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Mark Joseph and Heatbox at The Fitzgerald Theater (11-18-2023)

11/18 Mark Joseph and Heatbox with Melvin Seals of Jerry Garcia Band at The Fitzgerald Theater Read More Heatbox It’s a dual album release show for Mark Joseph’s Palisade Peach and Heatbox’s Hilarious & Epically Legendary at the Fitzgerald Theater in St Paul on November 18th. … Mark Joseph We randomly saw Joseph in Aug 2015 and mentioned, “We grab some crab cakes at the Café Caribe and followed the music... which led to Mark Joseph Project. He played some Caribbean-inspired songs with reggae jams …

It was double the fun at The Fitzgerald Theater Saturday night with a dual album release party with local musicians Mark Joseph and Heatbox bringing the funk, blues, R&B and plenty of soul.

Joseph was so excited to get the party started that he almost forgot to plug in his guitar. “Everyone ready,” he asked the gathering musicians on stage. “All 29 of us.” It wasn't quite that many, but a lot of friends joined him to celebrate the release of his fourth album Palisade Peach.

Mark Joseph (27 Aug 2015)

In an interview Joseph told American Highways that when he saw BB King at ten years-old his path was set. He would adopt the role of the rambling blues musician, playing 200+ shows a year, playing anywhere, playing as a full-time guitarist for The Big Wu, forming Momentary Lapse of Floyd to play Pink Floyd’s The Wall with The Twin Cities Ballet. We even caught him in 2015 at the Minnesota State Fair playing at Cafe Caribe.

“Not quite a Prairie Home Companion,” Joseph laughed after finishing a couple of rousing interpretations of Robert Johnson’s “Come on in My Kitchen” and “I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom” with Stanley Beres providing solos on harmonica and tenor sax.

It wasn’t Delta blues with one musician wailing on an acoustic guitar. It was Chicago style with loud electric guitars and plenty of collaboration with The North Side Horns providing the pomp, Steph Devine and Jill Mikelson providing the sultry backup vocals, Toby Marshall on the Hammond and Steve McCormick, the right-hand-man on Joseph’s left providing the slide guitar.

A highlight of the evening was the title song of Palisade Peach where Joseph and McCormick launched into a dynamite guitar duo that had the hair on the back of my neck shaking.

As an added bonus Melvin Seals from the Jerry Garcia Band joined the group to provide some extra sauce on the Hammond for songs like “Deep Ellum Blues” and Wilson Pickett’s “Wait Until the Midnight Hour.”

After a fifteen minute intermission Heatbox aka Aaron Heaton took the stage.

Heaton is from Northeast Minneapolis. He started out as a beatboxer, loop artist and voice actor, but four years before he sat in a St. Paul coffee shop with his long time friend, Joseph, and expressed a vision of them both not only releasing albums but having an epic release party. And there he was singing songs from his Hilarious & Epically Legendary, a perfect title for an artist whose lyrics are in the vein of “Weird Al” Yankovic with the soul of an R&B artist.

Heaton’s goal for the debut album: To straddle the line between awesome and totally stupid. And did he succeed. After all, who else is going to do a slow-jam about how to properly drive on the highway in “Zipper Merge.” Who else is going to combine James Brown’s “I Feel Good” with tap dancers. Who else is going to sing in all serious “Funky Baby Song” while his right hand and hype man plays a solo on a space flute. Who else is going to do an R & B love song about a “Stupid Fence” and have Joseph come out and provide an epic guitar solo.

A personal favorite was "Inigo Montoya” in which Heaton reenacted a major subplot to The Princess Bride with passionate Flamenco vibrato. Then it was both bands finishing the epic evening by playing Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al.”

By then there were close to 29 people on stage.

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Heatbox and Mark Joseph at Fitzgerald Theater, St Paul (18 Nov 2023)

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Talking Volumes, with Viet Thanh Nguyen, at the Fitzgerald Theater, St Paul (24 Oct 2023)

10/24 Talking Volumes with Viet Thanh Nguyen hosted by Kerri Miller at The Fitzgerald Theater Highlights Saigon Moi Viet Thanh sitting in the woods Excerpt from A Man of Two Faces D'Lourdes: “Now and Then” Cancelled 92NY event Viet Thanh and his brother Parents in America Mother in Ao Dai Excerpt from A Man of Two Faces D'Lourdes: “Brings Me To Tears” Questions and Answers Book Signing Read More Viet Thanh Nguyen Talking Volumes is hosted by award-winning journalist Kerri Miller, who will be interview/talking to Vietnamese/American author Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Fitzgerald Theater in St Paul, on October 24th. …

Professor and novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen was the special guest for Talking Volumes, hosted by award-winning journalist and MPR News host Kerri Miller.

The show is recorded live at the Fitzgerald Theater, and will air on MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) and online at a later date. You can tune in on October 27 to hear the hour-long conversation with Nguyen and his unconventional memoir A Man of Two Faces.

Miller would bring up a couple of photos from Nguyen’s past to get the conversation going. For example, showing a photo of his parents’ store Saigon Moi, we got to hear how they were the first Vietnamese grocery store in San Jose. He said he never worked in the store, but would count the money as the “family accountant”.

There were two excerpt readings from his book, and immediately after the excerpt, we were treated with a song, sung by Filipina-American, singer-songwriter D’Lourdes. She played two demos, “Now and Then” and “Brings Me To Tears”. Miller had a brief chat with the singer, who was apparently experiencing “cold season.”

After the interview/conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen ended, they opened the floor for questions and answers. It seems there were a lot of Vietnamese/American fans in the audience, some waiting to ask their questions.

The most interesting one was about the upcoming HBO Max television show, The Sympathizer, based on Nguyen’s debut novel of the same name. The book had won numerous awards, including the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

According to Nguyen, they are filming in Thailand (since they weren’t allowed to film in Vietnam). The show will feature star Robert Downey Jr., but he promised that everyone else cast in the show are Vietnamese or Asian actors (Hoa Xuande, Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Ky Duyen, and Sandra Oh).

