Country & Power Pop combine April 29 for a special evening of jangling good times! Michael Gay, Benny Everett & Pleasure Horse~Riding High!

Pleasure Horse began in 2012 with the duo of songwriter Tim Evenson and guitarist Ben Mahowald. Thereafter, the band worked to craft a uniquely Minnesotan brand of country music. Implementing the emotive clarity of Townes Van Zandt and a Parsons-esque passion for traditional music, Pleasure Horse self-released several collections of cosmic cowboy classics over the following years.

Do you daydream? Have you had a dream that, when you woke up, you weren’t sure if it had actually happened or not? Maybe you’ve been there, where Benny Everett has been. Inside your head sound and light splashes across stages, and the band strikes up a tune. The song that’s playing is the only song that matters, the only song in the world. And then it ends, and, all of sudden, you’re back; you shake your head and someone is looking at you with a stare that says… “anybody home?”

Benny Everett is a singer-songwriter who wants you to sing along with him. Benny weaves together intimate and expansive arrangements running the gamut from folk and country to classic power pop, indie rock and expansive epic jams. His new album “Anybody Home?” is about feeling small and dreaming big.

MICHAEL GAY is a Minneapolis-based country folk storyteller. Starting off as a drummer and finding his way to guitar, he was inspired by the singer-songwriters of his dad’s generation--Willie Nelson, John Prine and Jerry Jeff Walker.

“I dove into that world head-first,” Michael says. “I love thrift stores, and I'd just buy whatever I could find for a dollar or two that had a name on it I recognized. 70's singer-songwriters and outlaw country was kinda what got the wheels turning because it was cheap/free at the time. But my dad's record collection is where it started to come together for me.”