ANCORA STRING QUARTET

The quartet consists of Benjamin Whitcomb-cello,  Wes Luke- violin,  Robin Ryan- violin, and Sahada Buckley- viola. For this spring program, they will be performing a late string quartet by Mozart, specifically the elegant D major quartet K575. To contrast with this, they have the very expressive second string quartet by Tchaikovsky. Finally, as a departure […]

$15

pat mAcdonald

Ticket link follows bio. We will open at 4:30, and will be serving food. Since his techno-folk pioneering Timbuk3 days, pat mAcdonald has been tinkering in relative obscurity. His one-man electro-blues experiments of the late '90s/early 2000s led to the Lowebow-driven proto-rock of Purgatory Hill. Life- threatening illness in 2016 brought a long pause. Now, […]

$20

SARAH MORRIS/ JILLIAN RAE

Buy ticket link follows bios. 2018 Kerrville New Folk winner SARAH MORRIS’ endearingly honest, expertly penned songs deliberately miss the forest for the trees. Armed with a poignantly relatable rainy day ache in her sunlit voice, she weaves a winding path of masterful storytelling and timeless Americana melody that invites audiences to join her in […]

SAM KNUTSON/ Jeff Stehr

Buy tickets following bios: SAM KNUTSON is a singer-songwriter from Iowa City.  His most recent album is Donkey Island. He is happy as a pig in *#*@ in a listening room.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=d0-gRGmjEDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=7yy5pdcBYRQ From the Shepherd Express: "Sam Knutson’s 2022 release Donkey Island is a collection of observational folk songs. “Already Gone” recalls John Hartford’s breezy […]

$15

SONG CIRCLE w/ TRICIA ALEXANDER

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, poets, and storytellers held somewhat regularly on the last Wednesday (switched from Thursday) of each […]

$5