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"Isn't It Always Love" - featuring Gregg Peterson

  • Crooners Dunsmore Room 6161 Highway 65 Northeast Minneapolis, MN, 55432 United States (map)

Doors open at 5:00 PM for Dinner and Drink Service.

Folk/Soft Rock & Adult Contemporary

Please join Gregg Peterson, Lori Dokken, & Judi Vinar in a nostalgic celebration of love songs spanning decades of radio play. Including hits by Karla Bonoff, Paul McCartney, Stephen Bishop, Brian Wilson, Dionne Warwick, Stephen Bishop, and David Gates to name a few. These artists and friends bring their distinctive styles together for an evening that celebrates the ups, the downs, and the enduring power of love.

Gregg Peterson: Vocals

Lori Dokken: Vocals & Piano

Judi Vinar: Vocals & Guitar

Benjamin Kelly: Bass

Nate Babbs: Drums

Gregg Peterson – Gregg is delighted and grateful to be sharing the stage with Twin Cities music legends, Lori Dokken and Judi Vinar. Gregg has been a frequent performer at Crooner’s Supper Club, appearing in numerous ensemble offerings produced by Crooner’s regulars Doug Anderson and Lori Dokken over the years. In 2023, he was featured at Crooner’s in a showcase of Kenny Loggins music entitled “Return to Pooh Corner”. Other favorite performance venues over the years have included The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis, the History Theater, and the Bryan Lake Bowl. Gregg holds a degree in Theater from Minnesota State University—Mankato.

Lori Dokken – Lori has been involved in the music industry for more than four decades as a cabaret performer, vocalist, pianist, arranger, producer, educator and musical director. She has performed at every major venue in the Twin Cities from Crooner’s, to the Dakota, to the Guthrie, to the Ordway, to the Chanhassen Dinner Theater. She has produced headline shows for cruise ships as well as local cabaret acts and has opened for legends like Eartha Kitt, Carole King, and Tony Bennett. loridokken.com

Judi Vinar – Judi began her professional music career in 1983 and sings a wide range of music styles including folk/country, musical theater, opera, jazz, pop, R&B, rock, and gospel. She has developed long term musical relationships with many of the Twin Cities finest: Lori Dokken, The Wolverines Classic Jazz Orchestra, St. Croix Jazz Orchestra, JazzMN Big Band, The Girls, and her own Judi, Cliff n’ Daves. In 1997 she began working with singer extraordinaire Bobby McFerrin, and joined his a capella group “Voicestra” in 2001. Judi is also a music educator and served as Voice Department Head at McNally Smith College of Music for 15 years. She is now a freelance vocal clinician and teaches master classes and clinics on vocal improvisation, efficient vocal techniques, understanding your audience, and ensemble performance strategies.judivinar.com

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Earlier Event: August 2
"Return to Studio 54" at Crooners