€ All of this season's concerts [except the Spring Roots Musical Festival] will be held at the Mankato Area Eagles Club - 708 North Riverfront Drive, Mankato MN. [Get directions] € Doors open at 7pm with the concerts starting at 7:30pm for all shows. € Ticket prices are $12 for members and $15 for nonmembers unless otherwise noted.

Friday, March 19 Lonely Pines Concert featuring The Expedition These guys combine tight vocal harmonies with white-hot picking and side-splitting humor into a fast paced, non-stop, crowd pleasing show. Tickets are $14 in advance, $16 day of show, $8 for teens, and free for kids age 12 and under. Call 800-635-3037 or visit www.MinnesotaBluegrass.org. Presented by the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association (MBOTMA). Co-presented by The Bothy Folk Club.

Saturday, April 17 Spring Roots Musical Festival 2:00 pm to Midnight at the Morrison Aereo on North Riverfront Drive in Mankato. The Bothy Folk Club and KMSU Radio presents a Spring Roots Musical Festival featuring 10 local and regional acts. Solos and Duos Ocho, Betty Harsma, and Sister Gin. Bands One Fast Move, Organic Cowboys, Beg for Justice, The Blind Moose Review, Lehto & Wright, Gypsy Lumberjacks and Useful Jenkins. Schedule 2:00 Ocho 3:00 Sister Gin 4:00 Lehto & Wright 5:00 One Fast Move 6:00 Beg For Justice 7:00 Betty 8:00 The Blind Moose Review 9:00 The Organic Cowboys 10:00 Useful Jenkins 11:00 The Gypsy Lumberjacks This event is free and open to all ages.

Sunday, May 2 Chad Elliot Elliott's songs stand out and have earned him accolades in the folk world over the past few years. Recently he was nominated as a finalist at Kerrville Folk Festival for their New Folk competition. He was also chosen the winner of FolkAlley.com's Open Mic Finals and had a song chosen out of 300,000 songs as an award nominee for Top 20 New Folk Songs on Just Plain Folks which put him on the list with such greats as Art Garfunkel, Lori McKenna and Janis Ian. Front set by Nigel Egg. This will be the final concert of the season.

Information about the Bothy Folk Club:
contact Bill Smith at: wailinwillie@gmail.com

For info call:
Gordon: (507) 947-3356
Bix: (507) 388-1316
Bill :(612) 756-2984