The Dubliner Pub

Twin Town Strings
2024-02-08 20:00 - 23:00 (America/Chicago) | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Twin Town Strings is a duo collaboration between banjo player Pete Hennig and guitarist Joel Shapira. They play a mix of musical styles including bluegrass, American folk music, classic rock and jazz.

Irish Céilí Dancing
2024-02-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-31 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-24 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-17 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-10 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-12-27 19:00 - 21:00
Join in the fun every Wednesday with instructors Paul, Justin, and Alex, and live music.

Neighborhood Quartet
2024-02-04 17:00 - 19:00
Remember sitting in your living room as kid? The shag carpet tickling the back of your legs. You were chewing on your Marathon bar and sipping from a can of Rondo Soda while watching your favorite TV show… was it CHiPs or S.W.A.T.?… Doesn’t matter they both were great and so was the music in them. The Neighborhood Quartet might just take you back to those times with their groovy 70’s theme song inspired tunes, but sorry Rondo is long gone, but I’m sure you will find something from the bar to crush your thirst!
The quartet’s unique instrumentation brings a sound that is ethereal and groovy. They blend pop and soul influences with roots and jazz to bring a fresh take on tunes that fit perfectly with whatever you are drinking.

Steve Roehm – vibraphone
Dan Schwartz – lap steel, guitar, vocals
Nick Salisbury – bass
Greg Schutte – drums

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Irish Music Session
2024-02-02 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-01-26 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-01-19 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-01-12 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-01-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-12-29 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-12-22 18:00 - 20:00
Weekly trad session at the Dubliner.

Saint Brigid Celebration
2024-01-31 18:00 - 21:00
Join Irish Network Minnesota for our 2nd Annual St. Brigid’s Day gathering and presentation. Saint Brigid of Kildare is the patroness saint of Ireland, associated with poetry, fertility, protection and healing. Gather with IN-MN as we honor her on St. Brigid’s feast day!
For more information visit the Irish Network Minnesota website
Join Irish Network Minnesota (INMN) on the eve of St Brigid’s day for our 2nd Annual gathering and presentation to celebrate and share a bit of history, tradition, stories, St Brigid Cross making demonstrations and song as we commemorate the 1500th anniversary of this 5th century woman, her life and legacy. Free no charge event.
IN MN Lá Fhéile Bríde – St Brigid’s Day – 2024
From 6-9pm in the cafe space.
Celebrating all Mná (women), the Celtic goddess, Saint Brigid of Kildare and Imbolc (the festival of spring)!
Thank you to Carrie Finnigan for your incredible and amazing artwork for our event! Follow Carrie on Instagram @cfinnigan_art

Connemara Patch
2024-01-26 21:00 - 2024-01-27 00:45
Connemara Patch performs an energetic and toe-tapping blend of traditional Irish tunes and songs on fiddle, flute, uilleann pipes, bouzouki and guitar. Hailing from St. Paul, Minnesota and named after the iconic Irish immigrant neighborhood, the band balances strong vocals with sweet tune melodies and enjoys performing throughout Minnesota.
Connemara Patch: Patrick Maun, Mary Vanorny, Buddy Ferrari, and now featuring Aja McCullough & Thomas Gurke.
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Mary DuShane & Nick Jordan
2024-01-25 17:00 - 19:00
Mary was the original fiddler for the Powdermilk Biscuit Band on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion radio show. Over her long career, she has worked in bands playing country rock, old time, country swing, country blues, jug band, jam band and Cajun music.
Mary is very happy to be teamed up these last few years with Nick Jordan, a seasoned musician who sings well and plays guitar, mandolin, flute, whistle and foot percussion. Together they present a lively array of vintage songs from various genres, plus Appalachian and Celtic fiddle tunes.
marydushane.com

Set Dancing
2024-01-22 19:30 - 21:30
Set Dancing with the Twin Cities Ceili Band providing music and Tim McAndrew teaching and calling the dances. Ceili dancing is already popular at The Pub on Wednesday nights, but we hope to revitalize Set Dancing in the Twin Cities, starting with bi-weekly Monday night events. If you already set dance, this should be a welcome revival. If you want to learn or are just curious, come give it a try.
For more information on set dancing, see this Wikipedia page.

Purgatory Creek
2024-01-19 21:00 - 2024-01-20 00:45
Purgatory Creek plays Irish and American Roots music. 871 miles to Nashville, 3702 miles to Belfast, 50 below zero with the windchill.
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Weather Break (closed Monday, Jan 15)
2024-01-15 - 2024-01-16
We will be closed on Monday, January 15, all day, due to the cold weather. Stay warm!

