This Month’s Episodes
See what’s coming up this month on Coffee & Guitar.
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March, 2025
Darin Bergsven, solo guitar
9:00am
@CoffeeandGuitarwithDarin, YouTube
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March, 2025
Darin Bergsven, solo guitar
9:00am
@CoffeeandGuitarwithDarin, YouTube
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March, 2025
RERUN! Featured Guest: Keith Secola, streamed live 02/17/24
9:00am
@CoffeeandGuitarwithDarinc, YouTube
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March, 2025
Featured Guest: Eric Carlson
9:00am
@CoffeeandGuitarwithDarin, YouTube
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March, 2025
Darin Bergsven, solo guitar
9:00am
@CoffeeandGuitarwithDarinc, YouTube
There Is A Mighty Forest
A mighty forest of great guitar players in northern Minnesota that stretches from the shore of Lake Superior to the headwaters of the Mississippi. Coffee & Guitar brings those great players together to make music, and to share their guitar stories and insights.
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Coffee & Guitar is a weekly hour-long livestream that celebrates and tells the story of the guitar music and guitar players of the Minnesota Northwoods. It streams live every Saturday morning from Darin Bergsven Guitar Studio in Duluth, MN, near Chester Creek and features monthly guest guitarists from across the region. Join me live or enjoy anytime at your leisure.
Featured Guests
Upcoming Guests
The 2024 Season of Coffee & Guitar was packed with awesome guest guitar slingers from across the Northwoods. 2025 starts off strong, too, with Scott Lunt, Eric Carlson, Charity Huot Benedict, Misisipi Mike Wolf, Marshal Dillon, Ted Anderson, and more!
This Month: Eric Carlson
Eric Carlson is a singer/songwriter, visual artist, and college professor at The School of Technology Art & Design at Bemidji State University. All through his childhood, Eric listened to his mom perform children’s music as the duo called Mike & Maggie (which was sometimes a trio with Gary Broste). For 10 years he played in the traditional Irish group called The Gaels, and now plays in various groups such as the folk rock band Occasionals, Known Only Locally and Friends, and the viola/bass/fiddle/guitar quartet called The Oxbows.
Join us live on Saturday morning, March 22, at 9 for a morning of great guitar music and conversation with Eric and I! We’ll play guitar, we’ll have coffee, you at your place, we at mine, but here, online, together.
Past Guest
There have been so many AMAZING Northwoods guitar giants on Coffee & Guitar, from Sam Miltich, to Skarlett Woods, to Alan Sparhawk! Check out singles and full episodes from all of our fabulous former featured guests on YouTube.
Northwoods Blues Licks
Look for a new installment each month!
Northwoods Blues Licks is a series of instructional videos, each featuring a tasty blues lick improvised by a past guest.
This series offers detailed insight into local guitar legends’ approaches to a very common musical form: the twelve bar blues and provides for an exchange of melodic ideas among a community of Northwoods guitar players who are deeply interested in each other’s playing and are connected through a shared love for this place, its people, and its music.
Check ’em out! Leave a comment! Let me know about the lick you learned from your favorite local lead guitar legend and how you use it in your playing! Take a quick video of yourself playing the lick and drop a link in the comments!
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Darin is a fiscal year 2024 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
This work is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts through a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council.
