women on the moon - the ordway concert hall - 10/6/2019

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March 19th and 20th - "Shout! Sister, Shout!" - The Voices of Women ...  

(A concert event celebrating women composers and writers from the past century)  

The musical journey begins with Sister Rosetta Tharpe and travels through time to today featuring such female phenoms as Laura Nyro, Carole King, Phoebe Snow, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Lady Gaga and India.Arie as well as others. The evening will also be interspersed with words from some wise women such as Maya Angelou, Terry Tempest Williams, Winona LaDuke, Coretta Scott King, Mary Oliver and many others. 

 On stage to deliver an eclectic and dynamic array of arrangements of songs written by these iconic female composers are a cadre of local Twin Cities’ vocalists including Judi  Vinar, Joyann Parker, Rachel Holder, Katie Gearty, and Anna Christy backed by pianist Lori Dokken (Producer & Music Director of “Shout! Sister, Shout!”) along with Jordan Hedlund on bass and Daryl Boudreaux on percussion. We are also joined by actress Eden Bodnar who will be delivering our spoken word sections.

May 14th and 15th – Women on the Moon – Part One. 

Women on the Moon is a concert event that showcases some of our favorite female artists from the 1960s. Performed at The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in October of 2019, this reprise of the concert will come to you in two parts – one in January 2022 and the second part during the spring/summer of 2022.  

FEAT: Judi Vinar, Patty Peterson, Rachel Holder, Joyann Parker, Ginger Commodore, and Lori Dokken along with a smokin' band of Twin Cities "A" listers.

"The Women's Club" Series at Crooners!

 Lori Dokken is teaming up with Crooners to launch a new series of shows featuring The Women’s Club. 

"The Women’s Club" is a new concept group that is an evolving and revolving compilation of some of the best female singers in the Twin Cities. Their mission is to bring you some songs you’ve never heard; some tunes that you have forgotten; some you’ve heard a million times and to always deliver them highlighting the message behind the music.  This inaugural venture starts off with a series of four different shows produced once a month during November through February. Each show will be presented on a Saturday night at 8PM and Sunday afternoon at 4PM on Crooners Main Performance Stage.  Individual or full series tickets are available.  Purchasing tickets in November for all four shows in this series brings a total price discount of $20. (When purchasing a series ticket please choose the Saturday night or Sunday afternoon option.)

(Lori's photos by Bonni Allen Photography)

We think it’s about time to put a tuxedo-clad group of women on stage and set them free to sing, swing, sass and show the alternative of what Vegas’ lounges in the ’60s could have been like.   This show brings you back to the days of the Rat Pack with Johnny Carson at The Copa Room at TheSands Hotel.   

Featuring Patty Peterson, Judi Vinar, Rachel Holder and Lori Dokken with Jendeen Forberg on drums and Jordan Hedlund on bass.   

Special Guest – James Rocco, The Ordway Center’s past artistic director and vice president of programs for 13 years, will be your host!

Cabaret queen Mistress Ginger is taking you on a musical odyssey of very Minnelli proportions, full of love, laughs, song and dance. We’re getting back to the dream, one Liza tune at a time.

Featuring live band, sizzling hot dancers, and enough pizzazz to lift you up out of your vagabond shoes and into showbiz bliss. 

The Band:

Lori Dokken, piano & musical director 

Dustin Jensen, drums 

Ian Young, bass 

The Dancers: Scott Stafford & Jarod Boltjes 

Since 2006, Mistress Ginger has been bringing her cabaret magic to a variety of Twin Cities venues, from the Bryant-Lake Bowl to the Ordway Center. With a passion for storytelling through song, she takes her audiences on whimsical journeys full of heart and imagination. Her cookbook, Mistress Ginger Cooks, was published in 2014. 

"50th Anniversary of Pride All-Star Cabaret Show”

FEAT:  Erin Schwab, Dan Chouinard, Mary Jane Alm, Ann Reed, Joan Griffith, Ellis, James Rocco, Mistress Ginger, Dennis Spears and many more to be announced.

Crooners joins in congratulating and celebrating Twin Cities’ Pride and the LGBTQ+ community on the 50th Anniversary of Pride with an All-Star Cabaret Show presented by Lori Dokken on June 25th at 8:00 PM and June 26th at 4:00 PM. 

From the first gathering in Loring Park and the first Gay Pride parade, through decades of disco, the AIDS quilt, the Human Rights Campaign, transgender rights and now same sex marriage … TC Pride has continued to grow in diversity and community inclusivity and this June expects more than 400,000 visitors to attend their many Pride activities! 

We sincerely hope you will join Crooners, Lori Dokken and her very special line-up for this insanely fun and sometimes incredibly poignant cabaret show. It will be EPIC!

