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Friday, April 11, 2025 6:00 p.m Dinner / 7:00 p.m. Show
"Kray Van Kirk" Live In Concert
at
Musicians Corner House Concerts
Pat and Jane Thiegs Home
4255 Woodlane Drive
Woodbury, 55129 MN
Please RSVP to: [email protected]
or click here: https://forms.gle/mk9KKUbD2escLbit7
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 dinner, you can just come for the show if you like.
About The Show:
Suggested Donation: $25
There will be a donation basket. All money goes to the performer. We love supporting independent musicians who bring live music into our homes! This is a BYOB so bring your own favorite beverage.
About: Kray Van Kirk:
The room was almost empty after Van Kirk's show at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. A man with shirt-sleeves rolled up in the August heat walked over to him and stood hesitantly for a moment before thrusting out his hand.
"I use to sing for my wife in the evenings, but she has dementia now and doesn't remember me. That song about the lost lovers and the dance hall..."
He stopped for a moment before his Scottish reserve reasserted itself.
"I really liked that one."
A fine finger-style guitarist with a precise baritone voice, Kray Van Kirk has a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska, but he set science aside to write songs, tell stories and summon heroes.
"We are driven by myth and the seasons of the heart," he says, "and the stories are all true. There is a dark cave inside each of us, and monsters of all kinds lurk there, all the more lethal for being hidden. The quest is to journey inside, render the monsters powerless, find whatever it is that burns at the core of your soul and bring it back into the light. In a world divided it is critical to write songs and tell stories that show absolutely everyone they get to be the hero. Nobody is left behind."
Thus his songs: Thunderbird resurrects the Phoenix in an empty desert diner in the American Southwest (yes, the Phoenix drives a Thunderbird), The Queen of Elfland plucks Thomas the Rhymer from the English-Scottish border in 1250 and drops him and the Queen into a subway car, The Library Song has Superman moonlighting among the stacks, Rosa and Hector ride through Sherwood Forest on canes and a wheelchair, and The Midnight Commander celebrates an insane old man leading the city of New York to take up arms (and underwear) against hatred.
Of this charming, Quixotic, and decidedly eclectic performer, the Borderline Folk Club in New York wrote “it is what every singer-songwriter should aspire to.
What People Are Saying About Kray Van Kirk:
“Every time I play cuts off The Midnight Commander, listeners ask ‘Who’s that?’ It’s Kray Van Kirk and there’s none like him.” - Auntmama 'Sunday Folks' DJ, KBCS Seattle, WA
The evening's act was Kray Van Kirk, whose 12-string guitar and soaring vocals were spellbinding. The Alaskan singer-songwriter, in his Edinburgh debut, was not the reason I arrived early but was certainly why I stayed late. - Daily Fringe Review, Edinburgh, Scotland
Listen to Kray Van Kirk here:
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
4255 Woodlane Drive Woodbury, 55129 MN, 4255 Woodlane Dr, St Paul, MN 55129-2528, United States,Woodbury, Minnesota, Newport
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