Kelsey McDonough

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Kelsey works as a Marketing & Communications Coordinator at a Twin Cities nonprofit and also as a server (at a restaurant, duh). She sometimes writes things.

Follow @kel4000 on Twitter, but not in real life as she often walks into things.

REVIEW | Rob Delaney, Neko Case and Kelly Hogan combine forces for a very musical Wits at the Fitzgerald Theater

By Kelsey McDonough, TC Daily Planet

Photo courtesy Neko Case

The Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul held yet another sold out Wits production on Friday, May 10. Although this season of Wits (and every season, for that matter) boasts some fantastic lineups, it was hard to say which of its three guest the audience was more excited for this time: internet comedian Rob Delaney or noted solo artist Neko Case (also a big slice of the New Pornographers pie). While Delaney and Case were definitely considered the “big ticket items,” the addition of singer Kelly Hogan was a welcome one.

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REVIEW | Kristen Schaal and Rufus Wainwright deliver an off-the-cuff Wits

By Kelsey McDonough, TC Daily Planet

Photo courtesy Minnesota Public Radio

It seems the whole of the Twin Cities was present Friday, April 12 for the hip arts roundup that is Minnesota Public Radio’s Wits. Once again, the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul hosted a sold out show comprised of laughs, tunes and a few laughy tunes. As the second production of Wits’ 2013 spring season, legendary “popera” pianist Rufus Wainwright and comedienne Kristen Schaal (most well known for her characters in Flight of the Conchords and 30 Rock) stumbled through the mostly hilarious MPR variety show.

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MUSIC REVIEW | Miike Snow dance their masks off at First Avenue

By Kelsey McDonough, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Liz Schultz

Miike Snow had First Avenue attendees dancing their way through a sweaty spectrum of elation during their hour-plus set on Tuesday, October 16. The Swedish-American indie group stopped in Minneapolis in the midst of their American tour promoting their 2012 album Happy to You.

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MUSIC REVIEW | Built to Spill induces nostalgia at First Avenue

By Kelsey McDonough, TC Daily Planet
Chad Rieder

Built to Spill entertained a swarm of nostalgic Minneapolis indie-rock fans at First Avenue on Wednesday, Sept. 19. The group, led by guitarist Doug Martsch, hasn’t put out a full-length studio album since 2009, but kept an excited momentum going by sampling their extensive catalog, filled with nearly 20 years of material.

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MUSIC REVIEW | JD McPherson brings "the New Rockabilly" to the Fine Line

By Kelsey McDonough, TC Daily Planet
Steven Cohen

Walking into the Fine Line for JD McPherson’s show on Tuesday, June 26, you would think you had stepped right out of your DeLorean and into 1956. Audience members in their best Buddy Holly glasses and vintage house dresses packed in, grabbed their honey, and sweated it out to the new oldies.

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MUSIC REVIEW | First Avenue gets sweaty with the Ting Tings and MNDR

By Kelsey McDonough, TC Daily Planet
Trang Do

The Ting Tings took over the First Avenue Mainroom with the help of MNDR on Monday, April 2 and gave the audience a night to remember. In the age of over-glorified pop punk duos, these two bands have kept their wits about them and proved they’re not doing this to be famous divas, they’re just here to show you a good time.

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MUSIC REVIEW | Ben Kweller brings his timeless tunes to the Fine Line Music Cafe

By Kelsey McDonough, TC Daily Planet
David McCrindle

Quirky pop rocker Ben Kweller played to a moderately-packed, yet extremely invested crowd at Minneapolis’s Fine Line Music Cafe on Wednesday, March 28. Coming fresh off of the release of his latest album Go Fly A Kite (February 2012), Kweller and gang put on an excellent show layered with nostalgia and modern relevance.

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MUSIC | The Kooks rock First Avenue, albeit mildly

By Kelsey McDonough, TC Daily Planet
Trang Do
British pop rockers the Kooks played to a decently filled Mainroom at First Avenue on Sunday, November 27. Due to the relatively huge indie success of their newest single “Junk of the Heart” (the title track from their 2011 album), the Kooks have gained the confidence of a legitimate band of punk poppers, but still have something to prove.
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Things a mother pig might be thinking as she gives birth at the Miracle of Birth barn at the Minnesota State Fair

By Jay Gabler, Betsy Gabler, Kelsey McDonough, Tatiana Craine, and Jean Gabler, Local Lists

"Miracle," my ass!

You know, it's the video cameras that really cross the line here.

Sure, and where's this crowd going to be when I'm off to the ol' slaughterhouse next year?

One down, 13 to go. God, I hope that first one wasn't just the runt.

Pink. Again?!

If one more kid yells BA-RAM-YU!, I'm going to shoot the next piglet straight into his sno-cone.

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Things to scream into the microphones as you're going down the Giant Slide at the Minnesota State Fair

By Jay Gabler, Courtney Algeo, Kelsey McDonough, and Betsy Gabler, Local Lists
Jeff Rutherford

Paul is DEAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!

ChimichAAAAAAAAAAAAANGAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

I am the GREAT CORNHOOOOOOOLLLLIIIIOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

I feel BLOOOOOAAAAATED!!!!!!

I brought my own potato sack from HOOOOOOOME!!!!!!

WHYYYYYY GOD WHYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!

I'm single and I have a GREAT CREDIT SCOOOOOORRRRE!!!!!!

Baby got SAAAAAAACK!!!!!

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