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“The Race Is On” live @ The Cedar Cultural Center with The Unarmed Forces & Gary Farmer - 2025

I WAS BORN, BUT… New record

JANuary 16th, 2026

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Recent highlights 2026:

  • New Record “I Was Born, But…” released January 16th on Don Giovanni Records (upcoming press include Magnet premiere / No Depression feature / American Songwriter interview / All Songs Considered, & more)

  • Mountain Stage Radio Show appearance with Calexico, Steve Forbert, Anna Mieke & David Wax Museum

  • “Honor the Earth: Water Is Life Festival” performer & artistic director with Bon Iver, Ani Difranco, Indigo Girls

  • 14 date east coast tour supporting Trampled By Turtles

  • “Still & Still Moving” featured in “WALKER” show on CW

  • performer / organizer - Seed Savers Exchange benefit concert w/ Lissie, William Elliot Whitmore

  • support slots for Rosanne Cash, Son Volt, Greg Brown, Charlie Parr, Murder By Death & more

NEW SINGLE “CHIEF SEATTLE’S DREAM” FEATURED ON AMC TV

DARK WINDS - SEASON 4 PREMIERE FEB 15TH

PREVIOUS PRESS FOR DAVID’S SOLO ALBUMS:

"HIS NEW ALBUM, ROOM ENOUGH TIME ENOUGH SERVES AS A BOLD ENVIRONMENTAL BATTLE CRY…THE LYRICAL POETRY OF THE ALBUM CARRIES THE SOUND HIGHER THROUGH ITS OVERARCHING THEME OF PERSEVERANCE AND PRESERVATION.” – AMERICAN SONGWRITER

DAVID HUCKFELT IS A MIDWESTERN FOLKSINGER WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE INCREASINGLY DESPERATE FIGHT TO STOP THE CONSTRUCTION OF LINE 3, A TAR-SANDS PIPELINE THAT WOULD CUT ACROSS MINNESOTA. HIS NEW SINGLE, “BOOK OF LIFE,” IS DEDICATED TO “THE INDIGENOUS WATER PROTECTORS STANDING UP AND SPEAKING OUT FOR MOTHER EARTH ALL ACROSS TURTLE ISLAND.” - BILL MCKIBBEN, THE NEW YORKER

SINGER-SONGWRITER DAVID HUCKFELT LIKEWISE CELEBRATES BOTH THE JOY AND THE SOCIO-POLITICAL POWER OF ART, EMBRACING A BELIEF, AS HE PUTS IT, “THAT MUSIC SHOULD EXPAND THE SPACE OF THE ROOM WHERE YOU SIT, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, BE SO POWERFUL THAT IT NAILS YOU TO THE WALL.” – NO DEPRESSION

"HAUNTED LANDSCAPES AND SPIRITS ARE ALL OVER THE EX-PINES LEADER’S SECOND SOLO LP, ... WHICH DOESN’T STICK TO THE COWBOY MYTH BUT ADDS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INTO THE STORY. AMONG THE GUESTS ARE VARIOUS NATIVE AMERICAN MUSICIANS, AS ON A FASCINATING COVER OF PATTI SMITH’S "GHOST DANCE"; A SATISFIED MIND IS A LOVELY DUET WITH GREG BROWN." - **** (FOUR STARS) MOJO MAGAZINE

“ROOM ENOUGH, TIME ENOUGH ILLUSTRATES THE POWER OF SONG TO SPEAK LOVE TO POWER, TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH WE PONDER WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN, AND TO EVOKE THE POWER OF MEMORY TO LIBERATE AND TO PROVIDE HOPE.” – FOLK ALLEY

“FOR ITS AMBITIOUS SCOPE AND INVENTIVE COVER INTERPRETATIONS, THIS IS AN EARLY CANDIDATE FOR ONE OF THE TOP ROOTS MUSIC ALBUMS OF THE YEAR.” – GLIDE MAGAZINE

BIOGRAPHY:

David Huckfelt is a singer/ lyricist /activist and founding frontman of Minneapolis indie-folk cult favorites The Pines. Represented by Frank Riley / High Road Touring for nearly a decade, an artist residency at Isle Royale National Park helped launch David’s solo career after The Pines split in 2018, culminating in his solo debut “Stranger Angels” in 2019. An Iowa native and former theology student, Huckfelt attended the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop before turning his attention to songwriting and performing.  With improvisational mastery, Huckfelt’s shows and songs of no-spiritual-surrender have earned him a devoted following from small-town opera houses & theaters to national festival stages like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Edmonton and Calgary Folk Fests, and the legendary First Avenue mainroom, sharing stages with Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, The Avett Brothers, Iris Dement, Greg Brown, Calexico, Gregory Alan Isakov, Trampled By Turtles & more.  An early encounter and collaboration with radical Native American poet John Trudell introduced Huckfelt as friend & partner to an array of Indigenous artists & activists including Louise Erdrich, Winona LaDuke, Gary Farmer, Keith Secola & more, working for climate and social justice under the banner of music + resistance.  He was both performer and artistic director of the seminal Indigenous-allied “Water Is Life” music + resistance festival in Duluth, MN in 2022 & 2023, with performances by Bon Iver, Ani Difranco, The Indigo Girls & more. In 2024 he worked as assistant music supervisor on the celebrated AMC TV show “Dark Winds”, with two original songs in season three, and a brand new song set to kick off the anticipated fourth season this coming February.

