Lakeside Guitar Festival 2023

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Como Lakeside Pavilion , 1360 Lexington Pkwy N, St. Paul, MN

Lakeside Guitar Festival is a free outdoor music festival set at the Historic Como Lakeside Pavilion, a lakefront community Artis oasis in Saint Paul. LGF is run by community-conscious musicians and presents a diverse lineup of local and international acts across musical genre, focusing on encouraging new artistic collaboration and highlighting the world class small business and arts communities of Saint Paul. Previous headliners have included Keb Mo, Sunny War, and Steve Cropper performing alongside Minnesota greats. LGF 2023 expands to three days of concerts and workshops across Saint Paul, featuring Marc Ribot, one of the world’s great creative music guitarists as Saturday headliner and Minnesota songwriting legend Charlie Parr headlining Friday night, both at the Como Lakeside Pavilion and both FREE. With 15 plus acts across 3 stages, a vendor village, a Minnesota meets Mexico City improviser’s stage at the waterfall, and community activities from a pedal swap to bike and walk paths, LGF 2023 offers fun for the whole family of music lovers. Saturday August 12th closes with Minnesota’s Last Waltz (ticketed) at the Como Lakeside Pavilion. A Sunday night ticketed show at Turf Club presents “Americhicana” songwriter Carrie Rodriguez from Austin, Texas, klezmer rock heroes Klezmerson from Mexico City, and a first of its kind duo between jazz/rock and beyond legends John Medeski and Marc Ribot. The show serves as a Music Mission benefit. Purchase Tickets through the Turf Club Klezmerson will offer a workshop at the Jewish Community Center of Minnesota as part of LGF activities with Marc Ribot giving a workshop as well at El Diablo Amps, both on Sunday August 13th. LGF is Music Mission’s annual flagship event. Music Mission supports communities throughout the Americas in creating and sharing their music, providing quality and visionary arts programming, scholarship and education opportunities, and instruments and basic needs support to communities in Minnesota and Mexico. More information is at www.musicmissionmusic.com Lakeside Guitar Festival is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant for the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.