With a major push coming up for their album "Stars and Satellites," Trampled by Turtles will get an above-average boost from one of their homeys, Garrison Keillor. The acoustic pickers – who got their start in Duluth and are still three-fifths Duluthian -- were just announced as the featured act for a live broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion" on Feb. 25 at the DECC Auditorium in Canal Park. Tickets ($36-$56) are on sale now through Ticketmaster. Click here for more details.
This will be TBT's "A Prairie Home" debut, and it certainly seems well-timed. They will be debuting songs from the new record a month and a half before its release to an audience of, oh… 4 million or so public-radio listenders (read: CD-buyers). Pretty cool.
The band bowed out of a major-label deal but has one of the country's top publicity firms working the album. It continues to roll out cool video teases of "Stars and Satellites" online. The Keillor gig is one of two unique shows they're playing up north this month: They're also hitting the Twin Ports Great Taste-Together at Black Bear Casino this Saturday. Then we likely won't see them again until the April 11 release party at First Ave -- already sold out, not surprisingly.