Performing as a duo with lauded Minneapolis guitarist Jeremy Ylvisaker (Andrew Bird, Grace Potter), or with his band The Unarmed Forces featuring J.T. Bates (Bonny Light Horseman, Big Red Machine), Mike Lewis (Bon Iver, Happy Apple) & a rotating cast of guest musicians, Huckfelt’s live shows draw upon the full range & spectrum of American roots music with a staunchly non-traditional, in-the-moment intensity. With roots in the same fertile Midwestern soil that produced legendary folk singers like John Prine and Greg Brown, David's new solo work preserves a rugged optimism that blasts through layers of dark in real time with songs that speak volumes, soft & clear.


“Anything” (written by Adrianne Lenker) - official Music Video

David Huckfelt Tour History

2025:

Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live - supporting Cloud Cult

New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge supporting Cloud Cult

Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair

Minneapolis, MN - Animales Barbeque Co.

Iowa City, IA - Englert Theatre

Tucson, AZ - La Rosa

Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Folk Festival

Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center

Minneapolis, MN - Icehouse

Cable, WI - The Portage

La Pointe, WI - Tom's Burned Down Cafe

Maquoketa, IA - Codfish Hollow Barnstormers

Henderson, MN - River Bottom Tavern & Brewhouse

Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue supporting Murder By Death

Minneapolis, MN - Art-a-Whirl

Flagstaff, AZ - Coconino Center For the Arts

Tucson, AZ - Hotel Congress

Pomeroy, IA - Byron's

Winona, MN - Minnesota Marine Art Museum

Minneapolis, MN - Decolonize Thanksgiving @ Hook and Ladder Theater

Northfield, MN - 310 Underground

Ely, MN - Ely's Historic State Theater

Aitkin, MN - Sampaguita

Brainerd, MN - Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts

Taylors Falls, MN - Taylors Falls Memorial Community Center

Bemidji, MN - Paul Bunyan Playhouse

Grand Rapids, MN - Rapids Brewing Company

Berwyn, IL - Fitzgerald's supporting William Elliot Whitmore

Osceola, WI - The Acreage at Osceola

Sandstone, MN - OSAC MN Old School Arts Center

Ashland, WI - Stone Soup Cafe

Saint Paul, MN - Palace Theatre supporting Cloud Cult

St Paul, MN - Turf Club

Shell Lake, WI - Brickyard Pottery & Gallery

Fairfield, IA - Cafe Paradiso

Decorah, IA - Seed Savers Exchange Heritage Farm

Portland, OR - Alberta Abbey

2024:

Sept 9th - Radio Waves Music Festival - Grand Marais, MN

August 31st - KBFT Radio Back to School Benefit - Minneapolis, MN

August 17th - Winona LaDuke’s Birthday Benefit - Madeline Island, WI

August 5th - Seed Savers Benefit Concert - Decorah, IA

July 29th - Park Theater - Mary Mack Variety Show - Hayward, WI

July 28th - Driftless Books & Music - Viroqua, WI

July 27th - Sondheim Center - Fairfield, IA

July 14th - Icehouse - Minneapolis, MN

July 8th - Madeline Island Indigenous Music Festival - Madeline Island, WI

June 24th - Prairie Island Campground - Winona, MN

June 22nd - Isanti Spirits Distillery - Isanti, MN

June 20th - Waseca Public Library - Waseca, MN

June 10th - Grinnell Bicycle Charity Ride - Grinnell, IA

June 3rd - Codfish Hollow Barnstomers - Maquoketa, IA (headline)

May 26th - Park Theater - Hayward, WI (headline)

May 20th - Aendre Art Center - Ferryville, WI

May 13th - The Acreage @ Osceola - Osceola, WI (workshop & concert)

May 5th - Lamplight Sessions - Mosinee, WI (co-bill w/ Humbird)

APR 28 - Icehouse -Minneapolis, MN (headline)

APR 02 -Charleston, WV - Mountain Stage (with Calexico, David Wax)

MAR 24 - Eau Claire, WI - Pablo Center at the Confluence (headline)

MAR 22 - Lutsen, MN - Papa Charlie's Saloon & Grill (headline)

MAR 11 - Tucson, AZ - Water Is Life Southwest (headline)

FEB 18 - Tucson, AZ - Hotel Congress (headline)

FEB 17 - Bisbee, AZ - St Elmo Bar (headline)

FEB 11 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar (co-bill with Howe Gelb)

