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General Admission: $20
Member General Admission: $15
Season pass: $75
Free admission for children twelve and younger.
Tickets are not concert-specific and can be used for any concert in the series.

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Consider supporting the Concerts in the Garden to help keep our admission prices low. Sponsorship opportunities are available for both individuals and businesses. 

Individual Patrons will be credited on the Museum’s website and all signage.

Individual Band/Musician Sponsors receive one season ticket packet, and your name will appear next to the musician or band of your choice on the Museum’s website, all signage, and the outdoor banner as the Sponsor of that particular musician.

If you have a business and would like to sponsor the Concerts in the Garden, please contact the Museum at 701.777.4195 or follow the link below.

Brett Newski and the Bad Inventions

Brett Newski is back again this year, but this time with his full band, the Bad Inventions! Wisconsin indie rock mainstay Brett Newski & the Bad Inventions bring a collision of alt-country, Tom Petty, & 90’s alternative rock on their latest LP, ameriCONa (not on streaming). Newski is back with satirical humor, contrarian ethos, & the knack for creating anthems for outliers. The ep shows flourishes of Bob Dylan & Jonathan Richman, with production in the vein of Velvet Underground.

His new book Piss in the Wind, tells tales of his weirdest shows across Vietnam, Thailand, and Hong Kong before moving to Saigon, Vietnam for two years. A must-read for fans of Hunter S Thompson, Chuck Klosterman, or Henry Rollins.

NEWSKI has played alongside bands like Violent Femmes, Pixies, Nada Surf, Guster, Gin Blossoms, Better than Ezra, Barenaked Ladies, Japanese Breakfast, Built to Spill, and Courtney Barnett. The band has received praise from Rolling Stone, NPR, American Songwriter, SiriusXM, Boston Globe, NBC, Billboard and SPIN.

“Showcases the unapologetically frank but not overly aggressive nature of 90s alt. rock perfectly.”
—American Songwriter

“A hypnotic slice of slacker pop.”
—Popmatters

“I like the sound and the way he is forcing the world to contend with him.”
—Brian Ritchie, Violent Femmes

Cousin Curtiss

Cousin Curtiss brings to the stage a fiery dynamic rarely seen by a solo act and now partnered up with the equally enigmatic and soulfully driven electric guitar prowess of Harrison B, these two road warriors are on a mission to electrify audiences everywhere with their two-man full-band sound. Think, “blues at bluegrass speeds.” Imagine, “rock americana with a soulful drip.” Experience rapid fire acoustic guitar, incendiary harmonica, fiercely energized solos, all driven by a thunderous kick drum.

Cousin Curtiss left a successful teaching career in Alaska in 2015 to pursue music full time and has never looked back. Shortly after committing himself to road life, his life and story was discovered and featured by Business Insider, Cosmopolitan magazine, Redbull, Fox News, MSNBC, Daily Mail UK, and many more.

Years later, Cousin Curtiss continues to turn heads wherever he plays solo, with the band, or supporting acts like The Commonheart, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, G Love and Special Sauce, Infamous Stringdusters, Sweet Lillies, Andy Thorn (of Leftover Salmon), John Stickley, Pepper, The Bellamy Brothers, and the list goes on. The journey that started in dive bars has grown to festival appearances around the States such as Salmonfest, New West Fest, Hoxeyville, Chickenstock, Mile of Music, Tico Time Bluegrass Fest, and more.

Sean Hayes

The music of Sean Hayes consists of folk, soul, country, and in between the cracks, on the edges – roots, rock, reggae.  Sean Hayes is a crooner, a wailer and an escape artist. He plays songs to get you dancing, sipping, dreaming and falling.

Born in New York, raised in North Carolina, with over 30 years playing music in California’s Bay Area you can hear a bit of all these places flowing through the songwriting and his singular voice.

These influences are reflected in the many different musicians Sean has played with over the years. From singing duets with Aimee Mann and Frazey Ford to touring with Charley Crockett, Jolie Holland, The Wood Brothers, Ani DeFranco and The Cold War Kids among many others. His songs have been remixed by renowned House DJ Mark Farina and have appeared on NPR, NBC and HBO. Dress it up however you like it’s just good music.

Other inspirations run the gamut: sly, funky jams like “Bell” and “Gold Tooth” revolve quite literally around a celebration of the bell shape and Hayes’ gold tooth, respectively; while “Joy” is a seductive, slow-burning afternoon love song, and “Invisible Weight” sings the praises of a simple apology, no matter how long overdue. Taken together, these tracks comprise a meditation on balance and acceptance — on learning to see life’s bruises and heartaches as necessary parts of the ride.

TAE and the Neighborly

Tae & The Neighborly, a Wisconsin based Soul-pop R&B group, found themselves playing music together in a very unconventional way. They were all neighbors, each one living alone on one floor of a five-story flat.

Cake baking is a shared passion of the five-member group, but in the sugar shortages early in the 2020 pandemic, they found themselves so continually knocking on each other’s doors asking for a single cup of sugar that a group decision was made to all move in together and share cake-baking resources. And since everyone knows all good rhythms begin in the kitchen, it wasn’t before long that the group began to write and perform together across the nation.

Critics hail the group as “having more kick than a bagged-up mule” (Rotary Times) and their live show “…going down smoother than a can of [beans] warmed on the campfire” (Cowboy Gazette). All in all, if you are looking for a dense show that will give you more inspiration fuel for self lovin’, world changin’, and consideration havin’ meet them where the music is made to be shared.

Bad Bad Hats

Bad Bad Hats is an indie rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kerry Alexander and Chris Hoge met in college and formed the band in 2012. In the 10 years of BBH, they have toured the country many times in their trusty minivan, sampling the best local cuisine along the way. BBH has toured with The Beths, Margaret Glaspy, The Front Bottoms, Hippo Campus, and Michelle Branch, among many others. Their fourth album Bad Bad Hats was released in 2024 on Don Giovanni Records.

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Bad Bad Hats is, like the band’s members, equal parts silly and affecting. The self-titled album, also called “The Flower Album,” is the first release the band has self-produced since their first EP. Inspired by the feeling of stuck-ness in the pandemic, Bad Bad Hats features twelve tracks of pep-pop excellence, punctuated with a few more melancholy pieces. “Every Bad Bad Hats album gets one ballad,” said Kerry Alexander, the band’s singer. 

Bandmate Chris Hoge is her other half in more ways than one. The two met during their time at Macalester University in Minneapolis and started dating at the end of their sophomore year in 2009. They stayed together through two alternating semesters abroad, sending each other mixed CDs to keep in touch. Alexander recalls the first CD Hoge gave her. It reminds her of an amazing summer spent in Cape Cod—the song that sticks out to her is “Meet Me in the Garden” by Dent May.

“Whenever I hear that song, I just can feel the summer air, smell the beach,” Alexander said in a video interview with the Review. “I’m right in my car, driving around and missing Chris, but also so excited for the future of what being together was gonna bring to my life.”
—The Review

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