New Year's Eve with HALEY (and more) at the Wolf House

Come celebrate the New Year with an intimate house concert, featuring HALEY, then stick around after for hangtime, games, karaoke/open mic. Ligh snacks and a champagne (or N/A) toast at midnight included.

Doors at 6:45, concert starts at 7:30

$35 advanced tickets, $45 at the door

Space is verry limited. Be sure to reserve your spot if you care to join us!

Before she was known as HALEY, singer/songwriter Haley McCallum’s 15-year career as Haley Bonar began with a sparse take on dream folk-rock that evoked names like Mazzy Star, Shannon Wright, and Elliot Smith. Accompanying herself alternately on acoustic guitar, electric guitar, or various keyboards, Bonar delivered her minor-key tunes and elliptical lyrics in a haunting, delicate voice at times reminiscent of both Aimee Mann and Gillian Welch. By the arrival of her fifth album, 2014’s Last War, she’d leaned into a more muscular indie rock sound. In 2018, she released an all-instrument mix of electronic classical piano, and experimental rock music titled Pleasureland, her debut as HALEY. Born near Winnipeg, Canada, raised in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and later based in St Paul, Minnesota, Bonar moved to the Twin Cities to attend college as an English literature major. When Low leader Alan Sparhawk met the singer/songwriter at a showcase for young talent, he offered her a spot opening for his band on an upcoming tour.

In 2006 she released the album Lure the Fox, which earned Haley two Minnesota Music Awards, one for Best American Roots recording, and another for Best American Roots artist. The album also topped many Twin Cities year-end favorite lists, including those of the , , , and magazine.

After two and a half years of writing and recording, Haley released the album Last War in May 2014. The album earned widespread critical acclaim, with Stephen Thompson of NPR calling Haley "a bright, subtle storyteller, [who] displays a mastery of pop-rock craftsmanship that keeps these songs as relentlessly catchy on the surface as they are alluringly complex underneath." SPIN lauded the track "No Sensitive Man" as "dynamic, demanding," while Consequence of Sound stated that "Bonar creates a whimsical masterclass of indie-pop songwriting." The album earned spots on best-of-2014 lists from Rough Trade, NPR's All Songs Considered, Village Voice.

In 2023 Haley released her 11th studio album, Hunca Munca, a project begun during the COVID-19 pandemic. The album was inspired by Beatrix Potter's and the M**der of George Floyd and subsequent unrest centered in her Twin Cities hometown.

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