The Sutter Brothers

The Sutter Brothers are looking forward to performing at this Swedish festival in October.  The festival features art and crafts, special foods, ethnic music, and other special entertainment while Swedish folk dancers and musicians add to the flavor of the festival.

A musical play about Swedish summer farms, written by Bart Sutter, with a front set by Vikarbyns lilla spelmanslag, a young adult fiddle group from Sweden

Cow Calls in Dalarna is a one-hour readers’ theater piece, which employs a cycle of original poems by Duluth playwright and poet Bart Sutter with traditional music to evoke the lost world of Sweden’s summer pasture camps.  The play is musically charged with folk songs, fiddle tunes, cow calls, cow horns, and cowbells.

 The performances of Cow Calls in Dalarna will be preceded by a program of complementary music presented by Vikarbyns Lilla Spelmanslag, a young adult fiddle group from the Lake Siljan area of Sweden. Vikarbyns perform in folk dress, under the guidance of their teacher, Margaretha Mattsson.   

 Click here to purchase tickets for July 22 performance.

Click here to purchase tickets for July 23 performance.

The Sutter Brothers will perform during the Duluth Midsommar Celebration, which runs 10 a.m. - 5 p.m at Peace Lutheran Church in Duluth.
Sponsored by Swedish Cultural Society of Duluth

World Premiere of Cow Calls in Dalarna: A Readers' Theatre Play in Verse with Folk Music

Sponsored by Swedish Cultural Society of Duluth
Show Only Tickets still available

Book signing at Subtext Books - good chance to visit their new location, if you haven't already seen it.

2:15 pm

• Bart Sutter: Haiku: Tiny Poems with Large Implications for Writers
• Ross Sutter: How Song and Ballad Lyrics Make Musical Memories 

7:00 pm - 25th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

• Don Shelby portraying Mark Twain: “On Writers and Writing”
• The Sutter Brothers: “Poetry and Music, Songs and Stories”

Children and Family Performance

The Sutter Brothers will present a show that conjures north country characters in songs and stories, poetry and music. The program will have a Scandinavian flavor accented by pianist Sam Black and Norwegian singer Stina Fagertun.

 The performance will also serve as a book launch for Chester Creek Ravine, Bart Sutter's collection of haiku, recently released by Nodin Press. All 150 haiku contained in this book - tiny poems with large implications - were inspired by Sutter's walks alongside Chester Creek, which drops dramatically through Duluth on its final run to Lake Superior. The cover and illustrations for Chester Creek Ravine were furnished by Duluth printmaker Cecilia Lieder.

Beverages provided - brown bag lunches welcome.

Program hosted by Headwaters School of Music & the Arts

Sanford Room in lower level of Library.