Ken Waldman combines Appalachian-style string-band music, original poetry, and Alaska-set storytelling for a performance uniquely his. He has twenty books (including sixteen full-length poetry collections), twelve CDs (which includes two for children), and since 1995 has appeared at the widest range of concert series, festivals, and clubs, from the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage to the famed Dodge Poetry Festival to the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland, Australia. Reviewers have compared his stage show to John Hartford and Garrison Keillor. The show here is the final stop in an upper Midwest tour that includes Minnesota dates in Duluth, Ely, and Brainerd. He's celebrating the release of the North American edition of his recent novel, Now Entering Alaska Time. The book is set in several Alaska communities in the 1990's. Since one of the main characters is a fiddler, Waldman not only features string-band music in the novel, but he's also released a CD to go with the book. https://kenwaldman.com/now-entering-alaska-time for more about the project. The Denver Post has called Ken Waldman's shows "Renegade Americana" and according to The Austin Chronicle, his appearances are "Like a Ken Burns movie . . . Always recommended." Ken Waldman promises an evening that's not only fun, inspiring, and wild—from raucous solo fiddling to original waltzes to perhaps a surprise guest—but is also a soundtrack to a journey from Dunn County to the Real Alaska. It's also the perfect evening for anyone who loves old-time fiddling, or smart contemporary literature, or Alaska. If you've ever traveled to Alaska, this show will be like a return trip. If you've never been, this show will take you there, bring you home, and by the end you may just be ready to plan a trip north for real--or at least another visit to the library for books about music, poetry, and Alaska. www.kenwaldman.com for more about Ken Waldman.