Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to share the stage at outdoor casino show
Grammy favorites Robert Plant and Alison Krauss will play an outdoor show June 7 at Mystic Lake Casino Amphitheater.
Tickets start at $59 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster.
Plant is best known as the flamboyant frontman of Led Zeppelin, while Krauss is widely credited for helping renew interest in bluegrass music due to her work with her band, Union Station. The unlikely duo first met at a 2004 Lead Belly tribute concert at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They released their first album together, “Raising Sand,” in 2007 and watched it go on to win five Grammy Awards, including album of the year and record of the year for “Please Read the Letter.”
The pair began work on a follow-up in 2009 with producer Daniel Lanois, but ended up abandoning the project.
“I think we ran out of cakes,” Plant told USA Today the next year. “There was an amazing amount of cake and food and coffees and sodas. By about 11 in the morning, we were ready for a nap.”
Plant went on to form the short-lived Band of Joy with vocalist Patty Griffin and guitarist Buddy Miller. The group covered two songs by the Duluth trio Low on their sole album together. He has since led two more bands, the Sensational Space Shifters and Saving Grace.
Krauss, who has won a total of 27 Grammys, was less prolific in the studio and issued the Union Station album “Paper Airplane” in 2011 and the solo effort “Windy City” in 2017.
The duo reunited in 2021 and released “Raise the Roof.” It features covers of songs by Merle Haggard, the Everly Brothers, Allen Toussaint, Bert Jansch and Calexico. It went on to earn three Grammy nominations.