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It was also one of the most important venues for the burgeoning rock-music scene in Minnesota in the 1950s and 1960s. [2] The ballroom was one of the final stops (January 28, 1959) on the infamous, ill-fated "Winter Dance Party", the Buddy Holly-led tour which ended in the plane crash that killed Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. The ...
The club has also become an important venue for national and international touring acts. Japanese indie-rock band Shonen Knife played its 1,000th show at the Turf Club. [2] The Turf Club was sold to the owners of First Avenue in late 2013. The venue has a capacity of about 350. [3]
In 1980, Saint Paul resident Sally Ordway Irvine (a 3M heiress and arts patron) dreamed of a European-style concert hall offering "everything from opera to the Russian circus". She contributed $7.5 million—a sum matched by other members of the Ordway family—toward the facility's cost.
Instead, the founders of the Selby Avenue JazzFest are launching a new community event at downtown St. Paul's historic Union Depot. The Capital City Village Bazaar Extravaganza, scheduled for ...
Disco Donnie Presents (DDP) is an electronic dance music event production company, founded by James "Disco Donnie" Estopinal. Since the company's inception in 1994, DDP has sold over 16 million tickets producing over 16,000 live events, arena shows, and outdoor festivals in over 100 markets around the world including the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and Latin America.
Cream was a music promotion trio (Darren Hughes, James Barton and Andy Carroll [1]) that originally began hosting a weekly house music club night [2] [3] (1992–2002) [4] at the now-demolished Nation nightclub (formerly Snobs Disco [5]) in Wolstenholme Square in Liverpool. [6] It ran in this format from October 1992 to June 2002. [7]
The festival closes several blocks and has used clubs such as the Bulldog, Hat Trick, St. Paul Hotel, Mancini's, Black Dog, Hygga, Vieux Carre, Union Depot, Amsterdam Bar and Gril and the Citizen Bar and Grill. In partnership with the Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education and Walker West Music Academy], over 100 young musicians perform at the ...
Solano stated in an interview with Pollstar that "We were the first dance music brand, including DJs, to ever do a college tour. Once we did our first college tour, 25 colleges, and sold out every show in about five minutes." [8] By 2009 the tour had become more established, and in 2009 and 2010, a Dayglow stage was held at Ultra Music Festival ...