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JUN 05
JUN 05
FARGODOME, North University Drive, Fargo, ND, USA
Often referred to as the "Kickoff To Summer", Happy Harry's Ribfest has been providing quality food and entertainment for over 25 years!
Featuring award-winning national rib vendors and nightly national music acts, Happy Harry's Ribfest has become an annual tradition for food & music lovers alike.
Join us outside the FARGODOME every June for 4 days of food, music & fun for the whole family!
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JUN 07
JUN 07
Fargo Theatre, Broadway North, Fargo, ND, USA
In 2018, his show stealing showcase at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival caught the attention of Hollywood tastemakers, but Slay’s irreverent sense of humor developed before he even stepped on stage, through over a decade of working thankless blue collar jobs.
Long before anyone had ever even heard of Tik Tok, at eighteen years old, Slay dropped out of community college. At 19 his plans to join the army were foiled by an arrest. By 21 he moved from his hometown of Opelika AL to Charleston SC. On the coast, Slay worked as a waiter and pesticide salesman for over a decade while moonlighting as an obscure, often drunk, open mic comedian.
It wasn’t until he quit drinking in 2012 that he started to take comedy and his unique talent for telling jokes seriously. His smooth baritone voice and relatable stories about growing up poor in a trailer park quickly made him a local Charleston favorite. After being voted Best Local Comedian and winning the Charleston Stand Up Comedy Competition, both two years in a row, his well-intentioned friends and colleagues encouraged Slay to move to LA and take a shot at the big time.
While this may have been sound advice for the average aspiring artist, Dusty wanted to try to make it in comedy on his own terms: by living the South, without getting too far away from the home that grounded him.
Today, Slay has close to half a million Tik Tok followers, Four Late Night appearances, a Comedy Central set and a Netflix Half Hour Special under his belt. He enjoys selling out comedy clubs across America on weekends, then chills out at home in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Hannah and daughter Daisy. He’s even a regular at the legendary Grand Ole Opry, sharing the stage with the musicians he grew up loving.
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JUN 15
JUN 15
The Lights, Sheyenne Street, West Fargo, ND, USA
EPIC Events is excited to announce Soul Asylum and Gear Daddies with Special Guest Bad Bad Hats in concert on MIDCO Stage at Essentia Health Plaza at The Lights on Saturday, June 15th at 7:00 p.m.
ABOUT SOUL ASYLUM
Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum selling rock band SOUL ASYLUM started as Minneapolis’ punk younger brothers to the Replacements and Husker Dü.
Their 1992 breakthrough album, Grave Dancers Union, featured the international hits “Runaway Train,” “Black Gold” and “Somebody to Shove.” “Runaway Train” won a Grammy, and its music video brought nearly two dozen missing and exploited children and teens around the world home to their families. Soul Asylum has released 12 original albums, in addition to multiple live albums and greatest hits collections. Hurry Up and Wait was released in 2020 to much fan and critical acclaim worldwide, landing the band their highest Billboard chart position since 1995’s platinum-selling Let Your Dim Light Shine.
The current Soul Asylum line-up features Dave Pirner (lead vocals/guitar), Michael Bland (drums), Ryan Smith (lead guitar) and Jeremy Tappero (bass). Pirner, generally considered to be one of the one of the great American songwriters, released a best-selling annotated collection of lyrics, Loud, Fast, Words, in 2020.
Soul Asylum released their 1993 MTV Unplugged performance on vinyl for the first time ever as a 2023 Record Store Day exclusive. In celebration of that 30-year anniversary, the band played a special unplugged show at State Theatre in Minneapolis on April 20 that was Soul Asylum’s highest grossing show ever. The band have booked multiple festival dates in 2023 and are continuing to do stripped-down acoustic shows as well.
