Worker’s Playtime at the 331 Club featuring Dan Schwalbe

A weekly happy hour hosted by washboardist Mikkel, featuring a different artist every time.

Inducted into the Minnesota Blues Hall of Fame in 2012, Dan Schwalbe is a decades long veteran of the Twin Cities Blues scene. 

He has played and/or recorded with Blues DeLuxe, RJ Mischo, Mojo Buford, Lazy Bill Lucas, Baby Doo Caston, Sunnyland Slim, Snooky Prior, Billy Boy Arnold, The Scotty Reed Band, Sonny Rogers, Percy Strother, Rockin' Daddy & The Rough Cuts, Texas Red, Cool Disposition, The Blues Kings, Lynwood Slim, Javier & The Innocent Sons, The Stella Vees, Boom Boom Steve V and the Knockouts, and many others.

Mikkel Beckmen (washboard, wooden tray, and stomp box) has been a fixture on the Twin Cities scene for a number of years; some of the folks he's played with include Corpse Reviver, the Brass Kings, Charlie Parr, and Lonesome Dan Kase & the Crush Collision Trio.