Cafe Carpe

We are doing what is now customary- closing for the month of January. We will reopen with renewed vigor on Friday February 2. Maybe by then all of your new year's resolutions to avoid us will have been forgotten.

ARLEN is a keen group of three of the Midwest’s finest Americana singer-songwriters – Kyle Shelstad (Barbaro), Lee Henke (The Last Revel), and Soren Staff (Them Coulee Boys). The trio blossomed during a chilly February weekend last winter. The three longtime songwriting friends met at a studio in Minneapolis to see what would happen if […]

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He's back! You can't keep a good man in Massachusetts. PETER MULVEY

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT has been perfecting her craft of performing for almost four decades. It is a quirky and wonderful hodge-podge (her word!) of music, poetry, story, laughter. drama, and celebrating the moment. Work in clubs, theaters, festivals, TV, radio has added depth and dimension, and since she has always included her original work along with […]