Midwest Dilemma is making a rare (solo) appearance in Los Angeles on Monday, May 9 @ The Redwood Bar - 316 W. 2nd Street, Los Angeles. Local support will be Driftwood Singers, Casey Hurt, and Vinnie Ferra.
Recommended for those that like Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst), Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, and Andrew Bird. Midwest Dilemma's debut "Timelines & Tragedies" record won the title Album of the Year in Omaha, NE for 2008. Selected as 1 of 5 U.S. bands to play NXNE international music festival in Toronto, Ontario in 2009 and showcased at SXSW in Austin, TX in 2011. The songs on the "Timelines & Tragedies" release charted CMJ Top 200 and featured on PBS's Roadtrip Nation.
Recently the band recorded a Daytrotter.com session and a River City Folk session that will air on NPR this summer. Midwest Dilemma will be performing for their first time in Europe at the Walk The Line festival in UK in October 2011. You can go to http://www.midwestdilemma.com to hear songs, watch the CD release video and find out more information about Midwest Dilemma!
BIOGRAPHY: MIDWEST DILEMMA - A guitar, red trucker hat, folk songs, and an old Toyota wagon on open road. Justin Lamoureux has been performing as Midwest Dilemma for nearly a decade. Over hills, valleys, across high plains, mountains, forests, deserts, rivers, oceans and destinations near and far to share his experiences and stories of life in the Midwest. But there is nothing typical about Midwest Dilemma. Lamoureux recruited 23 musical collaborators for the debut release titled Timelines & Tragedies in 2008. The revolving cast of characters fill out the woodwind, brass, string, and percussion sections. Timelines & Tragedies is a time line of family history.
Tracing Lamoureux's ancestors to their days of French Canadian fur trading, the Great Depression, the struggles of his parents' generation with Vietnam, and eventually concluding with his life in the Omaha. Live performances Midwest Dilemma can still be Lamoureux and his classical guitar or any variety of the orchestral-folk-rock ensemble.
Midwest Dilemma's album Timelines & Tragedies can be purchased on iTunes or directly from www.midwestdilemma.com.
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