When you book your tour of the Music Museum, add a Let’s Make Music experience for your group! These sessions offer the opportunity to play together as a group with popular Twin Cities musicians, using instruments from the Music Museum.
Offered every 2nd and 3rd Wednesday of the month! Participation is FREE. Registration is required.
One String Dulcimer
Ross Sutter or Karen Mueller
Second Wednesday of every month
September 13, 2023
October 11, 2023
November 8, 2023
December 13, 2023
January 10, 2024
February 14, 2024
March 13, 2024
April 10, 2024
May 8, 2024
Bomba and Maraca
Maria Isa or Alex Santos
Third Wednesday of every month
September 20, 2023
October 18, 2023
November 15, 2023
December 20, 2023
January 17, 2024
February 21, 2024
March 20, 2024
April 17, 2024
May 15, 2024
Ross Sutter is best known as a singer of Scandinavian, Scottish, and Irish songs, and for his wide repertoire of American traditional and popular songs. He accompanies himself on guitar, dulcimer, button accordion, and bodhran. He has performed at numerous venues throughout the region and beyond, from concert halls to libraries and schools, from outdoor festivals to senior centers, and has appeared on “A Prairie Home Companion.”
Karen Mueller is one of the top autoharp and mountain dulcimer players performing today. Her exciting and innovative performing style, featuring Appalachian, Celtic and contemporary music, has been applauded by critics and audiences from LA to Boston. Bluegrass Unlimited magazine has said “Karen Mueller’s touch, timing and taste make her a true virtuoso. Her talent and clarity…deserve a wide audience.”
Maria Isa Pérez-Hedges is a Boricua (BO-REE-KWA) singer, songwriter, actress, rapper, activist, youth worker and international recording artist born in Minnesota and raised on St. Paul’s West Side barrio. She has performed alongside and opened for artists such as The Roots, Common, Moby, and many more, and is the founder, producer and co-host for Latina Theory: Spanglish Podcast known one of NPR’s top LatinX Podcasts.
Alex Santos is a Minneosta-based educator and musician. His instruments of focus are Bomba and Maracas. Alex performs often with Maria Isa for education programs in and around the Twin Cities.
