Martin Zellar & The Hardways: Silver Bay Concert Series 2025 (Friday, Aug. 8)
Friday, August 8
7:30 pm
City Center Park
24 Shopping Center Rd Silver Bay MN 55614
Martin Zellar & The Hardways
August 7: Benefit House Concert
August 8: Free and open to everyone
About this Event
August 8 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.
The preceding evening, August 7, is a benefit concert to support Rocky Wall Entertainment.
Check out the full series here.
Martin Zellar & The Hardways
Martin Zellar first appeared on the Twin Cities music scene in the late 80’s as the lead singer and songwriter for the alt-country pioneers, Gear Daddies.
The Gear Daddies released two albums on Polygram Records, appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and toured extensively for three years before amicably parting ways in 1992.
Zellar has gone on to record and perform as a solo artist and with his band The Hardways, releasing eight more albums on the Rykodisc and Owen Lee Recordings labels. More than 30 years down the road from his first release, Martin Zellar continues to make his living writing, recording, and performing music. And he’s happy and grateful. Silver Bay audience take note, in 2007, Zellar's song I Wanna Drive the Zamboni, which appears in various movies and television shows, and is ubiquitous at hockey games, was released as a single. The song was originally a hidden track on the Gear Daddies album "Billy's Live Bait"
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.