Come celebrate the end of summer with some boot stompin' in the beautiful barn!
Americana music provided by Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners and Award Winning Maygen & The Birdwatcher! Event starts at 4pm, music starts at 6pm!
Come one, come all for some FOOD + DRINKS + MUSIC!
Tickets are $15 at the door or EARLY BIRD SPECIAL of 2 for $22 available at www.ShaggyDogFarm.com
RAIN OR SHINE EVENT!
6pm - Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners
8pm - Maygen & The Birdwatcher
Sound provided by JD Bass Entertainment
(no outside food or drink permitted)
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Maygen & The Birdwatcher:
Coming off the successful release of their "stunning" (Americana UK) debut full-length album, Moonshine, which earned them Midwest Country Music Awards for both Album of the Year and Americana Artist of the Year, Maygen & The Birdwatcher are poised for big things. Described as "an exciting goulash of Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Florence + The Machine, and Joe Cocker" (MostlyMinnesota); what began as two songwriters quickly grew into a highly versatile 6-piece that showcases distinctive songs, fantastic harmonies, and tight musicianship with shared lead vocals. They adventurously blur the sounds of country, bluegrass, folk, and blues - keepin' it all fresh. With the ability to still play as an intimate duo or trio, all the way up to their full band hoe-down, Maygen & The Birdwatcher can charm a diverse range of audiences. From beauty to grit, sadness to silliness, the common thread is that this group loves music, and playing it together. It shows.
To ensure the full spectrum of their sound is available to listeners, the band is releasing a 6-song EP Sept 9 called Bootleggin’ At The Flower Shoppe. They went right back to Flowers Studio (The Jayhawks, Mason Jennings, Soul Asylum, Jeremy Messersmith, Lizzo) with Kris Johnson, who was their engineer on Moonshine, and recorded the more energetic and good-timin’ songs that were written around the same time as Moonshine, but hadn’t gotten the chance to be properly recorded and shared with their fans. They like to think of Bootleggin’ as Moonshine’s companion, released less than a year from each other, with many different things to offer listeners that have grown to look forward to their diverse approach to songwriting.
The band has only been playing together for two years but has already received wonderful opportunities to join festival stages with bands like Old Crow Medicine Show, Paul Cauthen, Grace Potter, and even supporting a childhood favorite, Travis Tritt. Onward and upward from here!
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Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners:
Great Lakes country music from a front porch in Duluth, MN. Breanne Marie broke into the Minnesota music scene as a solo performer with an acoustic guitar and a repertoire of country covers and originals. Her 2013 debut album “Six Strings of Peace and Sanity” was a collection of sweet and deeply personal songs she wrote following her father’s suicide and her brother’s death in a car accident. The success of the album set the stage for the formation of her full-blown backing band The Front Porch Sinners; Evan Tepler on guitar, Johnny Peterson on pedal steel and mandolin, Kyle Gondik-Anderson on bass, Matt Groom on drums, Kailyn Spencer on fiddle and Danielle Gondik-Anderson on background vocals. The group plays "Great Lakes country music" which is an alt-country sound using classic country instruments mixed with lyrics that speak to the hard times and natural beauty of rust belt communities like Duluth, MN.