Icehouse's Upcoming Shows

Starlight Room:

6pm Doors

8pm Showtime

Full Food and Beverage Menu Available

21+

First Come, First serve seating

$15 Adv (+fees/taxes)

$22 Door (+fees/taxes)

Caley Conway Bio:

Caley Conway is a Milwaukee-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, a trailblazer of the Midwest music community who has toured widely and shared stages with such heavy hitters as Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. In her first full-length release since 2019's 'Surrounded Middle,' Conway brings us 'Partner' (out now on Crutch of Memory Enterprises), a keen examination of love, co-dependence, and the struggle to maintain one's autonomy as half of a pair.

“Songs that can be intimate and unflinching, or dreamy and enigmatic, and never once pat and predictable.” -Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Impeccably produced, beautifully sung, and full of revelatory songs. Every song is worth your energy and effort to unspool and tangle yourself in."

-Trilobite Polka Review

"Her sound is imbued with indefinable glory, like songs from a lost futuristic hymnal."

-Milwaukee Magazine

Cathedral Becomes Tomb Bio:

Cathedral Becomes Tomb is an audio and visual media project from Wisconsin based artist Barry Paul Clark (adoptahighway, Tontine Ensemble, Field Report)

This creative expression includes double bass in combination with affected audio signals. Live performances are multimedia improvisations that utilize a mixture of projection imagery (curated filmed pieces mixed with personally shot video footage) with a visual signal affected by the sounds being produced in the performance.

FFO drone, improvisation, glacial maximalism, deep listening, and experimental electronic, with techniques derivative of contemporary classical music.

https://cathedralbecomestomb.bandcamp.com/

The Nelson Devereaux Trio Bio:

Float into a cinematic musical beyond with the psychedelic sounds of The Nelson Devereaux Trio.

The Nelson Devereaux Trio is: Nelson Devereaux (saxophones, synths, winds), Dave Power (drums) and Cody McKinney (electric bass). Individually the three have played with some of the most exciting acts in the Twin Cities and beyond. Together they create a brilliant sonic frontier that will enthrall and inspire every listener.

For fans of Jeff Parker, ETA Quartet, Outside World, Makaya McCraven, and really any music you can

Patio Show:

6pm Doors

7pm Showtime

First Come First Serve Seating

18+

NO COVER

Changling Trio is Ryan Freitas on Bass/Woodwinds, Kavyesh Kaviraj on Keyboards and Chresten Hyde on Drums. This new trio moves freely between jazz, R&B, hip-hop and pop, melding all their styles into a groove-forward sound.

6pm Doors | 8pm Showtime

Full Food and Beverage Menu Available

21+

$30 Adv (+fees/taxes)

$37 Doors (+fees/taxes)

Hi, I’m Dan. I’m 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 my amazing wife and two adorable sons named Oak

and Alder.

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, MI, and moved to Minneapolis when I was 18 to study

music, and I stayed because I’m one of those crazy people that enjoys the snow and cold

weather.

Songwriting, and performing those songs for people, is both my trade and my passion. When

I’m not in my studio writing and cutting records, or on the road playing shows, I’m usually

playing in the woods with our boys, tending to our backyard chickens, eating fresh veggies

from my wife’s huge garden, making syrup from our maple grove, or doing one of my many

outdoor hobbies.

Now here are a few things about my music career that I should probably share in a music bio:

• In September 2014 Budweiser released their "Friends Are Waiting" commercial campaign

featuring me singing my song When You Come Home and it premiered during both The World

Series & The Super Bowl.

• In February, 2018, I released my album 25 Years and the title track is now inching toward 1

million listens.

• In October, 2018, Miller Lite featured my newest single “So Good” in one of their commercials

that played for months during NFL games on ESPN & more.

• In March, 2019, my song “You Feel Like Home” was featured in Explore Minnesota Tourism’s

newest ad campaign.

• In 2022 I released my album Troubadour Family Man. It’s my debut self-produced record and

I couldn’t be more proud of it.

