"I Like This Town" is a project created to honor our small towns. The brain child of Minnesota’s own Grammy Award-winning songwriter Jon Vezner, the collaboration also features internationally renowned Minnesota storyteller Kevin Kling. Join us for an evening of original songs by Vezner and stories by Kling, accompanied by Pat Frederick of the Daisy Dillman Band. Come and join us for a journey to rural America.

For many of us who live in the city, there is the warmth of homecoming when we see the skyline. Then add in summer evenings rich with lilacs, barbecue, cicadas, a ball game, laughter, a kid learning the saxophone. The city forms its own music and, when taken in all at once — say from a rooftop — it’s a symphony for the senses. Join Kevin, Dan, and Simone as we celebrate this jewel on the prairie.

Renowned storyteller Kevin Kling is joined by theater actress, composer, vocalist, and accordionista Simone Perrin, who has been featured on A Prairie Home Companion. Kling and Perrin frequently collaborate to create a performance that covers a range of humor, tenderness, and music.

Looking to celebrate this Mother’s Day? Come on down to Crooners on Saturday, May 11th. Whether you are a mother, or are married to one, or know, or have, or have had one, this is the show for you. Victor and Kevin are back under the big top for an early evening of stories, poems and songs that celebrate those who fed and wiped and everything in between. Come and share a laugh, maybe a tear, and don’t worry, it’s not a school night. What do you and Einstein, Gandhi, Taylor Swift and Queen Victoria have in common? Mothers.