Singer/songwriter/guitarist Dave Simonett will be busy over the next few months with Trampled By Turtles, the popular progressive Bluegrass ensemble he founded in Duluth, Minnesota back in 2003. But after his main gig’s current run of dates, Simonett will be stepping out on his own.
Simonett’s Red Tail, his first solo album under his own name, is set for release on March 13. (He released two solo albums previously using his Dead Man Winter moniker.) The tour for Red Tail will bring Simonett back to the Taft Theatre, where TBT last performed in 2018. This time, he’s playing the Taft’s intimate Ballroom for a March 27 concert. Nebraska Folk singer/songwriter Andrea von Kampen is opening.
Tickets for the show ($20) go on sale this Friday, Jan. 17 at 10 a.m. via ticketmaster.com.
Simonett has shared the first single from Red Tail, the haunting, sprawling “In the Western Wind and the Sunrise.”
This article appears in Jan 8-21, 2020.
