Upcoming Events
Music in the Parks: Northeast Community Band
The Northeast Community Band brings together amateur musicians of all ages and a wide variety of abilities, for fun and to promote musical education.
Music in the Parks: 10 Minute Recess
10 Minute Recess is a band based out of the Twin Cities playing covers and originals. Pop Punk / Rock.
Music in the Parks: The Hamm Sammies
Hailing from the Twin Cities, the Hamm Sammies played their first show at the end of 2023 and have played Palmer's Bar, the Driftwood Char Bar, the Day Block summer patio series, Memory Lanes, the outdoor stage at Father Hennepin Park in Southeast Minneapolis and more.
Their music channels the grit of Tyler Childers, the groove of Booker T. & the MG’s, the looseness of Dr. John, and the tension of the Pixies’ quiet-to-chaos transitions. Blending these influences of honkytonk twang, Memphis soul, low down blues, and even a dash of Sonny Rollins (especially his Way Out West era), their arrangements get people out of their seats. If they’re not careful, audiences tend to shed their Midwestern stoicism during a Sammies set.
Music in the Parks: Animalhead
Local band for Lake City playing ROCK, PSYCH + AMERICANA
Music in the Parks: Jon Sullivan Band
Twin Cities based Soul/Rock n Roll sextet with a powerful sound and presence to shake your bones.
Music in the Parks: Buster Phelan
Buster Phelan performs rock, popular, rhythm and blues and cover tunes.
Music in the Parks: Lakewood Cemetery
Lakewood Cemetery is an indie folk duo comprised of Minneapolis locals Dan Krzykowski and Katrina Schleisman. Their original songs span from country to bluegrass to folk to rock.
Music in the Parks: Aeris and The Piggies
Four piece indie-folk group based out of the Twin Cities
Music in the Parks: Lili Horizon
Lilianna Rindal is a 15-year-old singer, songwriter, actor, and dancer based in St. Paul, MN. Her performances feature a mix of cover songs across various genres—including pop, rock, country, and musical theatre—as well as her own original compositions. She performs both as a solo act and as the lead singer of the band Lili Horizon.
Music in the Parks: Argyle Street Trio
The Argyle Street Trio is a dynamic vocal-centric ensemble comprising three versatile Twin Cities singers: Rhiannon Fiskradatz, Kristen Olsen Rodriguez and Dale Dahlquist.
A diverse repertoire includes classic western swing, Chicago blues, Big Band swing, reggae and a treasury of your favorite vintage rock tunes. On the acoustic side, they range to Americana, folk, Irish, bluegrass, Hot Club and instrumentals with elements of different genres.
Music in the Parks: Ariel Corinne
Ariel Corinne is a Singer-Songwriter originally from San Antonio, Texas who now performs throughout the Twin Cities. She is a regular performer for the Southwest Farmer's Market, Kingfield Farmer's Market, and the Minneapolis DID Street Show program, as well as performing at various festivals and private events surrounding MSP.
Northeast Parade
Get ready, it’s time to celebrate Northeast Minneapolis!
On Tuesday, June 16, 2026, at 6:30 PM, the streets of NE Minneapolis will once again come alive with the energy, creativity, and community spirit that make this neighborhood so special. The Celebrate NE Minneapolis Parade is more than just a summer tradition—it’s a vibrant showcase of the people, performances, and organizations that bring our community to life.
More information available here: https://www.celebrateneparade.com/
Music in the Parks: Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra
The Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra is a community orchestra formed in 1991 to preserve and foster the enjoyment of mandolin music. We have about 40 musicians, playing mandolin, mandola, mandocello, guitar, and bass. Our repertoire includes old and new compositions for mandolin ensembles, transcriptions of classical music, and arrangements of popular tunes.
CATERWAUL 2026
Founded in 2020, Minneapolis music festival Caterwaul has established itself as an annual showcase of the noisy, iconoclastic fringes of rock, with past performers including the likes of Chat Pile, Flipper, Pissed Jeans, and Uniform. BrooklynVegan has hailed Caterwaul as “a unique mix of noise rock, punk, metal, post- punk and beyond,” while New Noise Magazine has named it “a gathering of some of the best underground bands existing today.”
In a city still reeling from tragedies connected to the federal government’s heavy-handed immigration efforts, Caterwaul stands as a beacon of independent thought and countercultural action, aiming to celebrate the triumph of the human spirit in the face of of tyranny.
With the fifth edition of Caterwaul confirmed for June 5-7, 2026 at Minneapolis venue Zhora Darling, the festival’s organizers have revealed 10 of this year’s artists. In alphabetical order:
Dazzling Killmen
Didjits
H.E.A.T.
Mike Watt + The Missingmen
Muscle
New Brutalism
Point Line Plane
Season to Risk
Stress Positions
Tongue Party
• Founded in St. Louis in 1990, Dazzling Killmen meld hardcore venom and prog chops into new and challenging configurations that have inspired hordes of younger bands – The Dillinger Escape Plan, notably among them.
• Campy and confrontational, Illinois band Didjits bash out a hard-rocking brand of punk, immortalized on a string of Touch and Go Records releases and the ultimate early-’90s honor, a video on MTV’s Beavis and Butthead.
• Not to be confused with the Swedish heavy metal band wielding the same acronym, Minneapolis’ H.E.A.T. is a new entity making distortion-drenched dance punk.
• A man who needs no introduction, Mike Watt is an icon, blazing his own path since the early 1980s. With a legacy that includes his bands Minutemen and fIREHOSE, and a massive list of collabs (The Stooges, Sonic Youth, Eddie Vedder), Watt comes to Caterwaul as Mike Watt + The Missingmen, a trio with guitarist Tom Watson and drummer Raul Morales.
• Baltimore trio Muscle churns out bass-heavy noise-punk bursts, propelled by singer Madison Coan’s fiery vocalizations.
• Guided by the minimalism of the movement from which they take their name, Knoxville’s New Brutalism operates on the knife edge between post-hardcore and noise rock, using aluminum instruments they design and build themselves.
• Bred in the early-2000s electro-punk freak scene populated by the likes of Trans Am and Lightning Bolt, Portland duo Point Line Plane has returned with what SF Weekly once named, “aggro keyboard-core of the highest and most demented order.”
• Kansas City’s Season to Risk enjoyed major label success in the alternative boom of the early ’90s, amidst peers such as Helmet and Quicksand. Active again in recent years, the band’s hard-edged anthems, marked by frontman Steve Tulipana’s rough and yearning vocals, still hit a nerve.
• A ripping hardcore band from Chicago, Stress Positions lays waste via fast drumbeats, rocking guitar leads, and and vocalist Stephanie Brooks’ devastating yelp.
• Minneapolis favorites Tongue Party deliver burly, thrashing, noise rock that keeps adrenaline high and heads banging.
3-day festival passes are on sale now: https://ticketstripe.com/caterwaul2026 Stand by for more lineup announcements, coming soon.
Music in the Parks: Zola
Zola grew up in San Francisco and has called Minneapolis home since 2021— as a self-taught musician and songwriter, she traces her artistic origins back to theater, classical voice, and creative writing. Strongly influenced by songwriters like Elliott Smith, Aimee Mann, and Lana Del Rey, Zola's sound lies somewhere in the realm of acoustic indie pop! She is ambidextrous, vegetarian, and obsessed with her 15-year-old cat.
Music in the Parks: Rightful Heirs
Rightful Heirs are Bob Bruce and Greg Winkels, a Twin Cities based duo using their Bluegrass & Americana roots to cover a wide variety of songs.