Market Friday: Live Music at a Microbrewery by the Lake

Hello friends, and especially a bow or a curtsie to @dswigle, the fabulous proprietor of Market Friday! I swear I have good intentions to get organized and get my post for Market Friday pre-loaded to post on Friday but somehow yet another week goes by and I have not done that. Here it is, Saturday again!

Last night was one for the ages. One of our best friends is a guitarist in a local band called The Basement Kings. And they were playing at one of our favorite venues, a microbrewery in the town of Excelsior Minnesota called, appropriately enough, Excelsior Brewing Company.

The venue is just a couple of blocks from Lake Minnetonka which is a hopping place in the summertime here. As you can see they have some water themed decor.

We arrived early because the band is very popular and the venue isn’t enormous. Tables fill up quickly! Fortunately, some friends had secured a table that accommodated our big group. There were 7 of us, once some good friends showed up that we didn’t even know would be there.

I forgot to get a group picture. I also forgot to get a picture of the awesome pizza we picked up from the pizza place next door. (Eye roll! How hard is it to remember these things, Jayna??) But some friends got a picture of hubby and me.

I was too busy having fun to take a lot of pictures, I guess!

Okay, here are some pictures of the band. Our good friend is the guitarist on the far right. Our daughters played softball with the daughters of the lead singer and the guy to the right of him. And in fact one of the daughters got up and sang a few songs with her dad! So it was all around a delightful night of local fun.

The place was packed! We had to squeeze past people to get to the bar or the restroom. It’s a popular band! I had a really nice IPA called MinnehaHop. That’s a local joke because we have a creek and a watershed here called Minnehaha. (Heh! Should have taken a picture. If I was smart I could even have made this post suitable for @detlev’s #beersaturday initiative. But I’m not that smart!)

Well here are more venue pics.

Don’t you wonder what those big brewery tanks cost? Well worth it, I’m sure. They have a thriving business. Okay, here’s the rest of the pictures. I took all of these before the band was scheduled to start at 7:30, and it’s a good thing because I couldn’t move around the place once the masses of people showed up!

Thank you for reading my Market Friday post, and thanks to @dswigle for hosting this fun community and initiative. It’s one of my favorites on Hive!

Photo credits: All of the photos in this post were taken by me with my iphone and belong to me, unless otherwise noted.

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