Friday, July 26, 2024 from 7-8:30pm
The Dusty Bookshelf
Manhattan, KS

Join us for live music and talk with singer-songwriter Brian Johannesen at the Dusty Bookshelf in Manhattan, upstairs in the mezzanine. This event is free and open to the public.

Brian Johannesen is a singer-songwriter, landscape polaroid photographer, and talent buyer in Iowa City, IA. He has recorded five albums, including his latest, Holster Your Silver, which was released in January of 2020, shortly before the world changed. Once the pandemic hit, it derailed all the plans he had laid for the next year, and ultimately the trajectory of his life and career, as it did for so many. He decided to pursue another passion – nature and sustainability. He decided to go back to school and earned a Certificate in Sustainability from the University of Iowa. As he studied, his worlds collided. He realized the most effective way to communicate the effects of the climate disaster was through telling the human stories of those impacted. Since then he has been gathering these stories, through travel and research, compiling them into a cohesive piece – a snapshot of a planet on the brink – like a polaroid, fuzzy, grainy, and uniquely its own.