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Delta SkyMiles
Alive After 5 - 2009!

Every weekday in June, the Delta SkyMiles Alive After 5 concerts fill Peavey Plaza with music from blues to swing to rock.  

Delta SkyMiles Alive After 5
 


Returning for 2009:

 - Great music line-up!
 - Famous Dave's Blues Fest, Saturday, June 13!
 - Famous Dave's, Ben & Jerry's, Burgers & Fisherman's Warf & Flatbread Pizza / Taco Man return
 - Sam Adams returns
 - Sutter Home returns

 - (Minn. Bike Fest is not Downtown this year due to road construction)
 - (Jazz Fest is all in St. Paul this year.)


NEW
for 2009:

 - Plaza Palooza Sat. June 27

Mr. Vic Volare! In this historic photo, Vic Volare became the only musician to walk out on the Peavey Plaza wall high above the crowds, while still playing his instument!

Sun Country Airlines Tunes at NoonThe concerts are free and concert-goers may enjoy a variety of food and drink from a variety of vendors including Famous Dave's, Fisherman's Wharf, Ben & Jerry's, gyros, and flat-bread pizza!  Alive has been a Downtown tradition for 24 years.

Join us for weekday lunch at Peavey for Sun Country Airlines Tunes at Noon, featuring many acoustic musicians, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Tables and chairs are set up to enjoy the music in Downtown's one and only Peavey Plaza on 11th Street & Nicollet Mall. (Google map.)

The Delta SkyMiles Alive After Five and Tunes at Noon concerts are sponsored by Delta SkyMiles, Sam Adams, Cities 97, City Pages, Sutter Home, and the Minneapolis Downtown Council.

Scroll down for the complete schedule!

 

Downtown Network Volunteer Information:

Downtown Network members & guests contribute by volunteering to staff the beverage booth. Members have priority for volunteer sign-up over guests, and the number of guests is limited per night.

Up to eight volunteers are needed, (more on Premium nights), to work the beverage tent for the concert series, Monday through Friday from 5 to 9 p.m.

The tent consists of beer and wine and on occasion a few specialty drinks, (Margaritas!). 

Volunteers are needed to pour, serve beverages and assist customers. Any guests must be 21.

All volunteers receive complimentary meals & beverages.

Anyone volunteering for more than 1 night receives a Sam Adams shirt and hat, (while supplies last).

Contact Charlie Casserly at cpcasserly@aol.com for more information on Alive After Five.

(Scroll below band schedule for volunteer registration)

 

2009 Alive After 5 Band Schedule:

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
June 1

  Alison Scott

Alison Scot

(Rock / Pop / Soul)

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June 2

  Al's Rockabilly Quartet

Al's Rockabilly Quartet

(Rockabilly / Americana / Surf)

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June 3

  Trailer Trash

(Honky-Tonk)

June 4

  Tim Mahoney w/Stealing Seconds

Tim Mahoney

(Pop-Progressive Rock)

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June 5

  The Hopefuls

Hopefuls

(Indie Pop)

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June 8

   Pistol Whippin Party Penguins & DeWayn Brothers

PWPP

(Rock / Bluegrass / Concrete & Insurgent Bluegrass)

MySpace YouTube

June 9

  Bonnie Finkin & Barefoot Truth

Bonnie Finken

(Rock/Soul/Pop & Folk Rock)

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June 10

  The Senders

The Senders

(Swing / Big Band)

June 11

  Pert' Near Sandstone

Pert Near Sandstone

(Hard-driving Bluegrass)

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June 12

  Section 30

(Alt / Rock / Country)

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June 13 (Sat.)  Famous Dave's BBQ & Blues Festival

Bluesfest
Main Stage: Juke Joint Stage:
Noon - 1:15 pm: Levee Town
1:45 - 3:00 pm:  Shannon Curfman
3:30 - 4:30 pm: Big Daddy Cade's Tribute to BB King
5:00 - 6:30 pm: Ana Popovic
7:00 - 8:30 pm: Bernard Allison with Bruce McCabe
9:00 - 10:30 pm: Tinsley Ellis

1:15 - 1:45 pm:  Brandon Scott Sellner
3:00 - 3:30 pm:  Dean Weisser Band
4:30 - 5:00 pm:  Nikki & the Ruemates
6:30 - 7:00 pm:  Corey Stevens
8:00 - 9:00 pm:  Corey Stevens
June 15

  Six Mile Grove & Draper Daniels

Six Mile Grove

(Alt Country Americana & Alt Roots)

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June 16

  Neale & Haberman Band & Ali Gray Band

Neale & Haberman

(Rock and Roll)

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June 17

  Catchpenny &  Mount Righteous

Mount Righteous

(Alt Punk)

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June 18

  The Big Wu

The Big Wu

(Inclusive Rock-n-Roll Bluegrass)

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June 19

  The Limns

The Limns

(Funk Folk Rock Reggae)

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June 22

  Terramara

Terramara

(Powerpop Rock Progressive)

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June 23

  Savage Aural Hotbed

SAH

(Rhythmic barrages of pulsating, percussive music)

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June 24

   Lynhurst

Lynhurst

(Rock Pop)

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June 25

  G.B. Leighton & Half Past Six

G.B. Leighton

(Rock 'n' Roll & Alt Indie Powerpop)

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June 26

  Kubla Kahn

Kubla Khan

(Pop Indie Rock)

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Plaza Palooza

June 27 (Sat.) 

