Friday, November 22, 2024
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Music
All Ages
$20 (+taxes/fees) Advance General Admission // $25 (+taxes/fees) At The Door
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The High 48s return to The Parkway Theater with acoustic Americana duo LaPlant Road for a special evening of modern bluegrass, folk, and Americana music.
In what has become an annual fall event, expect plenty of hot pickin', high lonesome harmonies, and heartfelt songwriting Under A Bluegrass Moon!
Photo by JoJo Spencer
Since forming in northeast Minneapolis in 2006, The High 48s have been making music that combines the soulful sound of classic bluegrass with a modern attitude. They're a band with one foot in tradition and the other in the world of music today and one of the very few who can find an overlooked bluegrass classic in a song by M. Ward or The Clash and then throw down hard on a standard by Bill Monroe. The High 48s are also a band of songwriters. Here, too, they take a modern approach, heeding the well-worn advice to writers: write what you know. Their songs ring true to their lives as northern city folk rather than an imagined "sweet, sunny south" of coal mines and dark hollers.
LaPlant Road is the fondly named group of two childhood friends, Emily LaPlant and Liz Ashworth, who grew up in the tundra of northern Minnesota. They found warmth and purpose in the music that captivated the dwellers of LaPlant Road, named after the early settlers who established themselves in the northern territory a century prior. Together, Emily and Liz create new sounds with their multi-instrumentalist talents and sweet harmonies while incorporating influences from some of their favorite genres (bluegrass, old time, jazz, swing, blues, and country) to craft an audio ode to many of the best things in their childhood: music and family friends.