Showtime 7pm Doors 6pm Advance $20 (plus taxes & fees) Doors $27 (plus taxes) Icehouse Presents: "Starlight Song-Swap" is a new intimate concert series focusing on the craft, spontaneity and artistic vocabulary of the working songwriter. Inspired by the collaborative workshop model at folk festivals around the country, "Song-Swap" pairs two artists working inside or out of a common genre for a back & forth, one-inspires-the-next live performance and behind-the-curtain conversation around the origins of new songs. No setlists, no rehearsals, no accompaniment - these solo performances in a duo setting strip the songs down to their basic elements, allowing the songwriter to leave the writing room door ajar to process, inspiration, tall tales and outright myths. It's VH1 Storytellers for the regional & independent; come see what makes the lyrical watchmakers' tick.. Molly Brandt: Molly Brandt's story began in Colorado where she was born, but she spent much of her life in Iowa until moving to the Twin Cities in 2019. Music has always been a core part of her existence—she studied classical piano from age 5 through high school, sang in show choirs in high school and college, and performed jazz around Des Moines after college, even forming her own band. But the Molly Brandt of today is a fairly recent development. Laid off and recovering from a bad breakup during the pandemic lockdown, she taught herself guitar and started writing songs. With a little help from some producer and musician friends, she began recording, releasing her first singles in 2022 and playing her first Minneapolis show at the legendary West Bank bar Palmer’s. Since then she’s played numerous venues in Minnesota as well as Wisconsin, Iowa, and Chicago, and regional festivals such as Big Turn and Boats & Bluegrass. David Huckfelt: David Huckfelt is a singer/ lyricist /activist and founding frontman of Minneapolis indie-folk cult favorites The Pines. An Iowa native and former theology student, Huckfelt attended the 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, Bon Iver, Calexico, 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, Keith Secola & Annie Humphrey, working for climate justice and tribal sovereignty under the banner of music + resistance. 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.