The Teskey Brothers and Joy Oladokun a special co-headline evening
with Thomas Abban at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul on Friday, Aug. 4.

Doors 6:30 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m. | 18+

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The Teskey Brothers

The Teskey Brothers are finally heading back to North America in 2023. It’s a long-awaited return for the Australian band who have amassed a legion of fans with their timeless and soulful recordings and stunning live shows. After a string of COVID cancellations, the pair are making up for lost time with a huge run of dates across August, September, and October.

The TeskeyBrothers’ third studio album, The Winding Way, is out now through Glassnote Records. The album follows 2020’s Grammy-nominated Run Home Slow and is their most accomplished work to date. Josh Teskey’s once-in-a-lifetime lead vocals are in breathtaking form while his brother Sam sings wondrously along with his well-worn Stratocaster. The Winding Way tour will be a rare and spellbinding 8-piece experience which is simply not to be missed.

Joy Oladokun

Joy Oladokun documents her life in songs. For as much as she examines her place in the world as the first-generation daughter of Nigerian immigrants and a proud queer Black person, she also celebrates the little details and the simple pleasures of being alive. Of course, the narrator’s humble demeanor belies the gravity of her extraordinary accomplishments thus far—from captivating audiences on sold out tours and late-night television to finding herself with a guitar in hand on the White House lawn in celebration of equality.

After grinding it out for years, she reached critical mass with her 2021 major label debut, in defense of my own happiness. It graced countless year-end lists and led Vanity Fair to declare, "Her name is both prescient and redundant. She oozes energy that shifts a room’s center of gravity and makes you happy for it. It is charisma and she has it in spades. It’s the way she approaches her craft too.” Along the way, she’s delivered unforgettable performances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, PBS’s Austin City Limits and NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert and more and captivated festivalgoers at Bonnaroo, Hangout, Lollapalooza, Newport Folk Festival and Ohana Festival.

Not to mention, she’s also appeared on HULU’s Your Attention Please: The Concert and landed prominent syncs on CSI: Vegas, This Is Us, Grey’s Anatomy, And Just Like That, and Station 19, to name a few. Plus, she has joined forces with the likes of Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Lucie Silvas, Noah Kahan, and Jason Isbell for collaborations. Now, she takes stock of the trip so far on her highly anticipated forthcoming full-length album, Proof of Life [Amigo Records/Verve Forecast/Republic Records].

Thomas Abban

Thomas Abban is an artist in residence in existence. Born in Wales, he moved to Minnesota at the age of 10.

“I’ve never been from the places I’ve lived. In some ways, this is favorable because I will never be tied to any culture, its traditions, or practices.

Art, in particular music, is my homestead and undefinable culture. If the collective unconscious reveals itself, it is certainly through music; and if God dreams it is certainly to the sound of human creation.

As an artist, I seek the balance between the known and unknown. With music, we speak a language whose meaning is destroyed when its words are spelled out.

Artists bottle up vapor for a living, they erect invisible structures as dwelling places for the minds of others, they give wings to humanity and tell them to go take their own fire from the Gods.”