Purveyors of American Roots Music · Est. 2000
East of Westreville
Twenty-five years of bluegrass, blues, gospel, folk, and country from the heart of South Dakota. Kaija Bonde on vocals, Boyd Bristow on lead guitar, Brian Bonde on rhythm guitar, Al Slaathaug on bass and vocals, with fiddlers Kenny Putnam and Owen DeJong sitting in whenever they can. Good old-timey music, homespun humor, and a few stops along the way. We gather around a single microphone, nothing plugged in, nothing between the music and the room, because we want to hear exactly what you hear.
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The New Live Album · 25th Anniversary
No Dream Unfulfilled
Our 25th anniversary album: twenty-three live tracks gathered from concerts, festivals, opera houses, and radio broadcasts across the years, mixed by Boyd Bristow. The title comes from a lyric by the late South Dakota songwriter Tom Peterson. We released it this summer to a crowd of more than four thousand friends at Levitt at the Falls, and we could not have asked for a better night.
The album is available on CD and as a digital download, and you can also find the CD at Crosstown Vinyl in Sioux Falls and the Small of America in Rochford.
Get the albumCD $15 plus shipping, or instant digital download. Featuring fiddlers Kenny Putnam and Owen DeJong.
Bring Us To Your Stage
Book East of Westreville
Theaters, opera houses, festivals, house concerts, town squares: for twenty-five years we have brought our roots music wherever people gather to listen. We provide the set, staging, sound, and lights. All you provide is the audience.
We would love to play for your community. Get in touch and let us tell you what a night with East of Westreville could look like.
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Explore the Story
Three decades on stage
The Patsy Cline Years
For a decade, our touring production of Always... Patsy Cline played more than 300 performances for a quarter million people across the region. Cast, music, press, and a radio archive live on here.
Enter the Patsy Cline years
More History
Before and alongside the band came a whole company of shows: Pump Boys and Dinettes, Of Thee I Swing, the Poker Alice Band, Kaija & Gene, and a turn on A Prairie Home Companion. The rest of the story is here.
Browse more historyWho We Are
The Comfort Theatre Company
Kaija and Brian Bonde founded The Comfort Theatre Company in 1997 with a simple idea: bring quality live performance to every corner of the region, and never let a small town mean a small show. Over the years the company has staged musical theater, cabaret, and concerts across the upper Midwest.
East of Westreville is the company's current chapter, but the mission has never changed: real music, real stories, played live for the people in the room.
