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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 2025 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!

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This Month: Marshall Dillon

Marshall Dillon is a 24-year-old guitarist based in Duluth, Minnesota. Drawing influence from guitar greats such as John Scofield, Larry Carlton, and Julian Lage, his playing weaves together jazz, funk, and fusion influences into something uniquely his own. As an active member of the Duluth music scene, he performs regularly with groups including Jumpsuit, Baharat, and Duluth Transit Authority, contributing a distinctive voice to each ensemble. Whether on stage or in the practice room, Dillon approaches the guitar with a deep sense of musical curiosity and a commitment to continual growth as both a player and collaborator.

Join us live on Saturday morning, June 21, at 9 for some great guitar grooves. 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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