David Huckfelt and The Tarantula Hawks w/ Special Guest Gabe Rozzell

Former Tucson-turned-Minneapolis folk troubadour David Huckfelt returns to town for a special one-night-only performance of new songs, newer stories, old grace & true grit at the dazzling Pidgin Palace Arts space on Friday, June 5th. With a freshly outfitted band The Tarantula Hawks, David will present an evening of songs from his forthcoming new record and follow up his celebrated Rainer tribute this spring at the Tucson Folk Festival with this intimate performance of new material. Always a frenzy of special guests and improvisational mastery, Huckfelt’s visits to the Old Pueblo are not to be missed… Bisbee / Tucson local Gabe Rozzell will open the show, fresh off the heels of recording his first album of his beautiful folk + country songs at Dust + Stone…

David Huckfelt is a singer/ lyricist / activist whose performances and songs of no-spiritual-surrender have earned him a devoted following from small-town opera houses & theaters to national festival stages like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Edmonton and Calgary Folk Fests, and the legendary First Avenue mainroom. An Iowa native and former theology student, Huckfelt weaves story, song, poetry, grit and grace together with improvisational mastery, sharing stages with artists as diverse as Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, Bon Iver, Gregory Alan Isakov, Trampled By Turtles & more. In 2018 he received the Artist-In-Residence award at Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior, where in sixteen days he wrote the fourteen songs that would become his breakout solo debut “Stranger Angels”. In 2012 he met American Indian Movement leader & poet John Trudell on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and their subsequent collaboration resulted in the song “Time Dreams”, hailed by Democracy Now! and the last recording Trudell made before passingAn early encounter and collaboration with legendary Native American poet John Trudell introduced Huckfelt as friend & partner to an array of Indigenous artists & activists including Keith Secola, Louise Erdrich, & Quiltman. He also served as both director and performer at the “Water Is Life” Music + Resistance festivals in Duluth, MN with Ani Difranco, The Indigo Girls, and his music appears in the ground-breaking television show “Dark Winds” on AMC. His new record “I Was Born, But…” is a record of other artist’s songs & was released in January 2026, with a new record of all original material set for late 2026.

“Gabe Rozell hails from the Pacific Northwest. In the 80’s and 90’s old time country and gospel music captured his interest. The thriving punk scene in Portland soon added another layer. In Gabe’s teens, with help from his big brother and friends, he refined his finger-picking guitar style in the tradition of two of his heroes: Mississippi John Hurt and Townes Van Zandt.
Gabe rambled around honing his skills, writing and performing his own songs by age 21. He’s been at it on the road for the last 25 years, performing across the country.
Gabe’s found a home along the border in Bisbee, Arizona, where he continues to entertain and record.