Events at Terrapin Station

Making big fun, see them before it's too late! This 5-piece band out of Bemidji plays a wide range of instruments, including, cello, saxaphone, electric violin, guitar, keyboard, vocals basically alot of good noise!

Steve’s music makes audiences feel they are living his stories first-hand. It gives the listener a chance to become part of the story. As the songs develop and take shape, listeners will know what the characters look like, what they see, what they hear, and ultimately how they feel. They may even be able to dust the trail dirt off their boots after listening.

Heather Styka's image-based lyrics are delivered by a voice possessing the versatility and purity of Eva Cassidy or Joni Mitchell, with a dash of Ella Fitzgerald-esque vibrato. Her songs carry a heartbreaking degree of truth, chronicling the human cycles of despair and redemption, and analyzing the importance of places, relationships, family, and community.

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Nationally touring, award winning songwriter Julie Patchouli and master guitarist Bruce Hecksel light up the air with sparkling acoustic sounds and their powerful contagious chemistry. Famous for that smiling voice that instantly turns a bad day into a good one, Patchouli’s down-to-earth, hopeful songwriting is “New American Folk” blending elements of folk, pop, flamenco and jazz with world beat rhythms. Patchouli’s sound has been described as “the harmonies of Simon & Garfunkel meet the guitar brilliance of the Gipsy Kings.

12 years of non-stop touring has honed this classically trained duo into legendary performers, dubbed “the hardest working folk duo in America”. Having just released their 15th CD Terra Guitarra, Dragonfly, Patchouli is as busy in the studio as they are on the road, with 11 CD’s featuring their very own brand of original modern folk music and 4 CD’s under the name Terra Guitarra for their all instrumental Spanish style guitar project, including a holiday music CD Winter Solstice.

Patchouli represents the very top echelon of today's acoustic performers, bringing the highest level of skill together with the passion, experience and joy that are a rare combination indeed.

“Patchouli live is amazing. I compare it to taking a yoga class in a field of running mustangs.”
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