May 19, 2016
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Folk harmony duo The Milk Carton Kids released their third album, Monterey, in May of this year. It was announced Monday that the song “City of Our Lady” off this album was nominated for a Grammy in the American Roots Performance category. Two years ago, the release of their last album, The Ash & Clay, got a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album. They won Duo/Group of the Year at the Americana Music Awards in 2014. Their featured performances and interviews in T Bone Burnett & the Coen Brothers' concert documentary, "Another Day/Another Time,” brought the band its widest audience and their 55-city North American tour last year sold out months in advance. Cultural purveyors from Garrison Keillor to T Bone Burnett to Billy Bragg have hailed the duo’s importance among a group of new folk bands, both expanding and contradicting the rich tradition that precedes them.
Cultural purveyors from Garrison Keillor to T Bone Burnett to Billy Bragg have hailed the duo’s importance among a group of new folk bands, both expanding and contradicting the rich tradition that precedes them.