The best part is that it’s co-showrun by Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) and Don McKellar, and production is by my new favorite distributor/studio A24 (as I previously mentioned in 2022).

After the Q&A, fans lined up to get their books autographed.

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new memoir A Man of Two Faces is out now on Grove Press.

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Clannad at The Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul MN (2023-10-01)

10/01 Clannad at The Fitzgerald Theater Clannad Setlist Buachaill Ón Éirne translation: Boy from Ireland dTigeas a Damhsa translation: Will you Come Dancing Thíos Chois Na Trá Domh translation: Down by the Seaside Eleanor Plunkett Fairly Shot of Her Crann Úll translation: The Apple Tree Éirigh Is Cuir Ort Do Chuid Éadaigh translation: Rise Up My Love or Get Up & Put on Your Clothes Two Sisters Newgrange Thíos Fán Chósta translation: Down by the Coastlinef Robin (The Hooded Man) / Herne / Lady Marian / Strange Land / Ancient Forest -- Set II -- Caislean Óir translation: Golden Castle In a Lifetime Rhapsody na gCrann translation: Rhapsody of the Trees Hourglass Mhorag 'S Na Horo Gheallaidh (Mill Workers Song) A Celtic Dream Níl Sé Ina Lá translation: Not Yet Daytime I Will Find You Closer to Your Heart Harry's Game Dúlamán translation: Seaweed -- Encore -- Teidhir Abhaile Riú translation: Away Home with You Tour Dates Oct 5 Los Angeles Orpheum Theatre Oct 6 San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts Oct 7 Sacramento Crest Theatre Oct 9 Seattle Benaroya Hall Read More Clannad Irish band Clannad (which means "family" in Gaelic) is making a rare US appearance at the Fitzgerald Theater in St Paul, playing their last-ever show just over a week later in Seattle before retirement. The band started in the 1970s .…

One of their final bows- long-awaited in St. Paul, and fifty-three years in the making,

Legendary Irish band Clannad (from the word clan meaning ‘family’ in Gaelic) made a much-anticipated stop in downtown St. Paul for one of the last dates of their In A Lifetime- Farewell Tour at the Fitzgerald Theater, close to wrapping a final tour that began back in Belfast in 2020.

The family musical collective from County Donegal was initially formed in 1970 by siblings Moya, Ciarán, and Pól Brennan and their twin uncles Pádraig and Noel Duggan (who sadly both passed away respectively in 2016 and 2022), and for a short time, became a six-piece with the addition of Enya (Brennan) who went on to have her own highly successful solo career.

Over the last five decades while amassing over 15million in album sales, the band has made music that merges the traditional and the modern, both in themes and lyrics as well as their use of instruments; but at their core, they remain essentially the same familial band playing and harmonizing together, as when they first began.

Their latest release is 2020’s career-spanning anthology In a Lifetime (named after their 1985 worldwide hit with Bono and a digital Immersive Version was released in 2022) and features two new songs produced by the equally legendary Trevor Horn.

St. Paul, as you might expect, has a large Irish-originating population and the band hasn’t toured the States much in general, having not come to the area for decades, so much excitement surrounded, and the concert was also presented by the Celtic Junction Arts Center.

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The first of their two sets leaned more on the traditional and earliest songs of their career, with the Brennan siblings first appearing on stage as a trio, soon to be joined by drummer Ged Lynch and Moya’s two children, Aisling and Paul Jarvis (who have their own solo careers and a band project called Banyah), in keeping with the family initiative.

1985’s “Buachaill Ón Éirne” (Boy from Ireland) from their international breakout album, Macalla, introduced the set, expressing (in Gaelic) that it’s better to have loved and lost, than not at all, and 1976’s “dTigeas a Damhsa” is a children’s song that invites all to dance.

Pól Brennan, the most animated of the main three on stage, introduced “Thíos Chois Na Trá Domh” from their first album in 1973, as the first Gaelic song they sang on stage, a ballad that translates to Down by the Seaside. “Eleanor Plunkett / Fairly Shot of Her” began as mostly instrumental, about whiskey and women, and 1980’s “Crann Úll” (The Apple Tree) was described as a work song of the farmer, encouraging that when one moves, all move, in order for presumably more efficient harvesting.

1976’s “Éirigh Is Cuir Ort Do Chuid Éadaigh” translates as roughly, Get Up and Put on Your Clothes, and is actually a song about forbidden love and the pair dashing away to elope, and Moya (who also played harp for most of the show) taught the audience the chorus of the nine-verse, “Two Sisters”. Instruments and sound structures turned more modern with 1983’s “Newgrange” from their Magical Ring album, as electronic keyboards helped create visions of mist, cliffs, green hills, and ancient stone.

From the same album, “Thíos Fán Chósta” spoke of conserving Earth’s resources, a theme as or more valid today, and the set would end with a massive Robin Hood medley, culled from their 1984 soundtrack of ITV’s popular Robin of Sherwood series, and a score that would win the group a UK BAFTA Award.

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After a brief intermission, the second set began with the ethereal “Caislean Óir” (The Golden Castle) and “In a Lifetime”, both from the landmark Macalla album, with daughter Aisling Jarvis filling in ably, with a gentler but fitting vocal in Bono’s place. Moya would describe the track as having been helped “by a young fella from Dublin- he couldn’t be here tonight because he’s very busy in Las Vegas”, which had the audience laughing.

From their last full album, 2013’s “Rhapsody na gCrann” again found nature as a subject and translates to Rhapsody of the Trees and Pól spoke of universal tolerance for all, being the inspiration for “Hourglass”. A return to the traditional again, on 1982’s “Mhorag's na horo Gheallaidh”, a milling song about a working girl and cloth-making from jute plants, followed by the newest- one of the two recent tracks recorded with producer Trevor Horn.

