coming up in the next month ...
Grateful! with Doug Anderson & Friends Saturday, July 12th
Saturday, July 12th @ 7:30 PM
Cabaret, Comedy & Standards
Fun, funny and poignant songs featured by the very entertaining Doug Anderson , the brilliant Lori Dokken, funny woman Greta Grosch and multi talented Emily Rose Skinner.
Doug Anderson: Vocals, host
Lori Dokken: Vocals, Piano
Greta Grosch: Vocals
Emily Rose Skinner: Vocals
Crooners Supper Club
6161 Highway 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
Box Office: (763) 760-0062
Happy Hour in MAGGIE'S LOUNGE! Crooners - Friday, July 11th & Saturday, July 19th - 5:00 to 7:00
5:00 TO 7:00
MAGGIE'S LOUNGE! @ CROONERS SUPPER CLUB
Stop in and enjoy an early summer evening of music !! Requests are always welcomed!
NO COVER!
Maggie’s Piano Lounge is a warm, relaxed and inviting space featuring a variety of seasoned singers and piano players. No cover. Order all of your favorite Crooners drinks and dinner items, experience superb service, and enjoy the great music!
Crooners Supper Club
6161 Highway 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
Box Office: (763) 760-0062
“THREE” Voices … Sound Like One! Sunday, August 3rd
“THREE” Voices … Sound Like One! Sunday, August 3rd
5:30 TO 7:00
The Dunsmore Room
An Evening of Amazing Harmonies and Impeccable Presentation
"THREE” is the brainchild trio of local Twin Cities’ musicians – Judi Vinar, Rachel Holder and Lori Dokken. These three artists have not only been friends for a couple of decades but have also been colleagues in a diverse array of musical groups and productions.
“THREE” brings together a triad of diverse voices that are skilled in multiple styles and genres and the final product is an incredible performance that unites them into a singular sound – rich in color, character, confidence and the sonic seasoning of experience.
Featuring music by such artists as Annie Lennox, Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Simon & Garfunkel, CSNY, Bonnie Raitt, The Beatles and many others!
Judi Vinar: Vocals
Rachel Holder: Vocals
Lori Dokken: Vocals, Piano
Crooners Supper Club
6161 Highway 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
Box Office: (763) 760-0062
“THREE” Voices … Sound Like One!
An Evening of Amazing Harmonies and Impeccable Presentation!
“THREE” is the brainchild trio of local Twin Cities’ musicians – Judi Vinar, Rachel Holder and Lori Dokken. These three artists have not only been friends for a couple of decades but have also been colleagues in a diverse array of musical groups and productions.
“THREE” brings together a triad of diverse voices that are skilled in multiple styles and genres and the final product is an incredible performance that unites them into a singular sound – rich in color, character, confidence and the sonic seasoning of experience.
Featuring music by such artists as Annie Lennox, Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Simon & Garfunkel, CSNY, Bonnie Raitt, The Beatles and many others!
Judi Vinar: Vocals
Rachel Holder: Vocals
Lori Dokken: Vocals, Piano
Sunday, August 3rd 5:30 to 7:00
Dunsmore Jazz Room
Crooners Supper Club
6161 Highway 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
Box Office: (763) 760-0062
unity minneapolis - music director -lori dokken
Sunday morning services move back to Unity Minneapolis! Live-streamed and in person at 10:00
Annual Music Series for 2025 to be Announced soon! Check out the 2024 September Music Series below.
Annual Music Series for 2025 to be Announced soon! Check out the 2024 September Music Series below.
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.
July Music Teams
Sunday - July 13th - Musical Guests are The Unity Choir, Rachel Holder, Dave Berget, David Stanoch and me!
Sunday, July 20th - Musical Guests are Jana Anderson, Dave Berget, David Stanoch and me!
Sunday July 27th - Musical Guest is Tristana Ward with me!
Hope you can join us!
Annual Music Series for 2025 to be Announced soon! Check out the 2024 September Music Series below.
Annual Music Series for 2025 to be Announced soon! Check out the 2024 September Music Series below.
Annual Music Series for 2025 to be Announced soon! Check out the 2024 September Music Series below.
“Our Voices …”
(A de-construction and adaptation of “Shout Sister, Shout!” – a concert event celebrating women composers and writers from the past century.)
Join us for a four-part series of services in September that will feature spoken word, poetry and musical selections composed by writers and composers over the past 100 years that speak to the times that we are living in and will perhaps give us the impetus and heart to use “Our Voices” to affect the change that will change our world for our children and grandchildren.
Every September at Unity Minneapolis we hold a month long “music series” focusing on a style or composer or topic for the month. This year’s series will be a deviation from the previous configuration and will include not only musical selections but also spoken word and poetry selections that amplify the messages that will be delivered.
It seems that we are at a political intersection that has brought us to a place of either turning away and staying silent and being complicit in perhaps total destruction and negation of our country’s promises and values as we have known and experienced them and leading to the end of our democracy. Or … we can choose to head straight into the controversy and discussion and use our strong spiritual beliefs, our choices and most of all our voices to engage a diverse community of citizens to support a common interest of a shared, compassionate, free, equal, hopeful and energized population. This could ensure the survival of not only our founding agreement, The Constitution, but also the belief in and the perpetuation of this great experiment called “The United States of America.” It is a place that began with “Out of many, one” and was born from a dream that extended the invitation that all are welcome to help build this dream of a new land … whose shores would welcome all cultures, religions, ethnicities, sexualities, genders, ages, colors and really anyone who shared the belief that … Out of many … we can become ONE.
We the People … we the people … we the people … ARE the United States of America. Our votes select people to represent us in the community at large and we hope that they vote to support ideas and policies and laws that a MAJORITY of the constituents support.
For this year’s September Music Series I have deconstructed and adapted a concert event that I produce called “Shout Sister, Shout!” which showcases artists, composers and writers from the past century casting focus and light on many subjects such as: freedom, civil rights, indigenous people, democracy, LGBTQ+ communities, racial inequality, “Unwed” mothers (as categorized in history), joy for life, bravery in adversity, children, animals, kindness, and struggles.
Over the course of the month, the musical journey will begin with Sister Rosetta Tharpe and travel through time to today featuring such vocal phenoms as Laura Nyro, Carole King, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Alicia Keys, Karen Carpenter, Oleta Adams, Dolly Parton, Emmy Lou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Lady Gaga.
The services will also be interspersed with words from some well-known writers and celebrities such as Maya Angelou, Terry Tempest Williams, Winona LaDuke, Coretta Scott King, Mary Oliver, Amanda Gorman, Lily Tomlin, Minnie Pearl and more.
Please join us in September as we go on a journey through the joys, struggles, loves, losses, social concerns and causes of our time using powerful and tender melodies along with words by some of our greatest writers, artists and leaders.
Along this month long journey, we will be reminded of the resilience of the human spirit and our community of shared dreams. I hope we may we be brought to a place where we celebrate all that binds us together and join in a shared chorus to speak, live and promote loudly our prayers for justice, kindness, freedom, equality and humility and continue on the path to create a land where “We the People” get closer to the dream of forming “a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
Special Guests for this series include: Rachel Holder, Eden Bodnar, Anna Christy, Joyann Parker, The Unity Choir, David Stanoch, Benjamin Kelly, Pete Hennig and Dave Berget.
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.