Sibling duo Between Friends brings alt-pop to concert sponsored by MSU Music Maker Productions

Contact: Harriet Laird

STARKVILLE, Miss.—It’s not surprising that musician siblings Savannah and Brandon Hudson have more than 2.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify as the alt-pop duo Between Friends. In February, however, fans can put down their earbuds and headphones and get ready to hear these two in a live performance sponsored by MSU Music Maker Productions.

Between Friends will make a Feb. 7 Starkville stop in promoting their current album “WOW!” at Rick’s Café for a night of sing-along hits from their EPs and albums, including the best-known single “affection” with millions of Spotify streams.

Known for lyrics that relate the intricacies of relationships—love, loss, self-realization, fear of genuine connection and more—the siblings were just in their teens when they were propelled into the pop music scene after singing their way to the quarterfinals of “America’s Got Talent” in 2013. A couple of years later, they formed a group called The Heirs but it quickly disbanded around 2017, just before Between Friends launched and scored big with “affection.”

Ahead of their recent “WOW” album, the pair released seven EPs from 2018-2024 and another album in 2023. Describing them as “telemetrically aligned,” the online music magazine “Pitchfork” said of the siblings, “Now in their 20s, the Hudsons live together and have a studio in their home. To keep the vibe loose, they let friends and family cycle in and out as they’re writing and recording.”

Doors open at 7 p.m. for the Between Friends performance at 9 p.m., and local pop singer Girlphim takes the stage at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 for MSU students and $15 for all others. To order, visit msstate.universitytickets.com or purchase in person in MSU’s Center for Student Activities, Colvard Student Union second floor. For more details, call the center at 662-325-2930.