Upcoming Events

Join Teri T, every Thursday for the Thursday Night Roll-Ins. Enjoy the evening showing off your classic ride with food specials, drink specials, prizes and good company. Registration is from 4 – 7 pm each week, rain or shine. Don't miss out! Bring your classic, car, truck, and motorcycle to Buster's every Thursday.

Sponsored by August Schell Brewing Company Alive After 5 is a free summer concert series held on Thursday nights from 5:00-7:30 p.m. in August. This fun after-hours event hosted by the City Center Partnership is a social gathering for co-workers, friends, and family to enjoy live music, vendor market, food and beverages in a relaxed outdoor setting. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy a fun evening out in City Center Mankato! **Rain Plan takes place at Red Rocks right down the street** Line-Up August 8: Michael Shynes August 15: High & Mighty August 22: Old Salt Union August 29: [...]

The Vetter Stone Amphitheater is proud to welcome back the always bombastic, never boring HAIRBALL to Mankato on Friday, August 23! General admission tickets are $20.00 in advance, $25.00 day of show. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 8 at 10 AM, and can be purchased at the Verizon Center ticket office, or online at Ticketmaster.com. Hairball is a Rock & Roll experience you won't soon forget. A band puts on a concert-Hairball puts on an event! The lights, sound, smoke, fire, bombs, and screaming, avid fans...to merely call it a concert would be like calling Mount Rushmore a roadside attraction! [...]

Join Teri T, every Thursday for the Thursday Night Roll-Ins. Enjoy the evening showing off your classic ride with food specials, drink specials, prizes and good company. Registration is from 4 – 7 pm each week, rain or shine. Don't miss out! Bring your classic, car, truck, and motorcycle to Buster's every Thursday.

Sponsored by August Schell Brewing Company Alive After 5 is a free summer concert series held on Thursday nights from 5:00-7:30 p.m. in August. This fun after-hours event hosted by the City Center Partnership is a social gathering for co-workers, friends, and family to enjoy live music, vendor market, food and beverages in a relaxed outdoor setting. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy a fun evening out in City Center Mankato! **Rain Plan takes place at Red Rocks right down the street** Line-Up August 8: Michael Shynes August 15: High & Mighty August 22: Old Salt Union August 29: [...]

Buddy Guy and Kenny Wayne Shepherd band are coming to Mankato, MN at the Vetter Stone Amphitheater on Thursday, August 29, 2019. Tickets start at $45.00 and go on sale Friday, May 17th at 10 AM. Buddy Guy The title of Buddy Guy's latest album says it all: The Blues Is Alive and Well. The legendary blues artist's eighteenth solo LP and follow-up to 2015's Born to Play Guitar showcase his raw and unadulterated sound, its fifteen tracks a true pleasure for aficionados and genre newcomers alike. "I got children and grandchildren who didn't know who I was, but nowadays we [...]

Join Teri T, every Thursday for the Thursday Night Roll-Ins. Enjoy the evening showing off your classic ride with food specials, drink specials, prizes and good company. Registration is from 4 – 7 pm each week, rain or shine. Don't miss out! Bring your classic, car, truck, and motorcycle to Buster's every Thursday.

Join us for our second annual earth-moving event that puts YOU in the driver's seat! Come move, haul, lift, and explore construction equipment, with the help of expert operators.​ This family fun day will showcase mobile and stationary heavy construction equipment, demonstrations, and a variety of hands-on activities for all ages. Come see our dozers, excavators, drones, a Trade Alley, Kids Zone, and more! Together we'll move, haul, lift, and explore construction equipment, with the help of expert operators.​ All proceeds from this fundraiser go to the Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota.

CHICAGO MANKATO CIVIC CENTER – TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1ST TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY, JUNE 7TH AT 10 AM CHICAGO Hailed as one of the "most important bands in music since the dawn of the rock and roll era" by former President Bill Clinton, the legendary rock and roll band with horns, Chicago, came in at #4, the highest charting American band in the chart’s history, in Billboard Magazine's recent Top Bands And Duos. And Chicago is the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six consecutive decades. Chicago was inducted into the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of [...]

Join us on Sunday, October 6 and savor some of Minnesota’s best cycling. Explore the autumnal beauty of the Minnesota River Valley at the 9th Annual Mankato River Ramble. The landscape will be dressed in peak fall colors. Try one of four scenic tours ranging from 12 to 58 miles. You’ll pass charming waterfalls, epic river valleys and bountiful farmland at the easy pace of a bicycle. Don’t miss the award-winning pie, world-renown raspberry bars, invigorating fresh fruit, and all of the other treats, attractions, and amenities while on the River Ramble. Plus, all of this great entertainment is family-friendly — [...]

The Mankato Marathon is the Midwest’s boldest race, showcasing a dynamic course and determined runners. This exceptional course features a vast countryside run at the beginning and culminates in the beautiful, yet challenging Minnesota River Valley with Cheer Zones to help you stay motivated. There’s a race for every runner—a full marathon, relay, half, 10K, 5K, KidsK, Toddler Trot, and Diaper Dash. A host of accompanying weekend activities abounds for the whole family. The Mankato Marathon is a USATF certified course, making it a Boston Marathon qualifier. Be bold. Register for this exceptional race on October 18-19, 2019. Mankato Marathon was named the [...]