Michigander w/ Sydney Sprague @ Heartwood Soundstage | Gainesville, FL

Fri, 24 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm UTC-05:00

Heartwood Soundstage | Gainesville

Heartwood Soundstage
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Michigander w\/ Sydney Sprague @ Heartwood Soundstage | Gainesville, FL
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Heartwood Soundstage & Colt Classic Presents:
Michigander
w/ Sydney Sprague

TICKETS 🎟️: https://www.prekindle.com/event/44362-michigander-gainesville
DOORS 🚪: 6:00PM
SHOWTIME 🎶: 7:00PM
Friday, January 24th, 2025
Indoor show, all ages
Standing with limited seating
Heartwood Soundstage
619 S Main St
Gainesville, FL 32601
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🎶 MICHIGANDER 🎶
Spotify: https://sptfy.com/QZxz
Instagram: www.instagram.com/michiganderband
Michigander, who delivers elevated and eloquent songcraft, uplifting instrumentation, and plainspoken heartland storytelling punctuated by alternative flare, has racked up over 60 million career streams globally and garnered the acclaim of NPR, Paste, Consequence, SPIN, Forbes, BrooklynVegan, Guitar World, Ones To Watch, and more.
In 2016, the now Nashville-based singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist's independent debut single "Nineties" achieved viral success, claiming real estate on multiple major Spotify playlists. Michigander's first two EPs, Midland [2018] and Where Do We Go From Here [2019], have become fan favorites, with the latter's standout single "Misery" eclipsing 10 million streams and earning Michigander his first Triple A radio hit. 2021's critically lauded EP Everything Will Be Ok Eventually (C3 Records) elevated his career via the Top 5 Triple A radio hit "Let Down" and Top 10 Triple A radio hit "Better."
On the road, Michigander has shared the stage with Manchester Orchestra, Band of Horses, The Lumineers, Hippo Campus, Mt. Joy, and graced the stages of such marquee festivals as Lollapalooza, Electric Forest, Summerfest, Shaky Knees and more as well as SXSW. In 2023, Michigander was back, breaking personal records, charting at radio again, and on the road with a new set of songs and a re-energized passion for his craft.
Listen to the latest EP It Will Never Be The Same everywhere, out now via C3 Records and look out for a new project coming from Singer in '24.
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🎶 SYDNEY SPRAGUE 🎶
Spotify: https://sptfy.com/QZxA
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sydneysprague
Sydney Sprague channels her sadness, anxiety, and existential dread through driving guitars, shimmering melodies, and the deceptively sweet weapons of indie pop-rock and keen observation.
Self-aware with a knowing injection of dark humor, her songs summon the best of 90s alt-rock and classic power-pop without sacrificing a melancholy befitting of the end times. Her music is intimate, vulnerable, confrontational, autobiographical, and strangely uplifting. Her sophomore record, somebody in hell loves you, is as devilishly saccharine as the title implies, boldly accessible and smart.
The positive press, word-of-mouth, and a stellar tour with Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional helped make organic streaming hits out of songs like “steve,” “quitter,” and “i refuse to die”; “object permanence” boasts nearly 1 million streams on Spotify alone. “As a smaller artist, it’s almost impossible financially,” Sydney says of her relentless schedule. “But I love it so much.”
Sydney wrote most of somebody in hell loves you during the pandemic lockdowns, and yet, it’s decidedly less angsty than its predecessor. “And not because I’m a less angsty person,” she clarifies. “Obviously, none of us were in a good place in 2020. It was a depressing time. But I didn’t want to wallow in that. I wrote more as an exercise to distract myself from my woes.” A lot of the songs became observational storytelling, exploring the drama of people around her and revisiting her past.
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Heartwood Soundstage, 622 SE 1st St, Gainesville, FL 32601-6768, United States,Gainesville, Florida

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