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Pink Marlena (Marlena Boedigheimer) releases her new album Ishpiming Friday at the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center.

Dark Sky Star Bright Festival
Jan. 17-25
Bayfield
Nights in the Apostle Islands shine under some of the darkest, most beautiful dark skies left in the Midwest. A week of art, photography, programs, planetarium, outdoor stargazing, snowshoe hikes, saunas, fine food and more. Visit friendsoftheapostleislands.org for a full schedule.

Pink Marlena
Friday, Jan. 16, 6-8 pm
Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center
Album release party for Marlena Boedigheimer, Duluth-based saxophonist/composer and member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. She plays jazz that centers around the use of the Ojibwe language as well as stories from her relatives and ancestors.

Mooncats
Saturday, Jan. 17, 1-3 pm
Spirit of the Lakes Community Arts
MoonCats have kept the fun in North Dakota’s music scene for all ages since 2018. After countless shows and tours across the region and country, this tuned-in trio prides itself on singalong originals and an occasional cover.

Jeremy Jewell
Saturday, Jan. 17, 6-8 pm
Sir Benedict’s
Southern MN-based songwriter influenced by Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Tom Petty, John Prine and Hank Williams in the honest lyrics of his original songs, as well as in the classic tunes he covers.

Dionysian Dithyramb
Sunday, Jan. 18, 3-6 pm
The Ore House, Gilbert
The band celebrates the ideals of Dionysus (god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy) by playing music with passion with a portion of improvisation and spontaneity.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Events
Jan. 18 & 19
Multiple locations
Community worship service 4 pm Sunday at First United Methodist (Coppertop) Church, community breakfast 7 am Monday at the Coppertop, gathering & march 10:30 am at the Family Freedom Center in Central Hillside, rally at noon at DECC Symphony Hall.

Toboggan or Not to Boggan
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2 p.m.
Duluth Public Library Green Room
Hailey Eidenschink-Ziebol, historian at St Louis County Depot and host of MNHistoria on PBS North shares humor and insights about a unique and absurd history of the Northland, tobogganing in the late 1800s, when it was a full-blown craze.