Lakeside Guitar Festival is a free outdoor music festival set at the Historic Como Lakeside Pavilion, a lakefront community arts oasis in Saint Paul. LGF is run by community-conscious musicians and presents a diverse lineup of local and international acts across musical genres, focusing on encouraging new artistic collaboration and highlighting the world class small business and arts communities of Saint Paul. Previous headliners have included Keb Mo, Sunny War, and Steve Cropper performing alongside Minnesota greats.

LGF 2024 returns to Saint Paul, featuring Jamaaladeen Tacuma, one of the world's great creative bass players as Saturday's headliner as well as innovative guitarist Ava Mendoza. Yohannes Tona presents 'Made In Abyssinia', an Ethio-Jazz project featuring a small ensemble playing Ethiopian traditional music with a blend of funk and jazz on Friday night, both at the Como Lakeside Pavilion and both FREE. With 15 acts across 3 stages, a vendor village, a Minnesota legend Al Sparhawk will host a collaboration "stage" Saturday with other luminaries. Community activities from a pedal swap to bike and walk paths, LGF 2024 offers fun for the whole family of music lovers. Saturday August 10th closes with Minnesota's Last Waltz (ticketed) at the Como Lakeside Pavilion.

She Rock She Rock will host this year's "Strum Along Sing A Song". All levels are  invited to create this giant community strum along! Bring your guitar and strum along to a couple songs or chords alongside your fellow humans. Sing along! ( any stringed instrument accepted even air guitars! )

LGF is Music Mission's annual flagship event. Music Mission supports communities throughout the Americas in creating and sharing their music, providing quality and visionary arts programming, scholarship and education opportunities, and instruments and basic needs support to communities in Minnesota and Mexico. More information is at www.musicmissionmusic.com
Lakeside Guitar Festival is funded, in part, by an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State's general fund.

Schedule of Events:

August 9, 2024

Promenade Stage

6:00pm - 6:45pm: Black Widows
7:00pm - 7:45pm: Dylan Salfer
8:15pm - 9:30pm: Yohannes Tona presents 'Made In Abyssinia

August 10, 2024

Grand Lawn

11:00am - 11:45am: "Strum Along/Sing a Song" led by She Rock She Rock
11:45am - 12:45pm:  El Diablo Pedal Swap

Promenade Stage

12:00pm - 12:45pm: Jake Labotz
01:00pm - 01:45pm: Nicky Diamonds
02:00pm - 02:45pm: Ava Mendoza
03:00pm - 03:50pm: Jamaaladeen Tacuma

Cafe Stage

11:15am - 12:00pm: The Daily Norm
12:15pm - 01:00pm: Molly Dean
01:15pm - 02:00pm: Tony Furtado
02:15pm - 03:00pm: Luke Callen

Waterfall Stage

11:00am - 11:45am: Paul Metzger Improvised Modern Banjo
12:00pm - 03:00pm: Al Sparhawk Makes Music w/ Friends
04:15pm: Gates Close

Date: August 9 - August 10, 2024

Location: Como Lakeside Pavilion,

1360 Lexington Pkwy N,

St Paul, MN

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