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email [email protected] for information on how to attend this private event Become a proud recipient of our occasional newsletter. Ideally, this tidy bundle of information goes out monthly to inform on touring, releases, new music and video, and all the other crazy stuff going on. The rare cornfields-to-culture ratio Minnesota affords might just create the perfect atmosphere for an overachieving songwriter and musician to wrestle with life’s dilemmas: Solo acoustic or full-on rock-and-roll band? Pop hooks or blues riffs? Oil painting, Existentialism, or baseball? So many options. In any case, the combination has certainly proven an auspicious one for Portland native Chris Koza. His first stint in the Midwest came during his college days. He left central Minnesota in 2001 with a studio art and philosophy degree, and after a few years of dividing time among Portland, Brooklyn and Minneapolis, he made the Twin Cities his home for good. Here are the top 5 reasons Koza stays put in the Land of 10,000 Lakes:. 1. MORE CLUBS, RECORDING STUDIOS, AND MUSIC FESTIVALS THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A DRUMSTICK AT. Sure, Koza has headlined the legendary First Avenue Mainroom. But he’s rocked all of Minneapolis’ famous venues—including the Varsity Theatre, The Fitzgerald, the Fine Line, the Cedar Cultural Center … and really too many others to list here, but he can recite them in alphabetical order. In 2015, his band, Rogue Valley, played both the Pizza Luce and Kräftskiva Block Parties in downtown Minneapolis—because Minnesotans know the only thing better than outstanding live music is outstanding live music at a really good crayfish party. Koza doesn’t just dazzle the well-fed locals, however. He spends a lot of his time on the road, in fact, playing places like the SXSW Music Festival. Or the country of Iceland. Or that one time he toured nationally with Ingrid Michaelson in support. of his 2014 solo album In Real Time. 2. AN ENTIRE METROPOL*TAN AREA OF MULTITASKING MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS.