Annual Report | Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua 2017 | Page 2

2017 Performances
The 2017 Season
August
3 Here Come the Mummies
4 Big Top Idol
5 Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder
6 Okee Dokee Brothers
6 Shakey Graves /David Ramirez
10 Mary Black /Róisín O
11 Delbert McClinton /Dead Horses
12 WPR 100 th Anniversary: Old Time Radio Drama

with Blue Canvas Orchestra
13 Superior! Songs and Stories of the Big Lake
16 Red Cliff Culture, Music, and Fry Bread
17 John Butler Trio /J.S. Ondara
18 Tab Benoit
19 Charley Pride /R Country Gals
20 Riding the Wind
24 Gaelic Storm
25 Michael Perry’s Population 485
26 Indigo Girls /Becky Warren
September

1 Big Top Opry 2: The Outlaw Years
2 Bonnie Raitt /Anders Osborne
8 Superior! Songs and Stories of the Big Lake
9 Old Last Night with Blue Canvas Orchestra,
C. Willi Myles, and Michael Perry & The Long Beds
11 Wild Woods and Waters
15 The Big Wu with Black River Revue CD Release Event
16 Big TAP ChautauquaFest
Denotes Essentia Health® Free Family Matinee
June
16 New First Night with BCO and Jack Gunderson
17 Riders In The Sky
22 Big Top Opry 2: The Outlaw Years
23 Warren Nelson’s “So Many Years, So Many Songs”
24 Asleep at the Wheel with guest Dale Watson
25 Rise Up Singing with Blue Canvas Orchestra
29 Big Top Does The Beatles
30 Leftover Salmon /The Secret Sisters
July

1 Ziggy Marley /Barefoot Wonder
2 Darren Thompson & Friends
2 Riding the Wind
6 Blackberry Smoke
7 Michael Franti & Spearhead /Quito Rymer
8 Travis Tritt
9 Kalpulli Ketzal Aztec Dancers
9 Big Top Does The Beatles
13 Big Top Opry 2: The Outlaw Years
14 Josh Ritter & Brett Dennen
15 I Am, He Said: A Tribute to Neil Diamond
16 Cirque Zuma Zuma
16 The Beach Boys
17-19 Bluegrass Day Camp
18 Pie & Politics
20 Diamond Rio /Listening Party
21 Big Top Does The Beatles
22 Andrew Bird /Roma di Luna
23 Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers /Hope Country
27 Superior! Songs and Stories of the Big Lake
28 Rise Up Singing
29 Trinity Irish Dance Company
29 Trinity Irish Dance Company
30 Mary Chapin Carpenter /Emily Barker
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