Lyal Strickland

Lyal Strickland plays The Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown on Saturday, October 24, at 8:30 PM. He's an Americana artist from Buffalo, Missouri, and this particular show is an official showcase of Folk Alliance Region Midwest.

Strickland splits his time between songwriting and touring and raising grass-fed beef in the Ozarks. He's known for a raspy voice that can be soothing one moment and raw with emotion the next, and for songs described as gripping, cinematic dispatches from small-town America, where desperation meets relentless determination. His writing pulls from Red Dirt Country, Americana, Alternative Country, and Folk, and he tells individual stories of love lost and found, sleepless nights, and the struggle of working too hard and never having enough—what he calls the heartbeat of Americana.

It's a set that sits right in that intersection of country and folk, with the songwriting taking center stage. If you're into that kind of storytelling—the kind that doesn't shy away from the harder parts of working-class life—this is exactly the sort of thing he does. The show is part of the Folk Alliance Region Midwest showcase, so it's one of the dates they've put together for the region's folk community.

He'll be at The Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown on Saturday, October 24, starting at 8:30 PM.