The summer festival season is here

Outdoor Mexican festival.
Outdoor Mexican festival at K-Mart on Lake Street.
MPR Photo/SandenTotten

The Festival of Nations opens today at downtown St. Paul's Rivercentre, and with it, the beginning of Minnesota's summer festival season.

That includes everything from Perham's Turtlefest to Steamboat Days in Winona to Kandi is Dandy Days in Kandiyohi.

Morning Edition arts commentator and St. Paul Pioneer Press theater critic Dominic Papatola discusses this summer's happenings.

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