Coffee Concerts
Main Event Concerts
Special Events
Coffee Concerts at Hastings Arts Center
Coffee Concerts at the Hastings Arts Center have become a popular series. Audience members have come to hear many different performers through the years and it has become an enjoyable experience to look forward to each season. This year we have many performances to look forward to.
All Coffee Concerts are on Tuesday mornings at 10:30, with doors opening at 10:00 for coffee and treats. Audience members are encourage to enjoy the art gallery before and after the concert. Cash, Check donations to Friends of the Hastings Arts Center and VENMO @FriendsOfTheHAC are welcomed and appreciated. Thank you!
If you are unable to come in person, you may catch the livestream on our Facebook page by clicking here.
All Coffee Concerts are on Tuesday mornings at 10:30, with doors opening at 10:00 for coffee and treats. Audience members are encourage to enjoy the art gallery before and after the concert. Cash, Check donations to Friends of the Hastings Arts Center and VENMO @FriendsOfTheHAC are welcomed and appreciated. Thank you!
If you are unable to come in person, you may catch the livestream on our Facebook page by clicking here.
2025-2026 COFFEE CONCERT SCHEDULE
(All Concerts are on Tuesdays at 10:30am)
September 23, 2025: Nancy Earhart Burt, historical presentation on Amelia Earhart
October 7, 2025: Choro Borealis, Brazilian Choro music
November 4, 2025: Artu Duo--Ruth Marshall, cellist & Garret Ross, pianist
December 16, 2025: Hannah Flowers, harp
January 20, 2026: Catena String Quartet (change)
February 3, 2026: OboeBass duo
March 10, 2026: Jennifer Eckes presenting Broadway highlights
April 7, 2026: Amos Lucidi, pianist
May 19, 2026: The Paper Clips, trombone quartet
For more detail about these concerts, please scroll down further.
(All Concerts are on Tuesdays at 10:30am)
September 23, 2025: Nancy Earhart Burt, historical presentation on Amelia Earhart
October 7, 2025: Choro Borealis, Brazilian Choro music
November 4, 2025: Artu Duo--Ruth Marshall, cellist & Garret Ross, pianist
December 16, 2025: Hannah Flowers, harp
January 20, 2026: Catena String Quartet (change)
February 3, 2026: OboeBass duo
March 10, 2026: Jennifer Eckes presenting Broadway highlights
April 7, 2026: Amos Lucidi, pianist
May 19, 2026: The Paper Clips, trombone quartet
For more detail about these concerts, please scroll down further.
MAIN EVENT CONCERTS at Hastings Arts Center
Main Event Concerts are concerts with a ticket admission. We have curated an exceptional season for our patrons which includes a variety of genres: jazz, bluegrass, holiday pizazz, and a diverse palette to please all music tastes. We hope to transport you through educational and transformational experiences during your stay with us.
Season Tickets for the Main Event Concerts are now available. Season tickets include admission to 6 concerts at a 20-25% discount off the single ticket prices. Click below to purchase your discounted Season Ticket, today!
At most of the Main Event Concerts, there is an intermission to view the art gallery, partake in refreshments, and also mingle with the performers and perhaps purchase any of their merchandise. So, please plan for those extra costs when you come. We look forward to see you at the HAC!
Season Tickets for the Main Event Concerts are now available. Season tickets include admission to 6 concerts at a 20-25% discount off the single ticket prices. Click below to purchase your discounted Season Ticket, today!
At most of the Main Event Concerts, there is an intermission to view the art gallery, partake in refreshments, and also mingle with the performers and perhaps purchase any of their merchandise. So, please plan for those extra costs when you come. We look forward to see you at the HAC!
FREE Tuesday Coffee Concert
Januart 20, 2026 at 10:30am
Catena String Quartet*
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The Catena String Quartet returns to the HAC stage bringing a classical. music program featuring two string quartet works by Haydn and Beethoven.
*Due to an injury, Sarah Lockwood and Gail Olszewski will perform their program at a later date. |
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MAIN EVENT CONCERT
Sunday-January 25, 2026
2:00pm
The Barley Jacks
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The Barley Jacks perform original vocals and jaw–dropping instrumentals in a spirit of excitement and fun. These masters of the fiddle, guitar, bass and drum meld their divergent backgrounds of blues and bluegrass, classical and Celtic, R & B and bebop and inspire each other to create something entirely new. Front–man, fiddler and mandolinist Brian Wicklund is joined by Mike Cramer–guitar, Keith Yanes–bass, and Joel Arpin–percussion. Their debut recordings Either Side of Night and The Lighthouse has been met with great praise by reviewers. Virtuosity, magic and a little danger combine to make every performance unique. Audiences are struck with how much fun the Barley Jacks have when they perform. These Minnesota–based veterans of years in the musical trenches enjoy making music together so much that they sometimes giggle like little kids!
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FREE COFFEE CONCERT
February 3, 2026 - 10:30am
OboeBass
Women's Works and other Wonders for OboeBass!
