The Dubliner Pub

The Dub Pub Quiz
2025-12-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-12-23 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-12-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-12-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Hosted by Larry Raneri. Gift card prizes, merchandise giveaways. Drink promotions.

Customer Appreciation Party!
2025-12-29 17:00 - 20:00
5-8pm: Free taco bar. $5 Guinness. $5 Jamos. $3.75 Hamm’s
Music by Tom Dahill & Ginny Johnson

Sunday Trad Session
2025-12-28 20:00, 2025-12-21 20:00, 2025-12-14 20:00, 2025-12-07 20:00
New Irish Trad Session, every Sunday at 8!

Bedlam
2025-12-27 20:00 - 23:45
Bedlam is a band born out of the talent pool of the MN Renaissance Festival. Over the years, the band has had a diverse sound and many different members. Its recent incarnation is a folk band with a hippie attitude. Many familiar songs with a different slant along with some original material as well. As the name implies a stage with this group on it is not a very stable one and you never know who may show up and sit in on a set.

Irish Music Session
2025-12-26 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-19 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-12 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-05 18:00 - 20:00
Weekly trad session at the Dubliner.

Merry Christmas!
2025-12-25 - 2025-12-26
We close at 6pm on Christmas Eve, and we’ll be closed on Christmas Day.
Happy Holidays!

Christmas Eve
2025-12-24 14:00 - 18:00

Debbie Briggs
2025-12-21 14:00 - 16:00
Debbie Briggs • AMERICANA MUSIC
Twin Cities vocalist, Debbie Briggs & guitarist, Tim Kirchhof are taking your requests and bringing a mix of Americana, Blues, Classic Country, and Jazz. Covering greats like Patsy Cline, Bonnie Rait, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, John Prine, and more. Their warm sound and timeless music is great to dance to, chill with a pint, or sing-along with your friends.
Join us! And hear what the buzz is about.

Katy Vernon
2025-12-18 17:00 - 19:00
Katy Vernon is a Minneapolis / St. Paul based singer songwriter. She grew up in London, England and moved to the United States in her early 20’s. In addition to her solo ukulele career, she has recorded several albums with the Katy Vernon Band. She sings the role of Agnetha in the successful ABBA Tribute band ABBASolutely Fab, and has just launched a new all original rock band called Favourite Girl. Variety in performance styles gives Katy and her audience the opportunity to engage in many different ways and Katy continues to grow and push herself as a musician and entertainer.

Irish Céilí Dancing
2025-12-17 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-12-10 19:00 - 21:00
Join in the fun every Wednesday with instructors Paul, Justin, and Alex, and live music.

Hymn Tap Christmas Edition
2025-12-15 19:00 - 21:00
Special Christmas Edition!
Sing Hymns. Drink Beer. Make Friends. Monthly hymn-sing with the Fleshpots of Egypt at the Dubliner Pub. Hosted by LydiaPlace.
How Lutheran hymns would sound if the Reformation had begun in Appalachia.
“I’ve now been to two singalongs at breweries led by this remarkable band. What great fun! Excellent music. I can’t wait till they come back again.”
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Ray Barnard
2025-12-14 17:00 - 19:00
Review of Ray Barnard & The Reverberation’s album Tinted Windows To the Soul by Joe Robbie Luke – (The Roots & Funky Numbers):
At first I thought – Sweet, a converted blue-eyed souler proclaiming his authenticity. Wrong. Thankfully, Ray Bs got his own bag. Vocally, he’s drunk deep from the Bill Withers-Pops Staples well understated (and underrated). Song-wise, hes kinda Mayfield, kinda old Nashville, kinda Gamble & Huff, kinda his own deal. There s also this subtle sense of classic reggae percolating in the production. This gives it a much different slant than retro stars Sharon Jones, James Hunter, and Amy Winehouse. The clever use of horns and MPC loops adds cool neo-soul flourishes. My faves are: ‘Carolee’ and ‘Classified,’ a dense, funky, stonewall to a nosy ex-lover. I was intrigued by the protest song in reverse, Deportation Day, and loved the spooky, visceral Race with the Devil. Overall this CD is a shining jewel from out of left field.

Mac and Cheese
2025-12-13 20:00 - 23:45
Pete McCauley and Tim Cheesebrow are a duo from the Twin Cities, bringing old tunes to life and having a great time doing it.
Pete McCauley (vocals, mandolin, guitar): Pete has played in numerous bands over the years. A founding member and the original guitarist for the rock trio Eddie Mac, he spent a few years traveling the country, earned a record contract with SPV Records in Germany, and released two albums with the independent label Mud Hut Records. Pete also writes material for the Hounds of Finn. Pete met Tim a few years back and asked if they should learn some pub tunes and make some noise together…the rest, as they say, is history. Not the kind of history that would make it into any sort of book, but since it is in the past, it technically is…history.
Tim Cheesebrow (guitar, vocals, occasional mandolin and pennywhistle): Tim is primarily a singer/songwriter. He’ s got 6 or so albums under his belt, several tours and an extensive solo performance career. He’s always had a spot in his heart for traditional Irish and American folk songs, and jumped at a chance to play this music with Pete. He’s the founder of Discover Music, a non-profit that teaches kids to write songs as a healthy mode of self discovery and expression, and is the author of “Songwriting for Wellness: Using Music to Heal the Mind.”
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Lojo Russo and Friends
2025-12-12 21:00 - 2025-12-13 00:45
Lojo Russo lays down a free-spirited blend of Rhythm & Roots. Sometimes intense, sometimes outrageous, always original.

