About this Event
French songs and travel stories
The second annual Bastille My Heart show, with star vocalists Prudence Johnson and Maud Hixson, hosted by Dan Chouinard at the piano and accordion. An effervescent evening of French and French-American songs and travel stories to celebrate the French national holiday.
Dan Chouinard, host, piano and accordion
Prudence Johnson, vocals
Maud Hixson, vocals
Dan Chouinard is a St. Paul-based all-purpose pianist, street accordionist, sing-along enabler and bicycling vagabond. He's traveled across Europe with an accordion and written about it for MPR in a show called Café Europa.
Prudence Johnson has been on the musical theatre stage, in two feature films (A River Runs Through It and A Prairie Home Companion), on national radio and on concert stages across North America and Europe, including Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.
Maud Hixson has been hailed in New York and London as a singularly elegant exponent of great songs, familiar and not. She and Dan have recorded together on her 2024 Bistro Award-winning album Permanent Moonlight: Songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett.
Kim Ode, in the StarTribune, on Dan Chouinard: “Eclectic Minnesota accompanist Dan Chouinard is 'everyone's go-to guy.’ “
danchouinard.com
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Crooners Main Stage, 6161 Hwy 65 NE, Minneapolis, United States
USD 30.00 to USD 40.00