Visit Lake City MN

Mike Malles Live!
2023-05-04 17:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Kelly’s Lake House, 1702 N Lakeshore Dr, Lake City, MN, 55041
Local musician 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬 is taking it solo at Kelly’s Lake House. Mike will rock the house with tunes from Pink Floyd, Marshall Tucker, Dobie Grey and a ton more from your favorite bands.

Mother's Day Market
2023-05-06 10:00 - 15:00 | Willow Gentile Studio and Gallery, 113 S Lakeshore Dr, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
Mother’s Day Market! Give your mom a special hand crafted gift made by MN artists & makers.
The artists/makers/creators (vendors)
Cassie Rasmussen @knotandneedle
Kimberly @still.life.designco
Valerie @laughingbatcandles
@shoppebylola
RAEVEN @raevenjewelry

Mother's Day Brunch at the Chickadee
2023-05-14 09:00 - 15:00 | Chickadee Cottage, 317 N Lakeshore Dr, Lake City, MN, 55041
Join the staff at the Chickadee Cottage Cafe for the friendliest, tastiest, Mother’s Day brunch around… in the sweetest little cottage cafe that mom will be sure to love!

Open Mic
2023-05-20 14:30 - 16:30 | Lake City Area Arts, 105 W Center St., Lake City, MN, 55041
Open Mic
Saturday, May 20th, 2:30-4:30 pm. Whether you are a singer, writer, poet, instrumentalist, comedian, or actor, you are invited to share your talents in a supportive environment on stage at Lake City Area Arts.

Live Music: Tennessee Stiffs
2023-05-20 18:00 - 20:30 | Lake City Area Arts, 105 W Center St., Lake City, MN, 55041
Live Music: Tennessee Stiffs
Saturday, May 20th, doors open at 6 pm at Lake City Area Arts, performance starts at 7 pm. $15 per person.
https://www.tennesseestiffs.com

Charlotte Eastin and Chris Rackley Opening Reception
2023-06-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Lake City Area Arts, 105 W Center St., Lake City, MN, 55041
All are welcome for an open house style reception for Charlotte Eastin and Chris Rackley.
View their current exhibition and mingle with the artists. Saturday, June 3rd, 1-4 pm.
The show will remain on view through Sunday, June 25th.

Brent and Sheena Live in Ohuta Beach Park
2023-06-03 13:30 - 17:00 | Ohuta Beach, 100 Park Street, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
Come join us on this beautiful park on the shores of Lake Pepin! Part of the Tour de Pepin after-party festivities. All are welcome to this free show!
Stop out for fun evening of outdoor music by Lake Pepin. 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚 are hand delivering all of your favorite tunes from the 60’s! Live and in-person!

Chris O'Leary Band
2023-06-10 15:00 - 18:00 | Kelly’s Lake House, 1702 N Lakeshore Dr, Lake City, MN, 55041
All the way from NYC to Kelly’s Lake House, lakeside deck. Blues at its best with the Chris O’Leary Band. Bringing the Harps and horn section to go with your Satuday afternoon taps & cocktails. Cheers!

Galactic Cowboy Orchestra
2023-06-10 18:00 - 21:00 | Lake City Area Arts, 105 W Center St., Lake City, MN, 55041
Saturday, June 10th, doors open at 6 pm at Lake City Area Arts, performance starts at 7 pm. $15 per person (suggested donation).
Galactic Cowboy Orchestra was started in 2009 by founding member/bass player John Wright. The band was born out of a desire to play technically challenging music derived from John’s influences ranging from Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Dixie Dregs and King Crimson, to name a few. Wright enlisted the aid of guitarist Dan Neale, who brought to the table many deep Jazz influences in his advanced playing and composing style. Along with the band’s first drummer, Mark O’Day the beginnings of Galactic Cowboy Orchestra were found. Soon after, violinist (and John’s wife) Lisi Wright joined the band with her aggressive “electric guitar player plays violin” style and engaging stage presence to complete the band’s sound and look. Fast forward 12 years: 5 studio releases (and one live), two Downbeat Nominations, a Minnesota Arts Tour Grant, collaborations with symphony orchestras, thousands of miles of touring and the band is just getting started. 2021 sees the GCO with a new drummer in Mario Dawson, a new studio release and a stronger than ever ethic to create the ultimate musical moment between the players and the audience with their Art Rock/Jazz Fusion creations.
What other bands do we sound like? We have been compared to King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Dixie Dregs, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
More on this music: http://www.galacticcowboyorchestra.com/

Puppet Making Workshop
2023-06-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Lake City Area Arts, 105 W Center St., Lake City, MN, 55041
Grab the kids (or the kid-inside) and stop by Lake City Area Arts for a puppet making workshop with the Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance. Your creation will be featured in a river restoration celebration later in the month.

