CARPE CLOSED FROM Jan. 1 to Jan. 16- open evening Jan. 16

We are taking advantage of a slow business period to go out East to visit relatives and friends. Reopening the evening of Thursday January 16 at 4:30. We will not be open for lunch on Friday January 17- will open for the evening at 4:30. Normal hours resume Saturday January 18.

NEW PIONEERS

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, like this month when it is the 3rd Thursday, because the Carpe was closed on the 2nd Thursday. Its various members have been involved with traditional […]

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RACHAEL KILGOUR

RACHAEL KILGOUR is a Minnesotan songwriter and performing artist whose sincere, lyric-driven work has been called both brave and humane. The 2015 grand prize winner of the esteemed international NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition and winner of the 2017 Kerrville New Folk Contest, Kilgour has been featured at NYC’s Lincoln Center, at The Kennedy […]

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Live recording: Peter MULVEY w/ SistaStrings & Nathan Kilen

Buy tickets below using the Brown Paper Ticket link, or purchase in person at the Cafe Carpe. PETER MULVEY     has been a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur and almost-poet since before he can remember. Raised working-class Catholic on the Northwest side of Milwaukee, he took a semester in Ireland, and immediately began cutting classes to busk […]

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Live Recording: PETER MULVEY w/ SistaStrings and Nathan Kilen

Buy tickets using the Brown Paper Tickets link below, or purchase in person at the Cafe Carpe. PETER MULVEY     has been a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur and almost-poet since before he can remember. Raised working-class Catholic on the Northwest side of Milwaukee, he took a semester in Ireland, and immediately began cutting classes to busk […]

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