Best Bets: Gaelynn Lea, DSSO and Charlie Brown

Gaelynn Lea returns with new album

A local-gone-global musician with a ton of hustle returns to Duluth to (finally) play a release show for her latest album. With Gaelynn Lea's "Learning How to Stay," the singer-songwriter-advocate-teacher-violinist adds more musicians to the mix, moving beyond the looping pedal that first put her in the public eye. (Long story short, in 2016 she won NPR's Tiny Desk Contest and not long after sold the house and converted the family van to include a sleeping space. She has played more than 425 shows in 42 states and seven countries, including stops at The Kennedy Center, House of Blues and Winnipeg Folk Fest.)

For Saturday's first hometown show since the album's release, Lea will be backed by a full band. Ingeborg von Agassiz and Jerree Small open.

Gaelynn Lea's album release show is at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at Sacred Heart Music Center, 201 W. Fourth St. Tickets: $12 advance at eventbrite.com, $15 at the door.

DSSO offers 'Unforgettable Views'

The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra is opening with a funeral march and closing with triumph during its "Unforgettable Views" concert on Saturday.

The program includes Faure's "Requiem" and Mahler's Symphony No. 5 with soloists Sarah Lawrence (soprano), Cory Renbarger (baritone) and the DSSO Chorus. When the Minnesota Orchestra and Minnesota Chorale performed "Requiem" this past winter, a reviewer for the Pioneer Press described it as "a work less about the pain of loss than the wish for peace and the warm solace of a well-deserved rest."

DSSO's "Unforgettable Views" is at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 at Symphony Hall. Tickets: Start at $20 and are available at (218) 623-3776 and Ticketmaster outlets including the DECC box office and ticketmaster.com.

Double exhibition reception at Tweed

Two exhibitions, "Intersections: Contemporary Art from Minnesota-Based Native Artists," curated by Karissa White, and "Manifest'o," a multimedia installation by Jonathan Thunder get an opening reception today at the Tweed Museum of Art.

"Intersections" features 46 pieces by 19 artists working in paint, prints and sculpture, including Frank Big Bear, Carl Gawboy, Karen Savage-Blue, Dyani White Hawk and Leah Yellowbird.

"Manifest'o" is described as having three separate-but-connected vignettes of Anishinaabe stories using paint, film, sculpture and animation.

Opening reception for "Intersections" and "Manifest'o" is at 6-8 p.m. Nov. 15 at Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth. Free, open to the public.

Storyhill returns with new live album

The long time, on and off folk duo of Chris Cunningham and John Hermanson returns to Duluth for a concert. It's the first tour in three years for Storyhill, which is scheduled to release its latest album "Stages" on Friday. During their hiatus, the musicians collected 15 live performances - including songs from old albums in addition to unreleased tunes and raised a bunch of Kickstarter cash to create its first live album since 2002. The Bozeman-bred band that played as Chris & Johnny in the early-mid 1990s plays at Sacred Heart on Sunday.

Storyhill plays at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 at Sacred Heart Music Center, 201 W. Fourth St. Tickets: $17.89 at www.eventbrite.com .

It's a Christmas show, Charlie Brown

"A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live on Stage" features Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the crew, who the reason for the season while creating their own Christmas play.

The 90-minute musical production, an adaptation of Charles M. Schulz's tale, is touring nationally. It gets one show at Symphony Hall.

"A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live onStage" is at 3 p.m. Nov. 18. Tickets: Available at Ticketmaster outlets including the DECC box office.

Alt-country vs. alt.-country

It's a worthy match: One is a smooth vocals, fun-time alt-country band - read: accordion player - the other is an acoustic duo-turned-full band billed as "living a simple life, playing tunes around the country and finding inspiration around the way."

Father Hennepin and Feeding Leroy both play Friday at Cedar Lounge in Superior.

The back-to-back is described as a "night of country music and honky tonk," sure to be a "boot stompin' good time."

Father Hennepin and Feeding Leroy play at 8 p.m. Nov. 16 at Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. Third St., Superior.