The New Standards

Sunday, October 29, 2023
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Elias J. Halling Recital Hall

Minnesota State University, Mankato's Department of Performing Arts will present The New Standards in concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29 in the Halling Recital Hall of the Earley Center for Performing Arts, 320 Maywood Avenue.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Started in 2005 as an off-shoot project between Minneapolis-based musicians and friends Chan Poling (piano), Steve Roehm (vibes), and John Munson (bass), TNS has grown into a globe-spanning adventure, filling theaters and clubs around the world, spawning several CDs, videos, cartoons, dance/theater projects that have charmed and delighted an ever-multiplying legion of faithful fans.

The three core members of The New Standards all come from illustrious Twin Cities bands. Chan Poling founded the seminal Punk/New Wave band The Suburbs. John Munson was an original member of Trip Shakespeare and the chart-topping Semisonic, and Steve Roehm started on drums in the Texas punk outfit Billygoat and the avant-jazz Electropolis.

Sensing a lack of an interesting jazz trio repertoire beyond the usual “old standards”, they got together originally to play and sing their favorite songs – from every era, particularly post-1960 pop music - in a stripped-down acoustic setting, making room for solos and arrangements with the freedom of jazz, and yet never fully abandoning the modest soul of pop and rock.

General admission for the concert is $20. Minnesota State Mankato students are admitted free with a valid MavCARD.

To purchase tickets online use the link below or call the Performance Series office, at (507) 389-5549. 

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