2025 Detroit Lakes Trucks & Tunes
in Detroit Lakes City Park

featuring the Kohlrabi Soup Band

August 14, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Free!

2025 Detroit Lakes Trucks & Tunes invites you to join us for Trucks & Tunes and free live music and food trucks from June through August on Friday evening at Detroit Lakes City Park. Bands for each week’s performances TBA.

For the Detroit Lakes Trucks and Tunes events, it’s a good idea to arrive around 5:00 PM. The food trucks typically start serving at this time, giving you plenty of time to grab some delicious food before the musical entertainment begins at 6:00 PM.

What you need to know about Detroit Lakes Trucks & Tunes:
• Bring a chair or blanket and join us for free live music and food trucks at the DL City Park.
• Emceed by the Broken String Guitar Club with bands starting at 6pm.
• In case of rain, bands will move to Bucks Mill Brewing (824 Washington Ave, Detroit Lakes, MN), and food trucks will move to Washington Avenue.
• For more area music all year long, visit www.MusicInDL.com.
● Concerts are FREE unless tickets are noted

About the Kohlrabi Soup Band

Get ready for a foot-stomping, harmony-rich evening as Kohlrabi Soup, a high-energy bluegrass band from Fargo, North Dakota, brings their signature sound to the heart of Detroit Lakes!

Formed in 2023, Kohlrabi Soup has quickly become a regional favorite, known for their blend of traditional and modern bluegrass, infused with heartfelt original songwriting and tight instrumental work. Drawing inspiration from legends like Jimmy Martin, Tony Rice, Sierra Ferrell, and Charlie Parr, their music is both nostalgic and fresh—perfect for a summer night under the stars.

Kohlrabi Soup Band Members:
● Steve Burket – Guitar & Vocals
● TJ Medrud – Bass
● Joe Andrus – Banjo
● Jeff Meek – Mandolin
● Aaron Niehaus – Fiddle & Vocals

With original songs like Singing to My Chickens, Bootstrap Baby, and Little Wild Bouquet, Kohlrabi Soup delivers storytelling with soul, humor, and a whole lot of string-picking magic. Their performances are lively, engaging, and full of surprises—whether you’re a bluegrass aficionado or just discovering the genre.

So grab your lawn chair, bring your dancing shoes, and come enjoy the down-home charm of Kohlrabi Soup at Trucks & Tunes!

Kohlrabi Soup Band Soundcloud Site | Kohlrabi Soup Band Facebook Page

About Project 412: Project 412 makes Detroit Lakes and the surrounding 412 lakes area even better! Investing in the community to THRIVE — always striving, innovating, and taking risks to improve. Project 412 is a catalyst, cheerleader, and connector to encourage start-ups, projects, events, ideas, public art (like the Dambo Trolls), and more!

You can help! We have various opportunities for you to get involved. Let’s work together to DO COOL STUFF! #Project412 #DCS

Our goal is to help Detroit Lakes become the best place to visit, live, work, start and grow a business, and raise a family.

Project 412 is investing in Creating Places & Events that Inspire and Nurturing New & Existing Businesses.

The most vibrant communities create a sense of place that inspires and is welcoming and memorable. Detroit Lakes is competing with communities around the country and world to attract visitors, workers, and residents. Creating a place that people want to be is critical, and we have the opportunity to invest in Detroit Lakes as a place by investing in public art, recreation, and events and experiences.

Detroit Lakes is home to many wonderful businesses. As a tourist destination, DL is primed for additional new businesses that cater to visitors and locals alike. From unique restaurants and retail shops to food trucks, rock climbing gyms, and art galleries, there are so many opportunities to create businesses that give our community character. We can create an environment that supports our current businesses and encourages entrepreneurs to start-up businesses that will make Detroit Lakes even more unique and memorable.

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