This Month’s Episodes
See what’s coming up this month on Coffee & Guitar.
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July, 2024
GONE CAMPING! Enjoy this episode from July 22, 2023
9:00am
DarinBergsvenMusic, 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.
Tune in!
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 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!
This Month: Eric Cyr!
Eric Cyr is the songwriter and singer at the helm of Cyr and the Cosmonauts. The group has been performing in the Twin Ports since the release of their first album, Callused, recorded at Sacred Heart Music Center in 2018. In 2021 the band released their sophomore record, Songs to Sing Before We’re Dead, which, in the words of Mark Nicklawske’s review, “rumbles and clatters like a souped-up hearse with Hank Williams behind the wheel.” Eric is an award-winning songwriter, the self-proclaimed creator of “eclectic Americana” as a genre, and in 2024 is launching Fish and Whistle, the Twins Ports’ John Prine tribute band.
Join us live on Saturday morning, July 20, at 9 for a morning of guitar-based eclectic Americana and probably a John Prine song or two! 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.