"I Am Woman ... Hear Me Roar!" - featuring Lori Dokken, Judi Vinar, Patty Peterson and Rachel Holder with Jay Young, III and David Stanoch.  

We hope that you will join us for an evening celebrating some of the greatest women singers and songwriters ever!   

With Lori Dokken at the piano, Twin Cities’ vocalists Judi Vinar, Patty Peterson and Rachel Holder along with bass player Jay Young and drummer David Stanoch will turn the stage into a celebration of some of the matriarchs of music. Sit back and enjoy the vibrant vocal harmonies these girls put to tunes made famous by such divas as Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Annie Lennox, Carole King, Tina Turner, Judy Garland, Christina Aguilera and many more. It promises to be a fantastic evening of hearing these women “roar” as only they can!   

"I Am Woman ... Hear Me Roar!

Friday, July 15th - 7:00 PM

Benson Public Schools' Performing Arts Center

1400 Montana Avenue

Benson, MN 56215

Here's the link to purchase tickets -  https://www.vancoevents.com/BFZI

In conjunction with The Hennepin Theatre Trust’s LGBTQIA+ Exhibit, Patrick’s Cabaret will present Pride 2022 - LIVE! a very special Cabaret in their 3rd Floor performance space, the “900 Studio”, on Saturday, July 16, 2022. Expect an amazing evening of performance, media, cocktails (including non-alcoholic) and a lot of not to be missed!

The cabaret will feature works by:

Apocalypse Theatre, Lori Dokken, Kohl Miner, Ann Marsden, Chris Stark, Venus DeMars, and Patrick Scully - MC

Apocalypse Theatre, a nomadic freak-show caravan will feature Demolition Grrrls a dance track with loud guitars, Codename:Bunny, and The Diseased. hybrid goth industrial punk.

Lori Dokken, - a little cross section of piano bar tunes from the 70s and 80s. Kohl Miner will perform A Queer Elder - a coming of age story.

Ann Marsden Marking a decade since Ann’s passing, Patrick has organized a slide show of Ann’s photos of our LGBTQ community.

Chris Stark will read from her second novel, Carnival Lights, about two Ojibwe teen cousins who leave their fictitious northern Minnesota reservation for Minneapolis in 1969. Carnival Lights was a 2022 Minnesota Book Awards finalist.

Venus DeMars will present an acoustic cameo 

Patrick Scully - master of ceremonies

(Covid Protocol: Artist & audience safety is a priority! Patrons are required to: wear a mask in the 3rd floor theater space, and be mindful. Proof of vaccination is not

required. If you feel sick, stay home!)

Women on the Moon is a concert event that showcases some of our favorite female artists from the 1960s such as: Mama Cass, Tina Turner, Aretha, Cher, Dusty Springfield, Lesley Gore, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Dionne Warwick, Mavis Staples, Joan Baez, Cher, Ella, Shirley Bassey, Laura Nyro, Diana Ross, Barbra, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Nancy Sinatra, and the great Nina Simone.  

Producer and Musical Director, Lori Dokken, has assembled some of the Twin Cities’ finest female vocalists to transport us back more than fifty years to a time when so many things were static and tumultuous, and yet “peace” and “love” were two of the most circulated words of the era.  

Bringing their own unique interpretations to a diverse compilation of music from this decade are such local artists as: Judi Vinar, Ginger Commodore, Patty Peterson, Rachel Holder and Anna Christy along with a smokin’ band of Twin Cities’ A-listers.   

Performed at The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in October of 2019, this reprise of the concert will come to you in two parts – one in May 2022 and the second part on July 30th and 31st of 2022.  

Women on the Moon is a concert event that showcases some of our favorite female artists from the 1960s such as: Mama Cass, Tina Turner, Aretha, Cher, Dusty Springfield, Lesley Gore, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Dionne Warwick, Mavis Staples, Joan Baez, Cher, Ella, Shirley Bassey, Laura Nyro, Diana Ross, Barbra, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Nancy Sinatra, and the great Nina Simone.

Producer and Musical Director, Lori Dokken, has assembled some of the Twin Cities’ finest female vocalists to transport us back more than fifty years to a time when so many things were static and tumultuous, and yet “peace” and “love” were two of the most circulated words of the era.  Bringing their own unique interpretations to a diverse compilation of music from this decade are such local artists as: Judi Vinar, Ginger Commodore, Patty Peterson, Rachel Holder and Anna Christy along with a smokin’ band of Twin Cities’ A-listers. 

Performed at The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in October of 2019, this reprise of the concert will come to you in two parts – one in May 2022 and the second part on July 30th and 31st of 2022.