Contact us
Back to All Posts

Get with a Bud and hit Beer Can Island, Hastings or Shiner’s over the long weekend

With Labor Day around the corner, music options include the isles of the St. Croix River and just off that river into Hastings:
— They don’t call it Beer Can Island for nothing. The presence of nightlife there will be elevated when local singers (with acoustic guitar) Amanda and Kyle set up on “the island” and give a middle of the St. Croix River concert as soon as nightfall comes on this Saturday of Labor Day weekend.
— And this from another local singer, Garret: An end of summer hootinany like none other, with some of the best musical talent the immediate region has to offer, will go on this weekend in Hastings, although word of it up toward Hudson is understandably slim.
— And to start the weekend, Shiner’s in Lakeland will close out its entire summer of Thursday night music with Dan Rumsey. Every weekend, a group called the Soiled Doves has hosted a singer-songwriter stage — with nary a repeat in the lineup that has included, in order all summer, Justin Bell, Teague Alexy, Tony Cuchetti, Tommy Bentz, Tony Ortiz, Ben Tomandl, Fizz Kizer, Jay Arnold, Joel Kachel, Jeff Arundel and Mary Cutrufello. Lauren Hay has stepping in twice as guest host. The music goes from 7-10 p.m.
— The antique span leading to Houlton may be coming close to falling down of late, much like London Bridge, but the Lift Bridge Brewing Co. is still in the mix. The Stillwater company is keeping the stream swirling with the promotion at several local bars of its mango blonde ale, the fruit presence of which is topical for this season, with summer coming to a close.

Share the Post:

Related Posts

  • ‘Urban Table’ reopens after five months, minus the olive and vine name, but keeping the same old ambiance. It adds a coffee and wine bar, $3 premium drinks prepared under the eye of a barista and the advanced eatery knowledge that comes from the new owner, Ben Jung, a face you’ll recognize from nearby Hudco To Go, who says music is on the way, too, back to this staple Hudson venue.
They’ve added a coffee bar, so you can have a foray of seating for four on stools in front of it, a wine bar and a petite table for two directly in front of the southwest window, and plenty of inexpensive drinks, but other than that The Urban Table as it is known is much like the former Urban Olive and Vine before it. The man who is the brains behind Hudco To Go has brought those $3 premium drinks and more to the restaurant that is kitty-corner to the, again, southwest when you take Locust Street and venture onto...
Read More
  • What will Bruce, the top dogg, and Maiden mew about concerning the world when they make a stop in Shakopee? Plenty of tramau to pick from, even if they do not get irate about Iran, or emulate. But closer to home, others of my ilk have been to Italy and more lately, or just out in the garden tending to flowers and kitties.
So many problems in our world, US and UK. How and when to bitch? Waiting for them to be named by a sizeable band, if they shed light on politics and ethical behavior in general, can make you numb. Has anyone else noticed, as we get older and grayer, the similarity in facial look between two who are on vocals, first a rapper and second a metal singer, knotted-side-hair Snoop Dogg and long and straight-to-collar Bruce Dickinson, one who spews island drinks as opposed to the other homemade beer, as Iron Maiden continues on in their latest with a gigantic gaggle of groups with requisite...
Read More
  • Deaths and memorials. They do not stop with that given by Miley Cyrus for Dolly Parton. In what follows, I recount the recent musical remembrances of a local musician, as his father lay passing, and that by me in song for my own dad. And the resemblances therein. And a dream reflecting it all. (And newly added, we’ll Curry favor and Frank, and more on Dolly and the God she is close to.)
Just over two years ago, I sang solo an Iron Maiden song, Blood Brothers, slowly strummed via my cell phone to provide the instrumental, as the exact moment my dad was laid to his final rest under clay. A few weeks ago, one-man-band professional Jeff Loven, one of the best musicians I have ever heard and one with whom I have sung for 25 years, strummed the favorite Johnny Cash songs his father loved in the background for the last hour his dad had on this earth, the troubles of which Cash so frequently sang. Certainly, one of them was Hurt,...
Read More
  • Elsewhere on these pages: Bark at the cheese on the moon puns, and Brewers win 22-0 to reply while Twins sweep a contender. REplay to replenish.
Read More
  • For a post that has some of the cheesiest trivia-type references this side of the moon partway through, search elsewhere on this site to see it now displayed
Read More
A hodgepodge listing of everything that’s truly different but maybe baked porage follows, and we’re not talking about a connect-the-dots or puzzle-pieces contest or one on Trump’s foreign policy, haha, rather what I saw and what will be seen around town in recent times. Mostly, one of each. Think you have the world’s, or more likely local church’s, best grilled cheese sandwich, (coming from the land of, specifically, well curded and curdled milk and honey?) Fry it to the test on Saturday. No this is not an autumn chili cookoff, or char the best burger, or even a poker run...
Read More
Scroll to Top