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June 23
7:30pm

Tickets: $22 adult/$11 student
Also plays July 7, July 23

Box*

37

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FRI

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June 24 Tickets: 22 adult/ 11 student
7:30pm

Box*

37

$

Perhaps the biggest new hit of last summer was this musical
gem from the team of Severin Behnen, Stevie Matier and
Bruce Burnside. "Belfast to Bluegrass" is a musical adventure of
jigs and ballads as they travel to the Appalachian Mountains by
way of a quarter of a million Scots Irish. Before the United States
was formed, the inhabitants were absorbing, merging and
transforming the ethnic sounds of its people. Hear the changes
in the traditional Celtic tunes as bluegrass and other genres
are being born of our traditional American musical culture.
Performed by the Blue Canvas Orchestra and special guests.

Join the Father of the Big Top, the Founder, and the one who
(in his own vernacular) "thunk it all up" thirty-plus years ago
– Warren Nelson. This is a special celebration of the original
works of the Nelson Ferris Concert Company and Sioux River
Song Farm in a retrospective of the past 30 years of Lake
Superior Big Top Chautauqua. Re-live three decades of original,
historical musicals through story, song and big screen visuals,
starting with "Souvenir Views" the story of Washburn, up
through "Take Me To the Islands" which debuted at the tent
in 2014.

Sponsored by:
•Midland Services•

Sponsored by:
•Wild Rice Restaurant•

*Box Seating: in back of the tent on a raised deck; great view, excellent sound, and cocktail service; A-price+$15

SAT

June 25
7:30pm

Opening set: Matt Andersen
Box*
Tickets: $49/$70/$82 $97
∆Dance Alert

Buddy Guy is a genuine American treasure. At age 79, Guy is
a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on
rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray
Vaughan and a pioneer of Chicago's fabled West Side sound.
Buddy Guy has received 6 Grammy Awards, a 2015 Lifetime
Achievement Grammy Award, 34 Blues Music Awards (the
most any artist has received), and the Presidential National
Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #23 in its
"100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." He was awarded the
2012 Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime contribution to
American culture.
Sponsored by:
•CF Design•
•Motion-to-Go•

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