From a rough week to a good party: Hiahli turns hard times into joy

When vocalist Ryan Tetzloff found himself temporarily jobless after a move from Colorado to the Twin Cities, he saw opportunity.

“I must have been, like, broke or something when I was writing the lyrics,” he said. “I must be having like, a week.”

He remixed that rough patch into a hands-in-the-air anthem. The song is called “None of My Hands” and came out last month.

Tetzloff knew a rough week with finances was a familiar story. He wanted to remind people that “you can either laugh at it or you can cry at it.”

He and Jason Boynton started the group Hiahli five years ago after having decades-long music careers of their own. After spontaneously performing together during a show in Fargo, they realized starting a band was inevitable.

The mix of their styles and personalities just worked.