It’s warm, sunny…and all that white stuff is gone.  What more reason do you need to come down(town) and enjoy the actual, not just theoretical, change in seasons.  As always, there’s a whole lot of fun things to do this weekend in downtown Northfield, MN.

Friday, April 11: Piano Duo Recital (Richard Collman and David Miller), 3:30 p.m., Northfield Retirement Community Chapel; Tuition Daddies, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Contented Cow; A Night of 10,000 Laughs, 6:30 p.m., Grand Event Center; Open Mic Night, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., Froggy Bottoms River Pub; Oh, What a Lovely War!, 7:30 p.m., Kelsey Theater on the St. Olaf College campus; The Cherry Orchard, 7:30 p.m., Northfield Arts Guild Theater; Veselica Spring Concert, 7:30 p.m., Dittmann Center Studio One on the St. Olaf College campus; Mark Kreitzer & Anthony Ihrig, 8:00 p.m., Tavern Lounge; and Faculty Piano and Strings Recital, 8:00 to 9:30 p.m., Concert Hall on the Carleton College campus.

Saturday, April 12th: Veselica Spring Concert, 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Dittman Center Studio One on the St. Olaf College campus; Luke Smith, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., Contented Cow; The Cherry Orchard, 7:30 p.m., Northfield Arts Guild Theater; Oh, What a Lovely War!, 7:30 p.m., Kelsey Theater on the St. Olaf College campus; Rich Prenier, 8:00 p.m., Tavern Lounge; and The Charles Walker Band, 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., Rueb’N’Stein.

Sunday, April 13th: The Cherry Orchard, 2:00 p.m., Northfield Arts Guild Theater; Opening Reception: Senior Show, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., Flaten Art Museum on the St. Olaf College campus; Oh, What a Lovely War!, 2:00 p.m., Kelsey Theater on the St. Olaf College campus; Faculty Recital: Lawrence Archbold, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m., Concert Hall on the Carleton College campus; Gospel Choir, 3:30 p.m., Boe Memorial Chapel on the St. Olaf College campus; and Quiz Night, 8:00 p.m., Contented Cow.