Rubberband-ing back five decades, it was again to their first album for “Níl Sé'n Lá” another Irish drinking song about staying in the pub (It’s Not Yet Daytime) and the crowd applauded louder following an epic, stirring “I Will Find You” from The Last of the Mohicans film soundtrack.

The band dedicated “Closer to the Heart” to the audience itself, thanking them for the years of loyalty, with upright bassist Ciarán joking that “a lot of Guinness was flyin” when he wrote the upbeat song. The crowd was at an absolute hush for “Theme from Harry’s Game” from a TV series about ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland in the early 80’s, and a selection that U2 ended every concert with, over the loudspeakers from 1983-1987.

The set would end with 1976’s “Dúlamán”, an early hit from the band about “everything seaweed” related and was expanded and extended with room for additional bass and drum mini solos, to finish with flair.

Though two songs were on the printed setlist, the band wisely decided to eschew the ballad and end the evening with the traditional “Teidhir Abhaile Riú “, recorded on their second album. This was an energetic matchmaking song that translates roughly as You Can Go Home Tonight, which also had the audience clapping and dancing along to Pól on tin whistle and the swirling rhythms.

And with that, and to a roar of sustained and standing applause, Clannad took their final-ever group bow in the Midwest, with only a few West Coast shows left on their last tour itinerary before they completely finish next week.

Fifty-three years as a band has been In a Lifetime, and the chance to see Clannad before they fully retire, is a fortunate and ‘can’t miss’ experience for anyone near any of the remaining venues.

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Clannad at The Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul MN (2023-10-01)

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News: First Avenue now requires proof of vaccination

Read More Waxahatchee Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this coming week, First Avenue & 7th St. Entry have been the heart of the Minnesota music scene since its first show (featuring Joe Cocker) in a converted bus station originally called The Depot, then Sam's ...

With rising COVID-19 cases, due to the delta variant, First Avenue (which also includes 7th Street Entry, Turf Club, Fine Line Music Café, Palace Theatre, and Fitzgerald) announced that they are requiring all guests and patrons to show proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 72 hours, according to the Star Tribune .

The sudden announcement came out on Monday, so those who already paid for a concert, but don’t meet the requirements… you can ask for a refund.

We’ve attended a few shows last month, and can say that most fans in attendance did not wear masks or had a care in the world. Will full, or near capacity, of my recent shows, I can easily see that someone with the virus could easily infect everyone in the room.

With the new rules announced, local venue Hook & Ladder announced they’ll also follow suit. Once all the other local Minnesota venues open back up again, it would probably make sense that they’ll also have the same requirements.

The Cedar Cultural Center announced that they’ve just recently re-opened August 3rd, 2021, but made no mentioning of the vaccine requirements.

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Tegan and Sara at Fitzgerald Theater, St Paul (13 Oct 2019)

Tegan & Sara at Fitzgerald Theater Tegan and Sara Setlist Hey, I’m Just Like You Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie) Keep Them Close ’Cause They Will F*** You Too I’ll Be Back Someday Boyfriend (Sara solo) Divided I Was a Fool (Tegan solo) Call It Off Closer Back in Your Head White Knuckles Please Help Me Where Does the Good Go Read More Tegan & Sara Tegan and Sara are back with their "Let's Make Things Physical Tour." The last time we saw the Quin sisters at First Avenue last year, they played practically every song from their latest album Heartthrobs. …

“Global LGBTQ icons” Tegan and Sara sold out their Fitzgerald Theater, in St Paul, on Sunday, October 13th. If you arrived early, there’s a small chance that you might get an upgrade on your seating. We were seated in the back of the venue, but right before the show started, the ushers came and moved closer to the front of the stage (to fill in any empty seats from late comers or no-shows).

This current Hey, I'm Just Like You tour is unlike previous T&S tours. First of all, it’s a very personal show… both for Tegan and Sara and their fans. It’s also a book tour, for High School, in addition to their new album, Hey, I’m Just Like You.

Since it’s partly a book reading show, they asked that we turn off our phones and remain in our seats (if we have to leave, they ask that you wait until they start playing music).

Between each song, the Tegan and Sara read excerpts from their memoir and showed some home videos. It’s to show us that, they’re “just like us”, that they came from humble beginning. Everything is laid out here, from their first taste of music (discovering a guitar under the staircase) to discovering their sexual awakening.

It’s interesting to note that prior to Sara falling in love with her best friend Naomi, that Tegan and Sara shared everything. For the first time, Sara had a secret that she kept from her sister, and it was a weird time for them.

Eventually, during the course of the show, that you find out that although the two didn’t really talk about their secrets… but it was out in the open all along in their songs.

Each book reading really give new insights and context to the songs they had written. Some of these songs were written when they were 16 years old, but it shows a sign of maturity that goes beyond their age.

While this show was a very special and meaningful tour for their diehard fans, I wouldn’t recommend it for casual T&S fans. This isn’t the “Everything is Awesome” tour, and they’re not going to play the hits. However, for those who love T&S and want to know everything about what makes them Tegan & Sara, this is a must-see (and hear) show.

This is another debate altogether, but in 2016, we wrote about how T&S’ overexposed pop-ness lead a divide in their fanbase. It feels like the Quinn sisters are returning to their teenage songs and perhaps leaving the pop stardom world behind? I guess we’ll find out with the next album.

Tegan & Sara’s new album Hey, I’m Just Like You is out now on Sire Records.

PS, photos were allowed on their final song, “Where Does the Good Go”.

