By: Blake Apgar

The key to making a grown man cry has been discovered, and it resides right here in Minneapolis in the form of orchestral indie-folk band We Are The Willows.

We Are The Willows is the brainchild of lead singer and guitarist Peter Michael Miller. The band began as an offshoot of Red Fox Grey Fox, a local emo group that included Miller.

“[The project] started out as dumpster songs that didn’t really fit with Red Fox Grey Fox. … I started becoming more invested in all of those songs,” Miller said.

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