About
The LaPlant Family, 6:00 pm
The High 48s, 7:00pm
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.