Tour dates:

10/19 – Toronto, ON – Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre
10/22 – Ottawa, ON – Algonquin Commons Theatre
10/23 – Montreal, QC – Corona Theatre
10/25 – Boston, MA – Wilbur Theatre
10/26 – Glenside, PA – Keswick Theatre
10/27 – Washington, DC – Lincoln Theatre
10/29 – Nashville, TN – CMA Theater
10/30 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
11/1 – Austin, TX – State Theatre (early & late shows)

Tegan and Sara at Fitzgerald Theater, St Paul (13 Oct 2019)

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Lucius at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul (10 May 2019)

Lucius at Fitzgerald Lucius Setlist Dusty Trails Tempest Right Down the Line (Gerry Rafferty cover) Something About You Sweet and Tender Romance (McKinleys cover) Go Home Feels Like a Curse (Laurels string interlude) Madness Turn It Around Most of What I Know (Richard Swift cover) w/ Pure Bathing Culture, How Loud Your Heart Gets Woman -- Encore -- True Love Will Find You in the End (Daniel Johnston cover) > Two of Us on the Run A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes (Ilene Woods cover) Pure Bathing Culture Setlist Twins Pendulum All Night Veil Devotion Singer Temples of the Moon Ivory Coast Tour Dates 17/05/2019 The Rialto Theatre, Tucson, AZ 18/05/2019 Pappy & Harriet's, Pioneertown, CA 22/05/2019 The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA 08/06/2019 Iroquois Amphitheater, Louisville, KY 13/06/2019 Three Rivers Arts Festival 2019 Pittsburgh, PA 14/06/2019 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD 23/06/2019 Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 24/06/2019 Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 26/06/2019 Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 28/06/2019 Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 29/06/2019 Huntington Bank Pavilion, Chicago, IL 05/07/2019 SPAC), Saratoga Springs, NY 06/07/2019 Bethel Woods Center, Bethel, NY 07/07/2019 Prescott Park, Portsmouth, NH 12/07/2019 Forecastle Festival , Louisville, KY 13/07/2019 The Barns, Whitefish, MT 14/07/2019 Under the Big Sky Whitefish, MT 19/07/2019 Comerica Theatre, Phoenix, AZ 20/07/2019 Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA 21/07/2019 Brooklyn Bowl - Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 23/07/2019 Red Butte Garden Amph Salt Lake City, UT 24/07/2019 River Run Lodge, Ketchum, ID 25/07/2019 Outlaw Field , Boise, ID 25-28/07/2019 Calgary Folk Music , AB, Canada 26-28/07/2019 Interstellar Rodeo , Edmonton, AB, Canada 30/07/2019 PNE Amphitheatre, Vancouver, BC, Canada 02-04 /08/2019 Pickathon Pendarvis Farm, Happy Valley, OR 21/09/2019 Greek Theatre-UC. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 22/09/2019 Greek Theatre-UC. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 29/01/2020-02/02/2020 Girls Just Wanna Weekend , Mexico Read More Lucius At their Rock the Garden show, Lucius previewed a new song (“Dusty Trails”), which just appeared on their latest album Good Grief. … Pure Bathing Culture Pure Bathing Culture opened up the show, playing a forty-minute set of songs like "Dream The Dare" from their debut Moon Tides album, out now on Partisan Records. Their sound is often compared to …

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...sounds somewhat scandalous, but in fact, it was indie vocal group Lucius and openers Pure Bathing Culture returning together, for a mellow but very enjoyable evening at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, on the first of a two-night stand.

We previously thought Pure Bathing Culture was a fine musical accompaniment to the headliner when we saw them together in early 2016 , then were lucky enough to have them return a few months later as a headliner. This time out, they were performing as a duo (for the first time in a long time - Sarah Versprille – vocals/keys and guitarist Daniel Hindman) in support of their newly released third full-length, Night Pass (on Infinite Companion Records).

The new album’s themes center around perseverance and the lasting strength of love, exemplified best on lead single ‘Devotion’ and the new ‘All Night’, with Versprille singing “All night I'll run with you

'til black in the sky turns blue”. Musically, there is a West Coast gentleness, touches of dream pop and ‘80s influence, and a musical curiosity that wonders instead of wanders, and they closed with one of their first songs ever written, early single ‘Ivory Coast’ from their 2012 EP.

The mutual love affair between the Twin Cities and Lucius continues – the LA by-way-of Brooklyn foursome (led by Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, with Dan Molad and Peter Lalish) has played the area very regularly in the last several years-- from venues as small as radio studio and record store appearances, to as large as arenas, as part of Roger Waters’ band on his last world tour.

Their latest release is last year’s Nudes (on Mom+Pop Music) a collection of acoustic versions, new songs, and even a duet with Waters himself, and the band is best known for Wolfe and Laessig’s heavenly harmonies and their synchronous style, in identical dresses (in red fringe and armor-like leggings this night) and hairstyles, singing into a single shared mic.

After starting quietly with 2015’s ‘Dusty Trails’, early single ‘Tempest’ turned up the tempo and a Gerry Rafferty cover proved again popular, as we also heard it recently from New Zealand singer Aldous Harding as well. Another cover song done early in their eighty-minute set was a 1964 song by The McKinleys (the original of which featured a young session man named Jimmy Page on guitar), their version of which was recorded in Chicago with Jeff Tweedy, but remains yet unreleased.

After a soaring ‘Go Home’, they cheekily said “not yet” to the crowd, making themselves laugh as much as the crowd. Wolfe told the story of staying at the venue pre-gig, while Laessig made her way to (presumably) Meritage for oysters and wine, which ended up being paid for by a couple of local fans, “I made the wrong choice” Wolfe said about staying behind and just sipping bone broth.

Three of the local string section Laurels Quartet joined the band for their two evening stand, adding a polish and elegance to the songs they sat in on, especially noteworthy as they ended the somber ‘Feels Like a Curse’ with a stirring interlude.

After big hit, ‘Turn it Around’, the group brought back out Pure Bathing Culture for an emotional cover of ‘Most of What I Know’ originally done by late artist and producer Richard Swift, who was once a member of The Shins and The Arcs (playing with Dan Auerbach also as a live member of The Black Keys) and had produced the likes of Nathaniel Rateliff and Damien Jurado. His untimely death still resonates with both acts, as Pure Bathing Culture dedicated their last song to Swift as well.

