Yellow Ostrich Winter Shindig Night One w/ Poolboy + LAMAR

Yellow Ostrich is a long-running project led by Minneapolis-based songwriter Alex Schaaf, who started the band in Brooklyn in 2010 before moving it to the Midwest. The band released Soft in 2022 on Barsuk Records, the first new music in seven years to be released by Schaaf under the Yellow Ostrich moniker, since he paused the project to explore new musical identities on a handful of excellent self-released albums.

The new album takes its name from the lyric that stands as a thesis for the entire album, a beautiful and haunting rumination on the pitfalls and pressures of traditional masculinity and on Schaaf's drive toward vulnerability and tenderness as core tenets of his being.

Poolboy is an indie rock band from Minneapolis, MN. In 2017, they were named City Pages' Best New Band. Poolboy has released a number of EP's, the most recent in Fall of 2022. "Year of the Weasel", is a five track EP engineered, produced and mixed by Con Davison. With mastering by Huntley Miller. Poolboy is Seth Conover, Brett Bjornrud and JP Dreblow.

Lamar is the latest project led by Minneapolis based singer, songwriter, saxophonist and composer Geoffrey Lamar Wilson. Former frontman of Brooklyn based Jus Post Bellum, also known for his multilayered looped saxophone performances and catchy podcast ditties(Terrible, Thanks for Asking). This latest project blends his idiomatic inspirations bridging Folk, Soul, R&B and Country, into a collection of songs with a constant ear towards issues of racial and social justice, and the shared human experience.

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