save the date - sunday, november 24th - 5:00Pm
Lori Dokken presents - “Just Me” ... (It’s Been a While!)
Join Lori for an evening with … Lori!
The first half of Lori Dokken’s 40+ year career in the music industry was spent working alone a lot … in cabarets, piano bars and hosting open mics. The second half has focused more on being a player, producer and music director for many sold out, innovative and creative presentations focused on women in the music industry over the past 100 years.
For this very special performance Lori takes center stage on Sunday, November 24th to go back in time a bit to where she began.
Patrons can expect a set list containing a diverse array of material from her catalogue of almost 45 years in the industry. The evening will feature songs from the 40s to today made famous by such artists as Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Chapman, Jim Croce, Dionne Warwick, Rickie Lee Jones, Elton John, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Ella, David Bowie, The Pointer Sisters, Kenny Loggins … well … you get the idea … with styles ranging from swing to pop to jazz to folk to Broadway to rock and Americana.
Joining Lori will be her friends - drummer David Stanoch and bassist Benjamin Kelly.
In 1992, Minnesota StarTribune music critic, Jon Bream said:
“Dokken is an eccentric cabaret performer with an abundance of talent and personality. Her piano playing has as much personality as she does. And her playing, like her singing, is all over the musical spectrum …
Dokken is an unabashed ham who performs with high, albeit engaging, drama. She has an expressive face even though she sings with her eyes closed. She’s all arched eyebrows, furrowed brow, dimples and grimaces. Her voice has the dramatic flair to match her face. She sings with the clarity of a modern-day Judy Collins and sounds like a Broadway version of a husky-voiced Laura Nyro.
At times she seems like a race-car driver without a map or brakes. Invariably, her quick wit and her equally quick musical instincts save her. She is never less than entertaining.”
And in 1994, Skyway News writer Tricia Booker wrote:
“Pardon Lori Dokken if she doesn’t act like a star. She sings like one - belting out old favorites in a smoky-velvet voice. She looks like one, too, with tanned sculpted cheekbones and a flashy white smile. But Dokken is pure entertainer, the way entertainers are supposed to be.”
Sunday, November 24th - 5:00PM
The Main Stage at Crooners
6161 Highway 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
"Club Day Monday" - Piano Bar & Open Mic Fiasco - November 18th
HELLO SINGERS!!!
It's time for another Club Day “Piano Bar & Open Mic Fiasco”
Join me on November 18th for another old-fashioned piano bar evening where all are welcome to sing along … sit in and sing a tune … play a tune … just basically “carry on!”
We’ll do some early holiday celebrating … sing some tunes … enjoy a cocktail and get ready for the upcoming frenzy of December!
It’ll be fun! I promise!
PUBLIC WELCOMED!
PARKING LOT RIGHT NEXT TO THE CLUB!
Doors open at 5:00pm for cocktails and lite meal - Show at 5:30pm
Lite meal available for purchase at venue.
Call or email the front desk for menu options and pricing.
612-813-5300
or
coming up in the next month ...
"Spiked — A Holiday Variety Show!" - Friday - November 29th - 7:00 PM
Spiked! — Table Salt Productions’ perennial holiday favorite — is back!
What is Spiked?
First-rate music plus sketch comedy, all mixed up in a sparkling holiday punch! Featuring local music headliners and Brave New Workshop alums, it’s Saturday Night Live meets Mariah Carey … with cocktails!
Kick off the holiday season right, right after Thanksgiving. Spiked! opens on Friday, November 29, and is a perfect night (or afternoon) out for you and all of your out-of-town guests. Work off that turkey dinner with plenty of belly laughs, plus good old-fashioned hooting and hollering! Rocking holiday songs will get you in the spirit; sweet foreign language carols will tug at your heart; and sketches that take aim at the workplace, the home — and an exploration of what exactly the family pets are getting up to — will have you rolling in the aisles!
Special Guest Artists on Friday, November 29th
THREE - Rachel Holder, Judi Vinar and Lori Dokken!
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29th @ 7:00 PM
Spiked — A Holiday Variety Show!
Presented by Table Salt Productions
CELTIC JUNCTION ARTS CENTER
836 Prior Ave N
St Paul, MN 55104
"Singin' in the kitchen" - December 10th & 11th
Featuring Lori Dokken, Patty Peterson, Rachel Holder, Judi Vinar, Ginger Commodore & Joyann Parker
That magical place where we share so much together during our lifetimes. That warm haven where we talk about our struggles, our successes, our loves and sometimes our losses – the kitchen holds all of our secrets and stories.
Lori, Patty, Rachel, Judi, Ginger and Joyann will reach into their bag of personal favorites and offer their collection of remembrances about those snapshots in time when we quietly smile and remember all that really matters in this life. Please join them for an evening (and matinee) of holiday favorites.
EVENING AND MATINEE SHOWS AVAILABLE !!!
"Singin' in the Kitchen" - Tuesday & Wednesday, December 10th & 11th
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres
Concert Series
501 West 78th Street
Chanhassen, MN 55317
952.934.1525
club day monday @ The woman's club mpls - 1st & 3rd mondays!
CLUB DAY MONDAY!
The Woman's Club - Minneapolis
The Woman's Club - Minneapolis
Club Day Monday is a new event co-hosted by The Woman's Club of Minneapolis and local musician and music producer Lori Dokken. Join Lori as she hosts local entertainers in the relaxed setting of the Lounge at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis.
PUBLIC WELCOME !!!
Great parking!
Great cocktails!
Great music!
Great way to start off your week!
The Woman's Club - Minneapolis
The Woman's Club - Minneapolis
The Woman's Club - Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis is a 501(c)(3) community organization located in a stunning Italianate, six-story mansion overlooking Loring Park in downtown Minneapolis. The Club is a gathering place for active, interesting women and men of all ages and backgrounds. The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis has provided a splendid retreat for outstanding women and men since 1907.
Today the Woman’s Club continues to be a vibrant community that embraces people from a variety of backgrounds. The current Clubhouse, built in 1928, has been designated by the City of Minneapolis as a Historic Treasure and offers breathtaking views of Loring Park and downtown Minneapolis.
unity minneapolis - music director -lori dokken
Annual September Music Series at Unity Minneapolis - 2024
Sunday morning services at Unity Minneapolis are Live-streamed and in person at 11:30 AM!
Sunday morning services at Unity Minneapolis are Live-streamed and in person at 11:30 AM!
“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.
Sunday morning services at Unity Minneapolis are Live-streamed and in person at 11:30 AM!
Sunday morning services at Unity Minneapolis are Live-streamed and in person at 11:30 AM!
Sunday morning services at Unity Minneapolis are Live-streamed and in person at 11:30 AM!
Unity Minneapolis - live-streamed and in-person service at 11:30 AM!
We will be meeting at a temporary location while the church is being renovated - Robbinsdale Parkway United Church of Christ.
Robbinsdale Parkway United Church of Christ, 4200 Lake Rd Ave, Robbinsdale, MN 55422, USA
Join me for a tremendously uplifting experience live-streamed from Unity Minneapolis where I have been the Music Director for the past fifteen years. Weekly Sunday morning service at 11:30 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 and many, many other great Twin Cities’ artists.