Water Ski Days Kick Off Party w/ The Local Hooligans
2023-06-22 19:00 - 23:00 | Ohuta Beach, 100 Park Street, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
Water Ski Days will return to Lake City June 22-25, 2023 with a special free kick off concert on the big stage on Thursday June 22 featuring The Local Hooligans!
https://www.waterskidays.com

The Fabulous Armadillos feat. Chris Hawkey
2023-06-23 20:00 - 2023-06-24 00:00 | Ohuta Beach, 100 Park Street, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
Get Tickets at www.waterskidays.com
Perennial favorites, the Fabulous Armadillos feat. Chris Hawkey, will roll up on the Water Ski Days Hearth and Home stage on Friday, June 23!
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The Fabulous Armadillos came out of their shell in 2006 and have since established a large and loyal following in Minnesota and beyond with their spot on recreations of songs from many genres of music from Country to Motown to Heavy Metal to 70’s Soft Rock and play them just like you remember. Close your eyes and you are listening to all those vinyl records again or your AM/FM radio!

Water Ski Show Team Performances
2023-06-24 11:00 - 2023-06-25 17:00 | Ohuta Beach, 100 Park Street, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
Water skiing was invented in Lake City in 1922 by Ralph Samuelson. 101 years later Lake City celebrates the man and the sport with incredible shows on Saturday and Sunday during the Water Ski Days Festival featuring top regional and national talent, including 82-years-young stilt skier Glen Sperry and regional talent organized by the Ski Dox show team!
Saturday 6/24 11am
Sunday 6/25 4pm

Dylan Marlowe w/ Roadhouse 6 and Loud Mouth Brass
2023-06-24 17:00 - 2023-06-25 00:00 | Ohuta Beach, 100 Park Street, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
Get Tickets at https://www.waterskidays.com
Sony recording artist and country music’s rising star Dylan Marlowe just made the list of Spotify’s 2023 Hot Country Artists to Watch. Do not miss your chance to see him lakeside at WSD on June 24th!
Roadhouse 6 and Loud Mouth Brass round out a full day of live music.
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Rising to social media stardom with a scorching country-twinged cover of Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Driver’s License’, which garnered millions of views across numerous platforms, Marlowe has built an incredible career for himself over the past two years. Whether it’s signing to a major record label, penning a chart-topping song for Jon Pardi, releasing a numerous hit singles, being named to Spotify’s Hot Country Artists to Watch, or planning a huge fall tour with Hardy and Lainey Wilson, Dylan Marlowe is truly taking the country music industry by storm!

Venetian Lighted Boat Parade
2023-06-24 21:00 - 22:30 | Ohuta Beach, 100 Park Street, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
The Lake City Yacht Club lights up dozens of sailboats to dazzle festival goers as they pass by Ohuta Beach Park at sunset on Sat 6/24/23

Water Ski Days Grand Parade
2023-06-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Various Locations in Lake City
On Sunday, experience one of the biggest small town parades in Minnesota! Be treated to bands, floats, dancing horses and much more as the Water Ski Days Grand Parade weaves through beautiful Lake City!

