Dan Rodriguez and Heather Maloney
Doors 7PM / Show 8PM
Seated Show
$25ADV / $30DOS
*This show was originally scheduled at the Atwood Music Hall. Tickets purchased for that venue will be good for this show.
Dan Rodriguez is a whiskey & beer drinking, fishing & hunting loving, motorcycle riding, quality food eating, hippie sympathizing, hobby farm running, people loving, husband & father who lives in Minneapolis and shares a life with his amazing wife and two adorable sons named Oak and Alder.
He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, MI, and moved to Minneapolis when he was 18 to study music, and he stayed because he’s one of those crazy people that enjoys the snow and cold weather.
Songwriting, and performing those songs for people, is both his trade and passion. When he’s not in his studio writing and cutting records, or on the road playing shows, he’s usually playing in the woods with his boys, tending to his backyard chickens, eating fresh veggies from his wife’s huge garden, making syrup from his maple grove, or doing one of his many outdoor hobbies.
In September 2014 Budweiser released their "Friends Are Waiting" commercial campaign featuring Rodriguez singing his song “When You Come Home” and it premiered during both the World Series and the Super Bowl. In February, 2018, Rodriguez released his album 25 Years and the title track is now inching toward 1 million listens. In October, 2018, Miller Lite featured his single “So Good” in one of their commercials which played for months during NFL games on ESPN. In March 2019, Rodriguez’s song “You Feel Like Home” was featured in Explore Minnesota Tourism’s newest ad campaign.
In 2022 Rodriguez released the album Troubadour Family Man. It’s his debut self-produced record and he couldn’t be more proud of it.
Over the years Rodriguez had the honor of sharing the stage with some really cool artists & bands including The Civil Wars, Andy Grammer, Eric Hutchinson, Matt Nathanson, NeedtoBreathe, Augustana, Tyrone Wells, O.A.R., Haley Reinhart, Jon McLaughlin, Will Hoge, Drew Holcomb, Sister Hazel, and more.
Some albums are monoliths, compressed under the weight of a singular circumstance bearing down on an artist. Heather Maloney’s “Soil in the Sky” is a collective memory. Stitched together from personal and universal ecstasy, loss both intimate and ancient, Maloney’s fourth full-length release is a collage of tremulous folk, existential ballads, and assertive rock. Taken as a whole, it’s a constellation that looks a lot like life. The artist holds the center.
The Massachusetts-based “writer song-singer” found music in the midst of three years at a meditation center, honing a sound moored in days of silent reflection and reverence for storytellers like Joni, Rilke and Ken Burns. On “Soil in the Sky,” she takes us to the midwest’s existential crisis, a barstool scooching against fate, a make-my-day reckoning with society’s old guard. They’re roads less traveled and she keeps good company. Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith lends a distinctive duet to “We Were Together,” a rare love song from Maloney that nods to a Walt Whitman poem; Maloney and Rachel Price form a harmonic Voltron on “Enigma,” a triumphant uppercut to oppressive power structures. The album is sonically rounded out by an all-star cast of players including longtime collaborator Ryan Hommel, Griffin Goldsmith, Jared Olevsky, Reed Sutherland, Dave Eggar and Jay Ungar.
In sound and sentiment, these 12 songs cover an immense amount of territory. But they’re all powered by the same source. There’s a spiritual thread throughout the record. That inspiration doesn’t necessarily come from above — Maloney has a patchwork metaphysical support system — but from all around: the glow of humanity gathered in the people and places that lap out in our wake. Heather has toured nationally as a headliner as well as in support of acts like Lake Street Dive, Shakey Graves, Gary Clark Jr., Colin Hay, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and many more. The New York Times called her music “utterly gorgeous, visceral” and SPIN Magazine described her as “stunning, breathy, and starkly memorable”.