The new ‘Woman’ closed the main set, a song about parting ways but not wanting to do so, setting up the encore perfectly. The three-song encore was a dreamy and hopeful lullaby of a send-off, beginning with a 1985 Daniel Johnston cover (again proving the band can dig deep for the right song) which led into their own ‘Two of Us on the Run’ from 2013.

“It feels like home to be here” Wolfe said about playing locally, explaining it is the people and their fans that make their shows special, and is not something they take for granted. “And with that, we’ll leave you with a little lullaby, that hopefully pulls at your heartstrings, as you’ve done for us”, Wolfe said as they finished acapella with a Disney classic song from 1950’s ‘Cinderella’.

“No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true” Lucius sang, ending things with a ray of hope, light, and (literal) harmony.

 

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Jon Anderson at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul (20 April 2019)

Jon Anderson at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul (20 April 2019) Jon Anderson Setlist Set 1     Intro: Ocean Song Owner of a Lonely Heart* Yours Is No Disgrace* Ramalama State of Independence^ Makes Me Happy I've Seen All Good People (Your Move / All Good People) America (Simon & Garfunkel cover) WDMCF Set 2 Flight of the Moorglade Sweet Dreams* To the Runner Long Distance Runaround* First Born Leaders 1000 Hands (Come Up) Starship Trooper / Solid Space* -- Encore -- Roundabout* * Yes song ^ Jon and Vangelis song Band Jon Anderson - Vocals/Guitar Michael Franklin - Keys Tim Franklin - Bass Tommy Calton - Guitar Rayford Griffin - Drums Steady Joseph - Percussion Jocelyn Hsu - Violin/Ukelele Joe Cosas - Keyboards/Trombone/Guitar Billy Meether - Saxophones/Flute/Clarinet Tour Dates 24 April 2019 Humphreys Concerts, San Diego, CA 26 April 2019 Saban Theatre, Beverly Hills, CA 27 April 2019 Cannery Casino , North Las Vegas, NV 30 April 2019 The Van Buren, Phoenix, AZ 06 May 2019 Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN 08 May 2019 Capitol Theatre Clearwater, FL 10 May 2019 Dr Phillips Center, Orlando FL 11 May 2019 Beau Rivage Theatre, Biloxi, MS 12 May 2019 Kaboo Festival Arlington, TX 29 July 2019 Ocean City Music Pier, Ocean City, NJ 08 August 2019 Rocking the Riverfront Detroit, MI 29 August 2019 The Rose, Pasadena, CA 30 August 2019 Libbey Bowl, Ojai, CA 01 September 2019 The Canyon Montclair, Montclair, CA Read More Yes One of the most successful, influential progressive rock band in the world is Yes. In 1983, the band changed lineup (with Trevor Rabin) and concentrated mostly on more commercial and pop-oriented music. A second Yes band called Yes Featuring Jon Anderson …

Some albums takes days, weeks, or months to complete-- some take twenty-nine years…!

The latter was the case with former Yes vocalist Jon Anderson’s new solo record, 1000 Hands: Chapter One, begun as some between-album sessions in Big Bear, CA in 1990 with a former pre-Yes bandmate (and Yes’ Alan White and Chris Squire contributing), only to be shelved away in Anderson’s garage until a 2016 call from producer/keyboardist Michael Franklin re-awakened the project, who used those original tapes as the basis for a finished new album.

Anderson and band (including Franklin) brought some of the new songs to life, along with numerous classic songs, at a joyous and intimate show in St. Paul at the Fitzgerald Theater. The performance had no opener, and was split into two sets, with a brief intermission between, with the help of eight backing musicians in front of a video screen split into six long vertical sections that would show colors, patterns, and shapes as the songs progressed.

With a setlist that was one-third new album, one-third misc. solo, and one-third Yes songs, there was something for everyone, and the performance would also lean heavily on Anderson’s first solo album, with four tracks (including the intro music) from 1976’s Olias of Sunhillow played. The initial forty-five minute set immediately pricked up ears and eyes with 1983’s ‘Owner of a Lonely Heart’, the one and only song that would top the Billboard Hot 100 chart for Yes.

The classic ‘Yours is No Disgrace’ followed with the new ‘Ramalama’ sounding like late 80’s Yes with its ‘Leave It’ style acapella multi-layered harmonies beginning the song and continuing throughout. Similar to when we last saw Anderson with Jean-Luc Ponty, 1981’s ‘State of Independence’ had an elegant sheen about its revised arrangement, compliments of Franklin’s keys and violinist Jocelyn Hsu’s sweeping strings.

Spring was finally in the air outside, and reflected inside by Anderson’s sunny new ‘Makes Me Happy’ and a reggae-style version of ‘Your Move’ which led into a more familiar rock ‘All Good People’. ‘America’ has been a live Yes standard, with Anderson’s solo version having some swing and jazz elements injected, and he said announcing the intermission before the new ‘WDMCF ‘ that “We’ll have one more song, then we’ll lay down and have a cup of tea”.

The tea and twenty minutes away must have worked wonders because Anderson visibly seemed like he found a second wind and the vocals were even more emphatic and soaring, as the second set progressed. The band made their way to the front, surrounding Anderson initially as he re-visited Olias of Sunhillow, with ‘Flight of the Moorglade’ then went back to 1970 for Yes’ ‘Sweet Dreams’.

After a stirring ‘Long Distance Runaround’, Anderson confessed he never actually planned on singing the new ‘First Born Leaders’ live, but had a change of heart and asked the audience to forgive him as he needed a lyric sheet (and had keywords written on cue cards in front of him) in case he blanked on the song’s complex verse.

Before the new album’s title track, Anderson recalled the story of the lost tapes becoming the basis of the new record and the producer having to bake the thirty-year old reels, reactivating them to playback and be properly digitized. The Yes classic ‘Starship Trooper’ would end the main portion, with Anderson taking things full circle one final time, by adding part of Olias of Sunhillow’s ‘Solid Space’ onto the end, to finish the set.

