Cafe Carpe

2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. Unless it’s not.  Irish music players and listeners welcome.

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 […]

LJ and the DM's is a reunion of musical friends gathered for this special 'Carpe' show. John Fabke (aka. Lost John) is currently a Nashville, TN based musician, involved with a wide variety of roots music styles as a performer, educator, radio host and archivist/historian for the past 20+years. Fabke has appeared on a number […]

These are not the veterans this day is set aside to honor, but they are musical veterans.  You know this because they have old YouTube videos.

Kin sharing an evening cous they can Conceived in a tipi in Oregon and raised by parents he describes as “semi-nomadic, back to the land hippy homesteaders,” KAI WELCH  is a Nashville-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, best known for his work with Grammy-winner Abigail Washburn, Bobby Bare, Jr., and on the Grammy-nominated Greencards album Sweetheart of […]