Tickets: $15 Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats and let us know if you are likely to eat here this night. "Scrappy string-based freak-folk, featuring songs like 'Meat Raffle Mambo,' 'Wisconsin Saturday Nights' and 'Jesus Shaves' that both revere and good-naturedly poke fun at state culture -- may remind listeners of Lou and Peter Berryman […]
This is an acoustic open stage, sound system set up in advance. Share your songs (or stories- storytellers welcome) in a two song (think 8-10 minutes) rotation with whoever else is there to play, being respectful of others. Please support our business by buying drink and/or food.
This is held in conjunction with the WRITE ON THE RIVER event. There will be a sign-up sheet at the Carpe at 5:00 before the reading. The Carpe will be open for dinner; if possible, please call for reservations. 920-563-9391. May 12, 2023 would be poet Lorine Niedecker's 120th birthday. In her honor, the Fort […]
We may try to start this show earlier than the originally scheduled 8:00 time. MICHAEL HECHT will read excerpts from literature, and BILL CAMPLIN will sing a song between each excerpt. They have done this collaboration many times with different readings, and really enjoy the concept. Readings will be from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men […]
JEFFREY FOUCAULT- the prodigal son returns on Mother's Day. THE NEW YORKER: “Jeffrey Foucault sings stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” UNCUT: “The music of Wisconsin native Foucault is the kind so many aspire to but never attain: beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection”
