Share your Hostfest stories The Minot Daily News invites readers to share their Norsk Hostfest memories for a special page to be published next week. Whether you were a volunteer, vendor, visitor or took part in the festival in another role, The Minot Daily News welcomes your ...

The Minot Symphony Orchestra will present an afternoon of family-friendly music featuring Carnegie Hall’s “Link Up: The Orchestra Swings” on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. in Ann Nicole Nelson Hall on the campus of Minot State University. The concert is part of the orchestra’s 100th ...

The Board of Directors of Norsk Hostfest Association announced Thursday, Jan. 30, that the annual Norsk Hostfest festival, long recognized as North America’s largest Scandinavian festival, will no longer continue. It will not be held this fall. Rising costs and declining attendance have led ...

Norsk Hostfest offered great times that bring back smiles with the memories, said former Hostfest president David Reiten. “People came back year after year – as visitors, as volunteers, as sellers,” he said. “So many people were positively impacted by this. We had 4,000 volunteers. ...

For more than 52 years, the Heritage Singers have remained a steady presence in Minot’s cultural landscape, blending music, fellowship and community service through generations of local singers. This year’s Heritage Singers variety show will be held Feb. 26–28 and March 1 at the Moose ...

World-class jazz is coming to Minot State University as Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band (BPB) takes the stage on Friday, Feb. 13, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Ann Nicole Nelson Hall. This concert is a featured event of the Magic City Jazz Festival, an educational experience designed to provide ...