“Are you ready for the country?” asked Waylon Jennings once. “Ain’t that a sight to see?”

Join Salon Saloon as we answer both questions definitively: "I think so" and "yes." We’re packing up the pickup and heading out of Minneapolis into rural America to see what we can see. Steel pedal guitars, low population density, farming practices, blue highways, and the collected works of Merle Haggard will all feature prominently as a distinguished group of guests intimately familiar with the country tell stories, play songs, show images, or do all three at once. Country folks can diversify!

+ Photographer ALEC SOTH | www.alecsoth.com
+ Artist, musician and vegetable farmer MALENA HANDEEN | www.malenahandeen.com
+ Writer and musician DYLAN HICKS (“Boarded Windows”) | www.dylanhicks.com
+ Television hosts VIVA & JERRY BECK of MTN’s "Viva & Jerry’s Country Videos" | http://producers.mtn.org/vivaandjerry



With the Salon Saloon house band (Katie Condon, Jake Mohan & Claire Tiller) and your host, Andy Sturdevant.

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Tickets $6 - $12 pay what you can, available online:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/265677

Pre-booking is highly recommended!

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ABOUT SALON SALOON:
http://www.salonsaloon.info/

Combining the best and worst elements of chat show, variety program and artist talk, Salon Saloon is a live-action arts magazine that invites artists, designers, musicians and creative workers to the stage of the Bryant-Lake Bowl for informal, far-ranging explorations of a specific topic. Each themed program features guests from across the spectrum of the Twin Cities creative community sharing stories, photos, essays, ideas and performances.

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Salon Saloon is produced by Andy Sturdevant & Works Progress at Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.

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WORKS PROGRESS: http://www.worksprogress.org/current/salon-saloon/

BRYANT-LAKE BOWL:
http://www.bryantlakebowl.com/calendar/shows/salon-saloon-twin-cities-art-culture-review-20