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Northern Wilds Calendar of Events July 1, Monday July 5, Friday 311 & Dirty Heads 4:20 p.m. July 11-14 An Artful Evening on the Harbor Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth 5 p.m. Harbor Park, Grand Marais, The Texasota Independence Jam Heritage Days Two Harbors, grandmaraisartcolony.org Canada Day 3:30 p.m. Island Lake Park Pavilion, twoharborsmn.gov July 7-8 Briand Morrison 6 p.m. Thirsty Canada Day 5k Trail Run Duluth Drew Peterson 8 p.m. Pagan, Superior, briandmorrison.com 9:30 a.m. Centennial Park, Thunder Bay, Black River Revue: 2 Shows! July 11-27 metreeaters.ca Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Marais, Cary Waterman: Threshold: New & 5 p.m. & 8 p.m. Northern Grounds, gunflinttavern.com IVANKA–Pasta, Salami and a Guy Canada Day Celebration Ely, blackriverrevue.com Named Pasquale Magnus Theatre, Selected Poems 7 p.m. 10 a.m. Fort William Historical Park, Thunder Bay, magnustheatre.com Drury Lane Books, Grand Marais, Bayfront Country Jam July 8, Monday facebook.com/drurylanebooks Thunder Bay, fwhp.ca 5 p.m. Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, Northern Lights Music Festival: July 11-28 Michael Monroe Log Cabin Concert Geraldton Canada Day Parade bayfrontcountryjam.com Kids for Kids Concert 10:30 a.m. Ely 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. Sun.) 7 p.m. Grand Marais 11 a.m. (fireworks at dusk) Geraldton, Don Juan Trio Public Library, elylibrary.org Grease Ontario, greenstone.ca 8 p.m. Grandma Ray’s, Grand Marais, Duluth Playhouse Kelley Hunt 7:30 p.m. Arrowhead Community Sewing Bee 2 p.m. North Center for the Arts, Grand Marais, Canada Day on the Waterfront facebook.com/grandmarays House Folk School, Grand Marais 5 p.m. Marina Park, Thunder Bay, July 12, Friday northshoremusicassociation.com thunderbay.ca July 5-6 To Laugh is to Live! with Kenny Ahern Old MacDonald Had a Banjo 9:30 The Path from Practical Plastic to 3 p.m. Grand Marais Public Library, a.m. Ely Public Library, elylibrary.org Plastic Pandemic 7:30 p.m. North July 1-2 Hovland Arts Festival 10 a.m. Hovland alslib.info Town Hall, hovlandartsfestival.com Briand Morrison 12:30 p.m. House Folk School, Grand Marais Mark Joseph 8 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, To Laugh is to Live! with Kenny Ahern Two Harbors Heritage Days, Brothers in Arms 8 p.m. Grand Marais, gunflinttavern.com July 5-7 6 p.m. Silver Bay Public Library, alslib.info briandmorrison.com Grandma Ray’s, Grand Marais, July 1-6 Thunder Bay Blues Festival Beer & Books 8 p.m. Red Lion Briand Morrison 8 p.m. facebook.com/grandmarays Thunder Bay, tbayblues.ca Smokehouse, Thunder Bay, Wunderbar Eatery, Grand Marais, PFCT: Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs facebook.com/redlionsmokehouse briandmorrison.com July 13-14 Ely, northernlakesarts.org Lake Nipigon Trout Hunt Beardmore, Ontario, greenstone.ca Grand Marais Arts Festival Downtown July 1-31 July 9, Tuesday July 12-13 Grand Marais, grandmaraisartcolony.org July 5-28 Teddy Bears Picnic Noon, Vickers Park, Rich Lewis Band 8:30 p.m. Plastic-free July plasticfreejuly.org Thunder Bay, thunderbay.ca July 14, Sunday Tara Lynn Austin Art Exhibit Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Marais, July 2, Tuesday (Reception July 5 at 5 p.m.) Johnson Ruby’s Pantry 5 p.m. Cook County gunflinttavern.com Donuts at Dorothy’s 11 a.m. Dorothy Heritage Post, Grand Marais, Community Center, Grand Marais, Molter Museum, Ely, rootbeerlady.com Film Fiesta 2 p.m. facebook.com/rubyspantrycc July 12-14 Ely Public Library, elylibrary.org cookcountyhistory.org Rich Lewis Band Noon, Kat Corrigan Exhibit (Reception July To Laugh is to Live! Bay Days Silver Bay, bay-days.org Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Marais, July 3, Wednesday 5 at 7 p.m.) Tettegouche State Park with Kenny Ahern 6 p.m. Two Harbors Hopped Up Caribou Festival gunflinttavern.com Public Library, alslib.info Hairball 5:30 p.m. Visitor’s Center, Silver Bay Caribou Highlands, Lutsen, Steve Miller Band & Marty Stuart hoppedupcaribou.com 6 p.m. Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth July 6, Saturday Teague Alexy 8 p.m. Artist Talk with Kat Corrigan: Painters Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Marais, Caramat Fish Derby Caramat, Ontario, Jim McGowan 7 p.m. gunflinttavern.com greenstone.ca Who Use Color and Light 7 p.m. Solving Lake Superior’s Mysteries Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Marais, Cook County Higher Education, Grand 10 a.m. Sugarloaf Cove, Schroeder, July 10, Wednesday gunflinttavern.com Marais, grandmaraisartcolony.org sugarloafnorthshore.org July 12-15 Duluth YMCA Sidewalk Shuffle Ely Arts and Heritage Center’s July 15, Monday Briand Morrison 9 p.m. Briand Morrison Noon, Hovland 5k Noon, Lakewalk, Duluth Gala Art Show & Sale 1 p.m. (Gala NASA Live Broadcast of the 50th Bluefin Bay, Tofte, briandmorrison.com Town Hall, briandmorrison.com Trampled by Turtles July 10-12 7 p.m. July 12) Miners Dry House, Ely, Anniversary of the Moon Landing July 4, Thursday 3:30 p.m. Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth elygreenstone.org Ely Public Library, elylibrary.org Sidewalk Days Festival 9 a.m. Briand Morrison Briand Morrison 1 p.m. WTIP Radio, Downtown Duluth, July 13, Saturday Independence Day 6 p.m. Larsmont Cottages, Two Harbors, Grand Marais, briandmorrison.com downtownduluth.com Tofte Trek Wilderness Run & Walk briandmorrison.com Lundie Vacation Home Tour Cross River Heritage Center, Schroeder, July 15-16 8 a.m. Birch Grove Community Center, Shannon Gibney: Dream County July 11, Thursday Tofte, toftetrek.com crossriverheritage.org Colleen Myhre 8 p.m. 7 p.m. Drury Lane Books, Grand Marais, NASA@My Library: Star Clocks 1:30 Tofte 4th of July Celebration & facebook.com/drurylanebooks Firewise: Living with Fire 8 a.m. Cook Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Marais, p.m. Ely Public Library, elylibrary.org County Community Center, Grand Fireworks 11 a.m. (Parade at 2 p.m.) gunflinttavern.com Michael Monroe Log Cabin Concert Make Your Own Yogurt: Ditch the Marais, tinyurl.com/livingwfire19 Tofte, toftemn.com 7 p.m. Grand Marais Plastic Container 4:30 p.m. Cook 12th Annual Lutsen Church Rummage July 15-21 Kutdown 9 p.m. July 7, Sunday County Community Center, & Bake Sale 9 a.m. Lutsen Church Heritage Days Schreiber, schreiber.ca Grandma Ray’s, Grand Marais, Grand Marais facebook.com/grandmarays Grand Opening Modern, Improv & Hip Hop Dance July 16, Tuesday Red Lion Smokehouse, Thunder Bay, Plucked Up String Band 6 p.m. Workshops 9 a.m. Reflections Dance July 4-6 facebook.com/redlionsmokehouse Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Marais, Company, Ely, Vermilion Community Post Crossing 101 Noon, Ely Public gunflinttavern.com College Theatre, Ely, ely.org Library, elylibrary.org Space Monkey Mafia Chik-Wauk Open House 10 a.m. 8 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Marais, Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center, Music in the Park 7 p.m. Taste of Duluth 11 a.m. Bayfront Festival Full Moon Music: Yvonne Mills gunflinttavern.com Gunflint Trail, chikwauk.com Whiteside Park, Ely, ely.org Park, Duluth, tasteofduluth.com 8 p.m. Drury Lane Books, Grand Marais, Two Harbors City Band Concert 11 facebook.com/drurylanebooks a.m. Thomas Owens Park, Two Harbors
