Duluth Armory News Today

The Duluth Armory announced its transition to a Co- Executive Director model as the current Executive Director Mark Poirier announced his 2025 retirement on Wednesday May 29th.

Center advocates will seek a general contractor for their ambitious effort to restore a 109-year-old local landmark.

The 2024 Duluth Dylan Fest is running from Tuesday May 21st to Sunday May 26th. Events include a jam session, concerts, and lectures across Duluth. The event series is hosting live music at Bob Dylan’s Childhood home May 24th, Bob Dylan’s birthday. The Duluth Dylan Fest will be visiting the Duluth Armory, the Sacred Heart Music Center, Wussow’s Concert Cafe and more. The festival is coordinated by volunteers. You can learn more about the Duluth Dylan Fest here.

The Duluth Armory is once again offering tours of the facility as part of the Duluth Dylan Days. Saturday May 25th, guests will get the chance to step back in a special time in Duluth's history.

By 1961, Joan Baez, the dark-haired waif who had captured the spotlight at the first Newport Folk Festival just two years earlier, was folk music's virginal superstar, leading the coffeehouse culture of a new American generation. And an unknown, unwashed, Woody Guthrie—worshiping kid from the Minnesota suburbs named Bob Dylan had just arrived in Greenwich Village. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Positively 4th Street, DAVID HAJDU recalls the prickly beginnings of the Baez...

From the column: "I am so excited to be living here in the hometown of such a great artist. So should all the people here. But many maybe don’t even know of the connection."

The handoff, from developer Sherman Associates, marks the end of a decade-plus process that turned an ailing landmark into one of the city's top venues for the arts.

A transfer of ownership ceremony was held Tuesday through which the NorShor Theater became an asset of the Duluth Playhouse.

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