Merlins Rest Pub

Tonight: Specialist Pub Quiz
Time: 7:30 pm
Music: The Weekly Folk Jam (immediately following the quiz)

Our boy Bill Watkins has his third book coming out: The Once and Future Celt. Minneapolis based Scarletta Press is releasing it, and we at Merlins are pleased as punch. (You can acquire Bill’s first two books–A Celtic Childhood and Scotland Is […]

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Tonight: Misplaced
Time: 9:00 pm
Tonight our friends in the band Misplaced continue their regular Tuesday night gig with us. It’s a Misplaced Tuesday! Catch ‘em at 9:00 pm as you stop out for a bit of mid-week relaxation. Summer IS coming, I swear! And Misplaced Tuesday is one of those signs. The weather warms. The music […]

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Tonight: Open Mic with Harrison Matthews
Time: 8:00/8:30 pm
Well now, that was an alright weekend, I have to say. And let me say that I’m glad to have arrived home in the Twin Cities after so many days of vagabonding about the middle of the country. Right!
Back to it: we sally forth on the normal course […]

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Saturday: The Hot Club of East Lake (Jazz)
Time: 9:00 pm
Sunday: Weekly Pub Quiz
Time: 8:00 pm
Music: Sam Fiske before and after the quiz (a.k.a., Sam’s Sandwich)
Happy days, friends! I’m almost fully back in the Cities after an eight-day, six-state tour of family and friends…not that my travels should interrupt your weekend planning! One might (rightly) argue […]

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Tonight: Live Celtic Music
Time: After 8:00 pm
Join us for the weekly Kilt Night and Live Celtic Music. Music starts around 8:30 or 9:00 pm.
Our live music is done just as it is back in the Isles: local session musicians set up at the front of the pub–gathered simply around a couple tables–and play without microphones […]

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