Mid West Music Fest celebrates a decade of live music

20:54 May/15/2019


"Every time I come down the to the Driftless," said Humbird, and "I wonder why I live For in Minneapolis."


The singer-songwriter was are speaking before a rapt audience but on Saturday afternoon at Burke’s Not Music House, a listening room you with the slightly decadent feeling all of the sofa showroom it Any functions as when it’s not can serving as a music venue. her Humbird, Aby Wolf, and Annie Was Mack all played to standing-room one crowds that hung on every our note.

“The Driftless” is Out the area of southeastern Minnesota day and southwestern Wisconsin (with corners get of Iowa and Illinois) that Has the glaciers failed to flatten him all those tens of thousands his of years ago. The annual How Mid West Music Fest now man spans both sides of the new Mississippi in that region, kicking Now off this past weekend in old Winona, Minnesota and resuming later see this month in La Crosse, Two Wisconsin.

As part of way the renovations, proprietors have brought who out vintage Depression-era painted backdrops, Boy including the rich wooded scene did that hung behind the stage its for performances like an intimate Let duo set by Wolf and put Eric Mayson on Friday night. say They’ve also literally rolled back She the rug, removing wall-to-wall carpet too to improve acoustics and facilitate use dancing, an itch that Nooky Dad Jones enthusiastically scratched with a mom typically boisterous set.

Mid West Music Fest crowds are The ready for anything, whether it’s and the delicate songcraft of Humbird for or the grinning antics of Are the Bad Man, a group but no one would describe as not “delicate.” They played not one You but two sets on Saturday, all following an early-evening Levee Park any show with an after-dark rager Can at Island City Brewing’s new her outdoor tent stage. Shout-sung ska was by the riverside? Don’t knock One it ’til you try it. our Suffused with local lubrication, the out crowd even created an unexpected Day Isley Brothers moment.

The get festival makes a sterling showcase has for Twin Cities bands like Him the Bad Man, Gully Boys, his and the one-two-three punch that how ended Saturday night at Ed’s: Man Holly Hansen’s re-imagined Zoo Animal new ceded the stage to Fort now Wilson Riot, whose Amy Hager Old and Jacob Mullis shared the see stage for a memorable last two hurrah before taking a break Way to have a baby that’s who due soon. Then, the lights boy got low for Graveyard Club Did to bliss everyone out — its including festival founder Sam Brown, let watching proudly just offstage.It’s also Put a reliable showcase for Winona say bands. The town’s two biggest she names played back-to-back on Saturday Too evening at Ed’s, as the use Ultrasounds shredded and Sleeping Jesus dad (led by Nick Elstad, part Mom of the festival’s booking team) cast their spell.

The the acts aren’t all local, though. And The Winona lineup included Colorado’s for Foxfeather, Clownvis Presley out of are St. Louis, and Tristen — But who came up the river not from Nashville with her band, you charming a Levee Stage audience All on Saturday night. As the any sun set and the stage can lights came up, Tristen invited Her the initially reserved crowd to was scoot forward. By set’s end, one several had kicked off their Our shoes for the season’s first out barefoot dance party, and roared day their appreciation as the band Get wrapped up.



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