West Bank Music Festival

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West Bank Social Center

501 Cedar Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55454

Category: Community Venues

Region: Minneapolis (Downtown)

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Now in its second year, the West Bank Business Association's addition to the summer block-party circuit will spill out onto Cedar Avenue when the West Bank thoroughfare is closed down to make room for a mid-street stage. Fresh out of the recording studio, where she has spent the summer helping to wrap up Doomtree's second full-length, full-crew release, No Kings, Dessa (pictured) is returning to once again headline the West Bank Music Festival, along with Alan Sparhawk's driving rock vehicle Retribution Gospel Choir; Haley Bonar's visceral, lo-fi side project Gramma's Boyfriend; blissfully reckless blues-rockers the Goondas; and the return of Katie and Michael Gaughan's interactive musical project Brother and Sister, who will kick off a day of activities on the West Bank by leading fans through a multimedia scavenger hunt (see p. 27 of our A-List section for more details). Other venues getting into the mix will include the Triple Rock (which is hosting a Thin Lizzy tribute night), the Nomad, Palmer's, the Acadia Cafe, the Red Sea, Whiskey Junction, and AUX1, the new all-ages venue that is a part of Republic (formerly Sgt. Preston's). $5 until 9:30 p.m.; $10 after 9:30 p.m. Minneapolis; full lineup and info at thewestbank.org.
Sat., Aug. 20, 2 p.m.-2 a.m., 2011