Music on the Cortile

Alicia Thao (she/her/hers) is a queer HMong American singer-songwriter who is Tulsa-raised and Saint Paul-based. Well-versed in a variety of genres, she identifies as an experimental indie/folk/soul/RnB performing artist. Thao’s music has been played on the popular Twin Cities music radio station The Current, featured by Twin Cities PBS, and has written music for the short film, “The Wind Always Strikes the Highest Mountain.”
Check out Alicia’s PBS Stage segment from 2022.

Laura Hugo is an Indigenous singer/songwriter from Teec Nos Pos, AZ located in the Navajo Nation. She moved to Minnesota in 2010 to pursue her music and has since played all over the Twin Cities and around the Midwest. She has used her experiences with grief, mental health and general confusion about her place in the world to write honest and relatable songs.

Check out an out Laura’s Emerging Artist Showcase Session for the Current from February 2023.

Acclaimed raconteur Ray Bonneville strips his bluesy Americana down to its essentials and steeps it in the humid grooves of the South, creating a compelling poetry of hard living and deep feeling. Whether performing solo or fronting a band, playing electric or acoustic guitar, Bonneville allows space between notes that adds potency to every chord, lick, and lyric. Thom Jurek (Allmusic.com) remarks, “With darkness and light fighting for dominance… he’s stripped away every musical excess to let the songs speak for themselves.”

Check out a recent performance by Ray Bonneville from October 2024.