David Huckfelt (of The Pines) with Billy Sedlmayr & Tomlinson

616 Graham Avenue,Eau Claire WI 54701

18 November, 2021

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Don't miss this special performance by Minneapolis folk singer / activist David Huckfelt & The Unarmed Forces + Tucson legend Billy Sedlmayr Minneapolis indie-folk cult favorite The Pines frontman David Huckfelt and Tucson, AZ legend Billy Sedlmayr are teaming up for an ultra-rare co-bill tour of the upper Midwest - "Two Riders Were Approaching" Tour comes to Eau Claire, WI on Thursday, Nov 18th @ The Masonic Temple. David Huckfelt is a singer / lyricist / activist and founding frontman of Minneapolis indie-folk cult favorite band The Pines. An Iowa native and former theology student, Huckfelt attended the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop undergrad program before turning his attention to songwriting and performing. With musical roots in the same fertile Midwestern soil that produced legendary folk singers like John Prine and Greg Brown, Huckfelt has shared stages with artists from Prine, Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris & Richard Thompson to Bon Iver, Calexico, Trampled By Turtles & Gregory Alan Isakov. His work with The Pines received record of the year accolades from Mojo & Q Magazine, and garnered praise for Huckfelt from David Fricke (Rolling Stone) as one of the finest songwriters of his generation. In 2018 Huckfelt received the prestigious Artist-In-Residence award at Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior, where in sixteen days he wrote the fourteen songs that would become his breakout solo debut “Stranger Angels”. In 2012 he met American Indian Movement leader & poet John Trudell on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and their subsequent collaboration resulted in the song "Time Dreams", hailed by Democracy Now! and the last recording Trudell made before passing. Since then, Huckfelt has partnered with an impressive array of Native American artists and activists including Keith Secola, Quiltman, Winona LaDuke and novelist Louise Erdrich in the fight for social justice and protection for Mother Earth. He was principal organizer & performer at this year's "Water Is Life: Stop Line 3" festival in Duluth with Bon Iver, Charlie Parr, Adia Victoria & others standing up for water & treaty rights of the Anishinaabe in Minnesota, and his new record "Room Enough, Time Enough" received four stars in MOJO Magazine and accolades coast to coast. In thousands of shows across the United States, Canada & overseas, Huckfelt’s grassroots following has grown from small-town opera houses, Midwestern barn concerts, and progressive benefit events to national tours and festival stages like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Edmonton and Calgary Folk Fests, and the legendary First Avenue club in his beloved Minneapolis home. BILLY SEDLMAYR: "Billy Sedlmayr doesn't have to pretend. He doesn't have to pretend when his voice cracks while telling some ragged story and he doesn't have to pretend when he strings his songs together like only a lifelong singer can." - "Local Albums of the Year", Tucson Weekly (2018) Billy Sedlmayr has been deep in the fabric of Tucson music for over three decades, from his early days as an underage musician playing dusty bars long since gone with punk rock pioneers The Pedestrians, to playing with Giant Sandworms and laying down the blueprint for Tucson music.