Reuniting after a school year on the East Coast, Cloquet natives Jamie Kallestad and Tony Petersen will once again spend the summer touring the country and performing locally as the two-man acoustic folk band Saint Anyway.
Building on momentum from their tour last summer to Colorado, the pair recently recorded an album of all original music. Saint Anyway will debut their new album, Paper Town, with a performance at Gordy's Warming House in Cloquet on July 13 at 7 p.m.
Tracing a route similar last summer's tour, Saint Anyway spent the greater part of June gigging across the western U.S. with shows in Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, and the Twin City metro area. In July the duo will perform for hometown audiences at the Warming House, Hanging Horn Restaurant, Sir Benedict's Tavern and other locally known venues across the Twin-Ports.
In August, Petersen and Kallestad will hit the road for a second tour to Nashville, Tennessee. This tour will feature a stop at the BlueBird Café, a nationally reknown hot-spot in Nashville's singer/songwriter circle. This second and longer tour will provide gigs through Wisconsin, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Indiana, and the mythic landscape of folk-music origin on the Blue Ridge Music trail in the Appalachian Mountains.
Saint Anyway will be selling cds and T-shirts at all of their local shows in support of the upcoming Nashville tour. To keep up with Saint Anyway's performance schedule in the area, look them up online at www.myspace.com/saintanyway or www.saintanyway.com
