The Low Stakes Band

The Low Stakes is what happens when two musicians decide they’re done with polite art and sanitized songwriting. Eric Colville and Ann Holbrook write and perform the way they live, unfiltered, a little defiant, and allergic to anything that smells like pretense. The name came out of a half-joking, half-serious conversation about how nothing in music is really life or death, but at the same time, every word you sing had better matter like it is. That tension between taking the work seriously but refusing to take themselves too seriously is the engine behind everything they do. If you’ve ever found yourself furious at the news, laughing at the wrong moment at a funeral, or wondering how the hell you got here but still kind of glad you did, Low Stakes is probably already writing your soundtrack. Their music feels like a conversation with the smartest, saltiest friend you’ve got. Someone who loves you enough to tell you the truth, even when it stings, even when it’s funny, and especially when it counts.