A match made in bearded indie-rock heaven, My Morning Jacket and Band of Horses are teaming up for a summer tour that will bring them to Somerset Amphitheater on Aug. 10. As if that's not enough woolly faces for one western Wisconsin concert, Trampled by Turtles will also join the bill locally – reportedly at the request of My Morning Jacket. Trampled will get to play a full hour set, pushing the show's start time to 6:30 p.m. Tickets to the all-ages event will go on sale for $44 starting Friday at 10 a.m. at the Electric Fetus (Minneapolis) or through www.TicketWeb.com. The price will go up to $50 the week of the show. All tickets will be general admission (no reserved seats).
To promote the tour, My Morning Jacket is offering a free download of "Wonderful (The Way I Feel)" from Madison Square Garden featuring Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell on guest vocals. Both bands only performed once in the Twin Cities in support of their 2010-2011 albums, and My Morning Jacket's date -- at Rock the Garden -- was about an hour shorter than a normal show. Bridwell hasn't played here enough, period, but he has put in a lot of time in Minnesota and even reportedly wrote some of the songs on last year's near-classic album, "Infinite Arms," at a cabin up north (his wife is from here).
An interesting aside to the show from the concert-biz insider perspective: It's the revamped Somerset Amphitheater's first co-promotion with Rose Presents, whose founder Randy Levy has a history with new Somerset owner Matt Mithun's family. The Mithuns are also the owners of Soo Pass Ranch in Detroit Lakes, where Levy hosts We Fest every year. However, Matt Mithun enlisted Rose Presents' Chicago-based competitor Jam Productions to co-promote his other big concert event of the year, the Soundtown festival with Jane's Addiction, Weezer, Florence + the Machine, etc., on July 27-28. Word is Somerset Amphitheater will likely announce another concert or two before the start of summer.