The 4 on the Floor w/ Dropped Pennies
2023-06-25 19:00 - 23:00 | Ohuta Beach, 100 Park Street, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
Get Tickets at www.waterskidays.com
Sunday night we will welcome Minneapolis stompers The 4onthefloor to the Hearth and Home stage at Water Ski Days. In 2022 they opened for Chase Matthew at WSD, and in 2023 they’ll close out the weekend with a headlining set that’s sure to be a total barn burner! Area favorites Dropped Pennies opens the show.
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Joining together in the name of fun & joy, Minneapolis’s The 4onthefloor bring their well-oiled, high-octane, rock’n’roll to the world with an immediacy rarely seen on stage in the 21st century. The furious delivery ebbs and flows with sing-a-long anthems and breakdowns to soaring guitar solos and unbridled full-bore rock. Camaraderie is a common theme, and stompers are finding like-minded rock’n’rollers at every show.
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The 4onthefloor’s music has been featured in such television shows as ABC’s Nashville and A&E’s Duck Dynasty, including a feature as the main theme on the Season 1 DVD. The group has produced five original albums and has been featured on a number of compilation albums, including American Buffalo. The 4onthefloor’s debut record, 4×4, has been called “one of the best rock and roll records of 2011,” by Indie Media Magazine. Their live show is known for keeping “packed crowd[s] intensely involved for an entire show”, with “call-and-response choruses” and “meaty guitar riffs.” Their sound has been reviewed as “heavy-stomping blues-rock.”

125th Annual Firemans Dance
2023-06-30 18:00 - 2023-07-02 00:00 | Lake City Fire Department, 205 W Center St, Lake City, 55041, United States
Why are we telling you about our local firefighter’s fundraiser? Because it’s one of the hottest summer events in Lake City, that’s why! This isn’t your grandpa’s fundraiser, this is a full day fun and games, food, libations, and live music. This event is held June 30th and July 1st.
https://www.facebook.com/events/222413063756169

Flotsam! River Circus
2023-08-09 17:30 | Ohuta Beach, 100 Park Street, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
August 9th at Ohuta Beach Park in Lake City, 6pm
FLOTSAM! is a troupe of musicians, circus performers and puppeteers traveling from place to place on a handmade raft, giving free performances in every town along the way. During the tour, the raft is our mode of transit, our stage and often our home. In 2019 thousands came to see us perform as we toured on Oregon’s Willamette River from Corvallis to Portland. We followed this with tours of Lake Washington and Lake Union around Seattle in 2021 and from the Sacramento River into the San Francisco Bay Area in 2022. This summer we are back on the water with our biggest tour yet – the Missippi River from the Twin Cities to St. Louis!
Check out this feature on KPIX San Francisco https://youtu.be/oQoRyUaEq54

Mixed Precipitation's Pickup Truck Opera
2023-08-20 14:00 - 18:00 | Lake City Patton Park, Lake City, MN, 55041
Mixed Precipitation creates unexpected theatrical experiences through unique partnerships and festive events that inspire social engagement.
Since 2009, they’ve been bringing Minnesota the Pickup Truck Opera (formerly picnic operetta) – an annual harvest celebration that brings new life to old stories through music, movement, gardens, food, and visual extravaganza. Previous productions have included imaginative adaptations of Beethoven, Mozart, Handel and Purcell.
The Pickup Truck Opera has toured the metro and greater Minnesota, performing in community gardens, urban farms, orchards and vineyards.

Loud Mouth Brass and InnerTuba Live Lakeside!
2023-08-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Ohuta Beach, 100 Park Street, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
Loud Mouth Brass and InnerTuba for all ages Sunday, August 20th at 7 pm at Ohuta Park! The alternate location in case of inclement weather is Lake City Area Arts.
Your ears will smile and your toes will tap when you hear Loud Mouth Brass. With a splash of New Orleans and a pinch of pop music, Loud Mouth Brass has a tasty musical recipe. While the band’s instrumental arrangements of music spanning the gamut from The Jackson Five to Fall Out Boy will make your feet get the urge to dance, with several originals in the mix, this brassy band still makes sure to keep things fresh. From the top of its blue sousaphone to the bottom of its thumping bass drum, this band exudes fun!

Jon Hodkin aka InnerTuba, a Tricycle-Traveling Tuba player, will reside in Lake City for a week in mid-August. He’s making his way up the Mississippi River, entertaining communities along the way.
These events are made possible through a partnership of the Lake City Area Arts, the Lake City Public Library, and the Lake City Music Boosters.

