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Friends Of The Hastings Arts Center Inc

Friends of the Hastings Arts Center fosters a vibrant community by providing a welcoming space for local artists and accessible arts experiences, including concerts, exhibitions, and creative gatherings that enrich the cultural landscape of Hastings.

Reserve your HAC 2026&ndash;2027 Season Tickets and enjoy a full year of concerts, exhibitions, and special events at Hastings Arts Center 🎭. Your season ticket supports our mission to provide a welcoming space for local artists and accessible arts experiences for our community. Join us for a season of live music, visual art, and creative gatherings 🎶.

HAC 2026-2027 Season Tickets

Experience the power and color of brass with the Compass Rose Brass Ensemble 🎺 as we kick off the Hastings Arts Center&#39;s 12th Concert Season. Spend an afternoon with live music by the CRBE who is returning to the HAC stage after 6 years. Come hear 10 of the best Twin Cities brass players! Your ticket purchase helps support local musicians and keeps concerts like this accessible to everyone. Invite friends, bring your curiosity, and settle in for a rich, resonant program of brass music 🎶.

MAIN EVENT CONCERT: Compass Rose Brass Ensemble

Help keep the arts part of our community&rsquo;s enjoyment throughout the 2026&ndash;2027 season! Your donation to Friends Of The Hastings Arts Center Inc helps us continue offering high-quality events for our community to enjoy. Your gift can help cover costs such as performer fees, event supplies and sound equipment. We welcome and appreciate donations throughout the season. Please give to support the events you love and the community that comes together to enjoy them. Thank you for your support!

Help keep the arts part of our community’s enjoyment throughout the 2026–2027 season!Your donation to Friends Of The Hastings Arts Center Inc helps us continue offering high-quality events for our community to enjoy. Your gift can help cover costs such as performer fees, event supplies and sound equipment.We welcome and appreciate donations throughout the season. Please give to support the events you love and the community that comes together to enjoy them. Thank you for your support!

Donations during the 2026-2027 Season

Join us for an evening of music with songwriter, singer and author Ann Reed who with classical and jazz guitarist, bassist and mandolinist&nbsp;Joan Griffith will bring a program of artistry and warmth perfectly curated for a fall evening! Reserve your seats and be part of a community that values live performance and creativity. Your attendance at an HAC event helps the HAC continue to foster the arts in Hastings and the surrounding areas. 🎨

MAIN EVENT CONCERT: Ann Reed with Joan Griffith

Back by popular demand, Christmas on the Prairie returns to the Hastings Arts Center for Thanksgiving weekend!&nbsp;&nbsp; Some of Minnesota&#39;s favorite musicians come together for this one-night special collaboration. Don&#39;t miss it! Featuring Mary Jane Alm, Aim&eacute;e Lee and Boyd Lee, along with Prairie Home Companion regulars Richard Kriehn, Gary Raynor, Joe Savage and Peter Johnson. Minnesota&#39;s beloved storyteller, Kevin Kling, joins in the fun to add his signature charm to the evening. You&#39;ll be sure to laugh and be inspired by the warmth and joy of this special holiday program. If you are already a season subscriber for the full season, you can attend this concert for no additional cost. &nbsp;If you have a partial season subscription, perhaps this concert can be one of your chosen 4 concerts. Individual ticket holders, reserve your seats and join us for a warm, welcoming concert experience. 🎄🎶

MAIN EVENT CONCERT: Christmas on the Prairie

Celebrate the shortest days of the year for the return of &nbsp;&quot;A Winter Solstice Celebration&quot;. ❄️🎵 Join local musicians past and present as we ponder the quiet of winter, the joy and warmth of the season, and the laughter and chaos it sometimes brings. Erik Pearson (singer, pianist, and arranger) Jennifer Eckes (singer), Sarah Lockwood (pianist, violinist, vocals) and Josh Wahlstrom (percussion and vocals) collaborate for this annual event for the 3rd year in a row! &nbsp; Come enjoy winter music as we share in community the winter solstice and all it represents.&nbsp; If you are a full season subscriber, this concert is included in your subscription.&nbsp;If you are a partial season subscriber, you may use 1 of your 4 punches for this concert.

MAIN EVENT CONCERT: A Winter Solstice Celebration

Join us for the Jonah Walt Artist Residency Event Series 🎨🎶&mdash;an intimate look at how artists create, practice, and share their work. Experience live music, visual art, and conversation in a setting that welcomes all ages, levels, and backgrounds. Hosted by Friends Of The Hastings Arts Center and Blessings Academy of Arts and Music, this series reflects our mission to enrich, transform, and inspire everyone who walks through our doors. 📅 Please complete this form to help us plan a comfortable, engaging experience for you.

Jonah Walt Artist Residency Event Series

Dan Newton&rsquo;s Cafe Accordion Orchestra (CAO) performs an eclectic mix full of &nbsp;French flare, Latin heat and Bohemian attitude. The heart of the CAO repertoire is the passionate sound of the French valse-musette. The group complements the musettes with swing, ballads, tangos, cha chas, rumbas, and cumbias to create a wonderfully varied show. They inject their music with good humor and expressive abandon. Their high level of musicianship and passion for performance makes them an entertaining &nbsp;concert act as well as a great dance band. If you are a full season subscriber, this concert is included for you. If you are a partial season subscriber, you may choose this concert as 1 of your allotted 4 concerts throughout the season.

MAIN EVENT CONCERT: Cafe Accordion Orchestra

A Hastings Arts Center favorite returning group! Bonfire Music Group recording artists&nbsp;the Roe Family Singers are a Hard-Core Old-Time band from Minneapolis, MN. Led by wife &amp; husband Kim and Quillan Roe, the band marries old-time sounds from barn-dances, fiddle pulls, and county fairs with a punk rock delivery. The Roe Family Singers mix original music and contemporary takes on old-time and traditional tunes into one roiling &amp; rollicking river of fresh yet familiar American music. Every performance raises a ruckus.

MAIN EVENT CONCERT: The Roe Family Singers

Hailing from the frost-kissed northlands of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Loreweavers are a fantasy-folk powerhouse dedicated to bringing the magic of the tavern to stages across the realm. Drawing inspiration from the immersive soundscapes of The Lord of the Rings, The Witcher, Skyrim, and countless tabletop tales, they blend the raw charm of traditional Irish reels and raucous sea shanties with the thunder of modern rock to create a sound both timeless and electrifying.Loreweavers aren&rsquo;t just a band&mdash;they&rsquo;re a portal. With a lineup of seasoned adventurers wielding instruments like the bodhr&aacute;n, accordion, mandolin, and bagpipes, alongside face-melting electric guitar, thundering drums, and rumbling bass, they conjure stories and sounds that whisk audiences away to ancient halls, windswept coasts, and ale-soaked inns. Whether you&#39;re a battle-worn adventurer or a newcomer to the fantasy realm, their performances are an unforgettable experience&mdash;equal parts musical spectacle and bardic spell.From first note to final encore, Loreweavers will have you stomping your boots, raising your tankard, and singing along like a true champion on the road.

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MAIN EVENT CONCERT: Ann Reed with Joan Griffith

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MAIN EVENT CONCERT: Christmas on the Prairie

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MAIN EVENT CONCERT: A Winter Solstice Celebration

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Jonah Walt Artist Residency Event Series

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MAIN EVENT CONCERT: Cafe Accordion Orchestra

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MAIN EVENT CONCERT: The Roe Family Singers

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MAIN EVENT CONCERT: Loreweavers (Bards of the Modern Age)

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