Fox & Coyote, Jennifer Hedstrom

press release: Fox & Coyote - album release tour

w/Jennifer Hedstrom

Sunday March 18 - 7-9pm,Kat House - 2521 Kendall Ave

no cover

Fox & Coyote, an indie folk band based in Minneapolis, stops in Madison on their album release tour.  This intimate house show will be semi-unplugged, offering audiences a highly personal experience.  Local pianist and songwriter, Jennifer Hedstrom, opens the show.

“The cool earnestness of Fox & Coyote makes them immediately relatable despite their more avant garde elements.” – City Pages

Ten years ago, Ryan Evans and Jonathan Harms – Fox & Coyote’s songwriters – first played together. From the get-go, they sensed a creative energy between them. Audiences felt it, too, often saying there was “something special” when the two performed as a duo. It wasn’t long before Fox & Coyote’s musical ideas needed more than a guitar, banjo, and two voices. In addition to Ryan (lead vocals, guitar) and Jonathan (lead vocals, banjo, keys), Fox & Coyote is Katherine Canon (cello, vocals), Grant Gordon (upright bass, electric bass), and Kenny Befus (drums).

Over the years, Ryan and Jonathan have grown as friends and as musical partners, learning to harness the energy that first brought them together. They act as co-directors, pushing Fox & Coyote beyond what listeners expect from a guitar-banjo songwriting duo.

Jennifer Hedstrom:Raised in the Chicago suburbs, this eclectic artist drew her first influences from the city’s diverse music landscape before studying at Illinois State University, where she would take her first steps as a singer-songwriter, and later the graduate music program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jennifer Hedstrom released her first album, Bodies of Water, soon after her move to Madison, WI in 2010. The album was produced by Yoo Soo Kim of Hemmingbirds and recorded in her hometown of Skokie, IL.

Recorded in Fall 2016, Jennifer Hedstrom’s latest release Prairie (recorded by Steve Gotcher of Audio for the Arts, with drummer James McKenzie ) is an exposed meditation on the jagged ground awaiting us after falling in love and the resuscitating breath of the morning after. These collected songs have earned Jennifer enthusiastic fans in audiences and critics alike in Wisconsin, drawing comparisons to Regina Spektor, Joni Mitchell, Sara Bareilles, and Amanda Palmer. To hear a Jennifer Hedstrom song is to hear a long imprisoned thought that’s slipped its shackles and is sprinting for the gate. And you can't help but cheer it on.