Live Entertainment in Minot

Minot State University's performing arts facilities serve North Dakota's third-largest city with concerts, theatrical productions, and cultural events. Minot's remarkable combination of Scandinavian heritage, Minot Air Force Base culture, and the extraordinary Norsk Høstfest creates a performing arts audience of unusual Upper Midwest cultural diversity.

Norsk Høstfest is North America's largest Scandinavian festival — a Minot October celebration attracting 60,000 visitors for authentic Scandinavian food, traditional music and dance, and major Norwegian and Swedish performing arts presentations. North Dakota's extraordinary Scandinavian heritage (it has the highest percentage of residents of Norwegian descent of any state, and many communities celebrate traditions brought directly from Norway in the 1880s) and Norsk Høstfest's remarkable scale create a performing arts festival of genuine North American Scandinavian cultural significance.