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The Big Time Jazz Orchestra is taking it to the streets, or, more specifically, Leif Erickson Park at 1 pm Wednesday.

Much Ado About Nothing
Saturday, June 28, 6:30 pm
Ursa Minor
Free performance by the Duluth Shakespeare Project with no director, one rehearsal, serious actors and meaningful theater to raise money for local Duluth nonprofits, in tonight’s case, Chum. Cheer on the actors, tip your bartenders and donate what you can.

Larsmont Summer Days
Saturday, June 27, 11 am to 6 pm
Sunday, June 28, 11am to 4 pm
Larsmont Trading Post, Two Harbors
Larsmont’s first outdoor music festival on the North Shore with local arts, six bands, including Big Wave Dave and the Ripples on Sunday, yard games, vendors, food, face painting and air brush tattoos.

Lee Clark Allen
Saturday, June 27, 6:30-8:30 pm
Snively’s Lounge
Duluth-based singer-songwriter whose music bridges classic soul with the contemporary edge of modern R&B. His sound is rooted in live instrumentation, blending elements of jazz, blues, rock, funk, gospel, pop and hip-hop to create something both fresh and familiar.

Stephen Foster: 200 Years of Song
Sunday, June 28, 3 pm
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Duluth
Baritone Elias Mokole and pianist Linda Turpening celebrate the bicentennial of Stephen Foster’s birth. The program features humorous and patriotic tunes plus the music of Charles Ives and songs from the Revolutionary era with the audience invited to help select portions of the program.

Eric Cyr book release & signing
Tuesday, June 30, 6 pm
Wussow’s
Local musician Eric Cyr’s collection of short fiction set in rural Minnesota, Here It Snows in June, is darkly comic and mythically strange. The stories track the quiet lives of men who long for connection and transcendence as they struggle to truly make sense of their days.

Big Time Jazz Orchestra
Wednesday, July 1, 1 pm
Leif Erikson Park
Directed by Randy Lee, the orchestra will play classic big band in the big outdoors with some funky and hip ones thrown in. Bring the family, chairs and blankets. In case of poor weather the event will relocate to Blacklist Brewing.

Heatbox
Thursday, July 2, 7 pm
Earth Rider Brewery
Hilarious, epic and legendary, Aaron “Heatbox” Heaton has been making mouth sounds for the last 40 years. He has been getting paid to make mouth sounds for the last 20. He has performed in almost every state in the U.S. as well as in Mexico, The Netherlands, Scotland, China, Dubai and Qatar.