FEB 10 - Flagstaff, AZ - Coconino Center For the Arts (headline)

JAN 28 - Fort Atkinson, WI - Cafe Carpe (headline)

JAN 27 - Dubuque, IA - Fox Den Motel (headline)

JAN 20 - Bemidji, MN - Headwaters Music & Arts (co-bill Annie Humphry)

JAN 12 - Aitkin, MN - Honor the Earth Benefit Concert (headline)

2023:

DEC 27 - Minneapolis, MN - Icehouse (headline)

DEC 10 - Mankato, MN - MSU Toy Fund Drive (headline)

DEC 02 - Madison, WI - Kiki's House of Righteous Music (headline)

DEC 01 - Milwaukee, WI - Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. (headline)

NOV 30 - Chicago, IL - The Red Room (headline)

NOV 25 - Minneapolis, MN - Indigenous Peoples Day Benefit

NOV 06 - Des Moines, IA - xBk Live (co-bill with Pieta Brown)

OCT 15 - Duluth, MN - The Current / MPR Showcase - headline

OCT 08 - Iowa City, IA - Englert Theatre (headline)

OCT 07 - Stoughton, WI - Stoughton Opera House (co-bill Pieta Brown)

OCT 06 - La Crosse, WI - Pump House Regional Arts (co-bill Pieta Brown)

OCT 05 - Minneapolis, MN - Dakota (headline)

SEP 17 - Saint Paul, MN - New Victorian Mansion (headline)

SEP 08 - Saint Paul, MN - Lowertown Sounds (headline)

SEP 04 - Duluth, MN - Honor the Earth - Water is Life Festival

AUG 28 - Pomeroy, IA - Byron's (headline)

AUG 19 - Bodø, Norway - Parkenfestivalen

JUL 16 - Viroqua, WI - Driftless Books and Music (headline)

JUL 10 - Saint Joseph, MN - Milk & Honey Ciders (headline)

JUN 25 - Minneapolis, MN - Icehouse Residency

JUN 25 - Ashland Junction, WI - Bayview City Park

JUN 18 - Minneapolis, MN - Icehouse Residency

JUN 16 - Grand Rapids, MN - Northern Community Radio (KAXE/KBXE)

JUN 11 - Minneapolis, MN - Icehouse Residency

JUN 04 - Minneapolis, MN - Icehouse 

JUN 03 - Ely, MN - Ely's Historic State Theater (headline)

JUN 01 - Duluth, MN - The West Theatre (headline)

MAY 28 - Maquoketa, IA - Codfish Hollow Barnstormers (headline)

MAY 27 - Fairfield, IA  - Cider House (headline)

MAY 14 - Ely, MN - Honor the Earth Protect Our Waters (headline)

MAY 04 - Saint Cloud, MN - Granite City Theater (headline)

APR 16 - Rockford, IL - Meridian Music Shed (headline)

APR 15 - Arlington Heights, IL - Hey Nonny (headline)

APR 14 - Milwaukee, WI - Shank Hall

APR 13 - Chicago, IL - City Winery Chicago

APR 03 - Minneapolis, MN - Lakewood Cemetery Series (headline)

Minneapolis, MN- Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant

Fairfield, IA - Cafe Paradiso

St Paul, MN - Lake Monster Brewing Company

Spring Green, WI - The Shitty Barn

Saint Paul, MN - Palace Theatre (opening for Trampled By Turtles

Viroqua, WI - Temple Theatre (opening for S.Carey)

Northfield, MN - Northfield Arts Guild - Armory Square

Hayward, WI - Park Theater

Grand Rapids, MN - Reif Center

St Paul, MN - Minnesota State Fair

Chisholm, MN - Minnesota Discovery Center


2022:

July Icehouse Residency - Minneapolis, MN - every Sat in July

Thurs, July 15th - Isanti Spirits - Isanti, MN

Fri, July 23rd - Driftless Books & Music

Sun, July 25th - Earth Rider - Duluth, MN

Thur, Aug 5th - The Shitty Barn - Spring Green, WI

Fri, Aug 6th - Park Theater - Hayward, WI

Sat, Aug 7th - Ely Chalet - Ely, MN

Sat, Aug 21st - private event - Superior, WI

Thu, Aug 26th - Winona LaDuke’s Birthday Party - Madeline Island, WI

Fri, Aug 27th - Tom’s Burned Down Cafe - Madeline Island, WI

Sat, Aug 28th - Farm Table Foundation - Amery, WI

Sat, Sept 4th - Seed Savers Benefit - Decorah, IA

Fri, Sept 17th - Codfish Hollow - Maquoketa, IA

Sat, Sept 18th - Everwood Farmstead - Glenwood City, WI

Sun, Oct 3rd - Lakewood Chapel - Minneapolis, MN

Fri, Nov 19th - Cedar Cultural Center

Sat, Nov 20th - CSPS - Cedar Rapids, IA


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