Sunday, August 10, 2025
6 pm Doors // 7 pm Music
Featuring special guests Dylan Hicks, The High 48s, Jillian Rae, Leslie Vincent, Brian Just, Sawtooth Witch, and more!
All Ages
$15 ($20.21 w. taxes/fees) Advance General Admission
$20 ($23 w. taxes/fees) At The Door General Admission
Free Admission for Children 12 & Under
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Minneapolis musical wizard Ben Cook-Feltz celebrates the release of his new album, Cook-Feltz Sings Son of Schmilsson, with a night dedicated to rock’s beloved court jester, Harry Nilsson. Featuring performances by Cook-Feltz, Dylan Hicks, and The High 48s, as well as appearances by local artists Jillian Rae, Leslie Vincent, Brian Just, Sawtooth Witch, and more.
What happens when you combine limes, coconuts, and juicy lucys? We will all find out on August 10! Free admission for children 12 and under with a paying adult!
Iowa-raised, Minneapolis-based Ben Cook-Feltz is a singer, songwriter, pianist, and very occasional drummer. Combining insightful, sometimes quirky lyrics with melodies that hearken back to the classic sounds of the 60s and 70s, he has been entertaining audiences throughout the Midwest as a dynamic performer, whether playing solo, with his crackerjack band, or backing up some of the finest regional talent (Haley E Rydell, Jaspar Lepak, Mother Banjo). His October 2023 release, Trucks, was hailed by the Star Tribune as “elegant yet playful.” His forthcoming record, Cook-Feltz Sings Son of Schmilsson, will be released in August 2025, and is the reason he’s throwing this particular party at the Parkway.
Musician and writer Dylan Hicks was born in Austin, Texas, in 1970, and has lived since 1983 in Minneapolis. With his six-piece group Dylan Hicks & Small Screens, he plays exploratory pop with literary ambitions and far-flung musical influences including jazz, R&B, freely improvised music, and various song traditions. The group’s latest album, Modern Flora, is centered on multi-part songs arranged for nonet. Other recent recordings include Accidental Birds, a largely electronic album recorded during the height of the pandemic, and Munson-Hicks Party Supplies, a collection of Hicks’s songs mostly sung by John Munson. Hicks is also the author of two novels, Amateurs and Boarded Windows, and has written journalism, criticism, essays, and word puzzles for the New York Times, the Village Voice, Slate, the New England Review, the Paris Review Daily, and many other publications.
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, 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.
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