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Loring Park Music & Movies lineup unveiled by the Walker Art Center

by Andrea Swensson

May 11, 2012

The Walker Art Center is once again hosting three nights of Music & Movies in Loring Park and wrapping up the series with a unique event on its own grounds, this time around with Brute Heart composing and performing an original score during a screening of the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Other bands on the bill this year include an additional pair of local acts -- recent Domino Records signees Night Moves and folk-rock band Rogue Valley -- plus Zimbabwean Afropop artist Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi.

DJs from 89.3 The Current will also be on hand to spin tracks each night. Here's the full schedule of bands and films, which were selected around the theme of "dreams and nightmares" to coincide with the Walker's Midnight Party exhibit:

Monday, July 30 in Loring Park 
Night Moves + Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound
Music between sets: Mary Lucia

Monday, August 6 in Loring Park
Oliver Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits + Artists and Models
Music between sets: Jim McGuinn

Monday, August 13 in Loring Park
Rogue Valley + The City of Lost Children
Music between sets: Bill DeVille and Jill Riley

Monday, August 20 at the Walker Art Center's Open Field
Brute Heart + The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Music between sets: David Campbell


For the first three events, music starts at 7 p.m. and movies begin at dusk. On August 20, both music and film begin at 8:45.


Check out Nate Ryan's video from last year's Music and Movies:

Check out what others are saying about the event and join in the conversation with the hashtag #musicandmovies:

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This activity is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.