6:30 - Doors
7:00 - Long Mama
8:30 - Erik Koskinen

$15 - Advance / $20 - Day of

Erik Koskinen

Born in Colorado, raised in northern Michigan and upstate New York, and later based in the big city of Minneapolis before settling in rural Minnesota, Erik Koskinen has lived the rhythms of factory towns and farming country. For years he worked in construction while steadily developing his music career.

Koskinen’s rhythmic integrity and musical tone are as vital as his lyrics and artistic expression. With respect, he has placed himself among the sharply etched songwriters like Woody Guthrie and Ry Cooder, while expressing himself with a simplicity and everyday directness all his own.
Audiences can look forward to a concert with an artist whom the Minneapolis Star Tribune calls “the real deal” and “the best country songwriter in Minnesota."

Long Mama

Long Mama’s music blisters with the heart and grit of someone who has lost hard, loved harder, and licked her burns until they stung then silvered. In a drafty attic just west of the Milwaukee River she grew up on, you’ll find songwriter Kat Wodtke (Wood-key) raking through notebooks in search of a salve: words, stories, and sounds to temper the dumpster fires we never mean to light. Flickering behind each song is Wodtke’s lived insight into our human faults and fissures — the moments in life when we can slip and lose our footing or claw our way out, better people on the other side of the blaze. Long Mama’s debut album, Poor Pretender, was called “a winner all the way” (Country Music People Magazine) and “gently crafted perfection” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).