Dave Hause Setlist

Cellmates
Autism Vaccine Blues
Look Alive
We Could Be Kings
Enough Hope
Eye Aye I
Saboteurs
Revisionist History
Damn Personal
Surfboard
Fireflies
Jane (The Loved Ones song)
Time Will Tell
Dirty Fucker
The Ditch
A Knife In The Mud

— Encore —
With You
May Every Last Fever Break

William Elliott Whitmore Setlist

Mutiny
Lift My Jug (Song for Hub Cale)
Diggin’ My Grave
Break Even
Don’t Pray on Me (Bad Religion cover)
Hell or High Water
Don’t Need It
Who Stole the Soul
Bunker Built for Two
What For
One Man’s Shame
Johnny Law
I Guess That’s How It Goes (new song)
Old Devils

Adeem the Artist Setlist

There We Are
Ruin Me
Cowards Together
Multi-ball My Madness Away
Just Like Old Times (Todd Snider cover)
Learning to Drive Again

On the heels of the 2026 season home opener for the Minnesota United soccer team (final score, Loons with the 1-0 win!), you could walk mere blocks from Allianz Field over to the Turf Club. And on this Saturday evening, Dave Hause and the Mermaid, along with co-headliner William Elliot Whitmore were looking to build a similarly joyous environment.

Up first was Nashville based indie country musician Adeem the Artist. With nine albums, including 2026’s notes from the inside, they have been as regular as a clock at putting out music. Starting with There We Are, this was a forceful Americana with Adeem solo on acoustic guitar. A snippet of You Shook Me All Night Long was a hilarious transition back to his “darker music”, and they certainly delivered with Cowards Together, a lean and brutal number that worked extremely well, particularly with a break in the middle to give broader context of their forced stay in a mental hospital. It was a brilliant mix of pathos and humor and Adeem the Artist had hit a great pace with the audience. multi ball my madness away let Adeem go full blues style and it was a lot of fun. Ending on learning to drive again, Adeem the Artist had led up with another great story that came through on the song. We’ll be looking more into their back log given the impressive performance.

William Elliot Whitmore was up next. Another prolific artist, with over ten albums, including 2024’s Silently, The Mind Breaks, he got going quickly after working with Turf Club hero Matt on sound. Technical glitch past, Whitmore began. He was solo on banjo and drums, and it was clear there was a significant portion of the crowd here for him, as they sang along with the opening number. Lift My Jug was exactly what you would hope for in a song of that title, and Whitmore was crushing it at that nexus of blues and Americana. Diggin’ My Grave had a great reference to his Iowa background, given his musical sound could easily have been identified as much farther south. I heavily enjoyed his gravitas as a performer: there’s a great moment as an audience member when a performer simply owns the moment. Break Even was a good continuation of the theme for these brutal times. A meaningful call out for what Minnesota has been through was really kind, and followed with Don’t Pray on Me, a blisteringly sardonic song. Whitmore was compelling and fun, even as his lyrics spoke of the darkness underlying much of our current world. Hell or High Water was another number that had the vast majority of the crowd singing without Whitmore and was a powerful moment. Bunker Built for Two called out layers of hypocrisy, and I’m not sure it could be more satirical while still being in the genre. A late compilation was clever and let Whitmore shine. As he ended, Whitmore had really connected in a positive way, and again had the audience singing along to his great lyrics taking down the status quo.

Last up was Dave Hause and the Mermaid. Another band with a large discography, including 205’s …and the Mermaid, they came to the stage as a sextet (vocals/guitar, two guitars, bass, keyboards and drums, with several back up vocalists). The band started strong with Cellmates, with that earnest rock & roll coming through right away and was a fabulous exclamation point on an already rocking evening. Look Alive was a great example of their sound, with jangly driving guitars, and had the crowd singing and cheering. Hause was a charismatic center to the band and the crowd was hyped to participate in clapping and singing as requested. A great intro to Enough Hope was a screed against the billionaires screwing everyone over, with the chorus of “give them enough hope, they’ll hang themselves”. (One can only hope.) A little rock, a little ska/punk, and all in the moment, Dave Hause and the Mermaid were flying. This was fun and darkly emotional and that isn’t always an easy landing to stick. Saboteurs had a great chorus and continued to highlight the strengths of the band. Revisionist History was the punk rock song you’d hope for, and Hause and band were on top of things. A f- ICE jacket appearing on stage drew huge cheers and Hause and band were getting the love of the crowd as they leaned some numbers into an Americana tone. Fireflies had the audience singing again and it was that unbridled joy that made the evening special. A cover of Jane was a fabulously punk song while Time Will Tell had the band put themselves on the line for earnestness, and it was a beautiful moment when then crowd took the chorus forward. Dirty F***er was a great reminder that no one lives forever, and goodness did the crowd lean into that vibe. With the final song A Knife in the Mud, they left the stage to raucous cheering. Back for the encore, With You was a great moment with the audience and finishing their two songs, Dave Hause and the Mermaid had closed out an evening that felt like a victory.