Curtis & Loretta Concert Thursday, September 26

Community Favorite Folk Duo Return to NYM

The New York Mills Regional Cultural Center’s Fall 2024 Concert Series continues with Curtis & Loretta on Thursday, September 26th at 7:30 p.m. Join us in the Cultural Center’s intimate listening-room-style gallery space for this feel-good concert. All are welcome!

Curtis & Loretta are a folk singer-songwriter duo, guided by their love of good songs and inspired by the stories of people they have met in their over 40 years of touring, and they’re coming soon to a community near you!

Loretta grew up in Stillwater in the 1960s, when it was indeed a small town. In such a deeply connected environment, she developed the ability and desire to observe people more closely and create music that tells their stories and celebrates our connections to each other. Curtis grew up in Duncanville, Texas, back when the downtown consisted of a feed store and a Dairy Queen. He learned to sing harmony beside his mother in a small country church. 

Together, Curtis & Loretta weave soaring harmonies with a wild menagerie of instruments that includes guitars, harp, mandocello, banjo, ukulele, kazoo, harmonica, and percussion, the duo performs their poignant originals with humor and heart. Curtis’ down-home sense of humor and Loretta’s theater background engage the audience in an experience that runs the gamut of rolling with laughter to holding back tears, with plenty of side-trips in between.

Named “Best Acoustic Performers of the Twin Cities,” they were recently awarded a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, which enables them to tour throughout greater Minnesota this year, presenting concerts in eight small communities, including New York Mills. They’ll also do an outreach concert at a retirement home in each community.

Curtis & Loretta now live in Minneapolis, and travel across the U.S., taking their unique brand of folk music to festivals, concert halls, retirement homes and more. 

They absolutely love getting out to greater Minnesota and making connections with audiences there. They’ve performed in some of these eight communities before, and some will be brand new (to them!) places. They always look forward to spending time with audience members after the concert, answering questions, hearing folks’ personal stories, and learning more about each community. As part of this tour, they will perform in Bagley, Kelliher, Park Rapids, McIntosh, New York Mills, Starbuck, Farwell, Dassell, and Evansville.

The Cultural Center is pleased to welcome back Curtis & Loretta – and we invite the community to come enjoy this remarkably talented musical duo!

Adult tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door ($2 member discount); students $5. Refreshments available. You can buy tickets online, call the Cultural Center at 218-385-3339, or get tickets at the door. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and music begins at 7:30.

Loretta Simonet is a fiscal year 2024 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Visit kulcher.org or call the Cultural Center at 218-385-3339 with any questions.

Learn more: https://www.kulcher.org/curtis-loretta-concert-thursday-september-26-2024/

Buy tickets online: https://kulcher.networkforgood.com/events/74907-curtis-loretta-concert

About the Cultural Center

The New York Mills Regional Cultural Center is a rural hub for creativity, community vitality, and lifelong learning in the arts. The Center offers visitors intimate opportunities to encounter art and artists in its 80-seat concert listening room, visual art gallery in a historic building, gift store featuring local artists, artist residency program, sculpture park, and a variety of opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Since its incorporation in 1990, the Cultural Center has been passionate about connecting people to artists and rich cultural experiences in rural Minnesota, celebrating the local and being a window to the world. For more information, call 218-385-3339, or visit www.kulcher.org.