The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra
Progressive Bluegrass Fused with Jazz and World Elements

Friday, Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m.

$12 regular / $10 Arts Center member

Tickets in advance 507-467-2446 and at the door one hour prior

It’s country.  It’s rock.  It’s jazz.  It’s bug-eyed bluegrass from Zeta Reticuli.  It’s swing.  It’s interstellar folk music . . . whatever it sounds like to earthlings, there’s no mistaking the virtuoso strains and the star trekking fun of The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra!  “Musically inventive and sonically charged . . . what a terrific show!” says one presenter.  The performance features original music plus vocal covers of country and bluegrass greats like Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and Bill Monroe.  Featuring Dan Neale on guitar, Lisi Wright on fiddle, John Wright on bass, and Mark O’Day on drums & percussion.  http://galacticcowboyorchestra.com/media.html  for music samples.

Films in conjunction with “The Art of Food” Exhibit

$5 regular / $4 Arts Center member OR $8 for both films.  Tickets in advance 507-467-2446 and at the door one hour prior.

Babette’s Feast
Friday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m.

Beloved Danish film by director Gabriel Axel, 1987.  Two pious Christian sisters, Martine and Philippa, live in a small village on the remote and beautiful--but also barren and chilly--western coast of Jutland in the 19th century (1871).   When the sisters are in their fifties, Babette Hersant appears at their door, explaining that she is a refugee from counter-revolutionary bloodshed in Paris.  The sisters take Babette in, and she spends fourteen years as their cook.  Her only link to her former life is a lottery ticket that a friend in Paris renews for her every year. One day, she wins the lottery of 10,000 francs which would surely allow her to return to her former home in adequate style. However, she instead decides to use the money to prepare a delicious dinner for the sisters and their small congregation on the occasion of the founding pastor's hundredth birthday.  More than just an epicurean delight, the feast is an outpouring of Babette's appreciation, an act of self-sacrifice with eucharistic echoes.

FOOD Inc.
Saturday, Oct. 23 - Two screenings:  4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies.  Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.  The film features interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto), along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin.  FOOD Inc.  reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

Sponsored by Pedal Pushers Café.