Ann Reed & Dan Chouinard

Name: Ann Reed & Dan Chouinard
Start: 2025-03-29T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Winona Arts Center

Schedule

Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Winona Arts Center | Winona, MN

Ann Reed & Dan Chouinard at the Winona Arts Center
$20 Adv / $25 at the Door
7pm - 9pm
Coffeehouse and gallery open at 6pm.
Tickets are available at Music Mart (formerly Hardt's Music) and Eventbrite for $20 in advance and for $25 at the door. Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ann-reed-dan-chouinard-tickets-1134301278659?aff=oddtdtcreator
ANN REED
Songwriter, singer, guitarist Ann Reed has been performing for more than 40 years with her rich, dark-chocolate voice, storytelling from the human experience, and songs that find a permanent place in the heart. Of course some of her songs and stories might end up closer to your funny bone — a little irreverence never hurt anyone. Ann has toured North America coast to coast, doing concerts, clubs, festivals, and she's met wonderful fans and made friends all along the way.
The basics: Ann is a Minnesota native. She began teaching herself how to play the guitar at the ripe old age of 12 and has been a performer for her entire adult life. Growing up with two older brothers, she was influenced by whatever they were listening to — Kingston Trio, early Joni Mitchell, Vanilla Fudge, Cream, Buffalo Springfield, Beach Boys, Beatles, Pete Seeger — plus the writers and singers of her parents' era: Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney. Mary Travers — of Peter, Paul and Mary fame — was the first singer Ann heard who sang low, just like her. Validation!
DAN CHOUINARD
For nearly four decades Dan Chouinard has been pianist and accordionist of choice for a who’s who of Twin Cities performers, an enabler of community singalongs and a writer of hit shows for public radio, concert hall and theatrical stage.
Dan attended St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, then taught French and Italian at the University of Minnesota for four years while getting established as a pianist and accompanist around Minneapolis and St. Paul. Beginning in 1994, his radio series The Singer’s Voice was broadcast live every Sunday evening over six years from the Dakota Jazz Club (then at Bandana Square St. Paul).
He’s a writer and host of shows, having created many live programs for Minnesota Public Radio, the MN Historical Society, Twin Cities Public Television and others. In 2013 Steerage Song played in the Twin Cities and on tour throughout Minnesota, a show co-authored with Peter Rothstein about the Ellis Island era of immigration to the US as depicted in folk songs, newspaper clippings and Tin Pan Alley tunes.