Online ticket sales have ended. A limited number of tickets are for sale at the door. Walk-up ticket sales open at 6 p.m.
Landmark Center and Red House Records' popular concert series "Red House Live from Landmark Center" returns to the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Auditorium at St. Paul's historic Landmark Center.
7 pm - cocktail hour (complimentary appetizers and cash bar)
8 pm - concert
Tickets are $20 in advance/$25 at the door. Buy a season pass to all four concerts for $75!
September 16 features Dean Magraw with Butch Thompson and Prudence Johnson!
Dean Magraw, Butch Thompson, and Prudence Johnson, each veterans of A Prairie Home Companion, first played together on Peter Ostroushko’s 1990 album, Buddies of Swing, and they’ve been looking for every chance to collaborate ever since.
Dean Magraw is a performer like no other, he is part-comedian, part-philosopher and all-around musical genius. Transcending genre, he has performed with a cornucopia of collaborators from jazz organist, Jack McDuff, to folk icon, Greg Brown; trad Irish supergroup, Altan, to classical violinist, Nigel Kennedy. In addition to his role as an in-demand sideman on over a hundred recording projects, Magraw has created more than a dozen albums, including four for Red House Records: Wise-Magraw (1985), Broken Silence (1994), Seventh One (1998), and Duo (1991), an album he recorded with Emmy Award winning multi-instrumentalist Peter Ostroushko. Proving the healing power of music, Magraw went into the studio with his longtime friend and collaborator, Marcus Wise, during the early stages of medical treatment in 2009. Magraw and Wise released How the Light Gets In, an engaging collection of highly original compositions nurtured in a refreshingly distinctive soundscape. As is evident on the album, Magraw continues to radiate positive energy through his music. In 2014, Magraw collaborated with the iconic jazz drummer Eric Kamau Gravatt (Weather Report, McCoy Tyner) for their improvisational masterwork, Fire on the Nile. The spare yet full sound of Magraw’s guitar and Gravatt’s drumming, created an aural journey that only musicians of their caliber could create.
In a career spanning over 45 years, pianist and clarinetist Butch Thompson has earned a world-wide reputation as a traditional jazz and ragtime master. He tours widely as a soloist or at the helm of one of his several ensembles, including his well-known Butch Thompson Trio, his eight-piece Jazz Originals band, the Butch Thompson Big Three, or his unique blues duo with fingerstyle guitarist Pat Donohue. Thompson has performed with many symphony orchestras, and is widely known for his 12-year stint as house pianist on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion, where the Butch Thompson Trio was the house band from 1980-1986, and he continues on the show as a frequent guest. Among Thompson’s many recordings are his acclaimed 10-volume solo series on Daring/Rounder, the 1997 Grammy-winning Verve release Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton, and his latest release, the critically acclaimed duo CD Vicksburg Blues with guitarist Pat Donohue.
Prudence Johnson’s long and happy career as a singer, writer, and teacher has landed her on the musical theatre stage, in two feature films, on national radio, and on concert stages across North America and occasionally Europe. She has released more than a dozen recordings, including albums dedicated to the music of the Gershwins, Hoagy Carmichael, Greg Brown, and a collection of international lullabies. In recent years, her focus has been on creating multi-media works for concert and theater stages that blend performance with her interests in history and literature. Johnson has received several awards and grants for her music, including a McKnight Fellowship, an Artists Initiative grant from the MN State Arts Board, and several Arts Board tour-support grants.