Blooming Grounds Coffee House

Decades of experience these fellows play their instruments with passion. Touring around the driftless while playing music in the summer and off to the south in the winter these guys know how to live and share their love of music. Catch them at Blooming Grounds while they are around and enjoy their sounds over cold beer and hot pizza.

“Marshall Singer who goes by the stage name “Wilki” which is from his middle name Wilkinson is a singer-songwriter from Winona who has been playing guitar since he was 12 years old. Marshall plays soulful acoustic songs most of which he wrote himself. Marshall plays with passion, heart, and keeps it his number one goal to have fun every time he picks up a guitar.”

The Swill Merchants are Jason Edward on guitar and vocals and Nick Lemmer on mandolin, guitar and vocals.

Bobby and Christine are an emerging folk act featuring one guitar, two voices, and a variety of percussive elements. The mix is primarily interpretations of deeper tracks of well-known artists, infused with some original songs and original flatpicking instrumentals.

Stacy, originally from Winona, has sung and played guitar throughout the Tri-State area for the past 30+ years; she has performed as a vocalist with several choirs at St. Olaf College, as part of an Acoustic duo on a riverboat on the Mississippi river for 20 summers, at the MN State Fair, with a Wyoming Bluegrass group in an old historic hotel, and at the Winona Great River Shakespeare Festival with her Jazz group, the Not Just Jazz Quartet, to…

Magpies are thought to collect unique objects, like the variety of songs we collect based on our various tastes and desires. We all like gospel music and the spirit of praise, and now that our children are (mostly) out the door, this is a revival for us—doing what we like to do—making music.

Patti is a local High School teacher who moonlights as a Singer and Songwriter. She has a powerful voice with a great stage presence. Come check her out while drinking a big ol glass of wine!