SMOKE HOUSE STAGE
2024
FRIDAY 21 JUNE 2024
ANN MICHELS & GEORGE MAURER
Both Twin Cities legends, beloved singer-actress and keyboard wizard join forces for an evening of jazz standards, musical theater hits, and general hilarity!
FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2024
WESLEY FRYE & friends
Tenor and piano powerhouse puts you in the lounge (along with local favorites/friends) with songs old and new from the realms of music-theater, pop, and jazz!
FRIDAY 12 JULY 2024
MATTHEW VALVERDE & AHMED ANZALDÚA
Local Latin American superstars (and leaders of Border CrosSing) share a beautiful collection of Mexican folk songs and other Spanish-language favorites for tenor and piano!
SUNDAY 21 JULY 2024
ELENA STABILE & CARSON ROSE SCHNEIDER
In a special SUNDAY show to honor our grandmother’s 100th birthday(!), this gorgeous soprano/piano duo presents cabaret songs and old standards, plus Barber’s astonishing “Knoxville: Summer of 1915”!
FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2024
JOHN HEIMBUCH performs Charlie Bethel’s BEOWULF
with live musical underscoring improvised by JAKE ENDRES
A gripping one-man retelling of the ancient epic adventure story gets the silent movie musical treatment!
FRIDAY 16 AUGUST 2024
ANDREW WILKOWSKE
Killer operatic baritone brings the noise with his mashup of art song and rock concert, Guns N’Rosenkavalier-style!
FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2024
Theater Songs of JOSEF EVANS
Twin Cities writer/composer shares some of his hits from shows produced all over town, with an all-star local cast!
FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2024
NORAH LONG with Jake Endres
Transcendent singer-actress shares fabulous theatrical songs and pieces created especially for her!
FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2024
EMILY ROSE SKINNER & KERI RODAU with MINDY ESCHADOR
Two darling divas of the local theater scene display their wit, warmth, and gorgeous voices in a night of cabaret, jazz, pop, and generally rollicking songs!
FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2024
JAKE ENDRES does TOM WAITS, with bassist/guitarist JAKE JACKSON
An all-new season-ending blowout of the songs of our beloved Musical Poet Laureate featuring this pair of Jakes, one of who’s a phenom on both guitar and bass!