Isabella Ebbighausen and Quinn Kaufman originally met during a contortion class at Xelias Aerial Arts School. Through their shared love of circus, visual arts, and (strangely) advanced mathematics, contortion and acrobatics, they will show some of the many ways that the art of circus can manifest.

Hailed by everyone from Dave Van Ronk to Doc Watson, from the Washington Post to Downbeat, Dakota Dave Hull’s guitar style spans a wide musical geography to create an infectious, uniquely personal blend of jazz, ragtime, folk, blues, Western swing, and vintage pop. Dakota Dave is a restlessly curious, adventurous traveler along the broad highway of America’s music. In his playing the masters speak, but in a vocabulary that is Dave’s alone: alternatively mirthful and moving, always melodic.

A gifted composer as well as a strikingly original interpreter of older tunes, Dave calls what he does “classic American guitar.” Folk legend Van Ronk called Dave “one of the best guitarists in the world.”

 

Mary Moore Easter reading  poems and other writings. Mary is a writer, dancer, choreographer, teacher, mother, grandmother….  Appearing in this cabaret as a poet, Mary danced a long time and still does a bit. She established the dance program at Carleton College, where there is now a dance studio named after her. Her collection, The Body of the World, was a Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry 2019. She also performed at Patrick’s Cabaret way back in the early days! She’s a recipient of a 2020 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant for Free Papers: poems, a chapbook, (soon-to-be-performance) sprung from the testimony of Eliza Winston, an enslaved woman who escaped to freedom in Minnesota in 1860 Free Papers has been accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press.

Most recently, her poetry was featured in a concert, From the Flutes of Our Bones, an evening of eight premieres by MNSong Composers, performed by eight MN Duos, highlighting her poetry.