Winona Arts Center - 2025-2026 Concert Series
Concerts are presented at the Winona Arts Center, 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN.
Tickets are available in advance at Eventbrite and at Music Mart (Formerly Hardt's Music) or at the door. Coffeehouse and gallery are open 1 hour prior to concerts.
Skip the fees while supporting your local music store by purchasing directly at Music Mart. Music Mart now accepts credit/debit cards. If paying by check at Music Mart, please make your check out to Music Mart.
Patina
CD Release Party
Saturday / March 21 / 7:00pm
$10 Advance ($12.51 on Eventbrite) / $15 at the Door
Skip the Eventbrite fees while supporting your local music store by purchasing directly at Music Mart. Tickets are available at Music Mart and on Eventbrite until March 21st at 4pm. Music Mart now accepts credit cards and checks made out to Music Mart.
Coffeehouse & gallery open at 6:00pm. Cash bar for wine & beer.
Performance at 7:00pm
Buy tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/patina-tickets-1978861405734?aff=oddtdtcreator
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day & Patina CD Release Party
Patina has just finished their new CD and will be debuting some of their songs at this concert. They will have their new CD for sale and we will have some special St. Pat’s Day treats as well as a cash bar for wine & beer and of course, Guinness & N/A Guinness as well.
Kara Mae has had sixteen years of classical training with her instrument. She is an award-winning fiddler having won a fiddle contest at the Lacrosse, WI Irish Festival. She has written many new beautiful tunes for Patina over the past years that are sometimes very unique in time signature & rhythm and other times authentically Celtic sounding.
Sue Lee Ringwelski has been playing Irish music with Kara Mae White since the spring of 2016 and now enjoys performing the Irish songs & tunes that Patina brings to those venues and more.
Greg has been hooked on Celtic music in all its forms. His first Bodhran was purchased from the maker in the village of Roundstone on a trip to Ireland. Today Greg plays a 'Brendan White' Bodhran for Patina as well as whistles, accordion some backing guitar.
Ryan Picone Quartet
Saturday / April 11 / 7:00pm
$20 Advance ($23.18 on Eventbrite) / $25 at the Door
Skip the Eventbrite fees while supporting your local music store by purchasing directly at Music Mart. Tickets are available at Music Mart and on Eventbrite until April 11th at 4pm. Music Mart now accepts credit cards and checks made out to Music Mart.
Buy tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ryan-picone-quartet-tickets-1978861469926?aff=oddtdtcreator
Coffeehouse & gallery open at 6:00pm. Cash bar for wine & beer.
Performance at 7:00pm
The Ryan Picone Quartet has become a creative force in the Twin Cities’ jazz scene, blending a deep Hot Club Jazz tradition. The Ryan Picone Quartet's music is rooted in the spirit of Django Reinhardt, yet the quartet often ventures into other musical landscapes.
“Swinging, sensual, moody, rousing—Ryan Picone Quartet's music follows the trail of Django Reinhardt's Gypsy jazz. Listening to these tracks, you can almost smell the campfire smoke and see the nighttime lights of Paris burning on the horizon."—Michael Dregni, Author Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend.
The Ryan Picone Quartet is led by guitarist and composer Dr. Ryan Anthony Picone. A devoted acolyte of the celebrated guitarist Stéphane Wrembel, Ryan’s music is deeply connected to the foundational spirit of Django Reinhardt, yet it draws influence from Choro, Nuevo Tango, Raga, Flamenco, Maqam, Cuban son montuno to, Post-Minimalist, and Classical traditions—each woven seamlessly into the fabric of the quartet’s musical identity.
Cafe Accordion Orchestra
Saturday / April 25 / 7:00pm
$25 Advance ($28.52 on Eventbrite) / $30 at the Door
Skip the Eventbrite fees while supporting your local music store by purchasing directly at Music Mart. Tickets are available at Music Mart and on Eventbrite until April 25th at 4pm. Music Mart now accepts credit cards and checks made out to Music Mart.
Buy tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cafe-accordion-orchestra-tickets-1978861594298?aff=oddtdtcreator
Coffeehouse & gallery open at 6:00pm. Cash bar for wine & beer.
Performance at 7:00pm
Dan Newton's Café Accordion Orchestra (CAO) performs an eclectic mix full of French flare, Latin heat and Bohemian attitude. The heart of the CAO repertoire is the romantic, Parisian valse-musette. The group complements the musettes with Parisian hot club, swing, ballads, tangos, cha chas, rumbas, and cumbias to create a wonderfully varied show. They inject their music with good humor and expressive abandon. Their high level of musicianship and passion for performance makes them an entertaining concert act as well as a great dance band.
CAO is led by Dan Newton on accordion and vocals, with Eric Mohring on mandolin, violin and vocals, Mike Cramer on guitar and vocals, Erik Lillestol on bass and vocals and Joe Steinger on percussion. CAO has been delighting audiences and dancers alike since 1995. They have appeared in New York at the Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing series, the International Akkordeon Festival in Vienna, Austria, the Minnesota State Fair, as well as festivals, theaters and dance halls across the United States.
Dave Moore
Saturday / May 2 / 7:00pm
$20 Advance ($23.18 on Eventbrite) / $25 at the Door
Skip the Eventbrite fees while supporting your local music store by purchasing directly at Music Mart. Tickets are available at Music Mart and on Eventbrite until May 2nd at 4pm. Music Mart now accepts credit cards and checks made out to Music Mart.
Coffeehouse & gallery open at 6:00pm. Cash bar for wine & beer.
Performance at 7:00pm
Buy tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dave-moore-tickets-1978861722682?aff=oddtdtcreator
Dave Moore is one of the great songwriters to come out of the state of Iowa. Known for his elegant songwriting and instrumental prowess on blues guitar, button accordion and harmonica he has become somewhat of a legend. He is a folksinger, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who performed regularly on A Prairie Home Companion between 1986 and 2014. In 1985, he won a National Endowment for the Arts grant to study Conjunto accordion with Fred Zimmerle in Texas; he had previously "spent the bulk of the '70s traveling through Latin America and the American South and West, soaking in a wide range of musical influences along the way," and studying with folk musicians in San Cristobal de las Casas and Chiapas.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
