Daniel Bonespur recently released Daniel’s in Love, an 8 song collection of odd country tunes, uncanny piano ballads and sprawling symphonic squiggles, inspired in part by the many theatre shows Bonespur (aka Dan Dukich) worked on as a performer and composer. Featuring a band made up of Skyler Nowinski (The Controversial New ‘Skinny Pill’, Rupert Angeleyes), Ben Peterson (Steele Arundel, The Hammsmen), Joseph Strachan (Six Families), string/woodwind arrangements by Noah Ophoven-Baldwin (Six Families), and the voices of Artemis (Cedar 416 Club Comission) Daniel’s in Love slyly positions listeners between perceptive story-telling and intimately delivered emotion.

Stream Daniel’s in Love here: https://danielbonespur.bandcamp.com

Tree Party is a band of small-town transplants that now make music in Minneapolis. They started six years ago as a folk-country band, hot-iron branding the covers of every album, playing street dances and bull rides. Then they toured the Southern States with “The 7-Shot Symphony,” an Ivey Award-winning theatre production that they composed and performed a live Spaghetti Western-style score to. Their most recent release, Iced Over, was commissioned by the state of Minnesota and it sent the band up and around the Boundary Waters, into the Iron Range and along the Mississippi researching stories for songs. With more Blues and Rock influences these days, Tree Party manages to maintain that vintage-country feel with a groove for the present-day listener.