To the tune of: 🎶 “When I’m 64” 🎶

🎶 Now that I'm older still got some hair, even whiter now!

Hope that you'll be comin' round to celebrate

Cause I've been told I still sound really great!

A crooner and picker’ these 55 years, what else could I be?

Retirement, well, it's not for me, still singin’ at 73! 🎶

‘Birthday Greetings Bottle of Wine!’

“Minnesota Acoustic Music Master,” (Star Tribune) and Emmy Award-winning acoustic troubadour, Michael Monroe, performs some of his favorite tunes from his many decades in the music biz! He’ll revisit each original and cover tunes that kept him living and loving music!

From vinyl to digital, Monroe is celebrating 55 years performing acoustic music for his profession. He’s recorded 19 cds and a vinyl or two. He plays hand-crafted Seaton guitars, which are “works of art,” made of 200 year-old reclaimed wood from the bottom of Lake Superior and made on the Gunflint Trail. His rich vocals

and crystal/bamboo flutes showcase his signature mellifluous sound. Monroe has always embraced “...technology as an instrument...” (Jon Bream Star Tribune) and though vinyl has become trendy again, digital technology has been his music medium of choice. He was a ‘looper’ in 1990, long before it became mainstream and he could be considered the one of the ‘grandfathers’ of LIVE looping!

Michael Monroe returned to the Twin Cities following his 28 years on the North Shore of Lake Superior and he presented Log Cabin Concerts in his cabin for the past 17 years which were featured on KSTP’s Jason Davis’ On The Road and in Lake Superior and Cabin Life Magazines as well as the Star Tribune. Monroe’s award winning instrumental soundtracks have been featured on PBS/CBC, Toronto Enviro/New York Indie Film Fests in the documentary, “Chased By The Light” presenting Jim Brandenburg’s life and stunning photography.