SUN, MARCH 15th - 6:00 PM - “Just Me …” vol.3
Join Lori for an evening with … Lori! Featuring "Jazz and Stuff!"
The first two shows were so much fun that Lori and the boys are getting together to do it again with a brand new set list and they are going to hang out in the jazz/blues/swing world!
For this encore performance Lori takes center stage on Sunday, March 15th in The Dunsmore Room to feature a bunch of swinging tunes, smokey ballads and some sultry blues songs made popular by such artists as Diana Krall, Ella, Dinah Washington, Bonnie Raitt, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Alberta Hunter, Al Jarreau and others!
Expect such tunes as Drinking Again, Blue Rondo a la Turk, Feeling Good, Angel from Montgomery, Caravan, Fascinating Rhythm, Spain, Lush Life and more!
Lori Dokken: Vocals, Piano, Music Director
David Stanoch: Drums
Benjamin Kelly: Bass
Produced by Lori Dokken and Stuart Paster
Sunday, March 15th @ 6:00 PM
CROONERS SUPPER CLUB
The Dunsmore Room
6161 Highway 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
Box Office: (763) 760-0062
"Club day monday cabaret!" - March 16th - 6:00 pm
Hosted by Doug Anderson & Lori Dokken!
After a highly successful three year bi-monthly run of “Club Day Monday” at The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis, Lori Dokken is joining forces with Doug Anderson to launch version 2.0 of the Monday evening experience.
Doug and Lori will be joined on stage for each monthly edition by several local artistic luminaries for the ninety-minute extravaganza. You can expect some fantastic music of all styles, cutting edge comedy routines along with a cornucopia of art forms that the artists will expose the “Club Day Monday Cabaret” audience to. This is a DON’T MISS opportunity to get out on a Monday for some great entertainment and start the week off with a bang … AND you’ll get home early!
On stage with Doug and Lori for the next edition will be Max Wojtanowicz, Ginger Commodore, Ann Michels & Kersten Rodau.
This is a DON’T MISS opportunity to get out on a Monday for some great entertainment and start the week off with a bang … AND you’ll get home early!
Featuring:
Doug Anderson: Vocals & Host
Lori Dokken: Piano and Vocals
Max Wojtanowicz: Vocals
Ginger Commodore: Vocals
Ann Michels : Vocals
Kersten Rodau: Vocals
Monday, March 16th @ 6:00 PM
CROONERS SUPPER CLUB
The Dunsmore Room
6161 Highway 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
Box Office: (763) 760-0062
maggie's piano lounge @ crooners - 3/23
COME AND JOIN ME FOR A FUN HAPPY HOUR !!!
Monday, March 23rd from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - NO COVER!!!
Monday, March 23rd from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - NO COVER!!!
Maggie’s Piano Lounge consists of casual entertainment offered outside our usual listening environment of ticketed concerts. Seating is first come, first served in the bar and at lounge tables.
Maggie’s Piano Lounge is a warm, relaxed and inviting space featuring a variety of seasoned singers and piano players. Various entertainers appear in the lounge from 5:00-7:00pm.
There is no cover, but tips are encouraged. Order all of your favorite Crooners drinks and dinner items, experience superb service, and enjoy the great music!
Monday, March 23rd from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - NO COVER!!!
Monday, March 23rd from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - NO COVER!!!
Monday, March 23rd from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - NO COVER!!!
MARCH 23rd from 5:00 to 7:00 PM
MAGGIE'S PIANO LOUNGE
CROONERS SUPPER CLUB
6161 Highway 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
Box Office: (763) 760-0062
“A Return to Studio 54” ... Sunday, April 26th - 6:00 PM
It’s time for “A RETURN TO STUDIO 54!”
Studio 54 burst onto the scene in 1977 and its glamour and pageantry defined the disco era. Certainly Studio 54 was a place to party, but in its intermingling of art and culture, the club was a kind of performance piece in and of itself. The club’s admission policy only let in a select few … however it drew a mix of denizens from ALL walks of life, and the club offered a haven where people from diverse backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities could come together without judgment. On any night the guests might include Liza Minnelli, Andy Warhol, Grace Jones, the drag queen Divine and Bianca Jagger along with patrons of all races, socio economic scales and sexual orientation. Even though the original club was only open for three years … it created a space where all were welcome to come and dance, party, people watch and just celebrate being together.
It’s time for “A RETURN TO STUDIO 54!”
Some of the artists featured in the show include Evelyn “Champagne” King, Chaka Khan, Diana Ross, The Pointer Sisters, Tina Turner, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, The Weather Girls and many more! A few of the disco classics you will experience are Shame, I’m Every Woman, I Will Survive, It’s Raining Men, Boogie, Oogie Oogie, Don’t Leave Me This Way, We Are Family, No More Tears (Enough is Enough) … We’re going to leave it there. We don’t want to give everything away!
