Charlie Parr and Jeff Mitchell, Sunday Picnic in the Park, Earth Rider Brewery

Drifters delight with two great Americana roots guitar greats under one roof!

AMERICANA + TWO ACTS + FRESH BEER + SUNDAY IN THE PARK

Pack a picnic, tip a pint, sit back and enjoy a Sunday matinee hand picked Charlie Parr music series.

CHARLIE PARR

Charlie Parr is an American country blues musician. Born in Austin, Minnesota, he spent part of his childhood in Hollandale before starting his music career in Duluth. His influences include Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, and Mississippi John Hurt.

JEFF MITCHELL

Jeff Mitchell's songs are flashes of memory, emotion, and dry humor. His raw approach to fingerstyle guitar shifts from the pedestrian to the uncannily bent with little warning. His live shows have earned him a reputation for emotional intensity, lyrics that silence a room, and the occasional barnburner freakout.

Mitchell is a native of rural Minnesota transplanted to Milwaukee. His time spent living in small towns is essential to his songs and is obvious to listeners from out of the way places. He is a lifelong devotee of early music and singing old country songs passed down in his family. He also came of age in some gloriously ragged garage bands. Over the past 20 years or so, his interests in writing and experimentation have grown to combine his portraits of midwestern life with a strange undercurrent of dark, electronic psychedelia.