Arne Fogel’s “A CROSBY HOLIDAY”

Just like the ones we used to know!

Laid-back, Nostalgic, Swingy FUN! - Join Arne and his friends for this annual audience-pleaser, now featuring guest stars too! Music direction by the always superb Rick Carlson on piano, this show features Arne at his song-filled best, with plenty of stories about the songs and history that made them great!

Arne Fogel: Vocals

Rick Carlson: Piano

Maud Hixson: Vocals

Arne Fogel is a 2018 Inductee into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, and a 2008 Inductee into the Mid-America Music Hall of Fame. He was recently chosen by Jazz88 Radio as a 2026 “Jazz Legend”. Arne has performed in countless “live” radio concerts and productions, including three years as a regular performer on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion”, and has performed on nearly1,500 recording sessions as a singer on jingles and film soundtracks. He has recorded several albums (“YOU CALL IT MADNESS”, “WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS”, “LET’S NOT BE SENSIBLE” “ARNTHOLOGY”), and co-produced several other albums.

Arne Fogel is familiar to many people as an on-air personality in the upper Midwest. For 12 years he produced and hosted his own series of special “Arne Fogel Presents” programs on the stations of the Minnesota Public Radio network, and for over 50 years has entertained audiences with his programs on SiriusXM, WWTC-AM, KLBB-AM, KTWN-FM, NETRADIO.COM, and BING CROSBY INTERNET RADIO (“Bing’s Basement”, “The Bing Shift”). Currently, Arne appears on KBEM-FM in the Twin Cities (the programs “Singers & Standards”, which he co-hosted with vocalist Connie Evingson, “Certain Standards”, and “The Bing Shift”).

Hailed as “gently virtuosic” (All About Jazz), Maud Hixson is a devoted exponent of great songs, ranging from the classic Great American Songbook to the often unsung or forgotten compositions awaiting rediscovery. Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Maud made her Guthrie Theater debut in the Noel Coward revue Coward’s Women, also appearing in Park Square Theater’s The Soul of Gershwin. Her album “Songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett”, earned a 2024 Bistro Award. She debuted her show Skyscraper Wits in London and New York in 2015.

“…I can’t think of anyone else around here who does what Fogel does…… There’s a dearth of male jazz vocalists in general, and none in this area who has mastered Fogel’s unique style of pop/swing. It’s accessible, danceable, romantic and fun….”

– Pamela Espeland, MinnPost

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