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Saturday, November 22, 2025 6:00 p.m Dinner / 7:00 p.m. Show
KAREN MAL & DAVID STODDARD
at
Musicians Corner House Concerts
Joe and Sandy Verbout
11260 Kingsborough Trail
Cottage Grove, MN 55016
Please RSVP to: [email protected]
or click here: https://forms.gle/KxDqmT4G66Y5vg5G8
About The Dinner:
The dinner is a potluck dinner so bring a dish to share, main dish, side dish, salad, snack tray, dessert. It is so fun to sample everyone’s cooking and the variety is so fun. You don’t have to come for the dinner, you can just come for the show if you like.
About The Show:
Suggested Donation: $20-$25
There will be a donation basket. All money goes to the performers. We love supporting independent musicians who bring live music into our homes! This is a BYOB so bring your own snacks and your favorite beverage.
About: Karen Mal & David Stoddard
The collaboration of Karen Mal (based in Texas) and David Stoddard (from Minnesota) has its roots in their meeting at the Kerrville Folk Festival two decades ago. Since then, they have done the festival circuits, played solo and with others, recorded, taught (David), composed for and acted in regional theatre (Karen). David says, "We've toured together with other people over the years and have often talked about forming an actual duo, where we write and arrange songs together with an eye toward performing them as a duo." Which they have now done, and tonight we get to hear the results.
What People Are Saying About Karen Mal & David Stoddard:
Karen is a Northern Sky veteran, having originated roles in Lumberjacks in Love, Belgians in Heaven, and more recently Whatever Happened to Karl Janko? She goes back so far in the company that the fall season box office line once rang in her kitchen, in a cottage on Gibraltar Road. Karen is also thrilled to be working as music director with Door Shakespeare this summer. She and her daughter Coralina live in Austin, Texas where Karen works at Austin Scottish Rite Theater as an actor, music director and sound designer. In her last role she appeared in Pippi Longstocking as a flabbergasted proper Swedish lady with crazy hair at a tea party. Karen is also a multi-instrumentalist and award-winning songwriter and just released a brand-new album of original songs with her musical partner David Stoddard.
NORTHERN SKY THEATER
(920) 854-6117
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David Stoddard is a composer, songwriter, producer, educator, and music theory lover based in Minnesota, USA.
He's also a successful songwriter. He's a Kerrville New Folk winner and has taken top writing honors at the Minnesota Folk Festival, the South Florida Folk Festival, and the Tucson Folk Festival. He tours throughout the US and Canada. Although, admittedly, it doesn't tell you much about his own music (and he's loath to name-drop), it seems like some kind of obligation to let you know that he's performed with a huge number of lovely people, including Karen Mal, Dan Navarro, Leon Russell, Juice Newton, Cheryl Wheeler, Cliff Eberhardt, Robin and Linda Williams, Trout Fishing in America, The Arrogant Worms, Drew Nelson, Ronny Cox, David Olney, Beth Wood, Dan Hicks, and Michael Johnson.
"It's not often I hear a songwriter that can write funny and write serious. David Stoddard is one of the rare ones. I love his stuff." --John McCutcheon
“…he is one of America's greatest relatively unknown songwriters”
--Jim Hoehn
Listen to Karen Mal & David Stoddard here:
Website: https://www.davidstoddardmusic.com/karenanddavid
Videos: Karen:
David:
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
11260 Kingsborough Trl S, Cottage Grove, MN 55016-4663, United States
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