Red Wing Arts Live!
Join us for live music on the 1st Thursday of each month from 5-7 pm. Enjoy acoustic sets in our Red Wing Arts Depot Gallery, creating a relaxed vibe while you wander the exhibit, check out the shop, or just hang out for a bit. Visitors are welcome to come and go throughout the evening as your schedule allows.
Featured on June 4: Julie Patchouli
Julie Patchouli has been a professional touring singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist since age 18. She has, with her husband and master guitarist Bruce Hecksel, performed over 5,000 concerts around the world in a 30 year career as the #1 Charting International Guitar folk duo Patchouli & Terra Guitarra. They met thru music in Illinois in early ‘90s, joined a band (Aunt Betsy) in Olympia, WA, returned to Chicago in 1996, married, started playing as the duo Bruce & Julie, renamed Patchouli in 1999. Their first shows were in folk clubs, and college campuses and quickly expanded to venues around the U. S. After years of crossing back and forth over the Mississippi River touring & living on the road, in 2003 they settled in the beautiful Lake Pepin village of Maiden Rock, WI.
In 2007 they created a second musical project, Terra Guitarra that took off on the international scene. Four of Terra Guitarra albums were nominated for ZMR "Best Instrumental Album of the Year." Their album Of Sea & Stars won that award. The folk power couple joyfully crafted their sound of folk meets Flamenco that City Pages described like “taking a yoga class in a field of running mustangs” with poetic lyrics, sparkling vocals, rhythmic steel strings and soulful Spanish guitar creating songs that "inspire the human spirit" -Chicago Tribune.
Through the years, in the background of their thriving musical lives, Bruce was also painting and many of his pieces became album artwork. In 2015 they created a multi-media production, The Landscape of Guitar, The Animated Painting Concert Experience, a live music performance with projected animation of Bruce’s original acrylic paintings of guitar shaped scenes. In April 2025.They opened the Terra Guitarra Fine Art Gallery & Studio in Maiden Rock. Sadly, in July 2025 after a three year battle with stage IV cancer, Bruce suffered a stroke and passed away. Patchouli was working on their 23rd recording together when Bruce died. Julie went back into the studio this winter to finish the album and released it Spring 2026.
Patchouli & Terra Guitarra have been involved with Red Wing Arts musically and artistically for 22 years performing the Concerts in the Parks and showing in Art exhibits. “The community has been so supportive and formative in our artistic careers” said Julie “that I want to celebrate that connection to Bruce’s life in the Arts.”
Julie will be performing this special concert, playing fan favorite songs and sharing the new album release "Everything it Takes".