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Third Thursday: Paul Sundquist, Jim Detloff, Emily Bendik Raffaelli, Gunnard Swanson and Ulrika Swanson.

August 19, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Digging into the local talent in a full concert format on the third Thursday of the month.  August’s focus on the piano. There is amazing talent to be found on the back roads of the western UP.  Tonight’s musicians include Paul Sundquist, Jim Detloff, Emily Bendik Raffaelli, Gunnard Swanson and Ulrika Swanson.

Welcoming us this evening is Paul (Emerson)Sundquist, the house musician at Crystal Theatre.  He also serves the Theatre as an extremely capable Stage Manager and Sound Engineer.   AKA  Paul Emersun, is a singer/songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, bassist, multi-instrumental recording artist. With a performing career beginning at the age of 6. Paul spent a good portion of his childhood in Iron County. As a professional musician with a ‘corporate career’ on the side, Paul has performed regularly with a host of Midwest bands as a guitarist or bassist, while fronting vocals and continues to be seen as a solo guitarist in a variety of venues and settings. Paul retired from Volkswagen in Kenosha and returned to his family home in Crystal Falls. Paul adapts effortlessly, with his guitar and voice, to most styles of music and bands and is often called on as a fill-in or to complement the sound of existing groups.

Jim Detloff, is originally from Milwaukee and has made his home in Iron County for the past eighteen years.  Jim, a church musician,  is self-taught and has over 150 compositions. He taught high school music in Milwaukee for a few years. This evening he will play a few of his original compositions, and also display his improvisational abilities. 

Emily Raffaelli is an energetic, experienced, and creative music teacher with a proven ability to get the very best out of pupils.  Emily grew up in Crystal Falls. Every summer she spends time with her family in Iron County.  She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music education (with emphasis in piano) from NMU in 2000. She has spent the last 20 years teaching K-12 music in the Keweenaw.  She  teaches piano lessons, and is a church organist and choir director as well as the music director for many musicals at the Calumet Theater.  Her husband is Gary, and the couple have two children, Louis and Pearl (who are also musicians!) Emily enjoys performing songs from all music genres.  Tonight she is going to play a variety of music including her favorite song by Alberto Ginastera.  She will also be playing a piece by her friend composer Nathan Barber called “Reflecting.”  Tonight will be the first time this piano arrangement is performed in concert.

Pianist Gunnard Swanson will perform Mozart: Sonata in C, K. 545, Allegro.  Gunnard is a summer resident of Hagerman Lake in Iron County. He graduated from North Park University with a degree in mathematics and music in 1968.  He had a forty year career teaching elementary math that began in Connecticut and then took him to Zaire, Africa, and Stockholm, Sweden, and eventually Oregon, Wisconsin. He has also had a vibrant musical avocation. As an accompanist for choral groups, church choirs and live musical theatre. Gunnard has two grown children.  He has been coming to Iron County during the summers for forty years, visiting friends and finally purchasing property on Hagerman Lake in 2000.  He started spending his summers here after retiring in 2009.  Although he has given two concerts in his house for friends, this is the first time he is performing solo music for an audience in a live theater.

Ulrika Swanson will perform Haydn’s Divertimento No. 27 in D Major: Allegro Di  Molto accompanied by her father Gunnard.  Ulrika studied music and Scandinavian music at North Park University.  She currently plays with one professional orchestra and one community orchestra.

September 16th welcomes Hicks With Picks and the Foucalt Brothers. Hicks With Picks has been performing Yooperbilly covers of bluegrass, folk, and rock classics since 2008 to the hand-clapping delight of northwoods audiences. All three “Hicks”  contribute vocals to the harmony. Marc Ralston plays bass, Jeff Dohl and Jack Hudson play 6-string guitar; Dohl also plays banjitar. 

The acoustic-oriented Foucalt brother duo has a knack for taking a song and putting their own homespun spin on it. They present a pleasing organic blend with tasteful interpretations of old time and contemporary songs. Roy plays lead guitar and adds a sweet vibe to his solo work. Elder brother Paul usually takes lead on vocals while playing guitar and resonator (“dobro”) guitar. The style fits the label “Americana” as they move smoothly between a wide variety of music from classic country tunes to jazzy ’40s classics.

Sons of Legend take the stage for the full evening on October 21. Thanks to “The Legend,” rhythm guitarist Harley Davis Sr., Sons of Legend is influenced heavily by the blues, as well as hard rock/metal, southern rock and outlaw country.  The Sons include Jay Davis and Chris West on lead guitar, Kirk Atanasoff on drums, Russ Fennick on bass and veteran blues harp player Rick Bailey.  Jay, with his gritty rock style, and Rick, with his soulful blues style reminiscent of great blues musicians of the deep south, take turns singing lead.   The combination of these influences as well as the diversity of the musicians produce a raucous yet fluent merging of those styles into something uniquely called Sons of Legend.

Third Thursday will be taking a break over the hunting/holiday season and return in January.  To suggest local musicians that you would love to see as part of the Third Thursday series please email info@thecrystaltheatre.org.

 

Tickets are only at the door: $10/$5 students available only at the box office.

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Date:
August 19, 2021
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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