Meet Adam. Leader of …a band? A dance party? An improv troupe? A bunch of giddy prodigies? Yes!  

Most people don’t know this band. But I do…

Adam Weiner and his band (Low Cut Connie). helped me live through Covid. And I told him so. Among the brilliant things he and they have done: When Covid hit and his tours got postponed, he performed over 100 1-2x/week livestreams from his spare bedroom in South Philly.

That show was called Tough Cookies, one of many his brilliant branding and performing offshoots. A cult grew, from all over the world. We wrapped our virtual arms around each other, took catharsis and livestream spectacle to new levels, and left each show with a euphoria and faith that, YES! We are Tough Cookies…we still love life…and We Will Survive!

TOUGH COOKIES is a concert, a church service, a support group, a strip club, a punk club, but mostly a SOUL MUSIC VARIETY SHOW.

Now the band is back on the road. Thank God. Because live music may be the ultimate BreakAway, where your worries wash away through the cosmic gift of song and verse and dance and risk.

Low Cut Connie, who embodies all that magnificently, did a two-night stand at the MN State Fair last week. The lucky crowd had an unbridled blast, even if newbies’ eyeballs popped out and groupie dancers collided.

Best of all, the explosive band had even more fun than us. Which is way more contagious than Covid.

Little Richard meets Mr. Rogers

~ The New Yorker

To paraphrase Star Tribune’s critic Jon Bream, “Low Cut Connie is part Springsteen, part Meat Loaf and 100% rock and roll.” Right on. No wonder The New Yorker dubbed him Pandemic Person of the Year.

I second that emotion. And will treasure my Covid-show memories, 1-1 moments with the band, and recent photos worth more than 10,000 words.

Rock on.