THEM COULEE BOYS with Kiernan

The Cedar Presents

Friday, April 17, 2026 / Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM

All Ages

Standing

This is a standing show with an open floor. To request seating or other access accommodations, please go to our.

For Cedar presented shows, online ticket sales typically end one hour before the door time, and then, based on availability, tickets will be available at the door. Tickets purchased at the door will include a $1 Eventbrite fee.

Them Coulee Boys spent the past decade-plus establishing themselves as one of the Midwest’s premier purveyors of bluegrass and Americana. The Cedar is thrilled to welcome the Eau Claire-based band to our stage for the first time.

“A rollicking blend of bluegrass, folk, and rock and roll” - Folk Alley 

Soren Staff and Beau Janke—co-founders of folk/rock/Americana outfit Them Coulee Boys—met as camp counselors in northern Wisconsin in 2011. Their weekend workshopping of Avett Brothers and classic country tunes led to original songs and adding Soren’s brother Jens on mandolin, Neil Krause on electric bass and Stas Hable on drums. 

The band’s name is a nod to the glacial melt-carved river valleys they call home, known by early French fur trappers as coulees. Known for wild swings of emotion during sets, it is not unusual to see fans in tears and minutes later dancing with abandon. The honesty and ability to talk and sing about the feelings and emotions that shape them has endeared them to a growing group of fans and friends. 

Over the course of five albums, the band has garnered international attention and earned press in Americana UK, American Songwriter, Ditty TV, Folk Alley, and The Bluegrass Situation. The band has played support to Trampled by Turtles, Los Lobos, Old Crow Medicine Show and Band of Heathens and No Depression writes of the recent release, “a remarkably wide-ranging, enduringly sympathetic examination of the human condition.” 

2025 marks the release of No Fun In The Chrysalis, an expansive new collection that finds the band picking up where their 2021 release, Namesake, left off. Goldmine writes "TCB present their material with the presence of War on Drugs and Band of Horses (“Mountains”), but with an intimacy at times of Rick Danko’s best work with The Band ('I Am Not Sad').”

The band’s co-founder, Soren Staff, wrote about his ongoing struggles with self-worth and anxiety on “I Am Not Sad,” the first single from the album – “it was a tonic, 4 minutes of musical therapy hearing this for the first time,” claimed Americana UK. The band worked again with Grammy-winning producer Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Humbird), whose production on Namesake shepherded the band beyond their folk-grass, Americana roots to “go electric.” No Fun In The Chrysalis was recorded at The Hive in the band’s hometown of Eau Claire. The Bluegrass Situation calls it, "Rambunctious, playful, and wonderfully inspired, the recording is submerged in the mystery of transformation; the relentless blitz of change the most dominant theme of the songs.”

To learn more about Them Coulee Boys:

• Visit their website here

Kiernan is the Minneapolis-based musical project of Laura Kiernan, who is very excited to be playing with a band. Her indie folk tunes can be described as "sounds for when you're feeding the pigeons." In other words: soft, silly, spacious and best done with friends. She is joined by Nate LeBrun (Humbird, Squinny) on drums, Maddie Thies (anni xo, Sister Species) on bass, and Jared Johnson on guitar. The band released its first full length album in 2025, after being named one of the Best New Bands by First Avenue that year. They're excited to release more this year - they hope it nourishes your ears like a nice hunk of bread.

To learn more about Kiernan:

• Visit their Instagram page here

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