Watchhouse coming to the Palace 6/14
Americana/folk duo Wathchhouse will play in St. Paul on Saturday June 14 at the Palace Theatre. Known for their intimate and warm vocals, harmonies, and lush violin and guitar playing, the duo can pull on more than just your heartstrings. Opening that night will be Two Runner, another folk duo channeling the same rustic spirit.
Watchhouse
Watchhouse, the North Carolina-based duo of Andrew Marlin & Emily Frantz, have announced a new studio album Rituals, due out May 30, 2025 via Tiptoe Tiger Music / Thirty Tigers. The collection marks the band’s first release of all new, original songs since their 2021 self-titled album, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart and earned praise from Rolling Stone (“pristine acoustic picking collides with hazy, dream-like psychedelia”) Mojo, NPR Music, American Songwriter and more.
Rituals, produced with Ryan Gustafson (The Dead Tongues), explores the boundaries between identity and awareness, and how we often confuse patterns with truths. The 11-song collection muses on the endless nature of evolution, asking questions like: how can we have a positive relationship with change? How can we meet our ends gracefully? “Is the world on fire or at home in the sun?”
Two Runner
Two Runner is songwriter Paige Anderson and fiddler Emilie Rose from the hills of Northern California. The folk duo emits a ray of unprocessed realness through their well-crafted songs and instrumental skills. Both growing up in a rural mountain town, best friends Paige Anderson and Emilie Rose learned folk music and performance from a young age, and now tour nationally as Two Runner. Through the mediums of clawhammer banjo, vocal harmonies, oldtime fiddle, and flatpicking guitar, Two Runner has a sound that is strongly rooted in American folk music combined with Paige’s wistful songwriting. Two Runner self-released their debut album, Modern Cowboy, in the spring of 2023 and have shared the stage with Sierra Ferrell, Watchhouse, Jesse Daniel, Nick Shoulders, Charlie Parr and many more.
