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The Depot Jazz Quartet performs Saturdays through April, 3-6 pm, at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum.

Salmela Sisters Cabaret 
Friday, Jan. 3, 7 pm
Zeitgeist
Second annual fundraising concert with singers/actors Lussi and Sofia (and some super special guests) in a festive evening. Suggested donation $15, all proceeds from ticket sales will go to Zeitgeist’s community work.

Blind Fury
Friday. Jan. 3, 9 pm
Havana’s
Stephen Norris, better known as Blind Fury, is a hip-hop recording artist from South Carolina. He rose to fame in 2003 on the live Rocafella MC battle on MTV. Although he has Spina-Bifida and is blind, he doesn’t let his lack of vision get in the way of his craft.

Dennis Warner
Saturday, Jan. 4, 11 am to 12:30 pm
Duluth Public Library Green Room
Warner’s folk music has brought him to all 50 states and beyond. Along the way he’s released 11 CDs, authored the anti-bullying book Beads on One String, now in its ninth printing, and performed in concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Depot Jazz Quartet
Saturdays, January-April, 3-6 pm
Lake Superior Railroad Museum
The former Saratoga Jazz Quartet, which performed in Canal Park for many years, found a new home at the railroad museum in the Depot, playing a wide variety of traditional jazz and big band numbers with commentary about the original artists and their times.

Larry Long, Fiddlin’ Pete Watercott & Larry Dalton
Saturday, Jan. 4, 7 pm
Big Top Chautauqua Backstage
In their early ‘20s Long and Watercott hitchhiked and hopped freight trains through the West, performing anywhere that people gather, and met bassist Larry Dalton in Truckee, California. Fifty years later they have rejoined to celebrate five decades and the release of their new recording, As In Those Early Days.

Chmielewski Funtime Band
Tuesday, Jan. 7, 5:30-8 pm
Northern Waters Smokehaus
Since 1882, the Midwest’s most well known entertainers have been synonymous with polka music. They produced more than 1,800 television shows broadcast in the U.S. and Canada. More than 100 years and into six succeeding generations, the music has never stopped. 

The River Talks: Chigami-ziibing
Wednesday, Jan. 8, 6:30 pm
Lake Superior Estuarium
Chigami-ziibing, aka the St. Louis River, carries many place names that describe its importance to the Anishinaabe. Learn the Ojibwemowin names for your favorite spots along the river and practice a bit of the language with Naawakwe (William Howes III) from the Fond du Lac Language & Culture Program.