# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Driftless Revelers W/ Mike McAbee @ Rumors Tavern, Finley, North Dakota
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 02 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Sun, 02 Aug, 2026 at 10:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The unholy union of the Driftless Revelers and Mike McAbee in the farm town of Finley, North Dakota is something that has never happened, and may never happen again. (We genuinely hope it does, it's just rare that all of us are in North Dakota at the same time). Don't miss this show!!! Tell yer friends to drive in from the big city for it ya know!

More on the bands: 
"Scrappy string-based freak-folk, featuring songs like 'Meat Raffle Mambo,' 'Wisconsin Saturday Nights' and 'Jesus Shaves' that both revere and good-naturedly poke fun at state culture -- [The Driftless Revelers] may remind listeners of Lou and Peter Berryman or even the old Free Hot Lunch! band."
--Isthmus Magazine, Madison, WI.​

“If you leave before The Driftless Revelers play, I will kick your ass”
--Joe Thielen, as quoted in the UWEC Spectator

"It's a little 'out there': Driftless Revelers release American Fork Standards
--Volume One Magazine, Eau Claire
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"Jack Black ran so these guys could stumble"
-- Ron, MC at Sol Grass Music Festival 2024

The Driftless Revelers formed in the second spring of the first global pandemic of the 21st century, with one ear turned toward the shellac platters and Victrola virtuosos of the early to mid 20th century, and the other ear glued to the soundscapes of the 1960's & 1970's American freak-folk scene.

​​Since their debut tour in 2021, the band has billed with Grammy & IBMA winning bluegrass legends like Tim O'Brien, the Gibson Brothers, & Larry Stephenson, and toured extensively throughout the upper Midwest & West coast performing with other amazing artists like Big Richard, The Stillhouse Junkies, Willy Tea Taylor, The Pine Box Boys, The Montvales, Joseph Huber, Davey Allen & the Midnights, Dig Deep, and had breakout performances at several festivals and events (The Good Luck Campout, The Sol Grass Music Festival, Flatrock Bluegrass Jamboree, Mile of Music in Appleton, WI. featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, & The Midsummer in the Northwoods Bluegrass Festival).

​These Eau Claire, Wisconsin based weirdos have earned a cult following of devoted fans who appreciate their irreverent, highly original, and sometimes slightly psychedelic interpretation of American roots music with a Midwest twist. Their live show banter and thoroughly entertaining sets have earned them comparisons to Ween, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, They Might be Giants, Tenacious D, Cheech & Chong, and the Holy Modal Rounders. Their debut record, American Fork Standards (2022), was well received by their family members, and a few other people who said nice things about it. Their second release Live at the Slowpoke Lounge & Cabaret (2024) captures the band's deadpan comedy and musical chops in a lounge environment that demands a proper listen in a leisure suit with a scotch & Pall Mall. Their third album, In the Kitchen with the Driftless Revelers, (2025), is the perfect listening experience to whet your sonic appetite or amplify your psychotropic induced munchies. It's also good for post-feast couch sweats, and the ritualistic loosening of the belt -- and more importantly, it's the first record they toured nationally on.

​Featuring the original songwriting of Ben Nelson, Matthew R. Sayles, and Jerod Kaszynski, the Driftless Revelers will pleasure a crowd with plectral wah pedal banjo tones, the mournful wailing of resophonic steel guitars, and the up-right bass bellows of an era that can't quite be defined, but revels in the timeless ephemera of weird old-time American music.

​With influences as varied and eccentric as a proper musty smelling thrift store record collection, the band grooves merrily through early roots blues and jazz music, to hillbilly and string band howlers, all the way into the not-quite folk but not-quite psychedelic realms of their own creation.

​A Driftless Revelers show will lure you in with their joy--keep you dancing with their search for the cosmic groove in the confines of stringed instruments--and will send you on your way with flashbacks of the Driftless Revelry found only in the essence of the intangible reaches of notes once played-- that then fall silent.
https://www.philvillerecords.com/thedriftlessrevelers


Mike McAbee doesn't have enough money to pay a real writer to do his biography, so he's writing it himself in the 3rd person which is fun, but a little creepy, just like him.

​He was born in Dodgeville, Wisconsin during the Summer of Love (well, Late Spring of Love). His father was is a Lutheran Minister originally from Baltimore, Maryland, and his mother grew up near Sandusky, Ohio in Castalia. He moved around quite a bit as a child, but eventually wound up in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, a town know the world over for absolutely nothing.

​It was at the county seat of Shawano that Mike won a free trip to Nashville at the dirt track races in 1981. After seeing Nashville, he figured if he started to learn to play the guitar then, by the time he was eighteen he'd be famous. So much for plan A.

​At age eighteen, looking around and seeing he wasn't famous, he decided to go to college instead. He attended Luther College from 1986 to 1990. Well, attend is maybe a little too strong a word, I mean, he was there and everything. His band The PryOrrities played around the midwest during these years.

​After nearly graduating from college, Mike was off to begin his twentysomething slacker generation X career as a Musician Dishwasher/Misunderstood Genius. Hey, if the demographic fits, wear it. He was poor, but happy. Oh no wait. He was just poor.

​So it was off to Minneapolis, where after an extensive psychological evaluation and a grueling battery of aptitude tests, he was accepted to Northeast Metro Truck Driving School. During the next eight years, he was off to see America driving for several different companies and stopping only long enough to marry, procreate, and get divorced.

​The spring of 2000 found Mike back in Decorah, Iowa, where he had gone to college some 14 years before. He decided to quit his job as a Trucker and become a musician.

​Mike has been playing music for a living for 25 years now. He lives in Frankville, Iowa with his kid Lula. They enjoy making stupid faces at each other.

https://www.philvillerecords.com/mikemcabee
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/finley/the-driftless-revelers-w-mike-mcabee-rumors-tavern-finley-north-dakota/200030228885640
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, festivals, music-festivals, art, performances, sports, literary-art, comedy, trips-adventures, live-music, jazz, drive-in
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Finley
- **state**: ND
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Rumors Tavern
- **lat**: 47.51197
- **long**: -97.83777
- **full address**: Rumors Tavern, 213 4th St W, Finley, ND 58230-3000, United States

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