The Dubliner Pub

Irish Céilí Dancing
2026-01-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-01-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-01-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-01-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Join in the fun every Wednesday with instructors Paul, Justin, and Alex, and live music.

The Dub Pub Quiz
2026-01-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-01-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-01-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-01-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-12-30 19:00 - 21:00
Hosted by Larry Raneri. Gift card prizes, merchandise giveaways. Drink promotions.

Sunday Trad Session
2026-01-25 20:00, 2026-01-18 20:00, 2026-01-11 20:00, 2026-01-04 20:00
New Irish Trad Session, every Sunday at 8!

Hurricane Harold Trio
2026-01-25 17:00 - 19:00
Harold Tremblay, Dan Schwalbe & Doug Otto, as an acoustic trio for an early evening blues and roots show.

Jim McGowan
2026-01-24 15:00 - 18:00
Performing an engaging mix of acoustic, folk, rock, Irish, roots & blues, Jim McGowans’s musical influences include John Prine, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, Johnny Cash, John Denver, Jim Croce, James Taylor, Doc Watson, Tommy Makem, the Clancy Brothers and many others. Prepare for a good time…and to sing along!
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Closed All Day
2026-01-23 08:00 - 23:59
The Dubliner will be closed all day & night, Friday, January 23, due to the arctic weather!

Katy Vernon
2026-01-22 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.

Darren Jackson aka Kid Dakota
2026-01-18 14:00 - 16:00
Kid Dakota is the musical moniker of Darren Jackson. A fixture on the Minneapolis music scene for more than two decades, Darren founded two critically-acclaimed bands (Kid Dakota and The Hopefuls, aka The Olympic Hopefuls), released ten albums, and won three Minnesota Music Awards, including “Artist of the Year.” He has headlined nearly every venue in the Twin Cities metro area, including First Avenue, the Fitzgerald Theater, and Orchestra Hall, and has toured extensively in the United States and Europe, sharing stages with rock and roll icons such as Soul Asylum and The Cars as well as indie rock stalwarts like LOW and Trampled by Turtles. He has also scored a film starring Mickey Rourke and Frieda Pinto and had songs placed in television shows such as Num3ers and The O.C.
In addition to crafting some of the most unique music to come out of the Midwest in recent decades, Darren also performs a carefully curated selection of covers that pay homage to the best in classic country (i.e., Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, George Strait, etc.), classic rock (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, etc.), 80’s college rock (R.E.M., The Replacements, Violent Femmes, The Cure, etc.), and modern indie/alternative (Wilco, The Shins, Nirvana, Weezer, etc.).

Waking Murphy
2026-01-17 20:00 - 23:45
The artists formally known as Too Broke Blokes.

Irish Music Session
2026-01-16 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-01-09 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-01-02 18:00 - 20:00
Weekly trad session at the Dubliner.

Devil Dodger
2026-01-15 20:00 - 23:00
Devil Dodger is a Twin Cities based musician specializing in American roots music and has released six studio albums. His music draws on a range of themes from lost love, heartache, jail and going to his grandfather’s farm as a child. He is also poet and writer, but is most well-known for telling stories and talking shit.

Mike Munson
2026-01-15 17:00 - 19:00
Having established himself as an adept slide guitar player, Mike Munson is steeped in the country blues tradition. His original works weave together dark lyrics, impossibly fast-paced finger-picking and grinding rhythms. His sound marks the similarities and highlights the distance between Fred McDowell, Leo Kottke and Chuck Berry.
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Sea Shanty Sing
2026-01-12 19:00 - 21:00

Pop Wagner
2026-01-08 17:00 - 19:00
Pop has quite the reputation as a singer, picker, fiddler, lasso twirler, poet and downright funny guy.
He appeared quite frequently on Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion during the show’s formative years and for the last five decades he has worked his cowboy magic throughout 44 states and ten countries.
His cowboy anthems crackle with the warmth of a prairie campfire and his old time fiddle tunes set toes a-tappin’ while he serves up spellbinding rope tricks and tall stories — all with a good dose of friendly humor.

The Great Irish Sing-Along
2026-01-05 19:00 - 21:00
New! First Monday of every month.
Hosted by Justin O’Carrick.
Drink promotions available.
Instruments are acceptable, but we don’t want an orchestra!

Tin Can Telephone
2026-01-04 17:00 - 19:00
“Songwriting ace Bill Giese is resurfacing with a new band, The Bill Giese Trio, featuring Michael Valentiner and Holle Brian, with some great old songs. You may remember Giese from “A Prairie Home Companion” back in his Stoney Lonesome days, or “Waitin’ out the Storm,” a song that Kate MacKenzie and Emmylou Harris recorded. A restless fella, he has a bad habit of changing bands before they can gain momentum, but his phrase-turning talent is well worth indulging.” -StarTribune

Corpse Reviver
2026-01-01 17:00 - 19:00
Jillian Rae, Adam Kiesling, Mikkel Beckmen:
The world’s #1 (only?) musical tribute to Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music.

The Beatnik Brothers
2025-12-31 21:00 - 2026-01-01 00:30
Michael Goldberg (Native Sons, The Found, A Hard Days Night), Mike Fishel (Magic 70s Sunshine Band), Scott Weber (Revlover) and Rick Marquart (Revolver, A Hard Days Night) dig deep to deliver a live performance with character and soul. They share detailed stories of picturesque scenes through great hit songs from the past. Their great, new band is called The Beatnik Brothers and they keep the hits coming from the 50s 60s and 70s!
Michael Goldberg is an unsung hero of the mid-90s Minneapolis music scene. While flying under the radar for years, He has continued to record catchy and inspired alt/pop songs. In the 90s, Mike’s powerful song writing and unique tenor voice hooked the ear of legendary hit maker, Steven Greenberg (Funkytown) who signed him and bass player/singer Michael Waldman to October Records. Together they made a groundbreaking concept album; Native Sons – Lost in Time, produced by the famed John “Strawberry” Fields. (Jonas Brothers, Switchfoot, Miley Cyrus, etc.) Fields just recently said, “Mike has a wonderful pop sensibility and his songs are bursting with blissful melodies. Bravo!”
A while back, Michael set sail with up and coming producer, Jon “Dark Pony” Herchert (Mango Jam, Jonny Lang, Dark Pony). As Jonny was cutting his teeth in his new studio, the two started an experimental project called “Land of Totems”. The album was never released digitally, but Mike hand-made 33 cds and sent them off to Bruce Brodeen, owner of the power pop label, Not Lame Records. At the time, Bruce said “Mike’s songs will make you sit up straight and wonder if your ears are fooling you because the impact is so direct, immediate and in-focus.” All of mike’s cds sold out in one day.
The Beatnik Brothers are on a launch pad ready for take off as a creative musical force. Welcome to the here and now, as The Beatnik Brothers continue toward the peak of their creative output. This NEW band THE BEATNIK BROTHERS will bring the classic, great songs everyone knows to the front line!
