade-plus, Parr continued to hone his style and took up songwriting in earnest. Parr also earned a degree in philosophy and became an outreach worker for the homeless, working for the Salvation Army in Minneapolis. His experiences in social services can be heard in his songs, the way any songwriter is impacted by their life experiences. Don't, however, look for any one person's story in Parr's songs.

The GreenMan Band
August 4, 2009, 7 - 8:30 pm

GreenMan centers its music in the traditional Celtic music of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Brittany. The melding of these traditional influences, some hundreds of years old, with contemporary arrangements, has created a unique sound in this four-piece band.

GreenMan members started the band because of a mutual interest in the sounds and music of Ireland. They realized that some of the best music of Ireland and the Celtic tradition was lost to American audiences. While many Americans are familiar with classics like "Danny Boy," most have little knowledge of other traditional songs and ballads like "The Wild Rover," and "The Wind That Shakes The Barley."

Post-Traumatic Funk Syndrome
August 25, 2009, 7 - 9 pm

Back for their third year! Post Traumatic Funk Syndrome is Fargo’s newest and hottest classic rock / horn band. This twelve-piece group (six horns, keyboards, bass, drums, guitar, male and female vocals) performs the best of classic horn band hits.