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BACK TO THE CITY: MPLS MUSIC CONVERSATION: WETTER on REFLECTING TO BECOME (video interview + in-studio session)

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By Simon Calder

As we emerge from another Minneapolis winter, wetter’s Melissa Jones and Jordan Bleau join Back to the City host and curator Simon Calder for a long-form conversation about seasonal awareness, mind and body, and truth-telling throughout the wetter catalog, with focus on their forthcoming debut LP, their single “Truth Song,” and two further songs – “SAD Lamp” and “Bunny” – recently debuted by the band in their Back to the City Session at the Minnehaha Recording Company.

This Thursday, March 29th, wetter will perform at Mortimers Bar during the inaugural Back to the City Showcase, also featuring Tony the Scribe, straya and Lucid VanGuard, whose songs provide the soundtrack to our conversation.

event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/338521836645300/

Back to the City Showcase 1 YouTube Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOt8qg80_A419X_Oh9D3AUX28QTKgmWsq

Slideshow – Palace Theatre Renovation – Opening Ceremony

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Photos By Tony Nelson – ST. PAUL, MN DECEMBER 16: Opening ceremony for the Palace Theater on December 16, 2016 in St. Paul, Minnesota. © Tony Nelson

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Ostracon Live at Bedlam

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FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

John Keston and Graham O’Brien join forces in February to add some electroacoustic sounds to Bedlam Lowertown just off of the light rail line. Ostracon is John on synthesizers and Graham on drums, and they perform evolving compositions that fuse rich analog electronics with dynamic live drumming. Video artist Chris LeBlanc will also join in using a combination of archaic, analog video techniques and emerging technology to produce uncanny visuals that respond to and evolve with the music as it is performed. The kitchen will be open for lunch!

Learn more about Landmark to Lowertown here: http://composersforum.org/L2L

Review – Dusty Heart at the Turf Club, 12/3

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Photo By Natalie Champa Jennings

by Derek Lynch

To warm up the crowd on a freezing Thursday night at the Turf Club in St. Paul, Joe Pug invited local super-duo Dusty Heart to play a set consisting of covers, originals, and pure Americana soul. Minnesota folk heroes Molly Dean and Barbara Jean quietly and confidently took the stage without introduction, plugged in, and tuned before the crowd realized anything was happening. Within seconds of their opener, “the River,” the audience was taken on a trip to Appalachia and the far North where music happens in circles around a jug of whiskey with family and close friends. The original song was reminiscent of the storytellers that define Americana music-I couldn’t help but be reminded of Gillian Welch’s light, rhythmic guitar and Alison Krauss’s ethereal voice. [Read more…] about Review – Dusty Heart at the Turf Club, 12/3