• Over the years I’ve 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.

3pm Doors

4pm Showtime

Full Food and Beverage Menu Available

18+

$15 Adv (+fees/taxes)

$22 Doors (+fees/taxes)

The Outside In isn’t your grandma’s modern jazz band. Ethan Ostrow’s project blends elements of funk, rock and folk with something completely new, featuring some of the Twin Cities’ most accomplished and versatile musicians.

“Seriously funked-up...Ostrow's compositions are dynamic, passionate, and gorgeous” – East Bay Express⁠

Soaring melodies, passionate solos, head-banging grooves, intimate and reflective ballads all define the music, which can be described as a blend between Snarky Puppy, Ghost Note, the Brian Blade Fellowship, and Ethan’s unique compositional voice.

Ethan Ostrow is a Minneapolis-based pianist, composer, and singer. A recent transplant from NYC, Ethan has quickly established himself across genres in Minnesota, performing and recording with the Snapped Open Mic band, Ashley DuBose, Adam Bohanan, Omar Abdulkarim, Kathleen Johnson, Abinnet Berhanu, Dakota Andersen, Leslie Vincent, Toussaint Morrison, Thoughtcast, the Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, and more.

Room3 is a jazz fusion wild card rooted in tradition yet driven by experimentation. Their sound is imaginative, melodic and rhythmically sharp, mixing elements of contemporary jazz, prog rock, funk and more. The collective operates out of Minneapolis most commonly as a five-piece, with Eli Awada on keyboards, Wormdove (aka Beck Anderson) on bass, RAWTWHYLAH (aka Colin Mitchell) on drums, Evan Espinoza Robles on percussion and Mike Green on guitar. Room3 has performed consistently at prestigious venues across the Twin Cities, from The Dakota to the First Avenue Main Room, for over two years, and they were recently selected as one of First Avenue’s “Best New Bands of 2024.” Their debut album, “Bill’s Garden,” is out now.

Join us in the Starlight Room!

Seating is first come, first served.

Full food and beverage menu available all night.

21+

6PM DOORS

8PM SHOW

NO COVER

About MAKR:

Mark McGee is a composer and producer from Minneapolis, MN. His projects include RONiiA, Marijuana Deathsquads, Father You See Queen, and To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie. He recently released a solo composition entitled Curse the Day that Birthed the Bastard through his MAKR moniker along with an original score commissioned by the Walker Art Center for Lotte Reiniger's 1926 animation, The Adventures of Prince Achmed. His musical strengths involve a special interest in texture and nuance that sometimes lack in popular music. The music Mark makes tends to reflect a more moody and brooding atmosphere.

6pm Doors

8pm Showtime

Full Food and Beverage Menu Available

21+

$18 Adv (+fees/taxes)

$25 Door (+fees/taxes)

A phrase like “fine thanks and you” is often the polite and truncated outer-shell of a much longer, and more complicated story we all have. We use it like a dam to keep the buildup of our thoughts from spilling out onto others, though it’s not always clear who we’re protecting – them or us? Nevertheless, there are worlds behind the wall, for those who wish to explore. And such is the case for this record.

Fine Thanks and You is a collection of simple reflections about what it’s like to be in a body, to have agency, to have space, and to move through this window of time like a visitor. Thematically, there is searching in these songs, but never a sense of feeling lost. The album is an exploration, and with every exploration comes imagery: heatwaves waving back at me (Hot Pavement)…sidewalks slipping off into infinity (“City Walkin’”)…painted hills, sharp like knives, cutting up the purple sky (“Wild Ride”)…up again, into the light again, open my eyes and then I realize I don’t want it to end (“Second Thoughts”).

