Wine Down with Sarah Morris – North Shore Winery 6/30/24
Jun 30 @ 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Wine Down with Sarah Morris
Sunday at The Winery in Lutsen, MN
Featuring Sarah Morris
Sun, June 30, 2024 – 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
NO COVER CHARGE
Each Sunday of the summer, North Shore Winery hosts great musicians and bands on our outdoor stage and natural amphitheater! Seating is available but bring your own blanket or camp chair for a spot in the intimate festival field. We look forward to seeing you there!
This week we have Sarah Morris, a celebrated Singer-Songwriter from the Twin Cities who brings phenomenal songwriting, musicality, and a soaring voice to her stage performances. We are lucky to have her joining us again and I hope you come to see why she has twice earned the award for best songwriter of the year from the Midwest country music organization.
So come and sip some great wine and listen to music played by Sarah Morris. You’ll be really glad that you did!
Location & Contact Info
202 Ski Hill Road, Lutsen, MN 55612
(20 mi / 24 minutes from The Lodge on Lake Detroit in Detroit Lakes, MN)
e-Mail: info@northshorewinery.us
Tel: (218) 481-9280
Mark your calendar today so you don’t miss the next Live Music event at The Winery in Lutsen, Minnesota.
More about Sarah Morris: Sarah Morris has a habit of missing the forest. From the day the Minneapolis based singer-songwriter picked up a guitar, armed with the bone-deep memory of her parents’ well-loved record collection and rooted in the storytelling fire of a Mary Chapin Carpenter tune, she’s been too busy crafting love letters to the details of the trees. Sarah’s endearingly honest, expertly penned songs encourage audiences to pull away from the big picture and get caught up in the magic of our everyday minutia, the rainy day ache in her sunlit voice granting us permission to escape into stories at once hauntingly familiar and uniquely her own.
A graduate of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Sarah spent the first years of her career in Nashville, losing herself in the art of writing timeless Americana melodies. “Sarah Morris [is] a bright, clear, brilliant songwriter,” wrote Jon Hunt of L’Etoile Magazine. “…pure and crisp and perfect.” In the years since her 2011 debut album, Lonely or Free, Sarah’s career, like her songs, has been overflowing with delicious details. Her albums Ordinary Things (2015), Hearts in Need of Repair (2017), and All Mine (2020) recorded with band mates Thomas Nordlund, Andrew Foreman, and Lars-Erik Larson with producer Eric Blomquist, earned international airplay and considerable critical acclaim, reaching notable positions on both the Americana Music Association and Euro Americana charts. In 2016, Sarah was a top four finalist in the NewSong Music Contest at Lincoln Center in New York City, 2nd place winner of the Chris Austin Songwriting Competition at MerleFest in Wilkesboro, NC, and an Americana semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition. In 2018, she went on to win the Kerrville New Folk Competition, collecting an honorable mention at the Telluride Troubadour contest along the way. More recently, Sarah was named Midwest Country Music Organization’s Songwriter of the Year for the third time.
Inclined toward the intimacy of live performance, Sarah spends a remarkable amount of time on stage. Whether solo, backed by the country kick of her long-time band The Sometimes Guys (Nordlund, Foreman, and Lars-Erik Larson), in harmony-heavy collaborations with friends such as Vicky Emerson, or Matthew French, or hosting local and traveling musicians live online from her big green bathroom, her playful-hearted presence is both captivating and contagious. Amidst her steady performance schedule she has opened for greats like JD Souther, Suzy Bogguss, and Teddy Thompson – she’s had plenty of beautiful moments to revel in. And with a brand new album to share in 2023, she’s primed to offer us a few beautiful moments of our own.
Deeply committed to the Twin Cities’ life-giving music community, Morris hosted an online interview program called, “Hey, I Miss You,” to amplify the work of her peers, and currently can be found online collaborating with musicians for a Youtube series of under-rehearsed cover songs filmed in her laurel green bathroom. Additionally, Morris is head cheerleader for a local songwriting collective.
As a writer, lover, mother, and witness, Morris invites us to join her in missing the forest for the trees, with songs that count and celebrate the glorious details of our messy, magical, everyday lives.
About the North Shore Winery
Chuck Corliss and his wife Kim founded the North Shore Winery and the Sawtooth Mountain Cider House in Lutsen, Minnesota. The winery offers a variety of red, white, and rosé wines, as well as hard ciders made with a local flair. The winery is open to visitors for tastings, bottles, or a glass of wine. They also host private events.
The idea to build a winery took off when Chuck and Kim were discussing retirement plans and what to do when finished with their “day” jobs. The couple wanted to live in Lutsen so they could ski, mountain bike, sail, and golf full time. Combined with lifelong “research work,” they thought a winery would be a fun new attraction in Lutsen!
Jeremy and Mary Hanson joined the Corliss’ in 2017 as partners.
The winery has grown substantially since its grand opening in 2016 and the Hanson family has been involved since the beginning. With the addition of Jeremy and Mary as partners, the Winery gained additional leadership engaged in the day-to-day operations of the business so it would continue to provide great customer service and good times its customers have come to enjoy.
Jeremy and Mary have been spending significant time on the North Shore since the 1970s, first on the Gunflint Trail and since 2004 in Lutsen. They enjoy Northern Minnesota, starting with BWCA canoe trips in the 70s and family vacations along the North Shore and the Gunflint Trail. They are high school sweethearts (Minneapolis Central!) who have been married for 29 years and have three grown children: Graham, Ana, and Maddy. They enjoy being outdoors – in the woods or on the lake; mountain biking, skiing, fishing, hiking, boating, spending time with friends and family….and yes, drinking wine out on the deck!
