David Huckfelt & The Unarmed Forces

David Huckfelt is a singer / lyricist / activist and founding frontman of Minneapolis indie-folk cult favorites The Pines. An Iowa-native and former theology student, Huckfelt attended the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop undergrad program before turning his attention to songwriting and performing. With musical roots in the same fertile Midwestern soil that produced legendary folk singers like John Prine and Greg Brown, Huckfelt has shared stages with artists from Prine, Mavis Staples & Emmylou Harris to Bon Iver, Calexico and Trampled By Turtles. His work with The Pines received record of the year accolades from Mojo & Q Magazine, and garnered praise from David Fricke (Rolling Stone) as one of the finest songwriters of his generation. In 2018 Huckfelt received the prestigious Artist-In-Residence award at Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior, where in sixteen days he wrote the fourteen songs that would become his breakout solo debut, Stranger Angels.

In 2012 he met American Indian Movement leader & poet John Trudell on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and their subsequent collaboration resulted in the song "Time Dreams", hailed by Democracy Now! and the last recording Trudell made before passing. Since then, Huckfelt has partnered with an impressive array of Native American artists and activists including Keith Secola, Quiltman, Winona LaDuke, and novelist Louise Erdrich in the fight for social justice and protection for Mother Earth. In thousands of shows across the United States, Canada & overseas, Huckfelt’s grassroots following has grown from small-town opera houses, Midwestern barn concerts, and progressive benefit events to national tours and festival stages like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Edmonton and Calgary Folk Fests, and the legendary First Avenue club in his beloved Minneapolis home.

Past Shows


Sep
12
th
2024
Turf Club
Sep
12
th
2024
Turf Club

Fire In The Village presents
Zaka’an Celebration ft. David Huckfelt & The Unarmed Forces and Annie Humphrey

Fire In The Village Zaka'an Celebration
(za'kaan: ojibwe to light it, ignite it, sing it into being)

★ Local Show ★
Sep
4
th
2022
Bayfront Festival Park
Sep
4
th
2022
Bayfront Festival Park

Water Is Life Festival

hosted by Winona LaDuke • featuring Ani DiFrancoIndigo GirlsAllison RussellTia WoodLOWDessaJoe Rainey SrKeith SecolaAnnie HumphreyDavid Huckfelt & The Unarmed ForcesCorey MedinaGaelynn Lea • emcee Thomas X
with D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Quannah Chasinghorse

More Shows

Jan
25
th
First Avenue

The Current’s 20th Anniversary Celebration

with Beach Bunny, Bad Bad Hats and MAKR AN ERIS
Jan
24
th
First Avenue

The Current's 20th Anniversary Celebration ft. Frank Black performing 'Teenager of the Year'

with she's green and DJ Jake Rudh
Feb
22
nd
Palace Theatre

Spin Doctors

with Aortic Fire and Gina Schock of the Go-Go’s
Feb
15
th
First Avenue

Good Kid

with Phoneboy