Weather Break (closed Sunday, Jan 14)
2024-01-14 - 2024-01-15
We will be closed on Sunday, January 14, all day, due to the cold weather. Stay warm!

Mikkel’s 60th Birthday Party w/ Paul Bergen
2024-01-11 17:00 - 19:00

Bundle & Go
2024-01-10 18:00 - 21:00
Bundle & Go is the duo of David and Suzanne Rhees, two stalwarts of the Twin Cities traditional music scene. They play an eclectic mix of vigorous Irish dance tunes, slow listening pieces, and unusual songs, with a generous sprinkling of tunes from related traditions — Cape Breton, Welsh, Scottish, French-Canadian, Métis, Appalachian and more.
Their instruments are equally diverse: Suzanne plays Irish flute, whistles and button accordion, while Dave plays fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, harmonica, ukulele and feet.
Suzanne has played with accordion master Paddy O’Brien’s group, O’Rourke’s Feast, and Dave is a veteran of the band Roisin Dubh. They both were members of Contradictions, a contradance band, and La Traversée, a French-Canadian group. They founded the Keegan’s Irish Pub jam session in Minneapolis and have taught seminars and workshops on the roots and branches of Celtic music for the Irish Fair of Minnesota, the Minnesota Old Time and Bluegrass Association, and the Celtic Junction Arts Center.

Dowser
2024-01-07 17:00 - 19:00
Dowser is the original folk-rock duo of John Kurtis Dehn on vocals, guitar, and harmonica and John Strei on drums and hand percussion. For more than 10 years, Dehn played lead guitar, mandolin, and banjo with the band, Bernie King & The Guilty Pleasures. A multi-instrumentalist himself, Strei most recently played drums in the band, The Flaming Doublewides. The two have been friends since high school, and in 2023 united to form Dowser.
John Kurtis Dehn’s songs contain shades of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Jackson Browne, and The Waterboys. His solo album, “Shovel & Hole” can be streamed on Bandcamp, Apple Music, and Spotify.

Soul Trouvere
2024-01-04 17:00 - 19:00
Soul Trouvère is a Minneapolis duo performing original and folk music from the Straits of Magellan to the Caspian Sea. A founding member of the New Orleans band the Zydepunks, Juan Küffner rocks the accordion and sings in more languages than you can shake a stick at. Colleen Bertsch is a violinist who studied and performed music in the Transylvanian countryside, and is a co-founder of the Minneapolis Balkan party band Orkestar Bez Ime.
soultrouvere.com

New Year's Eve with Tom & Ginny
2023-12-31 21:00 - 2024-01-01 00:30
Tom Dahill and Ginny Johnson bring alive the soul of Ireland. Using accordion, concertina, fiddle—and more—they play heavy music with a light touch. Performing tunes learned from the old masters, they delight audiences with passionate reels and playful songs not heard anywhere else.
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Doug Otto
2023-12-28 17:00 - 19:00
Doug has made fantastic original music and renditions of blues and country songs for almost 2 decades.

Darren Jackson aka Kid Dakota
2023-12-22 21:00 - 2023-12-23 00:45
Kid Dakota is the musical moniker of Darren Jackson. A fixture on the Minneapolis music scene for more than two decades, Darren founded two critically-acclaimed bands (Kid Dakota and The Hopefuls, aka The Olympic Hopefuls), released ten albums, and won three Minnesota Music Awards, including “Artist of the Year.” He has headlined nearly every venue in the Twin Cities metro area, including First Avenue, the Fitzgerald Theater, and Orchestra Hall, and has toured extensively in the United States and Europe, sharing stages with rock and roll icons such as Soul Asylum and The Cars as well as indie rock stalwarts like LOW and Trampled by Turtles. He has also scored a film starring Mickey Rourke and Frieda Pinto and had songs placed in television shows such as Num3ers and The O.C.
In addition to crafting some of the most unique music to come out of the Midwest in recent decades, Darren also performs a carefully curated selection of covers that pay homage to the best in classic country (i.e., Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, George Strait, etc.), classic rock (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, etc.), 80’s college rock (R.E.M., The Replacements, Violent Femmes, The Cure, etc.), and modern indie/alternative (Wilco, The Shins, Nirvana, Weezer, etc.).
