€ All of this season's concerts [except the Spring Roots Musical Festival] will be held at the Mankato Area Eagles Club - 708 North Riverfront Drive, Mankato MN. [Get directions] € Doors open at 7pm with the concerts starting at 7:30pm for all shows. € Ticket prices are $12 for members and $15 for nonmembers unless otherwise noted.

Saturday, October 2 Lehto & Wright Minnesota guitar masters Steve Lehto and John Wright are equally skilled in intricate, delicate, acoustic picking and loud, crunchy folk-rock, and on this all-instrumental collection based on mostly traditional Irish and English tunes (and a couple of Southern American and classical ones, as well), they gather seven previously released tracks and five new ones into a splendid showcase of contemporary Angle-Celtic guitar styles. In electric mode, the duo's big, skirling sound is sometimes reminiscent of the early work of Richard Thompson, as in the potent "Silver Tip" reel set or the slow resonant Martin Carthy composition, "McVeagh," while their acoustic interplays are complex and elegant, as in the lengthy jig set led off by a cheerful tune with the unlikely title, "I Buried My Wife and Danced on Her Grave." Definitely recommended for fans of both acoustic and electric guitar music with British Isles roots. --Dirty Linen

Saturday, November 13 My Sweet Patootie My Sweet Patootie is more fun than drinking martinis at a tractor pull! They are the "li'l big band" thatšs busy ripping up the pea-patch with their very own strain of hayseed jazz. Armed with fiddle, finger-style guitar and two voices, My Sweet Patootie is an old-fashioned shotgun wedding of cool uptown swing and rural Ontario grit.  Mark S. Tucker of the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange (FAME) describes them as "a world of string wizardry".

Saturday, December 4 Dakota Dave Hull Hailed by everyone from Dave Van Ronk to Doc Watson, from the Washington Post to downbeat, Dakota Dave Hullšs guitar style spans a wide musical geography to create an infectious, uniquely personal blend of jazz, ragtime, folk, blues, Western swing, and vintage pop. Dakota Dave is a restlessly curious, adventurous traveler along the broad highway of Americašs music. In his playing the masters speak, but in a vocabulary that is Davešs alone: alternatively mirthful and moving, always melodic.

Saturday, January 22 Freeze Your A** Music Festival Details coming The Bothy Folk Club and KMSU Radio presents This event is free and open to all ages.

February 13 TBA

Saturday, March 19 Laura MacKenzie "Celtic music wizard" -Minneapolis Star Tribune "High priestess of Celtic music" -Minnesota Public Radio "MacKenzie maintains the magic" - Sing Out! "A performing artist of astonishing versatility, singing and playing with skill and emotion a splendid repertoire." -American Association of University Women "Laura MacKenzie is a master of all things bellowed and blown." -Dirty Linen magazine "MacKenzie's vocals - strong, clear and lilting - are another plus." -Minneapolis Star Tribune "Attending a concert in which Laura appears is a treat for the ears and the eyes." -Upper Midwest Flute Association

April (date TBA) The Pine Beetles As Austin Texas' only TinPanCeltiCowboyFolkGrass trio, the Pine Beetles tear it up on the songs you love to hear, from Celtic ballads to Tin Pan Alley jazz.

Saturday, May 7 Dean Magraw "He can bend, tap, pluck and pick with the best of them, but he's more concerned with making the instrument swoop and glide above a varied terrain of styles and influenceŠ Impossible to pigeonhole, and impossible to ignore, Magraw deserves to stand amongst the ranks of John Renbourne, Leo Kottke, and Michael Hedges, A class act." --Dirty Linen

Information about the Bothy Folk Club:
contact Bill Smith at: wailinwillie@gmail.com

For info call:
Gordon: (507) 947-3356
Bix: (507) 388-1316
Bill :(612) 756-2984