6PM DOORS // 8PM SHOW (FULL FOOD/BEVERAGE MENU AVAILABLE)
$12 ADVANCE // $17 AT THE DOOR

For the first three Tuesday’s in September, Rabeca presents “Rabeca and Friends,” a collaborative residency at Icehouse. Each week, the genre-melding band Rabeca is teaming up with a different musical guest (Freaque, Alex Woods, and Willow Waters) to create a one-night-only experience. Rabeca will share the stage with each guest, creating a new supergroup that fuses some of Rabeca’s original songs and their guest’s music into a unique medley.  Plus, each week of “Rabeca and Friends” will feature a set from another of Rabeca’s dear pals (Anita Velveeta, Dr. Goon and the Daily Tribune, and Full Catholic). 

As a band that combines a wide range of influences from jazz shredders to harmonizing choirs, Rabeca is no stranger to collaboration and improvisation. They can’t wait to launch this residency with some dear musical friends, and make new ones along the way!

Minneapolis’ Rabeca never stays in one place for too long. Each song meanders from meditative solos to upbeat drum shuffles and rich chordal harmonies. Drawing on their individual backgrounds in jazz big band, madrigal singing, and jam bands, Rabeca fuses improvisation with catchy hooks to capture playful and joyous energy. Rabeca is Alex (keys, vocals), Anna (saxophone, vocals), Colleen (guitar, vocals), David (bass), and Satchel (drums).

Freaque is for the derelicts, the heretics, the tree stumps, and those who live on the fringes of society. A tattered voice, made of strung out words, hung to dry over broken chords on his mother’s piano. His songs range from the kind of folk and blues you find in graveyards and gardens, to fuller grooves you can find in swamps, sewers, and junkyards. In a wooden womb of darkness, he took what he had and rose above a society that constantly tells us we are not enough, that we’re only worth the possessions we own, the money in our bank accounts, and our body's abilities. We do not have to conform to societal standards to be valued as human beings. That is why he creates music and art.