Pert Near Sandstone's Winter String Band Gathering with Possessed By Paul James at Cedar

From Minnesota

First Twin Cities show since since October 24, 2014 • First Cedar show since January 18, 2014 • First Cedar headlining show since January 18, 2014 • 41st Twin Cities show on MN Live's calendar since March 26, 2006

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From last.fm:

Pert Near Sandstone is a bluegrass band from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. The band has recorded five full length albums since 2004, and have toured the United States extensively. Former full-time member (and now collaborator) Ryan Young plays fiddle with Trampled By Turtles. Dave Simonett of Trampled By Turtles has cited Pert Near Sandstone as one of his favorite contemporary bluegrass acts in the United States. Read more about Pert Near Sandstone on Last.fm.

Added to bill on Nov 5

From Texas

First Twin Cities show since since July 19, 2008 • First Cedar show

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From last.fm:

"One-man band Konrad Wert grew up in a Mennonite family, raised by preacher father and a piano player mother, which accounts for both the baptized-in-fire-soul and musical versatility heard in his gritty Old World music. Wert's mix of blues and vintage folk howls with a sense of explosive freedom and latent rage-not unlike an Amish kid emerging from the wilderness to discover America -that instills his simple guitar/fiddle/stomp-box arrangements with unusual passion. Read more about Possessed By Paul James on Last.fm.