Music on the Cortile: Ray Bonneville

Name: Music on the Cortile: Ray Bonneville
Start: 2025-08-13T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-13T13:00:00-05:00
Location: 75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, United States, Minnesota 55102

Schedule

Wed Aug 13 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, United States, Minnesota 55102 | St Paul, MN

Music on the Cortile (previously known as Music from the Porch and Music in the Café) presents live performances by musicians in the picturesque Musser Cortile at Landmark Center. Taking place over four Wednesday lunch hours, these concerts offer an opportunity to hear talented local musicians. Best of all, they’re free and open to everyone. Attendees are encouraged to bring their lunch to enjoy during the concert.
August 13: Ray Bonneville
Acclaimed raconteur Ray Bonneville strips his bluesy Americana down to its essentials and steeps it in the humid grooves of the South, creating a compelling poetry of hard living and deep feeling. Jim Withers (Montreal Gazette) describes his sound as “folk-roots gumbo… a languid Mississippi Delta groove, seasoned with smooth, weathered vocals and a propulsive harmonica wheeze.” Whether performing solo or fronting a band, playing electric or acoustic guitar, Bonneville allows space between notes that adds potency to every chord, lick, and lyric. Thom Jurek (Allmusic.com) remarks, “With darkness and light fighting for dominance… he’s stripped away every musical excess to let the songs speak for themselves.”