Watch exclusive videos from some of our favorite MN Americana musicians!
With the help of our friend Tom Smouse, Carol & Jaclyn recorded and produced five videos in Winona, MN during the Midwest Music Festival 2022. Special thanks to Bob Ries and Craig Bratsch for the use of their beautiful home along the river!
Bad Posture Club
Morgan Kavanagh (l) & Maren Day (r)
Mountain
Bad Posture Club is a Minneapolis-based folk duo made up of Maren Day and Morgan Kavanagh. Their songwriting explores themes of home-places, landscapes, memory, family, and the strange relationship between human softness and the unyielding societal structures we both participate in, and push against. When reinterpreting traditional folk songs, they carve out space and agency for queer voices. Drawing the listener in with intricate and experimental vocal harmony, Bad Posture Club creates intimacy and warmth, inviting togetherness in song.
Luke Callen
Fishing Song
Clementine
Originally from the river town of La Crosse, Wisconsin – the heart of the Driftless Region on the Mississippi River – and currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota by way of Colorado Luke brings his humble sense of humor and humanity wherever he may go. Luke’s latest release, self-produced album Hard Sardine, was released May 18th, 2021 and recorded in Winona, MN by Noah Glenn Short. His last two solo albums – I’ll Take it With Me (2017) and below your knows (2019) – reach from the ethereal to the eternally real – whimsical walks in the out of doors to hopelessness and heartache and all the in betweens. Here, Luke plays two of our favorite songs along the banks of the Mississippi River in Winona.