Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Shovels And Rope and Trapper Schoepp at The Monarch Music Hall in Peoria, Illinois on May 6, 2019

A former member of punk rock band Million Dead, Frank Turner turned his attention to folkier, acoustic music after the demise of the hardcore outfit. He has since transformed himself into a singer and songwriter of consequential folk-punk rebel songs (that cover topics as such atheism, excessive drinking, and the power of rock & roll). Drawing press comparisons to Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen, among others, Turner nonetheless occupies a niche of his own in British popular music, and has developed a large international following. Shovels & Rope are an American folk duo from Charleston, South Carolina composed of husband and wife Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst. Combining threads from their individual solo careers, Shovels & Rope blends traditional folk, rock and roll and country rock