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UPDATE: Michaela Anne, originally scheduled to open this show, has had to cancel this date and others due to injury.

River Whyless

In August 2019, the four members of River Whyless - Halli Anderson, Ryan O’Keefe, Daniel Shearin, and Alex McWalters  - secluded themselves for thirty days deep in the hills outside Asheville, NC. Their intention was to make a record⏤Monoflora (2022)⏤the band’s fourth full-length effort, and first without a producer since their 2012 debut, A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door.

On Monoflora the band have, in some ways, returned to their more acoustic origins, this album shed of the hard-driving, electrified and/or synthesized outwardness that propelled 2018’s Kindness, A Rebel. But while Monoflora certainly features more acoustic guitar and violin than both Kindness and 2016’s We All The Light, it would be inaccurate (or oversimple) to say that it harkens back to River Whyless’ earlier, “folksier” efforts, like 2012’s Stone and/or its eponymous 2015 EP. The arrangements on Monoflora are, in many cases, more intricate and dynamic than any of the band’s previous work, the instrumentation more eclectic and expansive, the members’ roles as individual musicians more fluid and diverse. In the end, River Whyless are proud of what they’ve made, pleased by the ways this album reflects growth, and for the ways that it seems like a culmination of all previous works.

River Whyless have graced the stages of beloved festivals such as Newport Folk Festival, Bonnaroo, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. They have also received critical acclaim from NPR Music, American Songwriter, and Stereogum, among many others.

Michaela Anne

Nashville singer-songwriter Michaela Anne has announced a string of tour dates, including a show at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis on Saturday, Aug. 20.

Earlier this year, the musician “every indie fan needs to know” (BrooklynVegan) released her new album Oh To Be That Free (June 10 on Yep Roc), a lush and cinematic collection that has garnered praise from the Recording Academy, the Americana Music Association, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, No Depression, The Boot, Bandcamp, KEXP, AllMusic and more. Holler attributed the “immaculately crafted” album’s success to Michaela’s “tenderness few singer-songwriters can muster.” Unbeknownst to Michaela when she wrote the songs, they became her life support as she confronted a painfully bittersweet new chapter. She became a mother while caring for her own mother, who had suffered a debilitating stroke and was hospitalized for months. Michaela watched her daughter and mother live unsettling yet surreal parallels as they both slowly learned how to navigate this new world. As Michaela continues to search for the beauty in every imperfection, and across her entire new album, she finds healing when she learns to let go and embrace what’s in front of her. Combined with its cosmic country influences, indie-folk storytelling, sprawling swells of strings, and catchy pop melodies, Oh To Be That Free is “an album full of cathartic, complex reflections on a life that emerges triumphant in the face of adversity” (The Recording Academy).