LIVE LETTERS document live music around Minneapolis and host small concerts in alternative spaces around Minneapolis. The Soap Factory is thrilled to partner up with LIVE LETTERS in a new catalog of shows continuing this July.
Held July 27th @ 8pm, doors at 7:30, this second installment features The Ericksons and Ben Weaver, $10 admission.
Minneapolis based duo the Ericksons has been crafting their own unique style of soulful, honest, indie-folk music since 2006. Sisters Bethany Valentini and Jenny Kapernick’s emotive sound is inspiring, powerful and captivating. With three albums under their belt, the latest of which, The Wild, garnering much acclaim in Minnesota, the duo is working on their newest collection of songs. With their new single, ANIMAL, The Ericksons introduce electro-pop instrumentation to their mystical songwriting and ethereal vocal harmonies. The duo gives their arresting sound a fun new twist through their collaboration with the production team of Sean Carey (Bon Iver, S. Carey), and Ben Lester (Field Report, A.A. Bondy, S. Carey). This inventive new single evokes light, hope, and strength, and represents an evolution of sound from The Ericksons that weaves a thread into the music to come.
A writer of great nuance and simplicity and simple wonder, Ben Weaver suffuses his songs with a sense of place and detail. Natural, everyday wonders are his inspiration (and shouldn't they be for everyone, really?)
Born in Eugene, OR, Ben calls the upper reaches of Minnesota his home now, and it shows.
He's been compared to such songwriting and performance luminaries as Greg Brown, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Richard Buckner, and while he can channel their raspy growls and mystical sense, Ben remains his own artist. Stridently independent and unbending in his quests, Ben might not be everyone's cup of herbal tea, but if he were, he'd be boring.
Weaver is also an accomplished artist and writer: You can find his short story "Humanesque" in Amplified, a collection of fiction by songwriters including Rhett Miller, Robbie Fulks, and Jon Langford, while his art is often posted to his Tumblr.
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