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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.

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Featured Guests

Upcoming Guests

The 2023 Season of Coffee & Guitar was packed with awesome guest guitar slingers from across the Northwoods. 2024 starts off strong with Megan Reynolds, Charity Huot, Teague Alexy, Richie Townsend, and more!

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This Month: Charity Huot Benedict!

Charity is a singer songwriter from Duluth, Minnesota.  Her songs are playful, soulful, powerful, and raw. She is a true artist and a unique musician who has an ability to deliver each song with passion and poise. Her soothing voice, melodic and rhythmic strumming and picking, and lyrical landscape mesmerizes her audience and allows the listeners to connect, relate, and enjoy a moment of music.   

She started performing her original music at local coffee shops and bars; often solo and with other musicians.  After five years of writing and performing she recorded her 1st album, Tangled Directions, in May of 2009.  It contains 10 original songs inspired by a variety of experiences from living across seas to a summer day in her hometown.

The release of her 1st CD opened up many doors for Charity’s music. She started performing around Minnesota and Wisconsin. She took part in many small music festivals, performed at a variety of larger venues, had several articles and reviews written about her success, and finished in the top 10 for the Midwest Lilith Fair Contest.

Charity released her 2nd album, “A New Beginning” in June of 2011 with the help of the Summit Hill Band! She has had concerts in Colorado, California, and throughout the Midwest. She has performed at several Minnesota festivals, a few including: Bella Fiore at Harmony Park, Riversong Folk Festival in Hutchinson, Harvest Fest, Rhubarb Festival, and Homegrown in Duluth. Charity continues to write new music and perform at venues and events around the Twin Ports.

Join us live on Saturday morning, September 21, at 9 for a morning of music with Charity and me! We’ll play guitar, we’ll have coffee, you at your place, we at mine, but here, online, together.

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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.   

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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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