This Month’s Episodes
See what’s coming up this month on Coffee & Guitar.
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January, 2025
Darin Bergsven, solo guitar
9:00am
@CoffeeandGuitarwithDarin, YouTube
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January, 2025
Darin Bergsven, solo guitar
9:00am
@CoffeeandGuitarwithDarin, YouTube
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January, 2025
Darin Bergsven, solo guitar
9:00am
@CoffeeandGuitarwithDarinc, YouTube
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January, 2025
Charity Huot-Benedict, featured guest
9:00am
@CoffeeandGuitarwithDarin, 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: Charity Huot Benedict
Born and raised in Duluth, MN, Charity Huot Benedict is glad to be back home after 14 years in Minneapolis. She grew up playing piano and singing in all of her school choirs, sang vocal jazz at UMD, and started writing her own music while in college. Charity is a singer songwriter who creates alt-folk music with a twist of bluegrass and jazz. She has been writing, singing, playing guitar, recording and performing her original music for two decades. You may have seen her at festivals, events, coffee shops and stages around the northland.
Her most recent music creation was Music on the Ship a top the William A Irving, and hopes to create more cool Duluth inspired music events in the coming years. She has released two albums and is currently working on her third.
Aside from her music career, she is a yoga instructor, event director, social media manager & household coordinator. Some of her favorite ways to spend her free time are jumping in Lake Superior, hiking, relaxing by a fire and going out to see other live music. She lives with her husband Joe and two kiddos Norah and Ollie, who you may see cruising along the bike paths throughout Duluth.
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.
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.
