Name: Jeffrey Foucault with special guest Dave Moore
Start: 2025-12-07T18:30:00-06:00
Location: The Parkway Theater

Jeffrey Foucault with special guest Dave Moore

Sunday, December 7, 2025
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music
All Ages
$35 ($43.85 w. taxes/fees) Premium Seating

$30 ($38.07 w. taxes/fees) Preferred Reserved Seating
$25 ($32.30 w. taxes/fees) Advance General Admission
$30 ($35 w. taxes/fees) At The Door General Admission
Ticket purchases are final and non-refundable
Acclaimed musician Jeffrey Foucault returns to The Parkway for what has become a beautiful December tradition. Iowa folk great Dave Moore opens the night!
Foucault is considered one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums – “Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” (The New Yorker), “Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection” (Uncut), “Songwriting Brilliance,” (Irish Times) – he’s built a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following, one that includes luminaries like Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, and Don Henley.
His most recent release, The Universal Fire, the first album of entirely new material since 2018, features a series of high-voltage performances cut live in one room. The album is both a working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 – and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss.
Augmenting Foucault’s all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver (drummer John Convertino and producer/saxophonist Mike Lewis), The Universal Fire sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the Universal Studios lot in California that destroyed the master recordings of some of our bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality, legacy, meaning, and calling.
Dave Moore is one of the great little-known songwriters and musicians of the American Midwest, a rich seam in the unique tapestry of roots music coming out of Iowa in the twentieth century. A legendary rack-harp and button accordion player, as a youngster Dave absorbed the Chess recordings of Sonny Boy and Little Walter, learned to play country-blues guitar, and then disappeared on a series of extended pilgrimages to the border and points south, to begin his study of Tejano and Conjunto accordion with legends Fred Zimmerle and Santiago Jimenez Sr. (father of Flaco and Santiago).
Eventually Moore brought what he’d learned back north, mixing it with country and blues, folk and Gospel, Ragtime and Tin Pan Alley, and releasing three seminal albums on Red House Records, deeply influencing the generation of Midwestern songwriters which includes Jeffrey Foucault, Pieta Brown, Erik Koskinen, The Pines, and many others.