MURIEL ANDERSON is considered among the top acoustic nylon-string guitarists / harp-guitarists in the world. She is the first woman to have won the Natio­nal Fingerstyle Guitar Championship and is host of the renowned ­Muriel Anderson's All Star Guitar Night­®.  Her "Heartstrings" recording accompanied the astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery and her music appears in Woody Allen's film "Vicki Cristina Barcelona."  An […]

Slightly off schedule this month- This five piece outfit featuring vocals, banjo, fiddle, guitar, bass and mandolin do a once-a-month performance here, usually the 2nd Thursday. Its various members have been involved with traditional music locally, regionally, and nationally for many years. The Pioneer’s lead singer and guitarist, Jerry Wicentowski, has been described by country […]

Larry Penn is a gravely-voiced folk singer, acclaimed songwriter, mesmerizing story teller, retired truck driver, toy maker, railroad buff, and Grandfather. He sings and tells stories of hard work, working people, trains, trucks, life on the road, love nonsense, and pink flamingos. Noted for their elegance in simplicity, his songs are not only popular with audiences, but […]

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The marvelousmulveymarathon begins with a magnificent manifest of Milwaukee musicians.  The following have played all together in the R & B Cadets,  and  in other bands, and solo.  Doesn't matter, always great. Peter Mulvey    "Over the past 20 years, Mulvey has pursued a restless, eclectic path as a writer and musician – immersing himself in Tin […]

Peter Mulvey    "Over the past 20 years, Mulvey has pursued a restless, eclectic path as a writer and musician – immersing himself in Tin PanAlley jazz, modern acoustic, poetry, narrative, and Americana stylings. Relentlessly touring as a headliner “ his attitude is, “When you love what you do, you can work all the time,” he has […]

Peter Mulvey  "Over the past 20 years, Mulvey has pursued a restless, eclectic path as a writer and musician – immersing himself in Tin PanAlley jazz, modern acoustic, poetry, narrative, and Americana stylings. Relentlessly touring as a headliner “ his attitude is, “When you love what you do, you can work all the time,” he has […]

Peter Mulvey    "Over the past 20 years, Mulvey has pursued a restless, eclectic path as a writer and musician – immersing himself in Tin PanAlley jazz, modern acoustic, poetry, narrative, and Americana stylings. Relentlessly touring as a headliner “ his attitude is, “When you love what you do, you can work all the time,” he has […]

SORRY, this event has been POSTPONED.  Check out  Corky Siegel next time he plays here, probably this spring-  you won't regret it.

THE REDBIRD SHOWS HAVE ALL SOLD OUT. OUISEAU ROUGE Redbird is an affliction of four fine talents, Peter Mulvey, Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault, and David Goodrich, talents- all imaginative  instrumentalists and singers, who haunt the Cafe Carpe every December.  They audially and audaciously pen a love letter to the body of American song- traditional tunes, old jazz standards, country songs, and things […]

THE REDBIRD SHOWS HAVE SOLD OUT. OUISEAU ROUGE Redbird is an affliction of four fine talents, Peter Mulvey, Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault, and David Goodrich, talents- all imaginative  instrumentalists and singers, who haunt the Cafe Carpe every December.  They audially and audaciously pen a love letter to the body of American song- traditional tunes, old jazz standards, country songs, and things that […]

THIS FRIDAY SHOW IS SOLD OUT- call about Wednesday & Thursday See special holiday post  OUISEAU ROUGE Redbird is an affliction of four fine talents, Peter Mulvey, Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault, and David Goodrich, talents- all imaginative  instrumentalists and singers, who haunt the Cafe Carpe every December.  They audially and audaciously pen a love letter to the body of American song- traditional tunes, […]

Peter Mulvey    "Over the past 20 years, Mulvey has pursued a restless, eclectic path as a writer and musician – immersing himself in Tin PanAlley jazz, modern acoustic, poetry, narrative, and Americana stylings. Relentlessly touring as a headliner “ his attitude is, “When you love what you do, you can work all the time,” he has […]

Peter Mulvey    "Over the past 20 years, Mulvey has pursued a restless, eclectic path as a writer and musician – immersing himself in Tin PanAlley jazz, modern acoustic, poetry, narrative, and Americana stylings. Relentlessly touring as a headliner “ his attitude is, “When you love what you do, you can work all the time,” he has […]

With opening band Whiskey Squirrel CDs available for $10 Have you ever woken up from a wonderful dream and tried to hold onto its memory all day? Los Zombies’ debut album is something like that. Tote the Note was recorded in an honest to goodness Nashville studio where the Café Carpe’s own prodigal son cut […]

“Loads of Fun, good music, great harmonies” are the thoughts that come to mind whenever The Merry Horde performs. The oft repeated phrase following each performance is “…and a good time was had by all”. So join us for a historic romp through a medley of bluegrass, and selected tunes from the 60’s & 70’s […]

Reservations strongly encouraged.  Unfathomable, but these guys draw. Who/what:  Devil in the Outhouse (previously known as What's His Name & the Other Guys) will be playing at the Café Carpe once again for our annual holiday show. When:  Thursday, December 29; 7:30 pm Where:  Café Carpe, Ft. Atkinson, WI (just Google map it!) What/who:  Brian […]