KAREN JOHNSON started performing at the Cafe' Carpe in 1998. After retiring early from teaching 4th grade, she treasures spending time with her golf-crazed husband, visiting with her two grown […]

Following the Southern Wisconsin Dulcimer Festival, headliners RICK THUM (hammered dulcimer), ERIN MAE (mountain dulcimer), and WENDY SONGE (multi-instrumentalist) will be throwing a Dulcimer Extravaganza concert here at Cafe Carpe. […]

THE fellows had car trouble, and can't make it to Wisconsin We hope they are traveling this way again sometime and can reschedule.  JACKSON GRIMM marries folk pop melodies with the […]

Celebrate 40 years of Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Simply Folk” with two 2019 Grammy Nominees live in concert on Friday, June 7 at Shannon Hall in Madison. Dom Flemons, co-founder of […]