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Summer Sparkler 2025

August 5, 2025
Historic Scott House

A summer concert with picnic-y food and festive fundraising in support of a new season of opera!

Grounds open at 5:30pm, Concert at 6:30pm

This year’s Sparkler Stars Jennifer Baldwin Peden and Christina Baldwin (who just played Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus), in their opera-cabaret, The Birds, the Bees, and the Baldwin Sisters: An Operatic Tribute to our brothers’ copious ex-girlfriends. Pianist Bill Munson will join Jen and Christina for LOON’s season finale.

Picnic Supper Boxes are available for pre-order – $22 each

Food order deadline is 4:00pm on Friday, August 1.

Add your menu choices to your ticket order online, or complete your order over the phone by calling 218-464-0922. If you have dietary restrictions, MidCoast is happy to accommodate! Simply note your restrictions when prompted during the checkout process.

Menu

  1. Turkey, Bacon, & Swiss Sandwich – served on cranberry wild rice bread with cranberry mayo, lettuce, and tomato.
  2. Cranberry & Goat Cheese Salad – served with chicken, mixed greens, dried cranberries, goat cheese, candied pecans, and balsamic vinaigrette. (Vegetarian upon request)
  3. Hummus wrap with zucchini, squash, roasted red peppers, spinach, & hummus (Vegetarian)
  4. Roast Beef & Cheddar Sandwich – served on marble rye with a roasted garlic mayo, lettuce, and tomato.

All menu choices include a side of chips, fresh fruit, and a dessert.

Beverages

Several drink options will be available with suggested donation pricing. Please bring cash!

Seating

We’ll have lots of chairs set up for the concert, but if you have a favorite lawn chair or blanket to bring, please do!

Directions to The Historic Scott House

Address: 1321 County Road 4, Carlton, MN, 55718

I-35 exit #239 (Scanlon Carlton Cloquet).

After exiting, turn left under 35 and head south into Carlton. You are on Hwy 45.

Continue south through Carlton (you will cross RR tracks) for about 1 mile, and then turn right at the Spur Gas Station onto County Road 3.

Follow County Road 3 for about 4.5 miles, and turn right on County Road 4.

Scott House is the first driveway on the right.

Click here to view the event location in Google Maps

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