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SUMMARY:Bruce Cockburn: O Sun O Moon True North Tour
DESCRIPTION:The MEL welcomes Bruce Cockburn for two nights!\n\n\n\nMonday\, May 5 & Tuesday\, May 6\, 2025\n6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music\nAll Ages \n\n\n$65 ($79.63 w. taxes/fees) Premium Seating \n\n\n$55 ($68.07 w. taxes/fees) Preferred Reserved Seating \n\n\n$45 ($55.38 w. taxes/fees) Advance General Admission \n\n\n$50 ($58 w. taxes/fees) At The Door General Admission \n\n\nTicket purchases are final and non-refundable\nFacebook RSVP Monday\, May 5\nFacebook RSVP Tuesday\, May 6 \n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, May 5 // BUY TICKETS\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 6 // BUY TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n \nRevered Canadian singer-songwriter and activist Bruce Cockburn returns to The Parkway for two nights in support of his latest album\, O Sun O Moon (True North)\, a collection of 12 new original songs that demonstrate the songwriting and guitar-playing skills that come from more than 55 years of artistry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Time takes its toll\, but in my soul I’m on a roll\,” Bruce Cockburn sings on his latest studio album\, O Sun O Moon. Smart and catchy\, it’s the kind of memorable line—like “gotta kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight” from his classic song “Lovers in a Dangerous Time”—the world has become used to hearing from Cockburn. \nAn inspired poet and exceptional guitarist\, the award-winning artist has spent his entire career kicking at the darkness with songs that tackle topics from politics and human rights to the environment and spirituality. And he’s not letting up. While other singer-songwriters his age are slowing down\, Cockburn\, on the eve of his 78th birthday\, has released a dozen new compositions as powerful as any he’s written. You could even say his songwriting is on a roll as well. \nExquisitely recorded in Nashville with his longtime producer\, Colin Linden\, O Sun O Moon exudes a newfound simplicity and clarity\, as Cockburn focuses on more spiritual than topical concerns this time around\, looking back and taking stock. “I think it’s a product of age to a certain extent\,” he explains\, “and seeing the approaching horizon.” Then\, lightening the tone\, he adds with a laugh: “I think these are exactly the kind of songs that an old guy writes.” \nOld or not\, Cockburn exhibits a palpable urgency on the opening “On a Roll\,” playing a driving resonator guitar with all the vigor of his veteran blues heroes. Similarly “To Keep the World We Know\,” one of the album’s few explicitly topical numbers\, bristles with Cockburn’s buzzing dulcimer as he and Inuk music star Susan Aglukark\, with whom he co-wrote the song\, sing about the growing threat of global warming. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMost of the songs strike gentler tones\, from the jazz sway of “Push Come to Shove” and the folky drone of “Into the Now” to the string-laden “Us All” and the hymn-like “Colin Went Down to the Water.” The whimsical “King of the Bolero\,” is unlike anything else on the album. Over a woozy clarinet and drunken\, New Orleans-style horns\, Cockburn paints a cartoon portrait of an oversized barroom musician “with a double chin all the way round his neck and a pot belly in the back.” Is it a dream or a figment of his imagination? In a gravelly voice\, Cockburn leaves us guessing as he sings “it’s moon high noon—I’m not in my bed.” \nAs with so many Cockburn albums\, the musicianship on O Sun O Moon is superb. Along with usual suspects Linden on guitar\, Janice Powers on keyboards and Gary Craig on drums\, the album features bassist Viktor Krauss\, drummer Chris Brown\, accordionist Jeff Taylor\, violinist Jenny Scheinman\, and multi-instrumentalist Jim Hoke. And Cockburn’s guest vocalists include Shawn Colvin and Buddy Miller as well as mellifluous singers Allison Russell\, Sarah Jarosz\, and Ann and Regina McCrary\, daughters of gospel great Rev. Samuel McCrary\, one of the founders of the Fairfield Four. The McCrary sisters shine brightest on the title track\, whose full name is “O Sun By Day O Moon By Night.” They sing the euphoric chorus of the song which relates\, during spoken verses\, a dream Cockburn had in which he makes the journey to heaven. “In the dream\, which was really powerful\,” says Cockburn\, “I see myself silhouetted on a ridge with this jar of blood pouring it on the soil. It wasn’t scary or disturbing at all.” Cockburn adds that he wrote the line “and if that sun and moon don’t shine” in the spirit of songs from the folk ballad “Mockingbird” to the blues number “Bo Diddley.” \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe album’s jazzy closer\, “When You Arrive\,” finds Cockburn confessing to feeling his age when he sings “You’re limping like a three-legged canine\, backbone creaking like a cheap shoe.” But it’s clearly a song of acceptance\, about eventually slipping one’s mortal coil\, as he’s joined on the chorus by all of his guest vocalists\, singing “bells will ring when you arrive.” \nO Sun O Moon includes just one song without vocals\, “Haiku\,” a four-minute showcase of Cockburn’s fleet-fingered guitar work\, where his previous studio recording\, 2019’s Crowing Ignites\, was a collection of all instrumental numbers. In between those albums\, Cockburn\, the Order of Canada recipient\, 13-time Juno Award winner and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee released a 50th anniversary box set\, greatest hits package and rarities collection. \nNever one to rest on his laurels—even when\, as he notes\, “time takes its toll\,” Cockburn keeps finding and conquering new challenges\, never repeating himself in the process. “I just don’t want to ever keep doing the same thing\,” he says. “I’m grateful that I can keep on doing anything at this point\,” he adds. “My body doesn’t hold up and perform the way it once did.” \nThat may be so. But the legendary musician has just made his 38th studio album. And it may stand as one of his best of his long and storied career. \nWebsite // Facebook
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LOCATION:Parkway Theatre\, 4814 Chicago Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55417\, United States
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SUMMARY:John Mark McMillan and the Cosmic Supreme Tour w/ Citizens
DESCRIPTION:The MEL welcomes John Mark McMillan: The Cosmic Supreme Tour! With Special Guests Citizens!  \nMay 27 \n7pm \nThe Fine Line \nTickets here! \nJohn Mark McMillan is something of an anomaly: an artist and Platinum-selling songwriter bending genres and defying categorization by carving out his own unique and independent path. With an ear for melody and a poet’s eye for metaphor\, no topic has been off-limits. While each of his albums over the past decade have continued to explore new territory\, it’s McMillan’s ability to give lyric and language to the human experience that many consider his greatest gift.
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LOCATION:Fine Line\, 318 North 1st Avenue\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55401\, United States
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