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The HOPEFULS: CHASING A ROCK 'N' ROLL DREAM IN THE MINNESOTA MUSIC SCENE

Published in October 2018

McFarland and Company

Winner of a Certificate of Merit in the 2019 ARSC Awards for Excellence

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Living in Minneapolis in my 20s I became enamored of a group of local musicians, and closely followed their various and varied musical exploits. Erik Appelwick, Eric Fawcett, John Hermanson, Darren Jackson were at the center of a large musical collective that encompassed bands such as Kid Dakota, Vicious Vicious, Storyhill, Spymob, and Olympic Hopefuls, and they seemed destined for national fame. A decade later their collective had fallen apart, and I began to investigate what happened. The Hopefuls tells the story of how these four extraordinary musicians found each other, fell apart, and endured.

LINKS

• The Hopefuls Blog  

MEDIA

• Interview with City Pages' Erica Rivera
• Interview with 89.3 The Current's Andrea Swensson on The Local Show.
• Co-hosting gig with 89.3 The Current's Jay Gabler on the Local Current stream.
• Q & A with Patrick Hickey Jr. at ReviewFix.com 
• Article by Erik Ritland on Hear.by: "Five Fascinating Facts from The Hopefuls: Chasing a Rock 'n' Roll Dream in the Minnesota Music Scene" 
• The Lost Interview: A previously-unpublished December 2018 interview with Paul Patane of Twin Cities Geek.