2022-2023
Concert & Event Season
Currently we are finalizing our season. This page is currently under construction. Please keep checking back for updates on more concert dates and times as they are added, along with ticket information.
Coffee Concerts at Hastings Arts Center
The Fall 2022 Coffee Concerts are sponsored by The Friends of the Hastings Arts Center whose mission is to foster the enjoyment, understanding and development of the performing and visual arts at the HAC and the surrounding community through diverse and engaging experiences.
Doors open at 10:00am with coffee and treats. Audience members may enjoy the art gallery before and after the concert. Cash or Check donations to Friends of the Hastings Arts Center 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.
If you are unable to come in person, you may catch the livestream on our Facebook page by clicking here.
TUESDAY COFFEE CONCERT (FREE)
POSTPONED to December 27, 2022
(originally scheduled for November 29)
"TRUMPET STEW"
featuring John Huth & Larry Prescott-trumpets with Sarah Lockwood-piano
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THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO DECEMBER 27
Please join John Huth and Larry Prescott on trumpets, and Sarah Lockwood on piano for this coffee concert. The program will feature a rich mix of trumpet duets throughout time from the Baroque era to today!
About the Performers:
John Huth has been performing throughout the Twin Cities area since 1987. John has performed with the Rochester and Duluth symphonies, the Aurora Brass Quintet, and most recently, the Compass Rose Brass along with recent performances here at the Arts Center with Carolyn Campfield and Sarah Lockwood.
Larry Prescott has been performing in the Twin Cities since 1991, and has performed with Minnesota Orchestra and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Larry last performed at the Hastings Art Center with the Compass Rose Brass, in 2020.
Sarah Lockwood received her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from DePauw University (Greencastle, IN), and her Masters of Music degree in Collaborative Piano at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis). Sarah has held staff accompanist positions at Carleton College, Augsburg College and MacPhail Center for Music. She has collaborated with participants for various competitions such as The Schubert Club, Thursday Musical and NATS, and has also worked with singers for Minnesota Opera auditions and with saxophonists at the Eugene Rousseau Saxophone Camp in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. In Hastings, Minnesota where she lives, Sarah works closely with the Hastings Public Schools music programs and teaches private lessons. Sarah is the Director and Co-owner of Hastings Arts Center with her husband, Travis, who together, opened the center in 2015.
About the Performers:
John Huth has been performing throughout the Twin Cities area since 1987. John has performed with the Rochester and Duluth symphonies, the Aurora Brass Quintet, and most recently, the Compass Rose Brass along with recent performances here at the Arts Center with Carolyn Campfield and Sarah Lockwood.
Larry Prescott has been performing in the Twin Cities since 1991, and has performed with Minnesota Orchestra and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Larry last performed at the Hastings Art Center with the Compass Rose Brass, in 2020.
Sarah Lockwood received her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from DePauw University (Greencastle, IN), and her Masters of Music degree in Collaborative Piano at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis). Sarah has held staff accompanist positions at Carleton College, Augsburg College and MacPhail Center for Music. She has collaborated with participants for various competitions such as The Schubert Club, Thursday Musical and NATS, and has also worked with singers for Minnesota Opera auditions and with saxophonists at the Eugene Rousseau Saxophone Camp in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. In Hastings, Minnesota where she lives, Sarah works closely with the Hastings Public Schools music programs and teaches private lessons. Sarah is the Director and Co-owner of Hastings Arts Center with her husband, Travis, who together, opened the center in 2015.
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SOMETHING NEW THIS YEAR
Friday Night Jam Sessions
FREE to Attend & Participate
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We are super excited to open our doors to the public to create a space where folks can come and play, sing or speak through creative avenues! AND, if that's not your thing, you can just show up to listen and enjoy the evening! Freewill donations (cash or check) to Friends of the Hastings Arts Center to help with utility costs are appreciated and encouraged!
Please see the list of confirmed dates so far and plan to join us at 7:00pm on select Fridays from October through May! |
October 14-Bluegrass/old time Night hosted by Rick Larson, banjo player
December 9-The Spoken Word & Holiday Sing-Along hosted by Mike Kelly of the HPAC Writers Group & Melyssa Rice of Blessings Academy January 13-Jazz Improv Night hosted by Jonah Walt 
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2023
TUESDAY COFFEE CONCERT (FREE)
10:30am CST
January 24, 2023
featuring Jonah Walt-saxophone with Sarah Lockwood-piano
Jonah Walt, saxophone & Sarah Lockwood, piano will bring this classical music program to the Hastings Arts Center stage! Jonah Walt is currently a sophomore at UW Eau Claire, majoring in saxophone studies. Works on the program by Creston, Decruck, Demersseman, and other composers will be featured. A concert to warm your soul during this cold, winter season! Please come in person or join us on the live stream!
SPECIAL CONCERT EVENT
Saturday-January 28th-7:00pm
The High 48s
Photo credit: JoJo Spencer
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Since forming in northeast Minneapolis in 2006, The High 48s have been making music that combines the soulful sound of classic bluegrass with a modern attitude.
They’re a band with one foot in tradition and the other in the world of music today, and one of the very few who can find an overlooked bluegrass classic in a song by M. Ward or the Clash then throw down hard on a standard by Bill Monroe. For more info on the band check out thehigh48s.com |
SUNDAY Matinee Concert
3:00pm CST
February 12, 2023
CUMAR
Cumar, a new musical group based in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, brings together the complex and irresistible rhythms of West African drumming with the beautiful, flowing melodies of traditional Irish dance music. It features two master drummers from Guinea, West Africa, brothers Fodé and Alhassan Bangoura, and three well-known musicians from the Twin Cities Irish music scene: Laura MacKenzie on flute and vocals, Mary Vanorny on fiddle, and Sean Egan on clarinet.
The group, whose name means “confluence” in the Irish language, was created in 2020 and made its debut at the Irish Fair of Minnesota in August of 2021. It has received grants from the Irish Music and Dance Association and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and was selected to be one of the Southern Theater’s performance partners for the 2022-2023 season.
The group, whose name means “confluence” in the Irish language, was created in 2020 and made its debut at the Irish Fair of Minnesota in August of 2021. It has received grants from the Irish Music and Dance Association and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and was selected to be one of the Southern Theater’s performance partners for the 2022-2023 season.
SUNDAY Matinee Concert
3:00pm CST
March 12, 2023
Dr. Iva Ugrcic, flute & Satako Hayami, piano
The first time that Iva Ugrcic heard the flute, her world changed. Growing up in war-torn Serbia, she says the airy, delicate sounds of the instrument “transported her to another universe.” Now, Ugrcic is using her passion for music and her experiences in the field to be an advocate for other female musicians and creatives.
Continuing with our Sunday afternoon classical concert series, please join Iva Ugrcic and pianist Satako Hayami for their first visit to the Hastings Arts Center.
Continuing with our Sunday afternoon classical concert series, please join Iva Ugrcic and pianist Satako Hayami for their first visit to the Hastings Arts Center.
SUNDAY Matinee Concert
3:00pm CST
April 2, 2023
St. Croix Valley Symphony Orchestra
