David Huckfelt & the Unarmed Forces

Doors 8:00 p.m. | Show 9:00 p.m.

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David Huckfelt and the Unarmed Forces

Don't miss folksinger & activist David Huckfelt (formerly of The Pines) as he debuts new songs & stories with his all-star band The Unarmed Forces featuring Jeremy Ylvisaker, J.T. Bates, & Chris Bates, and perhaps a special guest or two. Diṅe (Navajo) songwriter & recent Minnesota transplant Laura Hugo opens with her hypnotic & expressive folk-pop tunes.

David Huckfelt is a singer/ lyricist /activist and founding frontman of Minneapolis indie-folk cult favorites The Pines.  An Iowa native and former theology student, Huckfelt attended the Iowa Writers Workshop before turning his attention to songwriting and performing.  With improvisational mastery, Huckfelt’s shows and songs of no-spiritual-surrender have earned him a devoted following from small-town opera houses & theaters to national festival stages like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Edmonton and Calgary Folk Fests, and the legendary First Avenue mainroom, sharing stages with Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, Bon Iver, Calexico, Trampled By Turtles & more.  An early encounter and collaboration with radical Native American poet John Trudell introduced Huckfelt as friend & partner to an array of Indigenous artists & activists including Winona LaDuke, Louise Erdrich, & Keith Secola, working for climate justice and tribal sovereignty under the banner of music + resistance.  With roots in the same fertile Midwestern soil that produced legendary folk singers like John Prine and Greg Brown, David's new solo work preserves a rugged optimism that blasts through layers of dark in real time with songs that speak volumes, soft & clear.