TAPIT Theater brings in the zombies with its one-act comedy.  You know how it is with zombies – they keep coming back.  The next expected zombie outbreak is here at the Café Carpe. Performing Now What in a café, instead of a theater, is like releasing this action-packed comedy into its natural environment.  That’s because Now […]

THEBRIAR PICKERS The BriarPickers are a violin/mandolin duet based in southern WI, melding traditional Appalachian folk melodies with classical chamber music sensibilities. This conversational paradigm is the thread woven through the coupling of old-time 'rustic' properties with the intrinsic chamber music approach; being that of constructed or made in a plain and simple fashion and […]

Local carpenters Robert Preston, Skip Armstrong and Mark Furst are sharing their love of playing together with the rest of us. blues, funk, electric folk, electronica, psychedelia, spoken word

MIKE BLAKELY  has released 11 CDs, performed all over the U.S., and made 16 tours to Europe. His songs have been recorded by Gary P. Nunn, Red Steagall, Flaco Jimenez and Raul Malo, john Arthur martinez, Randy Brown, Geronimo Trevino III and Johnny Rodriguez, Johnny Bush, Pauline Reese, and others. Also an author, Mike has […]