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Event Usually TwinsFest: January City of Lakes Loppet: February International Film Festival: April May Day Parade: May Art-A-Whirl: May Minneapolis Marathon: May-June Twin Cities Pride: June Twin Cities Hot Summer Jazz Festival: June Stone Arch Festival of the Arts: June Svenskarnas Dag: June Minneapolis Aquatennial: July Art Car Parade: July ...
Hennepin County. Father Louis Hennepin was the first European explorer to visit and name Saint Anthony Falls, the tallest waterfall on the Mississippi River, in 1680.While the falls were familiar to the Ojibwe and Sioux Indians who lived in the area, Father Hennepin spread word of the falls when he returned to France in 1683.
The Met finally got a football team when the new American Football League (AFL) announced Minneapolis–St. Paul as one of its charter cities for the inaugural 1960 season. However, the NFL persuaded the team's owners to pull out of the AFL in January 1960 and join the NFL as an expansion team in 1961 , and was later named the Minnesota Vikings .
The Minnesota Renaissance Festival is a Renaissance fair, an interactive outdoor event which focuses on recreating the look and feel of a fictional 16th Century "England-like" fantasy kingdom. [1] It operates during seven consecutive weekends, from mid-August until the final week in September (or sometimes the first weekend in October) on a ...
Parade Stadium is a former football stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.It was Minneapolis's first public football stadium. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board built the 16,560-seat stadium at The Parade, a park just west of downtown, in 1951.
The council authorized a contract sponsorship of $750,000 for Warehouse District Live, in partnership with the Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District, which operates the event.
The event is hosted by the Basilica of St. Mary and described by City Pages as "summertime's hottest church party". [1] The festival is the largest music festival held within the city of Minneapolis. The event is in its third decade, with past headlining artists including Ryan Adams , Weezer , Imagine Dragons , Ray LaMontagne , Panic! at the ...
Pages in category "Events in Minneapolis" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1952 NBA draft;