Big Top Tent Show Radio show

Warren Nelson and his crew broadcast weekly on KBEM Jazz 88 every Saturday at 4:00pm.

Tent Show Radio is a weekly variety series showcasing live performances from Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua. Featuring Big Top’s Artistic Director, Warren Nelson, the Blue Canvas Orchestra, and nationally and regionally renowned performers, Tent Show Radio is heard every week on listener-supported radio stations across the country, and twice a week on the Wisconsin Public Radio state-wide network.

Each week features a different live performance from Big Top Chautauqua’s summer season of concerts, lectures, musicals, and theater productions. Tune into Tent Show Radio and bring Big Top Chautauqua into your home!

Warren Nelson and the Big Top Chautauqua band will be coming to the Zabee Theater in Elk River, May 13, 2008.

You say you can’t even pronounce sesquicentennial. Not to worry, when Warren Nelson and the Big Top Chautauqua Orchestra are done with their evening presentation of Old Minnesota: Song of the North Star you will not only be able to say it, you’ll be able to sing about it, and know why Minnesota isn’t still part of Wisconsin!
Old Minnesota: Song of the North Star is a personal, musical, historical hike through the old ways of the Gopher State. What is gone now, or mostly so, from our sight and sound will be ‘songtold’. ‘Old Minnesota’ will be a grand excursion. Travel back down the river of time to see and hear what Minnesota was all about in its early history -- the native people, the immigrants, the farms, the forests, the waters, the iron ore. From Paul Bunyan loggers in the north to black earth farmers in the south, and from the founding of the Twin Cities to the tragic story of the Sioux Uprising, the history of our great state will come alive again. Using large scale historic photos from the Minnesota Historical Society collection, original songs, historic readings, dramatic reenactments, and dancing, the Big Top folks will tell the history of Minnesota at the time of statehood.
Warren Nelson, a native of Fairmont, Minnesota, host of the popular Big Top Chautauqua shows in Bayfield, Wisconsin, musician, historian, radio show host for the nationally public radio broadcast Tent Radio, and all around nice guy will lead his ensemble through an evening that will be fun and informative for the entire family.


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