Winona Arts Center - 2023 Concert Series

Concerts are presented at the Winona Arts Center, 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN.

Tickets are available in advance at Eventbrite and Hardt's Music or at the door. Coffeehouse and gallery are open at 1 hour prior to concerts. Wine will be available during the coffeehouse hour. Please review our Covid-19 Protocol before planning your visit to the Winona Arts Center. We appreciate your understanding.

Mike Munson & Mikkel Beckmen

Saturday / April 1, 2023 / 7:00pm
Coffeehouse and Gallery open at 6:00pm
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Mike Munson makes his home in the small river town of Winona, Minnesota. He has had the honor of opening for the renowned Mavis Staples (2022), performing at the Montreal International Jazz Festival (2022), Waterfront Blues Festival (Portland, OR, 2018), and the Vancouver Folk Fest (2018). His Americana duo with Jake Ilika, “Land at Last” is a regional favorite and he regularly collaborates with a variety of performers on both guitar and bass.

With his fourth release, Rose Hill (2018, Blue Front Records), Munson traced the country blues tradition to its birthplace, recording at the Blue Front Cafe in Bentonia, Mississippi. Studying under and performing alongside Grammy nominee Jimmy “Duck” Holmes has informed Munson’s style and refined his craft. Munson has a deep love of all forms of American music, but blues is the undercurrent of his creativity.

Mike Munson is an adept slide guitar player who has built a career on solid songwriting and a reverence for tradition. He deftly blends dark lyrics, intricate finger-picking and hypnotic rhythms. His sound marks the similarities and highlights the distance between blues, American primitive guitar and early rock and roll.

Munson released his sixth full-length album, Let Some Light In, in 2021 and consistently uses the cold, winter months to record new, original material.

Minneapolis-based percussionist Mikkel Beckmen will accompany Mike Munson on washboard. Munson has collaborated with Beckmen for a number of years and they enjoy playing together regularly.

Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at Hardt's Music, 115 East 3rd St in Winona, until 4:00pm on March 31, or through Eventbrite.

Patchouli & Terra Guitarra

The Landscape of Guitar: Animated Painting Concert Experience

Saturday / April 29, 2023 / 7:00pm
Coffeehouse and Gallery open at 6:00pm
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Experience the Spirit of the '60's & '70's, the romance of the Spanish guitar, and the colors of Van Gogh.

The Landscape of Guitar is a groundbreaking art & music production. Animated paintings are sung to life as guitar birds fly over rolling guitar rivers and vivid guitar worlds in stunning HD. #1 Charting International guitar duo, awarded “Best Instrumental Album of the Year,” Patchouli & Terra Guitarra create a live symphony of color & sound to “inspire the human spirit” - Chicago Tribune. www.patchouli.net.

Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at Hardt's Music, 115 East 3rd St in Winona, until 4:00pm on April 28, or through Eventbrite.