Minnesota Guitar Society

06/15/2026

Really excited to be sponsoring another artist at this years Lakeside Guitar Festival!

06/10/2026

Acoustic OpenStage is your chance to perform for peers in a relaxed, informal setting.

Join us June 14, 2:30 - 4:30 at for our monthly gathering, we hope to see you there!

06/09/2026

06/06/2026

Join us Tuesday, June 9 for our Jazz and Fingerstyle Series at !

Greg Herriges performs original and traditional progressive world music from 6-7 pm, and Teja Gerken and Phil Heywood play acoustic fingerstyle guitar from 7-9 pm.

More information available at https://www.mnguitar.org/jazz-and-fingerstyle-guitar-series

06/04/2026

Join us for our upcoming 2026-2027 season at Sundin Hall! International Artist Series season tickets are now available.

September 25 & 26, 2026 – Sharon Isbin
October 24, 2026 – Virgile Barthe
November 14, 2026 – Sanel Redžić
December 12, 2026 – Classical Guitarathon
February 20, 2027 – Bluvenduo
March 13, 2027 – Cavatina Duo
April 17, 2027 – Vera Danilina
May 22, 2027 – Youth Guitarathon

https://www.mnguitar.org/purchase-tickets

06/01/2026

Congratulations to our MacPhail guitar students on their performance in the Minnesota Guitar Society’s Youth Guitarathon! 🎸

Neel Vijay student of James Flegel
Augie Ho-Chen student of Alan Johnston
Arjuna Murugesan student of Alan Johnston
Soren Winikoff student of Alan Johnston
Miles Mably student of Alan Johnston
Lukas Murdych former MacPhail student of Alan Johnston

05/27/2026

Congratulations to for being our 2026 Guitar Educator of the Year Recipient!

05/26/2026

Tonight!

Happening today at 6:00. FREE SHOW!

6-7pm – Shank Hagedorn Duo – Violin and Guitar

The Shank Hagedorn Duo has performed concerts in several US states as well as Mexico, Serbia and North Macedonia. They have released CDs on the Centaur and Innova labels and play a wide variety of music ranging from Baroque to Piazzolla to Prince.

7-9pm – Tim Sparks, Tom Lieberman and Ben Abrahamson – solos, duos and trios

Tim Sparks has been redefining the acoustic guitar repertoire since he won the National Fingerpicking Championship in 1993 with a ground-breaking arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite.

Tom Lieberman’s songs have been heard from Sesame Street to Sweet Land. He is an original member of the seminal vocal jazz trio Rio Nido and was associated with public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion from 1976-86, where he worked variously as a performer, writer and utility infielder until he was “asked” to hand over the show’s guitar chair to the Country Gentleman himself, Chet Atkins.

At age 11, Ben Abrahamson found his path set ablaze by guitar heroes Paco de Lucía, Leo Kottke, Ralph Towner, and his first guitar teacher Gary Lee Joyner. Ben has studied with flamenco guitarists Juan Ramón Caro at Taller de Músics in Barcelona, Pedro Cortés, Jr., and Michael Hauser. Ben is a faculty member at MacPhail Center for Music and a teaching artist with the MGS Guitar In Our Schools program.

I would get here early and enjoy a pint before the show. It's gonna be a good one.