Cafe Carpe

Take a "Monroe style" mandolin player, with a gravely voice, add a fiddle player obsessed with Kenny Baker, and apply that to a guitarist with a slightly modern bent, and […]

NATALIA ZUKERMAN grew up in New York City, studied art at Oberlin, worked in mural arts in San Francisco, began her songwriting career in Boston, and now resides, writes, plays and […]

2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month, except when other Carpe musical events displace it. Players and audience welcome.

Milwaukee singer-songwriter HAYWARD WILLIAMS “Looking at the bespectacled youth peering out from the album bio, you would never expect the smoky authoritative voice that swells from Cotton Bell. But maybe […]

GAELYNN LEA, the winner of NPR's second annual Tiny Desk Contest, makes music like nobody else. Her sounds are steeped in the deep melodies of great Irish fiddle tunes, but her […]