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Ber Setlist
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“I’ve never sang in front of pork chops smoke before,” Ber said on her first set at the MPR stage, at the great get-together, the Minnesota State Fair, on a hot Sunday.
Unlike her previous appearances, such as her first show at First Avenue, with Sigrid, in Oct 2022, this Minnesota State Fair show is all acoustic. Not great, as the acoustic music, mostly handled by Brian, does not drown out all the excitement of the spin-the-wheel next door.
We previously mentioned that Ber (originally from Minnesota) moved to London and was ‘discovered’ by Zane Lowe and Travis Mills of Beats 1 and BBC Radio One. When we saw her in 2022, we mentioned that she was working on her debut EP. That EP was called And I’m Still Thinking About That, and since then, she’s released Halfway and Room For You (her latest).
Highlight of her set was her cover of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know.” The original song was somewhat of a duet, the boy parts sung by Goyte, while the girl part was by Kimbra. The first part of the song, you only hear the perspective of Goyte… it isn’t until Kimbra comes in, do you hear the story from her perspective. It’s really a sad and emotional song, and was faithfully covered by Ber… except she sings both parts.
We also got the secret story behind “Your Internet Sucks”, which I’ve always thought was about a British boy that she dated for a year. She tells us one time she was making homemade potato gnocchi for his visit. She said it would take a good three hours to get it ready, and he showed up after driving an hour. He wanted to rest, so she left him alone for a few hours. When she finally came to get him, the whole time he was playing Fortnite on his iPad. Anyway, the song wishes that he has all the inconvenience of life… including the curse of bad internet. That’s cold, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
She ended her set with “Whatever Forever”, with Eric on tambourine.
Of course, this was the great Minnesota State Fair, one of the largest, if not the largest?, in the country, and draws in thousands of Minnesotans. There are plenty of entertainment, fun for the whole family!
If music isn’t your cup of tea, there are corn art, live farm animals, all the food-on-a-stick that you can afford to eat, etc. We saw the Timberworks Lumberjack Show at North Woods Stage, and nearby caught The Chipper Experience, a bit of comedy and magic, at the Family Fair Stage. We previously saw the amazing yo-yo skills of Mark Hayward at the same stage. He jokingly called one of his yo-yo “skullcrusher”, as he demonstrated the “deadly” eye of the hurricane trick to a mother and her daughter.
Dan Patch Park & Stage celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a variety of guests like the Aztec Dance Group and Buffalo Weavers. Over at MPR, they also had Social Dance with Native News, doing demonstrating and teaching a two-step traditional dance to the audience.
Of course, we were there for the music. The biggest free stage is the Leinie Lodge Bandshell Stage, who brought in Rochester, New York’s McKinley James, a 22 year old bluesman.
Kazual was a vocals/a cappella-esque family band of three brothers and a cousin, from Atlanta, Georgia. They mostly covered songs, such as the Temptations, DeBarge, and Justin Timberlake.
Tennessee’s The Dryes (Derek and Katelyn) are big Dolly Parton fans, with their single “Dolly Would”. They also covered “9 to 5” with “Island in the Stream”.
The second-best free stage is the Shell’s Stage at Schilling (in the West End Market). We like the stage, but it’s located all the way west and we didn’t make it out that way much (since most of the smaller stages are located in the center). We only caught High & Rising, a “groovy grass” band from Wisconsin.
Adam Daniel was officially listed at The Hangar, but he managed to sneak in Nici Peper, from Wisconsin, and her first time at the Fair. We previously mentioned Peper opened for Erik Koskinen in Feb 2020. We previously saw Daniel in Sep 2021.
Some restaurants’ events aren’t officially listed on the official MN State Fair’s website, but they would also bring in musicians. We kind of found out Wayne and the Boys was playing at Giggles’ Campfire Grill or that Shane Martin was playing at RC's BBQ. O’Gara mostly brough in Irish entertainment, such as Traditional Irish Piper. Cafe Caribe brought in Chris Lawrence Band, while French Créperie brought in Steve Johnson. International Bazaar Stage always has world music, we saw Pan Dimensions. The Department of Natural Resource brought in Red Rock Swing Band who played every hour or so.
