Forrest VanTuyl // Sara Mercurio — live event
Working cowboy, mule packer, and fencepost enthusiast Forrest VanTuyl's music hews closer to the literature of Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy than to Marty Robbin's Gunfighter Ballads. Inspired by his time on horseback in the remote corners of eastern Oregon and Washington, Forrests songs are redolent with carefully crafted details of rural life in the West, speaking of the taciturn men and women who work this land of beauty, raising and herding cattle through landscapes that would be inhospitable to most agricultural crops. There’s a kind of deep pride to this work that unites folks who live this far from the mainstream, and Forrest is one of the few songwriters who can truly express it. In addition to touring extensively as Margo Cilker's bass and guitar player, Forrest is a regular performer at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, has played with Sera Cahoone, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Corb Lund, and been featured by The New York Times, National Geographic, NPR, and KEXP.
Starts: 2026-06-27T20:00:00Z
Ends: 2026-06-27T22:00:00Z
Where: 4146 North Elston Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60618, United States
Price: $18.03