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AWARD-WINNING MINNESOTA FOLK- BLUEGRASS BAND COMING TO WHITEFISH MARCH 6
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BIy MOLLY PRIDDY of the Beacon
t wasn’t until after their brief time on the stage in a field near White Sulphur Springs, when the Red Ants Pants Music Festival was over for the day,
that the band members of The Last Revel realized they had made a breakthrough.
“After we played on stage, everybody had great things to say to us,” Ryan Acker, who sings and plays banjo and guitar for the band, said. “We told them, ‘We can’t play more [on stage] but we’ll play later in the campground’ ... A couple minutes into us playing at our campsite, there were 100 people surrounding our campsite.”
The Last Revel, a three-man folk-rock-bluegrass band from Minnesota composed of Acker, Lee Hen- ke, and Vinnie Donatelle, was part of the popular and growing Red Ants Pants Music Festival last summer, and won the emerging artists competition.
Winning the contest has given the band more name recognition, they said, and has given them the oppor- tunity to play additional shows around the country. Now, Flathead music fans will have the chance to see the band live at Crush Lounge in Whitefish on March 6.
It’s an opportunity to see the group as they con- tinue to climb the ladder of success. Before the music festival last summer, The Last Revel was used to filling up smaller venues, including packing the house at the open mic sessions where they got their start.
By the time they showed up in Montana for the fes- tival – the first time they had played in the state – they realized they had completely misunderstood what they were supposed to be doing there.
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