ABOUT GEAR DADDIES
GEAR DADDIES is an Americana/Rock band originally from Austin, Minnesota. Members Martin Zellar (electric and acoustic guitar, harmonica and vocals), Nick Ciola (bass), Randy Broughten (electric and pedal steel guitar) and James “Billy” Dankert (drums and vocals), played their first shows together in 1984. Between 1986 and 1992, the band released three popular albums and became an important part of the Twin Cities music scene. Many of the fan’s favorite songs (“Stupid Boy”, “Color of Her Eyes”, “She’s Happy”, “Drank So Much” and many others) are credited to the exceptionally passionate writing skills possessed by Zellar, however Dankert has also contributed some of the compositions, including “Time Heals”, and “Blues Mary”.
Gear Daddies have been mentioned as an influence on several bands that emerged in the Upper Midwest in the late 1980s through the 1990s, including: The Billy’s, Violet, Shoot Lucy, Dazy Head Mazy, Groundhouse and Six Mile Grove.
ABOUT BAD BAD HATS
BAD BAD HATS is an indie rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kerry Alexander and Chris Hoge met in college and formed the band in 2012. In the 10 years of their existence, they have toured the country many times in their trusty minivan, sampling the best local cuisine along the way. Bad Bad Hats has toured with The Beths, Margaret Glaspy, The Front Bottoms, Hippo Campus, and Michelle Branch, among many others. Their fourth album Bad Bad Hats will be released April 12, 2024 on Don Giovanni Records.
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Tickets for this performance will go on sale at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, March 22nd at TICKETMASTER.COM. Presale for this show will take place from 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 20th through Thursday, March 21st at 9:00 p.m. General admission tickets for this performance will start at $49.00 plus fees and Matt’s Automotive VIP tickets will start at $69.00 plus fees. All ticket prices will increase $10 the day of the show. This event will be RAIN OR SHINE and tickets are non-refundable. Ticketmaster is the official and sole ticket distributer of EPIC Events. Any tickets purchased outside of Ticketmaster are at risk of being fraud/scam or non-sufficient as event entry.
BUSCH LIGHT PLAZA PASS
A limited number of Busch Light Plaza Passes sponsored by D-S Beverages remain available for admission to all* EPIC Events promoted concerts this summer at The Lights. These can be purchased for $249.00 plus fees through Ticketmaster.com. This pass will give you one General Admission entry for every EPIC Events show on MIDCO Stage at Essentia Health Plaza at The Lights in 2024. Includes a minimum of six concerts on separate dates. The pass currently includes Jon Pardi, Brothers Osborne, Ice Cube, Soul Asylum and Gear Daddies. More shows will be announced soon.
*The Busch Light Plaza Pass is only valid during the 2024 concert season at The Lights in West Fargo and cannot be used at any other location. Some show exclusions may apply.
ABOUT EPIC EVENTS
EPIC Events is an independent entertainment promoter located in West Fargo, ND. Our goal is to bring live events (concerts, comedians, speakers and more!) to the city of West Fargo and the surrounding region. For more information on this show, please visit WWW.EPICEVENTSND.COM.
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JUN 28
JUN 28
Red River Valley Fair Association, Main Avenue West, West Fargo, ND, USA
See the Goo Goo Dolls at the Red River Valley Fair on Friday, June 28th! Gate admission included with ticket!
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JUN 30
JUN 30
Red River Valley Fair Association, Main Avenue West, West Fargo, ND, USA
See the Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias LIVE at the Red River Valley Fair on Sunday, June 30th!
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JUL 05
JUL 05
Red River Valley Fair Association, Main Avenue West, West Fargo, ND, USA
See YUNG GRAVY with Tayler Holder live at the Red River Valley Fair on Friday, July 5th!
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JUL 06
JUL 06
Red River Valley Fair Association, Main Avenue West, West Fargo, ND, USA
See LUDACRIS live at the Red River Valley Fair on Saturday, July 6th!
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JUL 07
JUL 07
Red River Valley Fair Association, Main Avenue West, West Fargo, ND, USA
SKILLET With Colton Dixon
Date: July 07, 2024
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $45.00 - $199.00
Get your tickets to see Skillet with Colton Dixon now! Reserved Grandstand seating, Pit tickets or Grand Champion Experience tickets!
