David Huckfelt

Name: David Huckfelt
Start: 2025-01-18T19:30:00-06:00
Location: 139 High Street, Mineral Point, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53565

Schedule

Sat, 18 Jan, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

139 High Street, Mineral Point, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53565 | Mineral Point, WI

David Huckfelt, formerly of The Pines, returns to the Mineral Point Opera House on Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM. Doors will open at 6:30 PM. Tickets range from $18 to $23 plus Eventbrite fees and will increase by $5 on the day of the show. Friends of the MPOH will have access to tickets starting Friday, October 25 and the general public can purchase tickets beginning Friday, November 8.
David Huckfelt is a singer / lyricist / activist and founding front man of Minneapolis indie-folk cult favorites 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 to Bon Iver, Calexico and Trampled By Turtles. His work with The Pines received record of the year accolades from Mojo & Q Magazine, and garnered praise from David Fricke (Rolling Stone) as one of the finest songwriters of his generation. In 2018Huckfelt 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 Trudellon 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. 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.