The record was produced by Cameron Spies (Radiation City, Night Heron) and recorded mostly at The Trash Treasury and partly at our own studio, Friendly Ghost. Both of these places were a friendly shelter for all of us to have fun, try things, and be freaks - myself (Tim Perry) on guitar and vocals, Rob Oberdorfer on bass, and Evan Railton on drums. Through the second phase of recording, we were joined by Mira Stanley, who I met previously co-writing over zoom. She drove all the way from Nashville to add her voice, and she fit into the fold so well that she has since relocated to Portland and is now a full-fledged member of the band.

Throughout this process, I found myself returning to a poem Dr. Clarisa Pinkola Estes, the Mexican-American writer best known for the book Women Who Run With the Wolves. The full poem is worth seeking out, but these lines in particular resonated with me deeply:

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these - to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and

greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.

The impact of this poem is most plainly reflected in the artwork for the album that Mira and I put together, but those sparks and the heat of the flames Dr. Estes talks about are hopefully going to be seen and felt throughout each of these songs. The kinds of brief or lingering lights that will help draw us all closer to one another and allow us to make those necessary connections, be they soul deep and permanent (We could find some light and plant a perfect garden, cultivate ideas, watch their petals open,

“Inspiration”) or brief and familiar. Fine thanks and you.

Shane Leonard Bio:

Shane Leonard is a producer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He got his start releasing music as Kalispell and touring with bands like Field Report. He was surprised when other artists began asking him to produce but soon fell in love with the role.

“Producing is such a quasi-mystical challenge,” said Leonard, who records to tape and mixes on an analog console. “It’s a thrill and a privilege to be given that kind of trust.”

Early projects with Kristin Andreassen and Humbird led to producing JE Sunde, Courtney Hartman, Mipso, Anna Tivel and more. His producing work has deepened his own songwriting practice, as evidenced by his solo albums, 2019’s Strange Forms and the upcoming Make The Birds Fly, out on Sleepy Cat Records February 26.

He continues to engineer, mix and sit in on studio and live sessions, becoming known as, in Justin Vernon’s words, “a monster musician who's played with everybody.” He has played and/or recorded with Josh Ritter, Rose Cousins, Foy Vance, Rachel Price, Larry Campbell, Sara and Sean Watkins and others.

Although in-demand on a national scale, Leonard remains a central part of his local songwriting community, helping lead a monthly song-share with Eau Claire-based musicians and putting on a yearly songwriting retreat.

“I’ve been trying to collaborate in different ways, mostly motivated by our scene,” said Leonard. “Personally as an artist, I feel like I’m using the jaws of life to pry open the can of vulnerability and let people in.”

6PM Doors | 8PM Showtime

Full Food and Beverage Menu Available

18+

$12 Adv (+fees/taxes)

$20 Doors (+fees/taxes)

Event Information

Taking a note from acclaimed poet and author, Danez Smith, this event has two titles: (When Black Folx) Play, or Play, celebrates the extemporaneous and improvisational aspects of Black music, or play, and invites attendees to sit in the play space with the artists, following the music wherever it may go. We’ve invited some of the most innovative creators in the Twin Cities to demonstrate song construction, musical deconstruction, and jazz with you all—Kashimana Ahua, Davu Seru & deVon Gray, alongside DJ Kenna! Oh, and you aren’t off the hook! We will have a few materials in the space for you to create as well. Let’s have some fun together. Tickets are available at TruArtSpeaks.org.

The Urgent Emergent Performance Art Series powered by TruArtSpeaks (Urgent Art Series) is a year-long residency at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN, taking place monthly, every third Saturday,* in celebration of TruArtSpeaks' 20th year anniversary and - more importantly - all of the artists who make our work and community what it is.

Founded in 2006, by Tish Jones, the arts & culture organization based in Saint Paul has a long history of providing platforms for artists to share timely and innovative work— this series is no different. The Urgent Art Series will invite new and true collaborators to share work that speaks to both the nightly theme and the series' invitation: urgent and emergent performance art. Known for being bold in their creative work, TruArtSpeaks has curated a year of creative expression that will move the crowd, the needle, and change forward through creative cultural expression.

The Urgent Art Series is sponsored, in part, by Minnesota Public Radio.

