Feb 20-21 2026
Big Turn is a two-day, multi-venue music festival that takes over downtown Red Wing every February and turns a historic Mississippi River town into a living, breathing map of sound. One wristband. Over one hundred bands. Bars, theaters, churches, basements, unexpected rooms repurposed into stages. You walk. You wander. You discover. You run into people you didn’t plan to see and hear music you didn’t know you needed.
It started in 2018 for a simple reason: Red Wing refused to let winter kill its culture. The name comes from the big bend in the Mississippi River that curves around the town, but the meaning goes deeper. A big turn away from isolation. A big turn toward community. A big turn toward the idea that culture doesn’t stop just because conditions get harsh.

There will always be another song to be written. Someone will write it. Why not you? www.garyeandrews.com