Cafe Carpe

2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month, except when other Carpe musical events displace it. Irish music players and audience welcome.

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! Traditional Round Robin protocol applies – everyone is part of the circle and has […]

Two great Minnesota songwriters who happen to be friends in one show.  BRIANNA LANE has been here many times, often with PETER MULVEY.  RACHAEL will be making her Carpe debut. BRIANNA LANE  is the latest in a deluge of compelling songwriters flooding the region. Lane’s vocals are both confidant and fragile, running parallels to Mindy Smith […]

SAM LLANAS Sam Llanas (formerly of the BoDeans) is an iconic American singer, acoustic guitarist, and songwriter. Best known for his unique and distinctively soulful voice, It was Llanas’ voice that supplied the trademark vocal on Robbie Robertson’s “Somewhere Down the Crazy River.” In 1997 Llanas founded the band Absinthe. As Absinthe Sam released one […]

2016 Kerrville New Folk winner BEN DE LA COUR has lived a different kind of life. After growing up in Brooklyn, he set out to see the world as an amateur boxer, bartender, janitor and agricultural worker in Havana, London, Los Angeles and New Orleans before settling in Nashville. Influenced as much by giants such as […]