Wiggle, Jiggle and Jam along with Wendy during this fun family event that makes you move to the music! 

Want a preview? Visit Wendy's YouTube channel.  

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Acme Magic Factory offers an amazing and hilarious performance that has been called the perfect combination of magic, comedy and audience interaction.

Visit the Arts in the Parks web page to see other fun events in summer 2025!

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Summer Band is a community concert band-style ensemble that performs several outdoor concerts in the Twin Cities area each summer. 

With a range of concert band music from classical to contemporary, including a number of traditional UMN school songs, this concert is sure to lift your spirits.

The bandshell performance venue is a natural grass amphitheater with no permanent seating. Please consider bringing a blanket or lawn chair for your comfort and convenience while enjoying the event. 

Visit the Arts in the Parks web page to see other fun events in summer 2025! 

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Classical Actors Ensemble performs the plays of the English Renaissance as they were originally intended--as popular entertainment for everyone.

For 2025, CAE presents All's Well That Ends Well.  More details coming soon! 

The Sunday Funday series features live, family-friendly music and theater performances 5 - 7 p.m. on Sundays, June 15 - August 10. Look for a show at a neighborhood park near you!

The bandshell performance venue is a natural grass amphitheater with no permanent seating. Please consider bringing a blanket or lawn chair for your comfort and convenience while enjoying the event. 

Visit the Arts in the Parks web page to see other fun events in summer 2025! 

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Join us for the true "ringing in" of Independence Day in the Twin Cities.

The annual Summer Fete festival features music, food, and a grand finale fireworks show that is one of the largest in Minnesota.

It takes place 5 - 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 3 at Normandale Lake Park, W. 84th Street and Normandale Blvd.

For details on the 2025 event as they become available, visit the Summer Fete page at blm.mn/summerfete.

Summer Fete is presented annually as part of the summer Arts in the Parks series. Visit blm.mn/artsparks to see the extensive 2025 schedule of fun, free performances and events at parks and other locations throughout Bloomington. 

Joe Flip is an accomplished musician and guitarist known for his unique sound and homemade oil can guitars.  

Millions of views on YouTube and tens of thousands of monthly Spotify listeners have gained Joe Flip’s music a loyal worldwide following.

• Food vendors: Brick Oven Bus, Eggroll Queen, Espartaco, Hometown Creamery, Muddy Tiger Indian Street Food, Philicious Phillys, SW33T SERENITY
• Beer vendor: NorthStar Tavern Beer service will not be available at this event. We anticipate NorthStar Tavern returning to Arts in the Parks events soon.

Midweek Music & Market offers a great mix of food, beer, music, games, and fun on Wednesdays in July and August in the east lot at Bloomington Civic Plaza.

• Market, food and beverage sales open 5 - 8 p.m.
• Music performances begin at 5:30 p.m.

The area where music is performed on the Civic Plaza East Lawn is a grass hill with no permanent seating. Please consider bringing a blanket or lawn chair for your comfort and convenience while enjoying the music.        

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Bring a lawn chair or blanket to the historic Pond House inside Pond Dakota Mission Park and enjoy listening to the John Philip Sousa Memorial Band playing all the classic Sousa marches you know and love. 

Enjoy an Ice Cream Social presented by the Bloomington Historical Society. 

The Sunday Funday series features live, family-friendly music and theater performances 5 - 7 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on Sundays, June 15 - August 17. Look for a show at a neighborhood park near you! 

The Pond House performance space has no permanent seating. Please consider bringing a blanket or lawn chair for your comfort and convenience while enjoying the event. 

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Celebrate Juneteenth with the International Reggae All Stars, a truly global band with members hailing from Venezuela to Trinidad, and Ghana to Kingston Jamaica. 

Featuring one of today’s hottest reggae vocalists, Kingston native Lynval “Golden Voice” Jackson, the IRAS play reggae, dancehall and all the Bob Marley classics, and bring peace, love, and positive vibrations with them wherever they go.  

• Food vendor(s): HaDa Foodie, Kurbside Ice Co., Sambusa Samosa
• Beer vendor: NorthStar Tavern

The Thursday Blockbusters Series provides the very best in free outdoor entertainment on Thursdays throughout the summer at Normandale Lake Bandshell. It features top quality musical performances, food trucks and beer sales at each show!

• Food and beverage service begins at 6:30 p.m.
• Music begins at 7 p.m.   

The bandshell performance venue is a natural grass amphitheater with no permanent seating. Please consider bringing a blanket or lawn chair for your comfort and convenience while enjoying the event. 

Visit the Arts in the Parks web page to see other fun events in summer 2025!

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The 10-piece Chico Chavez Orchestra features Cumbia Afro-indigenous Tropical music from throughout Latin America, and Peruvian psychedelic Cumbia Chicha. Created and directed by Master percussionist-drummer Chico Chavez from Lima, Peru.

Get a preview of the great music that awaits on the Chico Chavez Orchestra's YouTube Channel. 

• Food vendor(s): Espartaco, Sizzling Wagon
• Beer vendor: NorthStar Tavern

The Thursday Blockbusters Series provides the very best in free outdoor entertainment on Thursdays throughout the summer at Normandale Lake Bandshell. It features top quality musical performances, food trucks and beer sales at each show!

• Food and beverage service begins at 6:30 p.m.
• Music begins at 7 p.m.   

The bandshell performance venue is a natural grass amphitheater with no permanent seating. Please consider bringing a blanket or lawn chair for your comfort and convenience while enjoying the event. 

Visit the Arts in the Parks web page to see other fun events in summer 2025!

Follow Bloomington Parks and Recreation on Facebook.

See the Bloomington Chorale, Bloomington’s own community choir, as it performs songs from a wide variety of genres including contemporary, classical, Broadway, popular, spirituals, jazz and more. 

Bring your lawn chair or blanket and enjoy an evening of choral music in the park! All are welcome, no tickets are needed. 

The Bloomington Chorale's YouTube Channel provides you with just a small preview of the amazing voices you'll hear during the show.  

The bandshell performance venue is a natural grass amphitheater with no permanent seating. Please consider bringing a blanket or lawn chair for your comfort and convenience while enjoying the event. 

Visit the Arts in the Parks web page to see other fun events in summer 2025!

Follow Bloomington Parks and Recreation on Facebook.