OUTDOOR SHOW

$15 COVER

5PM DOORS / 6:30PM SHOWTIME

ALL AGES

*Outdoor shows may be moved indoors in the case of rain or extreme heat

An evening of incredible music curated and presented by the Valkyrie Music Collective - a group focused on supporting and lifting up women and non-binary folks in the twin cities music industry. 

Ritika Ganguly:

Ritika Ganguly, PhD., is a Minneapolis-based composer, vocalist, and anthropologist born and raised in New Delhi, India. Her consulting practice and artistic practice both strive for an equality based on difference, rather than on the similarity of things, people, and knowledges. 

Ritika has trained in multiple genres within Bengali music and in contemporary Indian musical theater. She was commissioned to compose 'Osthir-states of Effervescence' by The Cedar Cultural Center in 2016, received the Naked Stages award in 2017, and an MRAC Next Step Fund award in 2018 for her research and new musical work in Baul (Bengali Sufi music/poetry). She recently received a Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals Award, a 2020 Jerome Foundation Finalist Award, and was commissioned to create a mini opera in Bangla by the Minnesota Opera in 2021. Her vocal and compositional work bring disparate musical styles, literatures, and disciplines together. In her performances, she invites adventurous audiences, and her music pushes the boundaries of genre. Her methodology is deep listening. Her compositions and voice lessons both focus on developing aural skills and deepening the aptitude to hear. She is a loose leaf tea enthusiast! 

Laura Hugo:

Laura Hugo is a Native American singer/songwriter from Teec Nos Pos, AZ located in the Navajo Nation. She moved to Minnesota in 2010 to pursue her music and has since played all over the Twin Cities and around the Midwest. She has used her experiences with grief, mental health and general confusion about her place in the world to write honest and relatable songs.

Kashimana:

Kashimana is a mother, musician, vocalist, composer, producer and teaching artist with a rich soulful blues voice that soars through their original compositions. The name Kashimana means 'that's their heart' and you can hear Kashimana’s heart beating in the compelling sound of their music which is an exploration of Soul, R&B, Folk, Afro-funk and more. Kashimana often draws from her Nigerian heritage and experiences growing up in Nigeria and Kenya and living in the United States.

Kashimana is a 2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a 2019 In Common Composer in Residence, a Cedar Commissioned Artist ‘Phantom Cries’ and a Northern Spark Festival Artist in 2018 and 2019 ‘Applause Posse’ and ‘Soundscape of Stories’. Kashimana is also the co-creator of a MN Opera MNiature Opera ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ with Khary Jackson, a contributing artist and composer to The Art of The Revolution Twin Cities Community Album ‘Mama’ and a composer on a Sprig of That trio latest album ‘Eight Threads - The Only One’. Check out Kashimana’s latest single “Oh Yes Flow” on Bandcamp.

Andra Suchy:

Andra Suchy has been a musician all her life. She grew up in a musical family on a beef and wheat farm South of Mandan, ND. After relocating to Minneapolis in 1996 she went on to sing with many local and national acts, including her own, in genres ranging from folk and classic country to singing lead in an early Motley Crue tribute. You have probably heard her voice on national ads for Barbie, Target, Tresemme, Sears and many more, as well as background vocals on local and national recordings including the Honeydogs and Soul Asylum. Some notable local bands she has been a member of include Wallace Hartley and the Titanics, Rhythm Jones, The Dollys, Hookers $ Blow, d8mchild, Nymphonix, The Jorgensens, 2 Fast 4 The Devil, Lola And The Red Hots and Billy Johnson’s Roadshow. Most notable is Andra’s stint as a very regular guest of A Prairie Home Companion where she shared the stage with the likes of Yo Yo Ma, Emmylou Harris, Old Crow Medicine Show, Neko Case and Nick Lowe, Brad Paisley and John Prine, just to name a few An accomplished songwriter herself, she has two solo albums currently out and one more coming this year.