Them Coulee Boys make their long-overdue Mineral Point Opera House debut on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 7:30 pm. Doors will open at 6:30 pm. Tickets range from $20 to $25 (plus taxes and fees) and will increase by $5 on the day of the show. The spooky folk group The Spine Stealers will open!

Soren Staff and Beau Janke—co-founders of folk/rock/Americana outfit Them Coulee Boys—met as camp counselors in northern Wisconsin in 2011. Their weekend workshopping of Avett Brothers and classic country tunes led to original songs and added Soren’s brother Jenson on mandolin, Neil Krause on electric bass, and Stas Hable on drums.

The band’s name is a nod to the glacial melt-carved river valleys they call home, known by early French fur trappers as coulees. Known for wild swings of emotion during sets, it is not unusual to see fans in tears and minutes later dancing with abandon. The honesty and ability to talk and sing about the feelings and emotions that shape them has endeared them to a growing group of fans and friends.

Throughout five albums, the band has garnered international attention and earned press in Americana UK, American Songwriter, Ditty TV, Folk Alley, and The Bluegrass Situation. The band has played support to Trampled by Turtles, Los Lobos, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Band of Heathens, and No Depression writes of the recent release, “a remarkably wide-ranging, enduringly sympathetic examination of the human condition.”

2025 marks the release of No Fun In The Chrysalis, an expansive new collection that finds the band picking up where their 2021 release, Namesake, left off. Goldmine writes “TCB present their material with the presence of War on Drugs and Band of Horses (“Mountains”), but with an intimacy at times of Rick Danko’s best work with The Band (“I Am Not Sad”).”

The band’s co-founder, Soren Staff, wrote about his ongoing struggles with self-worth and anxiety on “I Am Not Sad,” the first single from the album – “it was a tonic, 4 minutes of musical therapy hearing this for the first time,” claimed Americana UK. The band worked again with Grammy-winning producer Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Humbird), whose production on Namesake shepherded the band beyond their folk-grass, Americana roots to “go electric.” No Fun In The Chrysalis was recorded at The Hive in the band’s hometown of Eau Claire. The Bluegrass Situation calls it, “Rambunctious, playful, and wonderfully inspired, the recording is submerged in the mystery of transformation; the relentless blitz of change is the most dominant theme of the songs.”

For all things Them Coulee Boys, please visit themcouleeboys.com.

The Spine Stealers make spooky folk inspired by dark lakes, brain-burned nostalgia and a melancholic hue. The band grew from the duo of Kate Ruland and Emma O’Shea, who learned guitar together during the height of the pandemic.

Their first year in 2023 they opened for Dead Horses at the Majestic Theater Folk Fest in Madison, WI, won the Blue Ox Music Festival Virtual Band Competition and played the festival that June. They released their first EP, River Teeth Tapes, in July of 2023.

In 2024, they hit the highways, concretizing their place in the folk scene of the Midwest. The duo were featured on the lineups of Madison, WI Waterfront Festival and Atwood Fest, Rhinelander, WI Project North Music Festival, Grand Rapid, MN Festival Rialto. They played the Lounge at Stoughton Opera house for Haley Heyndrickx, and opened for Arcadian Wild at Stoughton Opera House. They released their debut album, If the Sky Falls, Beyond the Sidewalks, in October of 2024. The band was featured on Gems on VHS playlist in October.

This year the band began with opening for Basia Bulat at the Majestic Theater in Madison, WI as well as their first tour to Nashville, TN in April. The band is working in the studio recording their second EP and several features coming out this year. They will be traveling outside of the Midwest, eager to take on their first national tour with Ross Thorn in August taking them out to the Pacific Northwest and rugged Western United States.