Mason Jennings // Use Your Voice 20th Anniversary
Friday, August 9 and Saturday, August 10, 2024
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Music
All Ages
$55 (+taxes/fees) Premium Seating
$45 (+taxes/fees) Preferred Reserved Seating
$35 (+taxes/fees) Advanced General Admission // $40 (+taxes/fees) At The Door
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One of Minnesota's most beloved troubadours, Mason Jennings, and his band return to The Parkway for a very special 20th-anniversary celebration of his fourth studio album, Use Your Voice (2004), performing the album in its entirety and telling the stories behind the songs.
Recorded and produced by Mason, Use Your Voice is an understated masterpiece of sensitive songwriting and wonderful neo-folk grooves, capturing the essence of vintage, pre-electric Dylan with poetic and timeless ballads of love and loss.
These intimate performances will also feature other songs spanning Mason's full catalog of compositions.
“Mason Jennings’ Use Your Voice is a down-to-the-floorboards recording of quiet dignity, humorous grace, and elegant craft. The title is not a statement in the anthemic sense, but in a conversational one. It means, at least according to the small truth as revealed in these songs, "Become a part of the discussion; it needs you.” This is a deeply moving record that, in its small scope, offers a very focused and far-reaching vision; it communicates directly, and quietly, to what is most receptive in everyone without the artifice of sentimentality or lyrically manipulative posturing.” — Allmusic.com
“What makes [him] one of the best acoustic-based singer-songwriters you've never heard of, is his ragged, intimate voice and simple ruminations on God, war, hope, and gratitude.” — Rolling Stone
"I love song craft," says longtime folksinger Mason Jennings, who's spent the bulk of the past 25 years onstage and in the writing room. "A song is like a boat on the water, and you're trying to make it float using as few pieces as you can. If you do it right, a song can be very healing."
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