Bronwyn Keith-Hynes Setlist

Open Water
Flower Child
Roving Gambler (Traditional)
Johnnie Ray
Can’t Live Without Love (Jamie Hartford cover)
Goodbye Earl(The Chicks cover)
Deal (Jerry Garcia cover)
Get No Better (John Hartford cover)
Forked Deer
One Way Track
I’ll Never Make It Home Tonight (Frank Evans cover)
Midnight Rider (The Allman Brothers Band cover)
Dulcet Cookie
Gallatin Road
Sticks & Stones
The Chain font (Fleetwood Mac cover)
— Encore —
(Unknown Instrumental)

Foxgloves Setlist

House of the Rising Sun (The Animals cover)
Toledo
Flowers
Orange Marmalade
Wild River Honey
Across the Rio
Rum River
Hot Fiddle
Chattahoochee (Alan Jackson cover)
Millie
Creek
Maybelle Medley

August is the oddest month in the Twin Cities live music scene. Festival season is peaking across the United States, but most have already come through Minnesota. Indoor venues are still operating in summer mode and so tend to still be a little lighter in terms of bands scheduled. It’s just that in between time, and it can be easy to take a pass on what is around. But dear reader, there’s still lots of gems out there if you take the time to look. Over at the Turf Club in Saint Paul, it was going to be a full night of Americana bluegrass with virtuoso fiddler Bronwyn appearing in town with a new album on the way.

Up first was Twin Cities Americana band The Foxgloves. We last saw the all-woman line up here at Turf Club in July of 2025. Their debut album, Mama Was a Bandit was released in 2022, marked with those full harmonies (up to four vocalists) and a variety of instruments, including the washboard. The quintet (fiddle/mandolin, guitar, banjo/uke/washboard, percussion, and stand up bass) started with a stirring cover of House of the Rising Sun, before changing over to a cheery Americana bluegrass song in Toledo. The third song had our third lead vocalist and that’s one of the depths of The Foxgloves. We got an instrumental in Orange Marmalade featuring mandolin and guitar that was quite lovely. We hit the first of two planned medleys and the appearance of the washboard. Hot Fiddle was exactly that and the theme of the evening, but the band was running short on time and scrapped a few planned numbers. Closing the show as they always do with a medley of songs by the women of country music, The Foxgloves had used their time well and had things set for the headliner.

Bronwyn (full name Bronwyn Keith-Hynes) was up to cap the evening. She is a Nashville based artist and a Grammy winning fiddle player from the recently dissolved Molly Tuttle & Golden Harvest. Bronwyn had already been working a solo side project since the 2020 release of her instrumental debut Fiddler’s Paradise. She’s since moved into singing and more recently songwriting, as her third album, Rattlin’ Bones, is due out later this month. She also announced in June that she’ll simply go by Bronwyn, so advertising materials for this show still had her full name listed for the last day of this leg of the tour. Coming to the stage as a quintet (vocals/fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and stand up bass), that first instrumental Open Water was a fabulous start with each band member getting their moments in solo or in pairs, and Bronwyn had assembled quite the talented band. But that fiddle playing was central and simply outstanding. She’s also got a fine voice for the genre, and a version of the traditional Roving Gambler was a great example. The constant moments of a pair of instruments (fiddle & banjo, etc.) gave a variety of bluegrass sounds and visual contrasts as they moved around stage. The fact that we had up to four vocalists provided similar changes to the vocal quality of different songs. One from the new album, Johnny Ray, had some darker tones and another big interlude for Bronwyn’s fiddle.

A quick round of tuning led to the very fast paced cover of Goodbye Earl, and Bronwyn and band had the crowd engaged, with an excellent instrumental close. A live debut of a Grateful Dead cover of Deal in honor of Jerry Garcia’s birthday turned very bluegrass, and honestly felt like a great direction for that song. The stage cleared out for a banjo and fiddle tune and it was a well matched duo, with impressive work from both. Never Make It Home Tonight was a number from banjo player Frank Evans’ album Fit for a Dog, and was a real bluegrass drinkin’ song. Another song from the new album, Gallatin Road was a funky bluegrass song, in a sentence I never expected to write. Some more brilliant instrumental solos brought us to the final main set number with a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain, in an absolute mind blowing rendition. For the encore, the band came down to the floor with the audience circled around them and closed on a final bluegrass number and Bronwyn had cemented a fantastic evening and we’ll look forward to the new album and be on the watch for their return.