Back at the Carpe after a sold-out Lamplighter Session with Peter Mulvey and Count This Penny in December, SIMON BALTO returns to offer an exclusive listen to the songs from his forthcoming album, Murmurations.

National and international critics alike have compared his songcraft to many of the greats: Dylan, Prine, Baez, Guthrie, and others.

Wisconsin Public Radio’s Simply Folk host Stephanie Elkins described his writing as having ‘caught [her] by the side…and knocked [her] over.’

No Depression magazine described his voice as ‘butter and honey’.

The Chicago-based promotional collective Music Means Family wrote that, ‘There is a deeply satisfying component to each of his songs – a reminder of home, woodsmoke, and the first traces of your breath as winter begins to settle.’

The evening will feature two sets of music from Balto. One will be songs from his first record (the acclaimed The Roads that Make Men Weary) and some favorite covers. The other will be an exclusive opportunity to hear his forthcoming record, played in its entirety, front-to-back, stripped down to one man and a guitar. The record will be released later this year. People at the Carpe that night will be the first to hear many of these songs.