Humbird and Lanue

Duluth-based Lanue and Minneapolis-based Humbird share the Sacred Heart altar stage in a one-night-only, live-audience performance.

Sarah Krueger, lead singer-songwriter of Lanue, continues to amplify her knack for straightforward and earnest songwriting while maintaining a vocal delivery that sits like honey over layers of warm synths, guitars and percussion. Ranging from confessional to nostalgic, each song is brightened by a lush lift while continuing to rest inside the framework of the folk tradition.

Siri Undlin, aka Humbird, works in the timeless space of folk music. But she’s a thoroughly modern songwriter, influenced by Big Thief, Joni Mitchell and John Prine. The songs are personal narratives framed in the language of advanced pop. Humbird is a band with a real, worked-out style of its own, and that style comes through in the studio and onstage. Like the great songwriters who have informed her art, Undin has created a universe — a method of walking through the world — in her songcraft.