Kelly Joe Phelps A writer at the San Diego Troubadour described guitarist and songwriter Kelly Joe Phelps as, “The Phantom Monk Of Folk- Blues,” and rightly so. Over the past 17 years of recording and touring, Phelps has been talked about as much for his passionate, spirit-driven, lone musical ways as for the inventiveness of […]

Almost four decades as a touring professional have found Michigan native Claudia Schmidt traversing North America as well as Europe in venues ranging from intimate clubs to 4,000 seat theatres, and festival stages in front of 25,000 rapt listeners. She has recorded fourteen albums of mostly original songs, exploring folk, blues, and jazz idioms featuring […]

This five piece outfit featuring vocals, banjo, fiddle, guitar, bass and mandolin do a once-a-month performance here, usually the 2nd Thursday. But this is the third Thursday. It's the Ides of March, beware already. Its various members have been involved with traditional music locally, regionally, and nationally for many years. The Pioneer’s lead singer and […]

The Zombies will do a regular (as regular as anything gets for the Carpe or the Zombies) 3rd Thursday of each month gig here. That wasn't available, but this Friday was. Playing music that would make the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Foundation start mumbling verses of Virgil, Los Zombies keep it high and keep it getting […]