Free to attend
Carrie Vecchione, oboe, and Rolf Erdahl, bass, are OboeBass!, the world's only professional oboe/bass duo. Called “pioneers” by MPR, they concertize widely around the U.S., and toured Norway. They have commissioned over forty new oboe/bass pieces and recorded seven CDs, effectively creating the oboe/bass duo genre. They also perform educational outreach programs for elementary schools and senior residences. Major recent commissions include a Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant for Valerie Coleman’s American Vein, a Harvard Fromm Foundation Commissioning Grant for Mary Ellen Childs' There is a Humming, and a Barlow Endowment LDS Commissioning grant for Common Ground by Alyssa Morris. Other awards include grants from the American Composers Forum and teaching and performing grants from MRAC, The MN State Arts Board, and SD Arts Council. In addition to their OboeBass! activities they freelance widely including substitute work with the Minnesota Orchestra and SPCO. Carrie teaches at the MacPhail Center for Music and in her home studio. Rolf teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College. www.oboebass.com facebook.com/oboebass
SPECIAL EVENT
The River Valley Chorale invites you to a
Valentine's Day Fundraiser
Saturday-February 14, 2026
SAVE THE DATE
Tickets Available soon
MAIN EVENT CONCERT
Friday-March 6, 2026
7:30pm
The Kaleidoscope Quartet
Four voices. Harmony in every hue.
Kaleidoscope Quartet sings a cappella music with joy, range, and soul.
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Kaleidoscope Quartet is a Twin Cities-based vocal ensemble known for its tight harmonies, layered textures, and bold musical range. With decades of experience between them, Ian Cook (tenor 2), Taylor Quinn (baritone), Dana Skoglund (bass 2), and Jack Vishneski (tenor 1) create four-part a cappella shows full of joy, range, and soul.
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FREE COFFEE CONCERT
March 10, 2026 - 10:30am
My Favorite Sings!
A morning of Broadway Hits with
Jennifer Eckes & Erik Pearson, vocalists
and Sarah Lockwood, piano
Free to attend
"Under construction"
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Jennifer Eckes is a native of Hastings who has been singing professionally her entire adult life as a soloist in jazz/pop concerts and cabaret shows, as well as in countless theatrical productions, from operas to rock musicals. A versatile vocalist, she has enjoyed musical revue and solo appearances at Twin Cities venues large and small, such as the Ordway Center, Bloomington Center for the Arts, Hanifl Performing Arts Center, Park Square Theatre, Phipps Center for the Arts, Bryant-Lake Bowl, Honey Lounge, Crooners, Nicollet Island Inn, and the MetroNOME. She has previously performed at the Hastings Arts Center in several events, most recently in their Winter Solstice Concert. Touted by reviewers for her “strong, lovely voice” and an “engaging gift for song”, Jennifer has been called a “journeywoman musical artist” and loves performing contemporary music and Great American Songbook standards alike. You can find and follow her on YouTube (Jennifer Eckes), Facebook (Jennifer Eckes, vocalist), and on Instagram (@jennifer_eckes_sings).
Erik Pearson, also a native of Hastings, MN... |
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Sarah Lockwood, pianist, ...
FREE COFFEE CONCERT
April 7, 2026 - 10:30am
Amos Lucidi, piano
Free to attend
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Amos Lucidi is an acclaimed Mexican pianist who has performed across Europe and the Americas, including solo appearances with the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Minnesota and has taught at the Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán, sharing his passion for piano performance.
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MAIN EVENT CONCERT
Sunday-April 12, 2026
2:00pm
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Sprig of That is a tabla, fiddle, and guitar trio playing a hearty Midwest-raised and globally inspired acoustic stew. In February 2023, they released bloom, their full-length, all-original debut album, produced by Wes Corbett (Sam Bush Band, Joy Kill Sorrow) and engineered/mixed by Dave Sinko (Punch Brothers, Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer) recorded at Nashville’s legendary Sound Emporium studios over the course of a week in December 2021. Formed in Minneapolis, MN in 2018, the group has spent the last five years making a name for themselves across the country: playing legendary venues like Seattle’s Tractor Tavern, Minneapolis’ Cedar Cultural Center and NYC’s Rockwood Music Hall, sharing the stage with artists like Charlie Parr and Emilia Amper, and collaborating with organizations like Carnegie Hall, Minnesota Public Radio, and the Mile of Music Music Education Team to give educational workshops across the country. In 2021, they released “Eight Threads,” a cross-genre collaboration comprising 8 compositions written for the trio by eight very different Twin Cities-based music makers that was accompanied by an eight episode self-produced podcast. In addition to bloom and Eight Threads, they have also released two EPs of original compositions and arrangements: Sprig of That in 2019 and Untold in 2020. With an album comprising their best work yet and dates booked across the country, 2023 is looking to be the biggest year yet for Sprig. Grateful for what has been and excited for what’s to come, Sprig is, in a word, ready to bloom.
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SPECIAL EVENT
April 19, 2026
2:00pm
River Valley Community Orchestra
Chamber Music Concert
Come enjoy an afternoon of chamber music performed by the members of the newly formed RVCO!
Freewill donations to the RVCO are greatly appreciated!
Freewill donations to the RVCO are greatly appreciated!
FREE COFFEE CONCERT
May 19, 2026 - 10:30am
The Paper Clips
Trombone Quartet
Free to attend
The Paper Clips will bring a program featuring new music for brass by traditionally underrepresented composers like Tiffany Johns, David Wilborn, Reena Esmail, Zoe Cutler, Dayla Spencer, Chloe Rowlands, and more.
This Coffee Concert will conclude the 11th season. Come prepared to celebrate another great season at the HAC! We might even have cake!
This Coffee Concert will conclude the 11th season. Come prepared to celebrate another great season at the HAC! We might even have cake!