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The Setlist: Where to hear live music March 7-8, 2025

KAXE | By Malachy Koons
Published March 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM CST
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Live music taking place March 7-8, 2025 in Northern Minnesota.

KAXE's weekly list of concerts near you features Sarah Morris and Doyle Turner, Scott Jasmin and The Gracenotes, Charlie Parr and LaPlant Road.

March is here and that means The Setlist has a spring concert series with its first show of the season. Also, a pair of singer-songwriters are teaming up for a collaborative show, a hometown bluegrass duo returning to Grand Rapids and an Americana singer is bringing songs about small-town Minnesota to Fosston.

Sarah Morris and Doyle Turner are singer-songwriters from different parts of the state, meeting up this Friday in Aitkin. The Minneapolis-based Morris won a Midwest Country Music Organization Album of the Year award for her most recent release in 2023. The Bemidji-based Turner recently released Paper Maps, featuring Morris on three tracks across the album. Music begins at 6 p.m. at Sampaguita.

Midwest Americana musician Scott Jasmin and his band The Gracenotes, will be at the Aurora Center for the Arts in Fosston on Friday at 6 p.m. Jasmin is based in Park Rapids and writes songs that speak to the triumphs and struggles of small-town life. Paul Nye will open the show.

The Grassroots Concert Series spring lineup begins this Friday with Charlie Parr at the Live Well Nightclub & Coffee Bar in Nisswa. It is currently the only tour date in our region for the fan-favorite Parr, whose authentic sound draws from throughout folk and blues history. Music begins at 7:30 p.m.

On Saturday, bluegrass duo LaPlant Road will be at Rapids Brewing at 6 p.m. in Grand Rapids. It's a hometown show for Emily LaPlant and Liz Ashworth, who both grew up immersed in the music community of Grand Rapids. Their music shows their shared love for old-time music traditions as well as jazz and swing.

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Liz Ashworth and Emily LaPlant of LaPlant Road.

Friday, March 7
  • Sarah Morris & Doyle Turner - 6 p.m., Samapguita, Aitkin, $10 suggested donation
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    Sarah Morris
  • Scott Jasmin & The Gracenotes - 6 p.m., Aurora Center for the Arts, Fosston, $10
  • Charlie Parr - 7:30 p.m., Live Well Nightclub & Coffee Bar, Nisswa, $15 (adult), $5 (under 12)

Saturday, March 8

  • LaPlant Road - 6 p.m., Rapids Brewing Co., Grand Rapids, free

The weekly live music spotlight is made possible by the citizens of Minnesota through the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

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Malachy Koons
Malachy started his radio career in 2017 at a college radio station, where he played weird music in the middle of the night to possibly no one. On a good night maybe his parents were listening. Nonetheless, he was hooked on public radio and is still doing it today.


He joined Northern Community Radio in 2022, where he gets to share his passion for local music as Producer of Minnesota Mixtape, an all Minnesota music show airing Fridays at 10 a.m. and Saturdays at 3 p.m. You can also find him hosting Headwaters and curating The Setlist.
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