TICKETS: $15 ADVANCE // $25 DAY OF SHOW

DOORS: 6:00 PM // SHOW: 8:00 PM

Come early and stay late for a social, live music experience designed to promote a sense of positivity and belonging through music and art! Social time and beer/wine bar opens at 6:00 PM with the show starting promptly at 8:00 PM.

The Mammals are an indie-roots band from New York’s Hudson Valley led by singer-songwriters Ruth Ungar and Mike Merenda. Over two decades, this fiercely independent outfit has built a legacy of genre-defying, politically charged, and emotionally resonant folk-rock praised as “some of the best songwriting of their generation” (LA Times). Their music resonates with urgency and tenderness—amplifying the voices of conscience, connection, and the full spectrum of human experience.

Emerging in the early 2000s as “subversive acoustic traditionalists” (Boston Globe), The Mammals blend old-timey roots with lyrical fire and magnetic force. After a period of redefinition as Mike + Ruthy, the band reemerged in 2017 and have since continued to forge music that is as topical as it is timeless. The Washington Post writes, “They don’t suffer from multiple genre syndrome—they celebrate it.”

With praise from fans, press, and peers including Anaïs Mitchell (“a national treasure”), The Mammals remain in the vanguard of today’s folk revival—musical storytellers rooted in empathy, joy, and fierce authenticity.

ABOUT MUSIC MENDS:

This event is presented by Music Mends, a nonprofit initiative dedicated to curating music and arts based community events in South Bend, Indiana.