Rocktober: October 21 to October 22

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10/21/2023 Saturday
This Is The Kit
with Gruff Rhys
at Turf Club
first-avenue.com

British musician This is the Kit is headlining the Turf Club in St Paul on Oct 21.

 

We caught This is the Kit in Oct 2017 and said, “On this tour, This Is the Kit (Kate Stables) is joined by bassist Jesse Vernon and drummer Jamie Whitby-Coles. She started off with a solo song ‘Easy on the Thieves’, then as a trio, then back to solo with ‘All Written out in Numbers’. Stables often tuned between songs, making for awkward unfinished stories and comments. She played acoustic guitar, but it seemed like she’s most comfortable when she’s plucking on her banjo. Highlight of her set was Sad Sax of Sh** (the Bon Iver horns section led by Nelson Devereaux), joining This is the Kit for most of their set. According to Stables, they met in June 2017 and immediately hit it off. The added saxophones gave This is the Kit’s songs a fresh, upbeat sound.”

Lovely to see former Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys will open the show.

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10/21/2023 Saturday
Old Crow Medicine Show 
at Palace Theatre
first-avenue.com

Two-time GRAMMY award-winning band Old Crow Medicine Show will be headlining the Palace Theatre in St Paul on October 21st. The band’s new album Jubilee is out now on ATO Records.

Their single, “One Drop”, features Mavis Staples, and described as a “gospel-inspired romp” that closed out the new album.

Talking about the single, bandleader Ketch Secor explains: “For years Old Crow has always had a song or two on an album striving to sum up the need for a spiritual awakening, a rededication to ideals, and a sing-a-long tune for the campfire’s last dying ember. This is the latest in our canon of ‘songs of a spiritual persuasion,’ and, I think, one of our best, due in no small part to the presence of a legend of gospel music and more, the great Mavis Staples. Mavis epitomizes a life in roots music and Old Crow can only hope that the next 25 years will bring us, like she is, closer to the true vine.”

As of this writing, no opening band is listed.

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10/22/2023 Sunday
Madison McFerrin
with XINA
at 7th St Entry
first-avenue.com

Independent artist, producer, and musician Madison McFerrin is touring support of her debut album I Hope You Can Forgive Me. The tour will find its away to the 7th Street Entry on October 22nd.

XINA to open.

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