Those are just some of the random bands we saw. Some were by accident; some we intentionally went to their show to check them out. There’s never a dull moment. It is a bit exhausting, walking all of the place… but where else can you get this kind of experience?
Ber at First Avenue (06 Oct 2022)
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We previously mentioned that Ber (originally from Minnesota) moved to London and was ‘discovered’ by Zane Lowe and Travis Mills of Beats 1 and BBC Radio One. When we saw her in 2022, we mentioned that she was working on her debut EP. That EP was called And I’m Still Thinking About That, and since then, she’s released Halfway and Room For You (her latest).
Highlight of her set was her cover of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know.” The original song was somewhat of a duet, the boy parts sung by Goyte, while the girl part was by Kimbra. The first part of the song, you only hear the perspective of Goyte… it isn’t until Kimbra comes in, do you hear the story from her perspective. It’s really a sad and emotional song, and was faithfully covered by Ber… except she sings both parts.
We also got the secret story behind “Your Internet Sucks”, which I’ve always thought was about a British boy that she dated for a year. She tells us one time she was making homemade potato gnocchi for his visit. She said it would take a good three hours to get it ready, and he showed up after driving an hour. He wanted to rest, so she left him alone for a few hours. When she finally came to get him, the whole time he was playing Fortnite on his iPad. Anyway, the song wishes that he has all the inconvenience of life… including the curse of bad internet. That’s cold, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
She ended her set with “Whatever Forever”, with Eric on tambourine.
Of course, this was the great Minnesota State Fair, one of the largest, if not the largest?, in the country, and draws in thousands of Minnesotans. There are plenty of entertainment, fun for the whole family!
If music isn’t your cup of tea, there are corn art, live farm animals, all the food-on-a-stick that you can afford to eat, etc. We saw the Timberworks Lumberjack Show at North Woods Stage, and nearby caught The Chipper Experience, a bit of comedy and magic, at the Family Fair Stage. We previously saw the amazing yo-yo skills of Mark Hayward at the same stage. He jokingly called one of his yo-yo “skullcrusher”, as he demonstrated the “deadly” eye of the hurricane trick to a mother and her daughter.
Dan Patch Park & Stage celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a variety of guests like the Aztec Dance Group and Buffalo Weavers. Over at MPR, they also had Social Dance with Native News, doing demonstrating and teaching a two-step traditional dance to the audience.
Of course, we were there for the music. The biggest free stage is the Leinie Lodge Bandshell Stage, who brought in Rochester, New York’s McKinley James, a 22 year old bluesman.
Kazual was a vocals/a cappella-esque family band of three brothers and a cousin, from Atlanta, Georgia. They mostly covered songs, such as the Temptations, DeBarge, and Justin Timberlake.
Tennessee’s The Dryes (Derek and Katelyn) are big Dolly Parton fans, with their single “Dolly Would”. They also covered “9 to 5” with “Island in the Stream”.
The second-best free stage is the Shell’s Stage at Schilling (in the West End Market). We like the stage, but it’s located all the way west and we didn’t make it out that way much (since most of the smaller stages are located in the center). We only caught High & Rising, a “groovy grass” band from Wisconsin.
Adam Daniel at Minnesota State Fair (06 Sep 2021)
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Some restaurants’ events aren’t officially listed on the official MN State Fair’s website, but they would also bring in musicians. We kind of found out Wayne and the Boys was playing at Giggles’ Campfire Grill or that Shane Martin was playing at RC's BBQ. O’Gara mostly brough in Irish entertainment, such as Traditional Irish Piper. Cafe Caribe brought in Chris Lawrence Band, while French Créperie brought in Steve Johnson. International Bazaar Stage always has world music, we saw Pan Dimensions. The Department of Natural Resource brought in Red Rock Swing Band who played every hour or so.
Those are just some of the random bands we saw. Some were by accident; some we intentionally went to their show to check them out. There’s never a dull moment. It is a bit exhausting, walking all of the place… but where else can you get this kind of experience?
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