Lakeside Guitar Festival 2026
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🎸 The Lakeside Guitar Festival is BACK! Join us for two days of incredible music with a six-string slant at the historic Como Lakeside Pavilion. From alt country, to jazz, fingerstyle, everyday strummers to the highly experimental—there is truly a little music for all. Bringing back the "Swan Boat" set on Friday, our first ever open mic & strum along is back on Sat and the pedal swap!
The 2026 lineup features innovative guitarist Yasmin Williams! Regional greats like brilliant composer Zacc Harris presenting his work : American Reverie , incredibly soulful songwriter Chastity Brown playing solo and collaborating with Terrell X. Saturday on the Promenade Stage - presented by Baird Financial Jandric Antkowiak Group - it’s Gary Louris ( from the Jayhawks) Returning will be grammy award winning, fingerstyle master, Pat Donohue with Richard Kriehn, a brilliant string player himself!
Music Mission is thrilled to present augmented programming this year thanks to the Minnesota Humanities Center, with additional concerts and workshops taking place on the days preceding our Como Lakeside Pavilion activities.
Wednesday August 12
The Mexico City Experiment + Terrell X - a one night only collaboration between Minnesota and CMDX artists at the forefront of their respective creative music scenes.
Berlin, Minneapolis - https://www.berlinmpls.com
Friday August 13
MacPhail Center for Music
Jeronimo Gonzalez, composer and instrumentalist (jarana, bass, guitar) will work with students at MacPhail, exploring the intersection of traditional music and modern jazz.
Then catch all these artists collaborating with LGF artists at Como Lakeside Pavilion throughout the weekend.
This work is funded in part by MHC with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage
Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008
This activity is supported, in part, by the City of Saint Paul Cultural Sales Tax Revitalization Program.
The 2026 lineup features innovative guitarist Yasmin Williams! Regional greats like brilliant composer Zacc Harris presenting his work : American Reverie , incredibly soulful songwriter Chastity Brown playing solo and collaborating with Terrell X. Saturday on the Promenade Stage - presented by Baird Financial Jandric Antkowiak Group - it’s Gary Louris ( from the Jayhawks) Returning will be grammy award winning, fingerstyle master, Pat Donohue with Richard Kriehn, a brilliant string player himself!
Music Mission is thrilled to present augmented programming this year thanks to the Minnesota Humanities Center, with additional concerts and workshops taking place on the days preceding our Como Lakeside Pavilion activities.
Wednesday August 12
The Mexico City Experiment + Terrell X - a one night only collaboration between Minnesota and CMDX artists at the forefront of their respective creative music scenes.
Berlin, Minneapolis - https://www.berlinmpls.com
Friday August 13
MacPhail Center for Music
Jeronimo Gonzalez, composer and instrumentalist (jarana, bass, guitar) will work with students at MacPhail, exploring the intersection of traditional music and modern jazz.
Then catch all these artists collaborating with LGF artists at Como Lakeside Pavilion throughout the weekend.
This work is funded in part by MHC with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage
Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008
This activity is supported, in part, by the City of Saint Paul Cultural Sales Tax Revitalization Program.
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Como Lakeside Pavillion, 1360 Lexington Pkwy N, St Paul, MN 55103-1059, United States
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