Anderson’s wife Jane, who had been gleefully watching the show from up front disappeared before the encore, only to be seen (if you had the right vantage point) side stage as the musicians returned for the encore of Yes’ ‘Roundabout’. At the song’s instrumental break, Anderson dashed off stage to embrace his wife smiling, and swung her about in a brief lovely dance together behind the curtain, before he returned to the mic at just the precise second to finish the song.

The sound that would commence following would be more than1000 hands, all clapping and waving, with a standing ovation, as Anderson and band bowed, waved, and left the stage.

Anderson has hinted that he is open to a Yes reunion for their fiftieth anniversary, having already written eight prospective new songs for the occasion; but in the meantime, we have a fine new solo album, a lively tour, and Jon Anderson singing at his best level in years- bravo.

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Jon Anderson at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul (20 April 2019)

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Todd Snider at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul (12 April 2019)

Todd Snider 2019 Album Release Tour Todd Snider Setlist East Nashville Skyline Age Like Wine D.B. Cooper The Ballad of the Kingsmen Just Like Overnight The Ghost Of Johnny Cash Talking Reality Television Blues Conservative Christian, Right Wing, Republican, Straight, White, American Males Ballad of the Devil's Backbone Tavern Greencastle Blues Too Soon to Tell The Blues on Banjo Working on a Song Beer Run Alright Guy Play a Train Song Can't Complain -- Encore -- A Timeless Response To Current Events Like a Force of Nature > Blowin’ in the Wind (verse, Bob Dylan cover) Chicago Farmer Setlist Dirtiest Uniforms Indiana Line Umbrella Deer in the Sky Watch Doctor The Twenty Dollar Bill Backseat Tour Dates APR 20 Ryman Auditorium Nashville, TN APR 23 The Sheldon Concert Hall a St. Louis, MO APR 25 Sondheim Ctr for P.A. Fairfield, IA APR 26 Wooly's Des Moines, IA APR 27 Cavalier Theater and Lounge La Crosse, WI APR 28 Redstone Room Davenport, IA APR 30 20th Century Theater Cincinnati, OH MAY 2 The Jefferson Theater Charlottesville, VA MAY 3 The Rex Pittsburgh, PA MAY 4 Rams Head On Stage Annapolis, MD MAY 14 Duling Hall Jackson, MS MAY 16 Paramount Theatre Austin, TX MAY 17 John T. Floore's Country Store Helotes, TX MAY 18 The Kessler Theater Dallas, TX MAY 19 The Heights Theater Houston, TX MAY 21 Cain's Ballroom Tulsa, OK MAY 22 The Folly Theater KC, MO MAY 24 Fox Cities Performing Arts Center Appleton, WI MAY 25 Overture Center for the Arts Madison, WI MAY 29 The Bourbon Theatre Lincoln, NE MAY 30 The Fargo Theatre Fargo, ND MAY 31 Northrop Minneapolis, MN JUN 1 Duluth Entertainment Convention Center Duluth, MN JUN 6 Nelsonville Music Festival 2019 Nelsonville, OH JUN 7 River Roots Music and Arts Festival Madison, IN JUN 8 Appell Center for the Performing Arts York, PA JUN 9 Daryl's House Pawling, NY JUN 11 F.M. Kirby Center Wilkes Barre, PA JUN 13 Westcott Theater Syracuse, NY JUN 14 Gateway City Arts Holyoke, MA JUN 15 StageOne at FTC Fairfield, CT JUN 16 The Queen Wilmington, DE JUN 18 Boathouse Live Newport News, VA JUN 20 Neighborhood Theatre Charlotte, NC JUN 21 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA JUN 22 Walker Theatre Chattanooga, TN JUN 23 Bijou Theatre Knoxville, TN JUL 19 State Theatre Greenville, NC JUL 20 Soundstage Baltimore, MD JUL 21 Grassroots Festival Trumansburg, NY JUL 24 Helsinki Hudson Hudson, NY JUL 25 Port City Music Hall Portland, ME JUL 26 Newport Folk Festival Newport, RI JUL 27 Sellersville Theater Sellersville, PA AUG 9 Englert Civic Theatre Iowa City, IA AUG 10 People Fest Hillsboro, WI AUG 11 Bell's Eccentric Cafe Kalamazoo, MI Read More Todd Snider Todd Snider will be at the Fitzgerald Theater on April 12th, in support of his new album, Todd Snider Cash Cabin Vol. 3. (there were actually no volume 1 or 2!) … Chicago Farmer Illinois’ Chicago Farmer (aka Cody Diekhoff) will be in town at the Cedar Cultural Center next Wednesday, November 9th, touring in promotion of his 7th album Midwest Side Stories. ...

Cowboy Jim wasn’t impressed- he took a brief walk around the stage, then settled into a corner and slept-

But the dog of Todd Snider was the only one not excited for the Portland (now living in Nashville) folk singer/songwriter’s return to the Twin Cities, packing his faithful fans into the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul, for an entertaining evening of stories and songs.

Born and bred in a central Illinois town of twenty-five people, folk singer-songwriter Cody Diekhoff adopted Chicago Farmer first as a band name, but it soon became his solo stage moniker as he traveled, from town to town playing. His latest is a self-released double live album, last August’s Quarter Past Tonight and already brought in a built-on fan base, as many had seen him play previously with Northern Minnesota folk artist Charlie Parr.

“My goodness, I think this is the most people I’ve ever played to, indoors” said a beaming Diekhoff, mentioning he and Parr often had played locally in January and February, thinking this April date would be more Spring-like (but ten to twelve inches of fresh snow had just fallen).

