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FOXWARREN WITH GUEST HUDSON FREEMAN — LIVE AT SONIC HALL!Canadian quintet Foxwarren is Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis. Their 2025 album, 2 (Anti- Records) is a fun and surprising record, where boundaries between genre and song are constantly blurred. Built on 20 years of friendship, Foxwarren ostensibly plays folk music, where warm tones and cantering rhythms buoy songs of characters wrestling with existential quandaries inside of twilit vocals. But after touring their lauded, Juno Award-nominated, 2018 self-titled debut, Foxwarren decided to do it all differently, eventually dropping the familiar band-in-a-room routine to instead plug those songs, and various other sounds into a sampler to create 2. In their own home studios across four provinces, all five members would upload song ideas, melodic phrases, or rhythmic bits to a shared folder. In Toronto, Shauf would then plug these into a sampler and construct songs from the fragments supplied by his bandmates, leaning into classic hip-hop techniques and musique concrète alike as unlikely lodestars. Foxwarren would convene at weekly online meetings, offering long distance suggestions about which way a song might shift. The result is mesmerizing and uncanny, an album that traces two sides of a relationship through 37 minutes of collage art. There is something uncanny about the feeling of these songs — the way bits recorded in different home studios amplify your attention, looping and interlocking. But the true connective tissue is the generous and gentle way Foxwarren’s 2 moves with melody. By himself, Shauf has already had a stellar career, his reputation built not only by the sweetness of his melodies and sharpness of his words but also his inability to rest with past success. Foxwarren, especially here, is a crucial part of that ongoing process, but 2 represents something even more significant—five friends now nearing the end of their second decade making music together, pushing against what they’ve learned how to do in order to venture somewhere new.
Hudson Freeman is a Brooklyn-based Lofi-folk artist, inspired and forged by the DIY midwest. Born to Evangelical missionaries, Hudson started writing songs upon a radical break at the age of 13 when his family suddenly moved from the suburbs of Dallas to The Kingdom of Eswatini. From the ashes of stomp-clap 2010's nostalgia Americana, folk music felt downright passé as Freeman began passing out his self-starter EP A Man, One Day around his college campus in 2016. By 2020, however, not only was the world turned on its head just in time for graduation — singer-songwriter folk was back! Released the following year, I Am All the Ages I've Ever Been marked the start of a new chapter. Hudson gave his music the signifier “LOFI FOLK” to capture the constellation of influences that piqued his interest as singer-songwriter production moved into the bedroom, post-pandemic. In spring 2025, Hudson released a new album called is a folk artist. A disarmingly distinct collection from a digital-age storyteller, it weaves issues of faith, belonging, and anxiety into a modern folk record that feels increasingly more monumental by the minute. Much like the artists who inspire him like Sufjan Stevens, Pedro the Lion, W**d (pre-hotline TNT), Hudson Freeman finds himself at a uniquely turbulent coming-of-age moment. His music is shaped by a religious upbringing, grappling with moral absolutism, fleeting friendships, and navigating a search for belonging online. He continues to record and perform songs equal-parts resonant, reflective, and poignant. His newest viral demo-turned-barnburner “if you know Me” was released on November 14 with a blown-out cover of The Stones'/Flying Burrito Brothers' “Wild Horses” to boot.
Tickets on sale: APRIL 17 @10AM
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