The Goldfinch Room has announced a nine-show outdoor Tuesday concert series for the summer. Two to three times each month, the series will feature Midwest singers and songwriters performing on the Stephens Auditorium front lawn.
Admission is $10 at the door. A summer series pass, available online before June 1 for $100, provides admission to all nine shows. It also includes a $50 donation to Stephens Auditorium to support The Goldfinch Room, which launched in 2019 to host a series of Iowa songwriter showcases throughout the year.
Guidance for guests
Face coverings will be required unless guests are seated. Attendees should bring their own lawn chairs or blankets for seating. Pop-up tents and umbrellas will be allowed around the perimeter of the seating area.
Attendees may bring outside food and nonalcoholic beverages, and Stephens Auditorium will sell beer, wine, soda and water. The Traveling Pig food truck, Ames, will offer mobile meals featuring local ingredients and global flavors.
Concerts will begin at 6:30 p.m., except for the two September dates, which will begin at 5:30 p.m. Lawn access will open approximately 30 minutes before show time.
The summer lineup brings in artists from around Iowa and the Midwest:
- June 1: Patresa Hartman, Des Moines-based, and Sara Routh, Des Moines native
- June 15: Kellie Lin Knott, Minneapolis
- June 29: Chad Elliott, Lamoni, and Kathryn Severing Fox, Des Moines
- July 13: Central Standard Time (Matt Hibbard and Charlie Rod, Iowa City)
- July 27: Eli Gardiner, Michigan native
- Aug. 10: Reggie Greenlaw, Ames, and guest (Ames Community Arts Council's Gathering of Artists)
- Aug. 24: Marques Morel
- Sept. 7: Society of Broken Souls (Dennis James and Lauryn Shapter, Fairfield)
- Sept. 21: David G. Smith and Robert Detich