Jake La Botz
2025-12-11 17:00 - 19:00
Singer/songwriter Jake La Botz plays roots music that reflects his time performing in streets, bars, churches, and even tattoo parlors. You can also hear the various places La Botz has lived in his music — including his time in New Orleans, the Mississippi Delta, and his native Chicago where, as a young man, he found kinship with some of the last of the pre-war era bluesmen: David “Honeyboy” Edwards, “Homesick” James Williamson, and “Maxwell Street” Jimmy Davis. In 2017 and 2019 Jake released his studio albums Sunnyside and They’re Coming for Me on Hi-Style Records to critical acclaim. Produced by Jimmy Sutton, both albums won Independent Music Awards. Jake has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe and has shared the stage with Ray Charles, Etta James, Dr. John, Mavis Staples, JD McPherson, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Tony Joe White, Low Cut Connie and a host of other greats.

Tom Dahill and Ginny Johnson
2025-12-10 19:00 - 22:00
Tom and Ginny bring alive the soul of Ireland. Using accordion, concertina, fiddle—and more—they play heavy music with a light touch. Performing tunes learned from the old masters, they delight audiences with passionate reels and playful songs not heard anywhere else.
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Dowser
2025-12-07 17:00 - 19:00
Dowser is the original folk-rock duo of John Kurtis Dehn on vocals, guitar, and harmonica and John Strei on drums and hand percussion. For more than 10 years, Dehn played lead guitar, mandolin, and banjo with the band, Bernie King & The Guilty Pleasures. A multi-instrumentalist himself, Strei most recently played drums in the band, The Flaming Doublewides. The two have been friends since high school, and in 2023 united to form Dowser.
John Kurtis Dehn’s songs contain shades of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Jackson Browne, and The Waterboys. His solo album, “Shovel & Hole” can be streamed on Bandcamp, Apple Music, and Spotify.

Joel Shapira Trio
2025-12-07 14:00 - 16:00
Guitar greats Joel Shapira and Dean Harrington are joined by veteran bassist Bruce Heine for some fun acoustic guitar music. Funk, Jazz, Gypsy, and some Beatles too!

Legacy
2025-12-06 20:00 - 23:45
Legacy has been playing traditional Irish music in the Twin Cities and elsewhere since 2000. You’ve probably seen or heard Legacy if you’ve been to the Landmark Center in St. Paul or the Irish Fair of Minnesota at any time in the last two decades. Legacy also regularly plays at local pubs, wedding receptions, private parties, corporate events, county fairs, music festivals and other types of events that want to showcase lively, engaging, authentic Irish music.
Legacy’s repertoire includes a wide range of Irish instrumental music (jigs, slip jigs, reels, marches, polkas, waltzes, airs, etc.) and an equally broad and diverse collection of Irish vocal music (sailing songs, rebel songs, comic songs, ballads, etc.), many of which feature 3- and 4-part harmonies.

DD & Company
2025-12-05 21:00 - 2025-12-06 00:45
DD & Company is Dick Danaher (accordion, clarinet, tenor saxophone, vocals) and Nick Jordan (guitar, vocals, tinwhistle, and foot percussion) and Philip Rampi (percussion).
Dick Danaher is a long-time luminary of the Twin Cities roots music scene, on various saxophones and accordion, most recently with Dan Newton and the late and great Rockin’ Pinecones
Philip Rampi plays bass / percussion, octave mandolin, banjo and cello with the adventurous string band treVeld, and with Josh Cleveland and the Cedar Street Band
Nick Jordan is a guitarist and singer with a love for many kinds of roots music; he is equally fond of sublime Swing ballads and raucous Jug-band hollers. He has been working for years in a duo with fiddler Mary DuShane of Prairie Home Companion fame.
DD & Company play and sing Swing, Zydeco, Western Swing, Old-Time Country, Rockabilly, and Jug-Band music, plus the odd Tango and Irish jig. The tie that binds their music is catchy dance rhythms from many cultures, propelled by the big voice of the accordion, jazzy solos on clarinet and sax, the rich tones of an electric archtop guitar of fine vintage, fierce double percussion from a small drum kit and relentless foot percussion in the French Canadian style. All band members sing enthusiastically.
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