Like an Arlo Guthrie or Jack Elliott, the songs were mostly people stories set to music, from the baseball players in ‘Dirtiest Uniforms’ to recounting hitting a deer in ‘Deer in the Sky’, and a gift from his grandmother with ‘The Twenty Dollar Bill’. Peppered with humorous comments of financial struggle like “you know times are tough if you’ve got a fraction in your address” and “I was living in tiny houses before they were cool”, made for a compelling forty-minute opening set.

Todd Snider maybe can’t count-- his new record is called Cash Cabin Sessions Vol. 3 (Aimless Records)… even though we never saw volumes one or two, but that’s just likely part of his overall humor. After recording several recent rock records, a 2015 visit to Cash Cabin Studio to record a song with Loretta Lynn helped inspire the new album, a provocative collection of subversively sparse folk songs.

Half of the new record was played over Snider’s hundred-minute headlining set and though we never got the explanation if there were volumes one and two, no one seemed at all bothered. Snider, in frumpy hat and smiling unshaven face with guitar and harmonica, started things with the title track from his 2004 album, East Nashville Skyline followed by the same album’s ‘Age Like Wine’ and ‘The Ballad of the Kingsmen’, about the legendary ‘60s band.

“Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated” Snider announced, having shaken off recent personal troubles and is back on the road, at perhaps at his healthiest in years. Snider appreciated the audience being receptive to the new songs, starting with ‘Just Like Overnight’ about the frustrations of difficult change, followed by ‘The Ghost of Johnny Cash’ inspired by those sessions with Lynn at Cash’s old studio.

The biting ‘Talking Reality Television Blues’ referenced today’s politics and how an “old man with a comb-over sold us the moon” and “reality was killed by a reality star” followed by a funny story of playing under the influence with his other project Hard Working Americans and another political ballad, from 2004, but still applicable today.

2009’s ‘Greencastle Blues’ was about getting pulled over and jailed in Indiana and Snider picked up a banjo for the new “Blues on Banjo’, mentioning he recently bought the instrument, determined to play blues on it, jokingly mentioning that all blues songs seem to start at sunrise with “woke up this morning” (which his song then did as well).

The new album’s opener, ‘Working on a Song’ is actually about another song, one he has frustratingly worked on finishing for thirty years, 2002’s ‘Beer Run’ remains a fan favorite and crowd sing-a-long, and 1994’s ‘Alright Guy’, his breakout early single, was stretched out to include a story in the song’s middle.

For the encore, Snider came out fiercely with ‘A Timeless Response To Current Events’ from the new record, featuring more lyrics than Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ and a profane chorus. 

The evening would end with the new ‘Force of Nature’ from the new album (recorded with Jason Isbell) as Snider imparted some bright words of wisdom- “may your hope always outweigh your doubt” and “may you play at least loud enough, to always wake yourself up” seguing out with a snippet from Dylan’s ‘Blowin in the Wind’.

A quarter-century later, Todd Snider proved himself to not only still be an alright guy, but a musical force of nature as well. Those that missed him on this outing, can travel to one of several upper upcoming Midwest shows, or see him in Minneapolis again in late May, opening for the legendary John Prine.

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I'm With Her at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul (01 Mar 2018)

I’m With Her Tour Poster I’m With Her Setlist See You Around Crescent City Ain’t That Fine Walkin’ Back to Georgia Ryland (Under the Apple Tree) Pangaea Little Lies Overland Trio Solo Lord, Lead Me On (Bill Monroe cover) Wild One Waitsfield I-89 Crossing Muddy Waters (John Hiatt cover) Close it Down Send My Love (To Your New Lover) (Adele cover) Game to Lose -- Encore 1 -- Hundred Miles Be My Husband (Nina Simone cover) -- Encore 2 -- Today is a Bright New Day (Tom Brosseau cover) Andrew Combs Setlist Rainy Day Song Dirty Rain All These Dreams Blood Hunters Strange Bird Lauralee Firestarter Expectation Born without a Clue Hazel Tour Dates Mar 5 Cincinnati, OH Memorial Hall Mar 6 St. Louis, MO Sheldon Concert Hall Mar 8 Nashville, TN Station Inn Mar 9 Nashville, TN Station Inn Mar 10 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse Mar 12 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre Mar 13 Washington, DC 9:30 Club Mar 15 New York, NY The Town Hall Mar 16 Cambridge, MA Sanders Theatre Mar 17 Northampton, MA Academy Apr 2 Los Angeles, CA Teragram Ballroom Apr 3 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall Apr 4 Santa Rosa, CA Luther Burbank Center Apr 6 Seattle, WA Neptune Theatre Apr 7 Portland, OR Revolution Hall Apr 8 Missoula, MT The Wilma Apr 10 Salt Lake City, UT The State Room Apr 11 Durango, CO Community Concert Hall Apr 12 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater Apr 13 Denver, CO L2 Church Apr 17 Fayetteville, AR Walton Arts Center Apr 19 Dallas, TX Majestic Theatre Apr 20 Houston, TX The Heights Theater Apr 21 Tilmon, TX Old Settler's Music Festival May 4 Paris, France Les Etoiles May 5 Copenhagen, Denmark ALICE May 6 Bryggarsalen Stockholm, Sweden May 7 Berlin, Germany Silent Green May 9 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso Noord May 11 Belfast, UK Cathedral Quarter May 12 Dublin, Ireland Whelan's May 14 Gateshead, UK Sage Two May 15 Manchester, UK Band On The Wall May 16 Bristol, UK The Station May 17 London, UK Union Chapel Jun 21 Telluride, CO Telluride Bluegrass Festival Jul 7 Katonah, NY Caramoor - Spanish Courtyard Jul 13 Louisville, KY Forecastle Festival Jul 14 Mt. Solon, VA Red Wing Roots Festival Read More I'm With Her I'm With Her is the supergroup project, featuring Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan. The trio’s debut album See You Around is available now on Rounder Records. ....