38 JULY 2019 NORTHERN WILDS 39 July 17, Wednesday Festival of India 3 p.m. Marina Park, Artist Talk & Author Reading: July 28-Aug. 3 July 30-Aug. 3 Thunder Bay, indiafesttbay.com Art & Cultural Exchange 7 p.m. Duluth Women’s Club Annual Homes Rule Britannia Week Spirit Valley Days Briand Morrison 6 p.m. Sir Benedict’s Cook County Higher Education, Grand & Garden Tour 10 a.m. Duluth Red Lion Smokehouse, Thunder Bay, West Duluth, spiritvalleydays.com Tavern, Duluth, briandmorrison.com Marais, grandmaraisartcolony.org Weaving with Plastic 10 a.m. facebook.com/redlionsmokehouse Michael Monroe Log Cabin Concert Southpaws 8 p.m. Harbor Park, Grand Marais July 31, Wednesday 7 p.m. Grand Marais Grandma Ray’s, Grand Marais, July 29-30 Movie Matinee 2 p.m. Ely Public Library, facebook.com/grandmarays Dance with Anne 11 a.m. Pierre Schryer & Adam Dobres: elylibrary.org Mark Joseph 7 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, Ely Public Library, elylibrary.org Album Release Concert 8 p.m. Briand Morrison 8 p.m. Grand Marais, gunflinttavern.com Gunflint Trail Canoe Races Superior Shores Resort, Two Harbors, Wednesday Night at the Races: Youth Port Arthur Polish Hall, Thunder Bay, 5 p.m. Griggs Field UMD, Duluth 4:30 p.m. Gunflint Lodge Waterfront, tbaytrad.ca briandmorrison.com July 30, Tuesday Gunflint Trail, gunflint.com Music Bingo 9:30 p.m. Furoshiki Demo: Art of Wrapping Aug. 1-4 Ice Cream Social 5:30 p.m. July 26-27 Red Lion Smokehouse, Thunder Bay, with Fabric 10 a.m. Harbor Park, Fisherman’s Picnic Grand Marais Fairlawn Mansion, Superior, facebook.com/redlionsmokehouse Board Across the Bay Washburn, Grand Marais superiorpublicmuseums.org WI, boardacrossthebay.com Tasting Tuesday: Blacklist 3 p.m. Aug. 2-3 July 20-21 Splimit the Band Briand Morrison 9 p.m. Bluefin Bay, Duluth Pack, Duluth, duluthpack.com Beaver Bay Daze Beaver Bay, Tofte, briandmorrison.com Lake Superior Salmon Classic Fishing 8 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Marais, gunflinttavern.com facebook.com/mainstreet61 July 18, Thursday Tournament Silver Bay Marina, silverbay-marina.com July 26-28 To Laugh is to Live! with Kenny Ahern Chalk.a.Lot Festival 9 a.m. Ely Public Library, alslib.info Two Harbors, twoharborschalkalot.com Longlac Walleye Masters Fishing Park Point Sand Modeling Contest Tournament Long Lake, Longlac, Duluth Air & Aviation Expo longlacwalleyemasters.ca & Water Safety Expo 10 a.m. 9 a.m. Duluth International Airport, Monday Two Harbors City Band Concert 7:30 Park Point Beach, Duluth duluthairshow.com Pays Plat First Nations Powwow p.m. Thomas Owens Park, Two Harbors Live Music 9 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Lake Superior Pays Plat, Ontario Zoo La Palooza Pat Ferguson Bluefin Grille, Tofte, bluefinbay.com Zoo, Duluth, lszooduluth.org 7:30 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, Thomas & Friends Steam Team Friday Park Point 5-Miler/2-Mile Walk Grand Marais, gunflinttavern.com Tour: Day Out with Thomas North Tuesday Bird Banding Demos 7 a.m. Shore Scenic Railroad, Duluth, Sugarloaf Cove, Schroeder, 5:30 p.m. Park Point, Duluth, 10:30 a.m. northshorescenicrailroad.org Family Story Time sugarloafnorthshore.org grandmasmarathon.com July 21, Sunday Grand Marais Public Library, Guest Lecture: Wolves at our Door Honor the Earth: Water Is Life Festival Stars of the North Music Festival grandmaraislibrary.org Sawmill Tours: Free 10 a.m. 10 a.m. Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, Grand Marais, facebook.com/ Hedstrom Lumber Company, 7 p.m. Cook County Higher Education, Kids’ Day 11 a.m. honorearth.org grandmaraismusic Grand Marais (218) 877-7033 Grand Marais, northshorecampus.org Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center, Briand Morrison 7 p.m. Beach Festival 11 a.m. Terrace Bay, Blueberry/Art Festival 10 a.m. Gunflint Trail, chikwauk.com Live Music 4 p.m. Voyageur Brewing, terracebay.ca/beachfestival Whiteside Park, Ely, ely.org Grand Marais, voyageurbrewing.com Vista Fleet Sunset Cruise, Duluth, Farmers’ Market (Begins July 16) briandmorrison.com David Battistel Presents: Leeblain the July 27, Saturday 11 a.m. Lake Superior Plaza, Music by the Campfire Ghost Town of Gunflint2 p.m. Duluth, downtownduluth.com 7:30 p.m. Eagle Ridge Resort, Lutsen July 18-21 Household Hazardous Waste Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center, Sawmill Tours: Free 12:30 p.m. Live Music 9 p.m. Bluefin Grille, North American Bear Collection 9 a.m. Cook County Lilypad Picnic Gunflint Trail, chikwauk.com Hedstrom Lumber Company, Tofte, bluefinbay.com Center, Ely, lilypadpicnic.com Recycling Center, Grand Marais Briand Morrison 2 p.m. (218) 387-3630 Grand Marais (218) 877-7033 Movies in the Park (Begins July 12) Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Marais, Leif Erikson Park, Duluth, July 18-Aug. 11 Ely Fine Art & Artisan Fair Tuesday Nite Live 1 p.m. Ely, briandmorrison.com downtownduluth.com Summer Theater Festival: 10 a.m. Amici’s Ceremony Hall, Ely, facebook.com/elytuesdaynitelive Festival of Colours 3 p.m. Marina Park, amiciseventcenter.com USFS Presentation: Free A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline & Thunder Bay, festivalofcolours.ca Saturday The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream Women-Made Marvelous Things Fair 2 p.m. Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center, Gunflint Trail, chikwauk.com Country Market 8 a.m. CLE Dove On 7 p.m. (2 p.m. Sun.), Arrowhead July 22, Monday 10 a.m. Peace Church, Duluth Building, Thunder Bay, tbcm.ca Ely Artist Market & City Band Center for the Arts, Grand Marais, Old MacDonald Had a Banjo Paint Your Own Tote Bag grandmaraisplayhouse.com 5 p.m. Ely, northernlakesarts.org Ashland Area Farmer’s Market 3:30 p.m. Two Harbors Public Library, 10 a.m. Sugarloaf Cove, Schroeder, 8 a.m. Pearson Plaza, Ashland, WI, alslib.info sugarloafnorthshore.org Chester Creek Concert Series 7 p.m. ashlandareafarmersmarket.com July 19, Friday Fat Guys Auto Parts Annual Car Chester Bowl, Duluth, chesterbowl.org An Ol’ Fashioned Summertime Ceili Cook County Market 9 a.m. Senior July 23, Tuesday Show 11 a.m. Memorial Ave., Center Parking Lot, Grand Marais, Dance 7 p.m. Port Arthur Polish Hall, Old MacDonald Had a Banjo Thunder Bay, fatguyscarshow.com Wednesday Thunder Bay, tbaytrad.ca facebook.com/ccfarmandcraft 10 a.m. Silver Bay Public Library, alslib.info Cider & Yoga 11 a.m. Bird Banding (Excluding July 17) 7 a.m. Wolf Ridge Forest Ecology Two Harbors Farmer’s Market 9 a.m. Old MacDonald Had a Banjo Red Lion Smokehouse, Thunder Bay, July 19-21 Building, Finland, wolf-ridge.org Cedar Coffee Company & Spokengear, 3:30 p.m. Grand Marais Public Library, facebook.com/redlionsmokehouse Two Harbors, facebook.com/ North Shore Water Festival Grand 3:30 p.m. CLE Dove alslib.info “Alex the Artist” Workshop Showing Country Market twoharborsfarmersmarket Marais Harbor, stoneharborws.com Building, Thunder Bay, tbcm.ca Post-show Discussion 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Finlandia Market (Excluding July 27) Longlac Summerfest July 24, Wednesday 4 p.m. Mountain Inn, Urban Abbey, Thunder Bay, West End Market 10 a.m. Bay & Algoma Street, Thunder Longlac, greenstone.ca Lutsen, mountaininnmn.com/events ABC’s for Preschool 9 a.m. facebook.com/superiortheatrefestival Bay, facebook.com/finlandiatbay Red Rock First Nations Pow-wow Ely Public Library, elylibrary.org Concerts on the Pier 5 p.m. All Pints North Summer Brewfest North Shore Geology Walks Lake Helen Reserve, Nipigon Glensheen Mansion, Duluth Wednesday Night at the Races: Youth 3 p.m. Bayfront Festival Park, 10 a.m. Sugarloaf Cove, Schroeder, Ashland Bay Days Bayview Park, 5 p.m. Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth Duluth, mncraftbrew.org Live on the Waterfront sugarloafnorthshore.org Ashland, WI, ashlandbaydays.com (Begins July 10) 6 p.m. Marina Park, Briand Morrison 6 p.m. Cascade Story Hour with the Muffin Man July 25, Thursday Thunder Bay, thunderbay.ca July 19-Aug. 11 Lodge, Lutsen, briandmorrison.com 11 a.m. Drury Lane Books, Grand Marais, Pinterest Projects 11 a.m. Michael Monroe Log Cabin Concert Music on the Deck 6 p.m. facebook.com/drurylanebooks
Biggest Blueberry Contest Ely Public Library, elylibrary.org 7 p.m. Grand Marais Papa Charlie’s, Lutsen Gunflint Trail, visitcookcounty.com Voyageur Brewing Tours Book Signing: Courtney Ysmineh: Open Mic 6:30 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, 11 a.m. Voyageur Brewing, Grand Marais, July 20, Saturday A Girl Called Sidney July 27-28 Grand Marais, gunflinttavern.com voyageurbrewing.com 2 p.m. Piragis Northwoods, Ely, ely.org Buskers Festival Bay & Algoma NE MN Fish & Climate Change Live Music 9 p.m. Bluefin Grille, Free: Tour the North House Campus Jerry Seinfeld Neighborhood, Thunder Bay, 10 a.m. Sugarloaf Cove, Schroeder, Tofte, bluefinbay.com 2 p.m. North House Folk School, 7 p.m. Duluth DECC, decc.org bayalgoma.com sugarloafnorthshore.org Grand Marais, northhouse.org Game Night with Toy Sense 7:30 p.m. Thursday Briand Morrison 10 a.m. Amazing S’more Saturdays 4 p.m. Mountain Inn, Red Lion Smokehouse, Thunder Bay, July 27-Aug. 3 Grace, Duluth, briandmorrison.com Local Food Market 4:30 p.m. Lutsen, mountaininnmn.com/events facebook.com/redlionsmokehouse Big Fish Contest Cook County, Cook County Community Center, 7 p.m. Lutsen Resort, Bayfront Reggae & World Music buckshardware.net Grand Marais Live Music Bug Dope 8 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, Lutsen, lutsenresort.com Festival 11 a.m. Bayfront Park, Duluth, Grand Marais, gunflinttavern.com bayfrontworldmusic.com Finland Farmer’s Market July 28, Sunday 5 p.m. Clair Nelson Center, Finland, Sunday West End Garden Club: July 25-28 Briand Morrison: Solo Jazz friendsoffinland.org Painted Garden 1 p.m. Birch Grove Briand Morrison 10 a.m. Caribou Bow Fest 2019 Guitarist 2 p.m. Chik-Wauk Live Music 6:30 p.m. Community Center, Tofte Highlands, Lutsen, briandmorrison.com Mont du Lac Resort, Superior Museum & Nature Center, Gunflint Trail, Lutsen Resort, lutsenresort.com 80th Birthday Celebration for Bear chikwauk.com Bluegrass Sundays Date Night with Live Music Center’s Founder Dr. Lynn Rogers July 26, Friday 3 p.m. North Shore Winery, Lutsen, Jim McGowan 7 p.m. North Shore Winery, Lutsen, northshorewinery.us 1 p.m. North American Bear Center, Downtown Duluth Arts Walk 7 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Marais, northshorewinery.us Ely, bear.org 5 p.m. Downtown Duluth, facebook. gunflinttavern.com Music by the Lake 4 p.m. Skyport com/downtownduluthartswalk Lodge, Grand Marais, skyportlodge.com NORTHERN WILDS JULY 2019 39