The Northerly Gales Live in Concert!
2023-09-09 18:30 - 21:00 | Lake City Area Arts, 105 W Center St., Lake City, MN, 55041
With soaring melodies and driving rhythms, The Northerly Gales puts their own high-energy spin on Celtic Folk and Americana. Innovating and original in their own ways, while respecting the traditions that have borne this music through the years. They compose, they arrange, and they put on a rocking show.

Luke Hendrickson Live!
2023-09-14 17:00 - 20:00 | Kelly’s Lake House, 1702 N Lakeshore Dr, Lake City, MN, 55041
Since 2017, Luke Hendrickson has been nurturing a career as a full-time working musician and songwriter. He has performed in 30+ states and Canada, releasing 2 full-length albums and an EP. The songs within these recordings find inspiration in common experiences such as wanderlust, trauma, love, fear, hope, and at times…fun.
Having emerged from the farmlands of rural southeast Minnesota, Luke is occasionally joined by his backing band, The Crop Circles.

Brent and Sheena Live at the Lake House!
2023-09-17 14:00 - 17:00 | Kelly’s Lake House, 1702 N Lakeshore Dr, Lake City, MN, 55041
Come join us on this beautiful spot off Lake Pepin! Good food, good drinks, good times!
Stop out for fun evening of outdoor music by Lake Pepin. 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚 are hand delivering all of your favorite tunes from the 60’s! Live and in-person!

Market by the Lake *POP UP*
2023-09-21 16:30 - 19:30 | Ohuta Beach, 100 Park Street, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
Holey moley! Get ready for another POP UP Market by the Lake. Lots of FOOD TRUCKS!
Expect vendors and food trucks and gorgeous weather!
O’huta Park on Thursday, September 21st.

Willow Gentile Gallery Pop Up Market
2023-09-22 10:00 - 2023-09-23 16:00 | Willow Gentile Studio and Gallery, 113 S Lakeshore Dr, Lake City, MN, 55041, United States
If you love autumn, crunchy leaves, sweater weather, pumpkins, apples, and spooky stuff…! This pop-up market is for you!!! Tarot card reader, second hand, thrifty fall fashion! plus, we will have fall treats for you while you shop! Let’s kick off the weekend with this popup market!

Corn Shredding Autumn Harvest Days
2023-09-23 - 2023-09-24 | Zumbro Falls Area, 64245 355th Ave, Lake City, 55041, United States
September 23 and 24
Come see history at work at the 2023 Annual Minnesota State Corn Husking Contest Saturday September 23!
SEATP Inc will have a tractor pull on Saturday.
Lunch served by Bellchester Lion’s Club both days.
Fall harvest demonstations, bands playing both days, and many other fun things for children of all ages!
Kids pedal pull Sunday at 2 pm.

In-Yan Teopa 5 & 10 mile Trail Race
2023-09-23 08:00 - 13:00 | Frontenac State Park, 29223 County 28 Blvd, Frontenac, MN, United States
Join us for the In Yan Teopa trail race, which will take you through the challenging terrain of Frontenac State Park. The race offers options for both a 5-mile and a 10-mile course, which will take you through various landscapes, including rolling prairies, single-track trails, and challenging climbs. Whether you’re a seasoned trail runner or new to the sport, this race will surely provide an exciting and rewarding experience. Take advantage of this opportunity to test your endurance and take in the breathtaking views of Frontenac State Park. We hope to see you there!

Trunk or Treat in Patton Park
2023-10-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Lake City Patton Park, Lake City, MN, 55041
This fun and safe event will be on Halloween evening from 4pm-6pm between Patton Park and City Hall. Trick or Treat at the decorated trunks of vehicles at this community event, meet local business or organization sponsors, play games, etc.
Start at the park, then head to Washington Street businesses for more trick or treating fun!

Trick or Treat on Washington Street
2023-10-31 17:00 - 19:00 | Downtown Lake City, LAKE CITY, MN, 55041, United States
October 31st
(Downtown Lake City)
The 12th annual Trick or Treat on Washington Street is back! As in the past, Lake City businesses located on other streets are welcome to bring their supply of treats and join on Washington street from 5-7pm as we celebrate Halloween. Costumes encouraged.
Follow the Shops of Lake City Facebook Page for updates!