Featuring:
Patty Peterson: Vocals
Judi Vinar: Vocals
Ginger Commodore: Vocals
Rachel Holder: Vocals
Lori Dokken: Music Director, Piano, Vocals
Joe Elliott: Guitar
Tony Axtell: Bass
David Stanoch: Drums
Sunday, April 26th @ 6:00 PM
CROONERS SUPPER CLUB
The Main Stage
6161 Highway 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
Box Office: (763) 760-0062
"PAINTING JONI" ... CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF A MASTER
TICKETS ON SALE SOON!
Let’s celebrate the amazing Joni Mitchell with a concert event that will highlight some of Mitchell’s most popular works including Big Yellow Taxi, Both Sides Now, A Case of You, The Circle Game, Woodstock and many more.
A self-described “painter derailed by circumstance” and hailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the greatest songwriters ever,” Joni Mitchell’s music paints social and environmental issues using a poetic style while addressing the universal feelings of romantic longing, loss, disillusion and joy. A nine-time Grammy award winner, along with seven other nominations, Mitchell’s music blazed new trails in the industry with her unique open tunings, alternative harmonic structure and lyrical styling that touches the hearts of all who hear it.
Painting Joni … Celebrating the Music of a Master
The Dunsmore Room @ Crooners
Sunday, May 24th, 2026 – 5:00 PM
Judi Vinar – vocals
Rachel Holder – vocals
Lori Dokken – vocals and piano
Sunday, May 24th, @ 5:00 PM
CROONERS SUPPER CLUB
The Main Stage
6161 Highway 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
Box Office: (763) 760-0062g
unity minneapolis - music director - lori dokken
Sunday morning services have moved back to Unity Minneapolis' Sanctuary! Live-streamed and in person
Sunday morning services have moved back to Unity Minneapolis' Sanctuary! Live-streamed and in person
Sunday morning services have moved back to Unity Minneapolis' Sanctuary! Live-streamed and in person
Unity Minneapolis - live-streamed and in-person service at 10:00 AM!
After 15 months of gathering at Robbinsdale Parkway United Church of Christ ... Phase One of the renovation is done and on July 13th we celebrate a homecoming to the new Unity Sanctuary!
Unity Minneapolis
4000 Golden Valley Road
Minneapolis, MN 55422
Join me for a tremendously uplifting Sunday morning experience at Unity Minneapolis where I have been the Music Director for the past fifteen years. Weekly Sunday morning service at 10:00 with the service available in person or by livestream on the church's website or their Facebook page or YouTube channel.
Frequent musical guests include The Unity Choir, Judi Vinar, Rachel Holder, Patty Peterson, Dane Stauffer, Joyann Parker, Erin Schwab, Ginger Commodore, Mary Jane Alm and many, many other great Twin Cities’ artists.
August & September Music Teams
Sunday - August 24th - Musical Guests are Erin Schwab, Dave Berget, Pete Hennig and me!
Sunday, August 27th - Musical Guest is Patty Peterson and me!
Sunday September 7th - “What Would You Do?”
Musical Guests Rachel Holder, Dave BErget, David Stanoch and me!
Sunday, September 14th - “God Help the Outcasts
Musical Guests are Rachel Holder, Dave Berget, David Stanoch and me!
Sunday, September 21st - “Beautiful City”
Musical Guests are Dane Stauffer, Tristana Ward, Dave Berget, David Stanoch and me!
Sunday, September 28th - “I’m Here”
Musical Guests are Rachel Holder, Ben Kelly, David Stanoch and me!
The Annual September Music Series for 2025 at Unity Minneapolis is "When Art Speaks ..."
Sunday morning services have moved back to Unity Minneapolis' Sanctuary! Live-streamed and in person
Sunday morning services have moved back to Unity Minneapolis' Sanctuary! Live-streamed and in person
“When Art Speaks …”
… from Berlin in the 1930s to today.
This year’s September Music Series will highlight the world of American theatre and specifically Broadway musicals from the past seventy years.
Artists and composers have brilliantly used this medium to express feelings, thoughts, emotions, worries, anger and sadness in reaction to their surroundings … political culture … daily life … and the environment. It seems that this need to create and express themselves is spawned from a desire to engage in and change the landscape of the times they were living through.
Please join us in person or online for the September Music Series at Unity Minneapolis - “When Art Speaks.” It promises to be a powerful, engaging, poignant, humorous, thought provoking and incredibly inspiring month.
“When Art Speaks” to us it can motivate and inspire diverse communities to bond together with common cause to form a movement – a broad and inclusive movement.
We CAN come together … We CAN do better.
Special Music featured during Sunday Services in September will be selections from some well-known Broadway musicals from the past seven decades.
