Charlie Parr: Silver Bay Concert Series 2025
Friday, July 18
7:30 pm
City Center Park
24 Shopping Center Rd Silver Bay MN 55614
Charlie Parr
July 18: Free and open to everyone
About this Event
This is a FREE concert that will be held on the City Center Stage near City Hall in Downtown Silver Bay. This is an all-weather event. In the case of inclement weather, the concerts will be moved indoors to the Reunion Hall, 97 Outer Drive, Silver Bay. Rocky Wall Entertainment is a Silver Bay based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization producing and promoting live music in Silver Bay and on Lake Superior’s North Shore from Duluth to Grand Portage. This is our fifth year of bringing the best of Americana Music to the North Country for enjoyment by residents and visitors alike.
People are encouraged to bring a lawn chair and blanket for comfort.
Check out the full series here.
Charlie Parr
World renowned recording artist and performer Charlie Parr will open the 2025 season of the Silver Bay Music in the Park Concert Series at a free concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 18th at City Center Park Stage in downtown Silver Bay. The Rocky Wall Entertainment Board is thrilled that Charlie has agreed to kick off our concert season again this year!
Fans who have been following Charlie Parr through his recording career and decades of nonstop touring already know that the Duluth-based songwriter has a way of carving a path straight to the gut. His voice sounds weary but insistent, his accompaniment sparse and sorrowful. By the second line, the listener has no choice but to be transported on a journey through the burrows of his troubled mind, following him through shadowy twists and turns as he searches for a way out.
“Parr’s ability to paint us a picture of his surroundings is astounding. His keen, empathic eye for the human experience can be mind-blowing in its specificity, whether he’s recounting his day or placing us on a creek bed in the rain beside him.” said Maeri Furgeson, in a review of Charlie in No Depression, The Journal of Roots Music.
Charlie Parr is an American country blues musician. Born in Austin, Minnesota, he spent part of his childhood in Hollandale before starting his music career in Duluth. His influences include Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, and Mississippi John Hurt. He plays a Mule resonator, National resonator guitar, a fretless open-back banjo, and a twelve-string guitar, often in the Piedmont blues style.
About Rocky Wall Productions
Rocky Wall Productions is a Minnesota 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established for the purpose of producing high quality live Americana Music outdoor concerts, house concerts and events in the City of Silver Bay and on Lake Superior's North Shore. We are also committed to providing resources to assist in the design and construction of an outdoor performance stage in Silver Bay, MN.
In their first three years of operation, they have produced twenty-one very successful live outdoor concerts attracting nearly 8,000 attendees over the course of three concert seasons.