The Vinyl Café Winter Tour 2012 will be making a stop in Grand Marais. Host Stuart McLean will bring the show, with its mix of humorous stories and live music, to the Arrowhead Center for the Arts on March 2.
Stuart McLean, one of Canada’s most beloved storytellers and a best-selling author, is bringing his hit CBC radio show Vinyl Café to Grand Marais.
Vinyl Café will hold one live performance at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts in Grand Marais at 7 p.m. Friday, March 2. Tickets are on sale now at tix.com. Simply enter Vinyl Café in the “Find your Tickets” section.
Vinyl Café airs locally on WTIP North Shore Community Radio and has established a strong following on Minnesota’s North Shore. WTIP has worked with Stuart McLean and producer Jess Milton to include Grand Marais as a destination for the Winter 2012 tour.
“This is a great event for our community,” WTIP’s program director Roger Linehan says. “Vinyl Café is an internationally acclaimed, quality program that WTIP has been carrying for three years. They are looking forward to coming to our community to record a show, which will be broadcast on many public radio stations across the country, as well as on the CBC throughout Canada. It will be fun, it will be entertaining, and we think it will be great for our community!”
Each week, a million listeners tune in to Vinyl Café, featuring Stuart McLean’s stories about Dave, owner of the second-hand record store where the motto is: “We May Not Be Big, But We’re Small.”
Since 1998 Stuart has taken Vinyl Cafe to theaters across Canada, playing in both large and small towns from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Whitehorse in the Yukon. The family-friendly live show features a mix of stories, humor and live music. The Winter 2012 tour features special musical guest Mysticssippi blues man Harry Manx, who has been called an “essential link” between the music of East and West.
For more information, please call WTIP at 387-1070, or go online to www.wtip.org.
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