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BILL MILLER is an award-winning Native American recording artist, performer, songwriter, activist, painter, and world-class accomplished flute player. Over the entirety, Miller has produced over a dozen albums, received three Grammy Awards, numerous NAMA awards (including a “Lifetime Achievement Award) and led Wisconsin’s La Crosse Symphony Orchestra. He is now touring in support of a recent […]

Click on the Buy tickets widget to get tickets: OLD MAN LUEDECKE is a Canadian songwriter/banjo player/guitarist whose music is a mix of folk, bluegrass, and pop. He is one of Canada’s best loved and most intriguing roots singer-songwriters. A masterful banjo player with a storyteller’s heart, his narrative-driven folk songs are playful, coy, and […]

Round robin song circle led by TRICIA ALEXANDER– (performer, poet, healer, “with a voice, music and lyrics that resonate the heart”) done informally, not from the stage, no microphones. This is a lovely gathering of singers, songwriters, musicians and music appreciators, poets, and storytellers held regularly on the last Thursday of each month (except sometimes). Traditional Round Robin […]

James Lee has cancelled due to health issues. He hates cancelling shows, but sometimes one just has to.

Shullsburg, Wisconsin native ERNIE HENDRICKSON grew up on a steady diet of Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Jerry Garcia. These early heroes opened the gates to the deep well of American roots music which he continues to draw inspiration from. His 2007 solo record, Down the Road, of which the Illinois Entertainer deemed […]

This five piece bluegrass ball of fire featuring vocals, banjo, fiddle, guitar, bass and mandolin appears here regularly on the 2nd Thursday of the month- except when they don’t. Its various members have been involved with traditional music locally, regionally, and nationally for many years. The Pioneer’s lead singer and guitarist, Jerry Wicentowski, has been described by […]

THE BOSTON IMPOSTERS , once again housed in the Midwest, are Maire Clement and Davey Harrison. Davey is a string musician. Hailing from England, he plays mandolin, guitar, and banjo. A classically trained singer, he mainly uses his voice to perform his own contemporary folk songs. Maire  is a  soprano and singer-songwriter. Her highly diverse […]

JOHNSMITH With his faded jeans, his twinkly blue eyes, and his infectious smile, John immediately connects with audiences. You get the sense of a man who loves his life, his family and friends, and who loves nothing more than sharing that love in song and stories all across this land. “Johnsmith’s songs always move me. They […]

Round robin song circle led by TRICIA ALEXANDER– (performer, poet, healer, “with a voice, music and lyrics that resonate the heart”) done informally, not from the stage, no microphones. This is a lovely gathering of singers, songwriters, musicians and music appreciators, poets, and storytellers held regularly on the last Thursday of each month (except sometimes, like this time, […]

Bill will be share the evening with guitar player Barry Riese (Blackberry) of Piper Road, plus Steve Tesmer of Three Thin Dimes and Jill and the Jax. They are working on a killer set list (Barry knows a lot of tunes), and it should be a really fun night. Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats. […]

COYOTE BROTHER is J. HARDIN and HAYWARD WILLIAMS, two musicians who have been crossing paths for a decade on their separate songwriting journeys. After collaborating on their recent solo releases though, the two troubadours decided to come together as COYOTE BROTHER.  Drawn together by the profound impact that mental illness had on their ability to […]

Rescheduled after some snowy weather in April!  Let's hope for a better scenario this time around. These two will provide a full evening of entertainment. MARK DVORAK is a modern day troubadour who has never stopped performing, writing and recording. He has been called “a folk singer’s folk singer” with “an encyclopedic knowledge of traditional […]