Artist Information

DJ Kenna

Kenna-Camara Cottman is Black, non-binary, a parent, a child and a community member in Mni Sota Makoce. Kenna may be known for her work with Voice of Culture, as a dancer, choreographer and educator, but it could also be noted that Kenna is also a practitioner of all the elements of Hip Hop, a community radio host and DJ, a certified Yoga teacher, and an improvisational vocalist. Kenna is an abolitionist non-violent transmitter and receiver and also in the practice of creating and experiencing Black space for cultural arts and liberation. Current projects include self study and reclamation through the Body Prayers cycle. Kenna is the child of Ancestors Beverly and Bill Cottman, community parents & artists each in their own rights. Kenna is the mother of Yonci Peaceful, a well known and respected artist, writer, DJ, activist and musician; and Ebrima Baye, an accomplished soccer player, golfer, enthusiastic gamer and proficient drummer.

www.voiceofculture.org for more information on Kenna's forward facing projects.

Davu Seru

For the past 20+ years drummer Davu Seru has worked with numerous improvising musicians and

composers throughout the United States and France including Milo Fine, George Cartwright, Nirmala Rajasekar, Douglas R. Ewart, Michelle Kinney, Dean Magraw, deVon R. Gray, Paul Metzger, Evan Parker, Didier Petit, Babatunde Lea, Nathan Hanson, Mankwe Ndosi, Rafael Toral, Donald Washington, Guillame Seguron, Tony Hymas, David Boykin, Catherine Delaunay, and Nicole Mitchell Gantt. He’s curated numerous concert series and has received composer awards from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and commissions from Walker Art Center and Zeitgeist Ensemble. Davu is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).

Kashimana

Kashimana (she/they) is a mother, musician, singer, songwriter, composer, producer, guitarist, and performing teaching artist with a rich soulful blues voice that soars through their original compositions. Mixing Pop, Soul, R&B and more, Kashimana’s distinctive voice pulls you in and connects you to frequencies that encourage connection and transformation. The name Kashimana means 'that's their heart' and you can hear their heart beating in the compelling sound of Kashimana’s music. Kashimana often draws inspiration from their experiences growing up in Nigeria, Kenya, traveling through Africa, Europe and finally settling in the United States. Kashimana weaves stories of becoming a mother, asking what prosperity would sound like for everyone and sharing the truth of what is going on in our communities locally and internationally. Kashimana has performed in and around Minnesota for the last 20 years. You can find them performing in local venues from Icehouse to the local library, conferences to elementary schools. Kashimana is also the founder of the Mamas Ignite Collective, A BIPOC collective that curates and creates spaces for Mamas to thrive in their creativity through collaboration, learning and art making.

Kashimana is a 2025 McKnight Composer with the American Composers Forum, 2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a 2019 ACF In Common Composer in Residence, a 2019 Cedar Commissioned Artist, a presenter at Northern Spark Festival 2018 and 2019, 2020 MN Opera MNiatures CoCreator and Artists Respond: People, Place, Prosperity Recipient.

deVon Russell Gray

deVon Russell Gray is a divinely guided multi-media social justice activist and pantheistic audial alchemist whose work redefines the role of music in activism and cultural transformation. At the core of his practice is a foundational commitment to approaching every new project with humility and openness—embodying a “beginner’s mind” that seeks continual death and rebirth to expand his artistic horizons. Gray harnesses the power of sound to confront urgent social issues such as policing, personal autonomy, and the systemic injustices faced by Black and Brown communities. Echoing the words of scholar and composer George E. Lewis, who reflects on the emergence of a “new type of composer” rooted in intercultural dialogue, Gray embodies this evolution through his own transformative journey. After years of Eurocentric training and scholarship, Gray has intentionally dislocated from traditional frameworks, navigating a space centered in decoloniality and Afrofuturism. His work challenges existing paradigms, forging innovative cultural pathways that resonate deeply with contemporary social justice struggles and artistic liberation.