July 9, 2012, Monday - Kevin Costner and Modern West at The Guthrie

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Guthrie Theater, McGuire Proscenium Stage, 818 South 2nd Street

Kevin Costner and Modern West

The modern genesis of Modern West began when Kevin’s wife, Christine, encouraged him to reconnect with his love of music. However, the history of the band goes back over 20 years when Kevin met John Coinman in a dirty, downtown warehouse in Los Angeles during an acting workshop. They began to play and write music together along with Blair Forward. That collaboration turned into the band Roving Boy – a rock band with an edgy Western style and a small record deal in Japan where they had a #1 single called Simple Truth. As Kevin’s star began to rise, the band continued behind-the-scenes playing, writing, and recording anytime they could get together. Coinman and Forward both ended up in Tucson, Arizona, where they met guitarist/producer Teddy Morgan and drummer Larry Cobb. In 2005 when the three former Roving Boys decided to build a new band together, they brought in Teddy and Larry and named it Modern West. Born from a shared love of music and comprised of a tight-knit group of longtime friends, Kevin Costner and Modern West draw their influences from a broad tapestry of American music and beyond. The show itself flows from original material penned by the band to cover songs written by some of music’s giants.

www.kevincostnermodernwest.com