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JUL 07
JUL 07
Fargo Theatre, Broadway North, Fargo, ND, USA
Rock ‘n’ roll is often hard to define, or even to find, in these fractured musical times. But to paraphrase an old saying, you know it when you hear it.
And you always hear it with the Wallflowers. For the past 30 years, the Jakob Dylan-led act has stood as one of rock’s most dynamic and purposeful bands – a unit dedicated to and continually honing a sound that meshes timeless songwriting and storytelling with a hard-hitting and decidedly modern musical attack. That signature style has been present through the decades, baked into the grooves of smash hits like 1996’s Bringing Down the Horse and more recent and exploratory fare like 2012’s Glad All Over.
Even so, in recent years, Dylan – the Wallflowers’ founding singer, songwriter and guitarist – has repeatedly stepped outside of his band, first with a pair of more acoustic and rootsy records, 2008’s Seeing Things and 2010’s Women + Country, and then with the 2018 film Echo in the Canyon and the accompanying soundtrack, which saw him collaborate with a host of artists classic and contemporary, from Neil Young and Eric Clapton to Beck and Fiona Apple.
But while it’s been nine long years since we’ve heard from the group with whom he first made his mark, the Wallflowers are silent no more. And Dylan always knew they’d return. “The Wallflowers is much of my life’s work,” he says simply. Plus, he adds with a laugh, “It’s pretty hard to get a good band name, so if you have one, keep it.” Good band name aside, that life’s work continues with Exit Wounds, the brand-new Wallflowers studio offering.
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JUL 13
JUL 13
Bluestem Amphitheater, 50th Avenue South, Moorhead, MN, USA
After more than three decades as the lead singer and guitarist for Barenaked Ladies, Ed Robertson has a routine when it comes time to start writing songs for a new album. “I tend to get ideas while I’m driving up to my lake house,” he says. “I record voice memos along the way, and then I listen back and try to make sense of them and mix and match the various ideas I’ve come up with. On a typical drive, I’m happy if I get six or seven — eight ideas would be a good drive.
“For this album,” he continues, “on my first writing trip I had 21 different song ideas. I thought, ‘Wow, this is really cool.’ Then I sat down to write, and I thought if I could finish one of them — get the verses, get the bridge, get the chorus in one day — then I’ll know this whole writing period is going to be good. And I finished eight songs. I sat down at 10 in the morning, and I looked up at 9:30 and I hadn’t eaten, I hadn’t moved from the writing table. It was exciting. I’ve never felt that before.”
The results mark a new chapter for a band that’s sold more than 15 million albums, earned Grammy nominations and won multiple Juno Awards, and in 2018, were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. In Flight, BNL’s eighteenth studio album, retains the dry wit and keen observation we expect from Robertson, bassist Jim Creeggan, keyboardist/guitarist Kevin Hearn and drummer Tyler Stewart, but adds a strong sense of maturing and lessons learned.
“I think as I age, I get less self-conscious,” says Robertson. “I had a goal to write simpler songs on this record, to not out-clever myself and be a little more direct, more emotionally present and honest. And when I listened to what I wrote, I heard what I’ve been talking about for the last couple of years — ruminations on gratitude, getting older, cancel culture. It was everything I’ve been thinking about, distilled into songs.”
While BNL’s last album, 2021’s Detour de Force, looked closely at the perils of contemporary, alternate reality media, In Flight offers a sense of joy and appreciation, exemplified in the first single, “Lovin’ Life,” in which they unironically sing “We’re lovin’ life/We love it so much that we wanna live it twice/We’re lovin’ life/We take it high, we take it low/We ride that rollercoaster anywhere it goes.” (Robertson wrote the song with Better Than Ezra’s Kevin Griffin and Steve Aiello of Thirty Second to Mars; elsewhere on the album, he co-wrote “I Am Asking You” with Donovan Woods).
“It’s very easy to get overwhelmed by the firehose of bad news that we’re all pretty tuned into, and it is real,” says Robertson. “But I think it’s really important to remember to still be grateful. I guess I’m just trying to take in the negativity that surrounds us and learn about it and grow from it. ‘Lovin’ Life’ is about experiencing the positivity, because that’s there, too.”
He points to the recording of the song “Too Old” (“You don’t scare me a bit/I’m too old for this shit”) as a pivot point for In Flight. “The demo had this arpeggiated acoustic guitar and it was almost melancholy,” he says. “It was pretty, but It made it a little more distant from the message. When we started jamming it in pre-production, it turned into this Tom Petty-ish, guitar driven thing, it had a little bite. That was the moment where we were just letting shit happen organically and it felt great.”
Even at this point in a legendary career, Barenaked Ladies were open to altering their work habits and finding ways to better serve the new songs. “Typically in the past, we’ve done all the guitar overdubs, then we go in and do percussion, then do all the keyboard parts,” says Robertson. “With this record, we put up a song and said, ‘What does it need?,’ then put up the next song and finished song by song. So it demanded everyone’s attention all the time, as opposed to just concentrating on their parts or the week where they’re focusing on their instrument. That kept everybody invested and involved all the way through.”
Of course, a band known for hits like “One Week” and “If I Had $1,000,000” isn’t going to put out an album without humor — or Canadian Content. Kevin Hearn presented the group with “See the Tower,” a song telling the story of the structure that highlights the Toronto skyline. “It’s got a kind of sentimental approach, in all the right ways,” says Robertson. “It reminds me of a song on Sesame Street or a kid’s book about the CN Tower.”
Hearn contributed three more songs to In Flight, including one about local Toronto legend “The Peace Lady” and a biting fantasy about a real place in New York City, “The Dream Hotel.” Jim Creeggan co-wrote two of the tracks, adding the sweet devotion of “Just Wait” and “Wake Up” (on which he collaborated with Max Kerman of the Arkells).
Robertson is confident that the album’s more thoughtful songs, like “Waning Moon” and “Fifty for a While,” will play just as well on stage as the comical material. “On the last tour, the songs that I thought we wouldn’t even try live ended up being real highlights of the show,” he says. “We ended up doing ‘Man Made Lake’ every night, and it was a real anchor point. ‘Live Well’ was another one — the most vulnerable, personal, raw, emotional songs. And it’s always been like that, we’ve always had ‘One Week,’ but the flip side is the reflective nature of ‘Pinch Me,’ and our audience accepts that from us.”
With the song “One Night,” Robertson even addresses this unique relationship BNL has with its fans. “We were trying to write something sexy that wasn’t just about a steamy night between two consenting adults,” he says, “but rather the magical connection that happens between a whole audience and a band. When it goes right — which it almost always does — for that ‘One Night’ it’s a very intense connection.”
Barenaked Ladies have become an institution, with a passionately dedicated audience (enough for them to headline their own cruises and have an ice cream flavor named after them) and a constant flow of new fans (plenty of whom discover the band through their theme song to the endlessly popular The Big Bang Theory). Maybe it’s just the passage of time, maybe the joy of getting back on the road after the COVID lockdown, but Ed Robertson has noticed a change in his own attitude which adjusted his tone on In Flight.
“I was talking to my daughter the other day,” he says, “and I told her that there would have been a me in the past that was standing on stage going, ‘Okay, seven more songs and then I get on the bus and go to the next city, and then it’s only six more shows before the end of the tour, when I get to go home and be with my family.’ Now I find myself looking out and going ‘We sold out Red Rocks — again!’ I feel very connected to how lucky we are that we still get to do this.
“I think this band is the underdog success story of the century,” Robertson continues. “Show me another band with a 35-year career, 15 million records sold, number one hits worldwide, and has never been on the cover of any major music publication. We’re a band that has committed to being who we are and what we are, and being as good as we can be — doing the best shows we can do, writing the best songs we can write — and we’ve done it for 35 years. I’m super proud of that.”
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