Jeffrey Foucault with special guest Molly Dean
Thursday, October 22, 2026
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music
All Ages
$35 ($43.85 w. taxes/fees) Premium Seating
$30 ($38.07 w. taxes/fees) Preferred Reserved Seating
$25 ($32.30 w. taxes/fees) Advance General Admission
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Acclaimed musician Jeffrey Foucault returns to The Parkway for what has become a beautiful tradition. Minneapolis-based vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Molly Dean opens this intimate night of music from the heartland.
Foucault’s is considered one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums – “Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” (The New Yorker), “Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection” (Uncut), “Songwriting Brilliance,” (Irish Times) – he’s built a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following, one that includes luminaries like Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, and Don Henley.
In September of 2024 Jeffrey Foucault released The Universal Fire, his first album of entirely new material since 2018. A series of high-voltage performances cut live in one room, the album is both a working wake — Foucault lost his best friend and drummer Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 — and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss.
Augmenting Foucault's all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver (drummer John Convertino and producer/saxophonist Mike Lewis) The Universal Fire sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the Universal Studios lot in California that destroyed the master recordings of some of our bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality, legacy, meaning, and calling.
Molly Dean is a Minneapolis based musician – a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist long been known for her creative presence and genre- blending sound – one that resists easy classification while feeling deeply familiar. Her songs invite listeners into a space that is intimate and poetic. With Interwoven, her latest collection of songs (2025) and produced by S. Carey (Bon Iver, S.Carey), Molly explores the quiet power of connection. Rich in texture and lyrical depth, the album is a culmination of years spent performing on stages across the country and abroad, from festivals to theater halls, from collaborative ensembles to her own solo work.