Fire In The Village Presents:

DECOLONIZE THANKSGIVING 3.0

with Annie Humphrey, David Huckfelt and Special Guests

 

The Hook & Ladder is proud to host “Decolonize Thanksgiving 3.0”, a very special Indigenous concert and different perspective on the holiday.  New arts and cultural organizing collective, Fire in the Village, is pleased to announce the inaugural Fire in the Village: Art & Music Tour of the upper Midwest this September, October & November. Evening concerts led by Village co-founders and touring songwriters Annie Humphrey & David Huckfelt (formerly of The Pines) will follow community art workshops led by Village artist and organizer Shanai Matteson. Concerts will open with a mini-fashion show featuring designs by Annie Humphrey and Terri “T- Bazz” Laduke. Music will be accompanied by videos & multimedia art activations, the contributions of guitarist and producer Jeremy Ylvisaker and other guest artists. 

 

Fire in the Village is a new arts collective led by Humphrey (Leech Lake Reservation), Huckfelt (Minneapolis, and Matteson (rural Aitkin County). The goals of the group are to create art and culture experiences in small communities and cities to remind people that we are made of earth, and we are power. These concerts and workshops center on themes of shared connection with land and water, the importance of free thinking and creative expression, and care for our communities in tumultuous times. “Our Fire in the village tour brings music, storytelling, visual art and an all-inclusive spirit. The purpose of this tour is to gather and create together, so that we will recognize the very real
power that is within each of us.” said Village artist Annie Humphrey. 

Growing up on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota, Annie lived in a home filled with voices made of thunder and nothing could stop it.  Her parents were brilliant people individually.  Her father, a singer and musician and her mother an artist and poet.  Together they made sadness.  Each of her parents taught Annie the beautiful things they knew.  They showed her that she carried their gifts in her hands too.  This is how creating art and music came about for her.  This is  what saved her.  This is how she lives now.

 

David Huckfelt is a singer/ lyricist /activist and founding frontman of Minneapolis indie-folk cult favorites The Pines.  An Iowa native and former theology student, Huckfelt attended the Iowa Writers Workshop before turning his attention to songwriting and performing.  With improvisational mastery, Huckfelt’s shows and songs of no-spiritual-surrender have earned him a devoted following from small-town opera houses & theaters to national festival stages like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Edmonton and Calgary Folk Fests, and the legendary First Avenue mainroom, sharing stages with Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, Bon Iver, Calexico, Trampled By Turtles & more.  An early encounter and collaboration with radical Native American poet John Trudell introduced Huckfelt as friend & partner to an array of Indigenous artists & activists including Winona LaDuke, Louise Erdrich, & Keith Secola, working for climate justice and tribal sovereignty under the banner of music + resistance.  With roots in the same fertile Midwestern soil that produced legendary folk singers like John Prine and Greg Brown, David’s new solo work preserves a rugged optimism that blasts through layers of dark in real time with songs that speak volumes, soft & clear.