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Kind music for kind people. Kind Country is a Minneapolis based band that plays American standards as well as their own brand of Cosmic American music. Since their formation in 2012, the band has focused on creating live performances with high levels of improvisation and energy gathering with a goal of creating a moment of musical bliss that can be shared by audience members and band alike.
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Mary Bue is a songwriter, Nada yogi, traveler, runner, vegan, retreat guide, music + yoga teacher based out of Minneapolis, often roaming this beautiful world. Her newest album 'The World is Your Lover' (produced by the Suburbs’ Steve Price) is a synthesis of her previous seven-plus releases, merging pianos and guitars, spiritual longing, and real-world sorrow.
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The Belfast Cowboys are a nine-piece band that specializes in the music of Van Morrison. They have become one of Minnesota's (and The Hook & Ladder's) most popular bands, traveling only when their feet get itchy or the offer is too good to refuse. The band features several veterans of the Minneapolis music scene, including singer Terry Walsh and sax man Vic Volare.
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Local songwriters Mother Banjo and Art Vandalay present their 12th annual "Big Fat Love" tribute show, bringing together some of the Twin Cities' top Americana talent to celebrate John Prine’s birthday. This year's event will feature songs from John Prine’s illustrious songwriting career that has spanned over 45 years, featuring some unique interpretations of some of Prine’s lesser known classics along with some of his more famous songs like "Angel From Montgomery," "Paradise," "Illegal Smile" and "Hello In There."
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The Black-eyed Snakes, a genre-bending electric blues band from Duluth, Minnesota! Alan Sparhawk (LOW, Retribution Gospel Choir) formed the Black-eyed Snakes in 2000 with Bob Olson on guitar and Brad Nelson on drums. The following year the outfit was named Minnesota’s Best New Band by Minneapolis’ City Pages. “In his beat-thwacking, voice-distorting, primal blooze threesome,” wrote Peter Scholtes about the award, “he has something to tell us, and it goes a little something like this: ‘People, have you heard of a better day?’ … ‘That’s called hope.’ … Black Eyed Snakes fans seem caught up in that old Minnesota yearning for a Southern blur of intemperance and contrition, Saturday night and Sunday morning rolled into one.”
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John Munson and Dylan Hicks have worked together in a variety of contexts, most recently as frontmen for Munson-Hicks Party Supplies, whose debut album comes out in the fall of 2020. For that project, Munson is the principal singer and bassist, Hicks the songwriter and pianist. Munson, a founding member of Semisonic, the New Standards, and Trip Shakespeare, was also musical director for Minnesota Public Radio’s Wits. Hicks is a musician, critic, and the author of the novels Boarded Windows and Amateurs.
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This Minnesota Women/Femmes/Trans/Non-Binary Folk songwriting collective was started in late 2019, with the following objectives: Creating songs to raise Minneapolis women's voices; Supporting sexual assault survivors; Raising funds for Planned Parenthood. All the songwriters involved were asked to write and record an original song on the subject of #MeToo. Without any further guidelines, the artists delivered songs ranging from heartbreaking songs about surviving sexual assault to inspiring songs about feminist icons and their influence on their lives.
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A Grateful Dead Experience! #
HookStream - Live Streaming Concert Fundraisers for Minnesota Artists and The Hook & Ladder Theater
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HookStream – Live Streaming Concert Fundraisers for Minnesota Artists and The Hook & Ladder Theater - “Rootsy singer Sarah Morris offers a Norah Jones-like approach to Americana, smoothing overs its rough edges with a butter-velvety voice and an intimate songwriting style.”
~ Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune
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