Good things often come in threes –

Musically, noteworthy female trios include Dixie Chicks in country, the sisters of Haim in alternative rock, and folk/Americana now has a veritable super group called I’m With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan), who recently played a stirring set at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. 

The evening opened with a solo forty-five minutes from Dallas-born, Nashville-based musician Andrew Combs, who charmed with his expressive songs and dry wit.  Combs has supported the likes of Shovels and Rope and Jason Isbell and has a handful of records under his belt, including last year’s Canyons of my Mind, and seems inspired on many songs, by his wife.

Song arrangements were purposely sparse with honest lyrics and a sound that brought back the 60’s/70’s folk country spirit of coffeehouses and local honkytonks.  Joe Henry (not that Joe Henry, but an older songwriter who once collaborated with Sinatra and wrote the lyrics for the Baywatch theme) and Combs came up with ‘Lauralee’ and its falsetto chorus, and ‘Firestarter’ was a brand new song (“not to be confused” with electronic dance band The Prodigy’s 1990s hit, Combs mused wryly).

‘Born without a Clue’ was written the day Tom Petty died, inspired by his succinct songwriting and the set ended with “a creepy song about peeking into someone’s bedroom” but was Combs’ wife’s favorite, ‘Hazel’.

After a break, the ladies of I’m With Her entered for their eighty-minute headlining set, surrounded by stands holding the musical instruments they would pick up and put down as the songs demanded.  Though together since an impromptu 2014 performance, the band’s debut album, See You Around (Rounder Records) has only been out a couple weeks, and the eager audience was treated to live versions of all those songs beginning with the title track, with a few additional covers thrown in for good measure. 

Each of the ladies was very familiar and thankful to be playing at the venue, Watkins a founding member of Nickle Creek, O’Donovan with string quartet Crooked Still, and Jarosz in her own right, and each took turns at lead vocals (i.e. Jarosz on ‘Walkin’ Back to Georgia’), with the trio’s harmonies soaring to the historic theater’s rafters, an ideal venue for their sound.

Musically, each was formidable in their own right, moving from acoustic guitars to electrics to banjos and mandolins, with Watkins also masterful at textures with her violin.  O’Donovan’s vocals lit up ‘Ryland’ which started as delicate as a butterfly then flew confidently with wings by its end.  

After ‘Overland’, the trio huddled around a single mic for an even more stripped-down triptych of songs, starting “with a little gospel” of a  50’s Bill Monroe cover, the haunting harmonies of ‘Wild One’ and the playful, waltz-like fiddle vs. mandolin of instrumental, ‘Waitsfield’.

The band then reconvened back in place with the O’Donovan-led ‘I-89’ as Watkins traded violin for slinky electric guitar followed  by John Hiatt’s ‘Crossing Muddy Waters’, one of the first songs the trio tried together, to discover whether the music chemistry was there or not.  “You have a great public radio voice, Aoife” Watkins mentioned as they tuned up, likely referring that it ran in the family as O’Donovan’s father hosted a Celtic program on-air in Boston. 

“We’re gonna do a real old-timey number for you now” they teased, going into a joyful, vocal-driven version of Adele’s ‘Send My Love (To Your New Lover)’, getting the cadence and lilt inthe chorus nailed perfectly and the main set ended with O’Donovan leading on ‘Game to Lose’. 

The first encore began with the last song on the new record, ‘Hundred Miles’ followed by a foot tap-and-clap acapella cover of Nina Simone’s ‘Be My Husband’ that brought the song to its bare essentials and the standing ovation from the crowd demanded one more.

The second encore brought things back locally as the trio played ‘Today is a Bright New Day’, a 2014 song by Tom Brosseau, a Grand Forks, ND native, ending things hopeful but cautious, with its lyrics, “My eyes are shut tight, I’m not expecting you to appear when I open them, all I wanna do is get away from the lie”. 

Though their band name was temporarily borrowed as a political hashtag, I’m With Her should be more known as a trio of successful independent females, coming together to enrich and expand the world of modern folk/bluegrass/Americana.  Their fans are already numerous and sure to go up with the current tour, and borrowing another recent hashtag, count Me Too. 

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Josh Ritter at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul (31 Jan 2018)

Read More Josh Ritter Singer / songwriter Josh Ritter and his band The Royal City Band will be trekking through North America in support of Ritter’s new album Gathering (Pytheas Recordings/ Thirty Tigers). … Her Crooked Heart A recent local transplant, Her Crooked Heart (aka Rachel Ries) opened the evening with a charming solo set of her own music and often funny, quirky stories behind the songs. …

Photos and setlist for Josh Ritter and Her Crooked Heart at Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul on 31 January 2018. Stay tuned for a full recap.

Josh Ritter Setlist

Feels Like Lightning Young Moses Empty Hearts Thunderbolt's Goodnight Henrietta, Indiana Dreams Train Go By Josh Ritter Solo Cumberland The Temptation of Adam Snow is Gone Monster Ballads with Sam on keyboards Me & Jiggs Kathleen Right Moves Strangers When Will I Be Changed Homecoming Getting Ready to Get Down -- Encore -- Hopeful with Zack on bass Roll On Girl in the War (solo)

Josh Ritter Tour Dates

02/16/2018 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
02/17/2018 Louisville, KY KCD Theater
02/18/2018 Louisville, KY KCD Theater
02/20/2018 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
02/21/2018 Nelson, BC Spirit Bar At Hume Hotel
02/22/2018 Banff, AB Eric Harvie Theatre
02/23/2018 St. Albert, AB Arden Theatre
02/24/2018 St. Albert, AB Arden Theatre
02/26/2018 Saskatoon, SK Broadway Theatre
02/27/2018 Swift Current, SK Lyric Theatre
02/28/2018 Winnipeg, MB Park Theatre
03/01/2018 Fargo, ND Fargo Theatre
03/02/2018 Omaha, NE Slowdown
08/24/2018 Fayetteville Roots Festival

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Josh Ritter at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul (31 Jan 2018)

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