On Sunday, October 5th at 5:00 PM – Judi Vinar, Rachel Holder and I (THREE) will close out the series by presenting a retrospect of material from contemporary music that has spoken to the people.
See you in September!
I hope you can come and experience “When Art Speaks …”
Lori
Special Guests for this series include: Rachel Holder, Dane Stauffer, Tristana Ward, David Stanoch, Dave Berget, and Benjamin Kelly.
"when art speaks" ... from Berlin in the 1930s to today.
Read Lori's notes regarding the Music Series
This year’s September Music Series, “When Art Speaks …” will highlight the world of American theatre and specifically Broadway musicals from the past seventy years.
Artists and composers have brilliantly used this medium to express feelings, thoughts, emotions, worries, anger and sadness in reaction to their surroundings … political culture … daily life … and the environment. It seems that this need to create and express themselves is spawned from a desire to engage in and change the landscape of the times they are living through.
History contains many eras of struggle as well as times of great accord that have driven and inspired artists to create some of the most influential works contained in the annals of our times. The categories of expression by these archivists have been threaded through theatre, spoken word, essays, paintings, photography, poetry and music. Quite often, works of art have inspired and motivated a society to enact positive and meaningful change that has caused the arc of our future to continue to bend toward justice.
I recently attended the production of Cabaret at The Guthrie and was gob smacked by the similarity of the topics the play highlighted from Berlin in 1930 that are front and center in the United States today.
I did some reading and research about the development of the musical Cabaret and discovered that in the early 1960s, Broadway producer Harold Prince acquired the source material for the show which was Christopher Isherwood's stories from his 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin. Prince wished to create a gritty adaptation of Isherwood's stories that drew parallels between the spiritual bankruptcy of Germany in the 1920s and contemporary social problems in the United States at a time "when the struggle for civil rights for black Americans was heating up as a result of nonviolent but bold demonstrations being held in the Deep South."
I found an incredible correlation between Isherwood’s Berlin in 1930 … Hal Prince’s America in the 1960s … and the alarmingly dangerous situation we are in today … in 2025.
People are being arrested without warrant, cause and due process … disappeared without basic rights … pulled off the street because of the color of their skin or the language that they speak … silenced because they are saying things in opposition to the people in power … are afraid for their lives if they do speak out … are being robbed of their basic human rights … and they watch without recourse as the programs and agencies they have relied on for their very survival are either being gutted, closed or people are casually being deemed no longer eligible to receive the assistance.
“When Art Speaks” to us it can motivate and inspire diverse communities to bond together with common cause to form a movement – a broad and inclusive movement - that demands adherence to The Constitution, respect for the rule of law, champions human rights and demands a return to the premise from which this great country began – E Pluribus Unum – out of many … ONE.
We CAN come together … We CAN do better.
Please join us at Unity Minneapolis for the September Music Series – “When Art Speaks.” It promises to be powerful, engaging, poignant, humorous, thought provoking and incredibly inspiring.
Some of the songs we will feature are: “What Would You Do?” and “Maybe This Time” (Cabaret); “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught” (South Pacific); “Easy to be Hard” and “Age of Aquarius” (Hair); “Save the People,” “Beautiful City” (Godspell); “You’ll Be Back” (Hamilton); “I’m Here” (The Color Purple) and many, many more …
On Sunday, October 5th at 5:00 PM – Judi Vinar, Rachel Holder and I (THREE) will close out the series by presenting a broad retrospect of material from contemporary music that has spoken to all of us.
In closing …
These famous and historical words will probably feel familiar to many people. Their relevancy to our times gives a startling example of the serious truth of our current situation.
Written by Martin Niemöller, a German Lutheran pastor and theologian in 1930s Germany, Niemöller supported Hitler’s rise to power but came to odds with the government when Hitler insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion.
Niemöller then led a group of German clergymen who now opposed Hitler, and he was consequently arrested in 1937 and spent eight years in two different concentration camps until he was released by the Allies in 1945.
I didn’t know his history until doing research for this series. I now read his words through a much different lens … they ring even more true to me now.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
See you in September!
Lori
About Lori
Musician - Pianist - Vocalist
Music Director - Producer - Arranger - Performance Coach
Music Director - Producer - Arranger - Performance Coach
A vast catalogue of music from old Swing tunes to R &B, Pop and Folk to classic old hymns ...
Music Director - Producer - Arranger - Performance Coach
Music Director - Producer - Arranger - Performance Coach
Music Director - Producer - Arranger - Performance Coach
It's not surprising that she was voted "Most Versatile" in high school ...
Passionate Performer
Music Director - Producer - Arranger - Performance Coach
Passionate Performer
This musician will give you everything she's got ...
And that's a lot ... four decades of seasoning as a pianist and vocalist.