Cafe Carpe

Ed Hall is an instrumental fingerstyle guitarist and banjo player. His performances are lively and humorous as well as instrumentally astounding. Ed's approach to fingerstyle guitar has always been to try to arrange pieces for guitar that are not typically played on one guitar, difficult pieces, arranged as accurately as possible by ear. Instrumentals like […]

The Macarus Family Jamboree brings together 3 generations of the youguessedit Macarus family to play and sing together, accompanying & harmonizing with each other on music ranging from gospel to rock, traditionals, classics, and originals.  They all write and perform individually and with other musical & theatrical aggregations. Momma Doe has acted and sung since […]

musical friends doin' a bit of song swappin', thankful that they have each other and instruments and voices and a place to play

Hayward grew up with a guitar in his hands, performing from an early age in cafés, bars, and eventually rock clubs throughout his home state of Wisconsin and around the Midwest. A high school 'Battle of the Bands' champion, the textbook lonely college kid making dinner dates with his guitar, Williams took the well-worn suburban route […]