Cafe Carpe

This five piece outfit featuring vocals, banjo, fiddle, guitar, bass and mandolin do a once-a-month performance here, usually the 2nd Thursday. 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 described by country music historian Bill Malone as […]

Cliff E. is a long-time favorite- a talented performer who will have you LOL. Tim Fast will open and accompany him. Red House recording artist Cliff Eberhardt knew by age seven that he was going to be a singer and songwriter. As a child Cliff taught himself to play guitar, piano, base and drums. In […]

Sam Llanas (formerly of the Bodeans) makes his return to the stage as a solo artist. He will be playing songs from his entire career, including songs from his recently released album 4 a.m. The show will start with a solo set, and then Sammy will be joined by his new back up band.

The Zombies will do a regular (as regular as anything gets for the Carpe or the Zombies) 3rd Thursday of each month gig here. Playing music that would make the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Foundation start mumbling verses of Virgil, Los Zombies keep it high and keep it getting higher* . Then when it seems really […]