Americana, roots, and folk music fans can get tickets for Landmark Center’s fall concert series!
Cocktail reception: 7 pm // Doors: 7:30 pm // Concert: 8 pm.
All Landmark Live concerts are presented by Landmark Center and Minnesota Music Coalition with sponsorship support from KFAI Radio and the Pioneer Press. Again this year, Minnesota Music Coalition artists will be opening acts, and each performance is hosted by personalities from KFAI Radio and/or Minnesota Music Coalition.
Roots powerhouse duo The Small Glories are Cara Luft & JD Edwards, a musical tour-de-force partnership planted on the Canadian Prairies. Thrown together purely by accident for an anniversary show at Winnipeg’s venerable West End Cultural Centre, The Small Glories could almost make you believe in fate.
The material of a Small Glories concert is welcoming in terms of subject, folk-pop melody and instrumentation — songs of love, loss, and environment, delivered with soaring, interwoven vocals on various combinations of stomping clawhammer banjo, guitar and harmonica.
The band’s debut album, 2016’s “Wondrous Traveler” was praised in Pitchfork by legendary American rock critic Greil Marcus, who wrote, “…in moments (The Small Glories) find the darkening chord change the best bluegrass — from the Stanley Brothers to Be Good Tanyas — has always hidden in the sweet slide of the rhythm, the tiny shift where the person telling the story suddenly understands it.”
The Small Glories duplicate and reinforce each other’s many strengths and yet allow their distinct personalities to shine through, resulting in a live show that is as heartwarming as it is hilarious, as finger-picking proficient as it is relatable, and as Canadian as, well… it’s very Canadian. But that hasn’t stopped them from winning over audiences from Nashville to the Australian outback. Their highly anticipated sophomore album “Assiniboine & the Red” was released June 28 on Compass/Red House Records.
Cocktail hour begins at 7pm, the auditorium will open at 7:30pm and the concert will begin at 8:00pm.