Plaza Palooza

A Free Concert Event

Peavey Plaza in Downtown Minneapolis

12:00 Noon – 10:30 PM

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Romantica Romantica (Americana / Folk / Pop)

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Alison Scott Alison Scot (Rock / Pop / Soul)

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Tim Mahoney
3:00
Tim Mahoney (Pop-Progressive Rock)

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Memphis & the Meantimes Memphis and the Meantimes (Rockabilly to Deep Country & Roy Orbison in a musical blender)

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The Maeflies,
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Maeflies (Rock Country Americana)

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The Irresistibles w/Mick Sterling The Irrisistibles (American and British Retro-Soul and Rhythm and Blues)

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Corey Stevens Corey Stevens (Blues)

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2009 Alive After 5 Volunteer Registration:

Name: (Remember: If registering different guest volunteers for different nights, [or otherwise confusing us], please submit a separate form for each.
*
Cell phone is optional, but requested, for texting in emergencies, [rain].)
E-mail:
Cell/Text Phone*:
Guests & E-mails
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
FULL!

   Alison Scott

  Al's Rockabilly Quartet

FULL!

  Trailer Trash 

FULL!

  Tim Mahoney w/Stealing Seconds

FULL!

  The Hopefuls

8 

   Pistol Whippin Party Penguins & DeWayn Brothers

  Bonnie Finkin & Barefoot Truth

10  FULL!

  The Senders

11  FULL!

  Pert' Near Sandstone

12  

  Section 30

13 (Sat.)  Famous Dave's BBQ & Blues Festival  

12 - 5 pm;      5 - 10:30 pm

Bluesfest

15 

  Six Mile Grove & Draper Daniels

16  FULL!

  Neale & Haberman Band & Ali Gray Band

17 

   Catchpenny Mount Righteous

18 

  The Big Wu

19  FULL!

  The Limns

22 

  Terramara

23  FULL!

  Savage Aural Hotbed

24  

   Lynhurst

25  FULL!

  G.B. Leighton & Half Past Six

26  FULL!

  Kubla Kahn


27 (Sat.)  Plazapalooza
Romantica  -  Alison Scott  - Tim Mahoney  -  Memphis & the Meantimes  -  Mae Flies
The Irresistibles featuring Mick Sterling  -  Corey Stevens

12 - 5 pm;      5 - 10:30 pm
 

Don't Mean a Thing if You Ain't Got That Swing!

 


2008 Alive After 5, Blues Fest, Jazz Fest Slideshows:
 

Alive After 5: June 2-6, 2008,
Lovers Show, God Johnson, Axis Mundi, Armadillo Jump:
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Alive 2008 Slideshow

Famous Dave's BBQ &
Blues Fest:
June 7, 2008, Peavey Plaza:
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Blues Fest 2008 Slideshow

Alive After 5: June 9-13, 2008,
Ali Gray, Savage Aural Hotbed,
Zellar, Catch Penny, Bike Race.
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Alive 2008 Slideshow

Alive Week 3: June 16-20, 2008,
GB Leighton, Al's Rockabilly, Senders,
Tim Mahoney, The Drams

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Alive 2008 Slideshow

Alive: Week 4: June 23-26, 2008,

Clumsy Lovers, Waxing Phil, Kubla Kahn, The Hopefuls
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Alive 2008 Slideshow

Hot Summer
Jazz Fest,
Fri., June 27 -
Sun., June 29, 2008
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Jazz fest Slideshow 

     

2007 Alive After 5, Blues Fest, Jazz Fest Slideshows:
 

Alive After 5: Week 1, 2007:
(Kurt Jorgenson, Clumsy Lovers, Senders, Trailer Trash, Pert Near Sandstone)

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Alive Slideshow

Famous Dave's
Blues Fest,
Sat., June 9, 2007
12 noon - 10:30 p.m.

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Bluesfest Slideshow

Alive After 5, Week 2: (Ross William Perry, Al's Rockabilly Quartet, The Abdomen & Catch Penny, Nadas, Hopefuls & Pines):

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Alive Slideshow

Alive After 5: Week 3:
(T Albert Lloyd, Ruby Jane Smith,
Hackensaw Boys, Draper Daniels,
The Drams, 6 Mile Groove, Martin Zellar, Kubla Kahn, MN Bike Fest)
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Alive Slideshow

Alive After 5 Week 4, Mon.-Thurs.:
(Neal & Haberman,
Armadillo Jump,
G.B. Leighton,
Big George Jackson)
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Alive Slideshow

Hot Summer
Jazz Fest,
Fri., June 29 -
Sun., July 1, 2007

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Jazz fest Slideshow

     

2006 Alive After
5, Blues Fest, Jazz Fest Slideshows:
 

Alive Week 1, 2006
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Alive Slideshow

 

Alive Week 2 & Blues Fest 2006
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Alive Slideshow

 

Alive Week 3, 2006
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Alive Slideshow

Alive Week 4, 2006
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Alive Slideshow

Jazz Festival, June 22-25, 2006
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Jazzfest Slideshow

 

 
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