The Big Spring Stillwater Sing, Presented by Zephyr Theatre
April 5 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
The Big Spring Stillwater Sing, presented by Zephyr Theatre
Hosted from the piano by Dan Chouinard
Saturday, April 5, 2025 | 4-5:30PM
Charlie’s Restaurant and Irish Pub
with guest appearances by:
Chuck Dougherty
Joe Weckwerth
Stephanie Atkins
Reed Sigmund
Zephyr’s first big 2025 event, The Big Spring Stillwater Sing, happens on April 5 at ?? at Charlie’s Restaurant & Pub in downtown Stillwater. A fun all-ages sing along designed to connect and inspire and build community. Featuring you, the singing audience! Plus special musician guests. All proceeds benefit the Zephyr Theatre.
BIO:
Dan Chouinard is a St. Paul-based multipurpose pianist, concert soloist and accompanist, street accordionist, sing-along enabler, Italian and French teacher and bicycling vagabond. Host of monthly sings in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Creator and host of many live music-and-history variety shows for broadcast on MPR and TPT. Performer on a dozen live radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, and rehearsal pianist for Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin and Lindsay Lohan on the 2005 movie. Recording artist with Peter Ostroushko, Prudence Johnson and Maria Jette and many others. Co-creator with Prudence Johnson of shows on Randy Newman, Leonard Bernstein, Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael and more. Leader of the classic country band, Lush Country, comprised of Prairie Home Companion veterans.
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2017 Kim Ode, The Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Eclectic Minnesota accompanist Dan Chouinard is ‘everyone’s go-to guy’… With lyrics projected on a screen, Chouinard lets fly with inventive, often playful, accompaniments, rarely glancing at the keyboard — a feat that one regular considers magic. “It’s kind of his calling,” said the man who’s attended these singalongs for ten years. “I mean, you know he could be playing with anyone, but here he is with us.”
