BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Cafe Carpe - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Cafe Carpe X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cafecarpe.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Cafe Carpe REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20110313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20111106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20120311T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20121104T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20130310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20131103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20140309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20141102T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121201T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121201T233059 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121030T204405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T204405Z UID:1313-1354393800-1354404659@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:Lamplighter- PETER MULVEY/ RANDY SABIEN/ COUNT THIS PENNY DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT See Lamplighter post regarding these shows. \n“Peter Mulvey is all substance\, which is his style.” \nWhen Randy Sabien picks up his violin- get ready. The consummate musician\, he can play inside and outside the lines with musicians of all stripes or plaids. “Showing technical dexterity\, sentient depth\, pleasing tone and keen phrasing in courteous respect to Stephane Grappelli.” Downbeat \nCount This Penny is from Madison (Wisconsin) by way of East Tennessee. They write songs born of doggedly traveling to and from the hills of home. \nSince their first show at the Down Home’s Open Hoot in 2009\, CTP has appeared on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion\, Wisconsin Public Radio\, Wisconsin Public Television’s 30-Minute Music Hour\, and WDVX’s Blue Plate Special in Knoxville\, Tennessee. Following their national radio debut in March\, their EP hit the #6 spot on the iTunes singer-songwriter chart. \n“If you like the Everybodyfields\, the Civil Wars\, or some old school Gram and Emmylou\, you will dig Count This Penny.” –Muzzle of Bees \n“Folks may have a faint idea of what to expect from a band that describes what it does as “Appalachian pop\,” but they’ll likely be surprised by how instantly inviting Count This Penny sounds. It’s music steeped in old American traditions\, but the concise form the songs adhere to and the pop structures the band employs make the songs modern and streamlined enough to thrive far from the mountains where their inspiration first saw the light of day.” –The Onion’s A.V. Club\, Madison\, WI URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/lamplighter-peter-mulvey-randy-sabien-count-this-penny/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121206T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121206T223059 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121018T001323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121104T021406Z UID:1326-1354824000-1354833059@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:Lamplighter- PETER MULVEY/ PAUL CEBAR/ DAYNA KURTZ/JOHN SIEGER DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT See Lamplighter post regarding these shows. \nPeter Mulvey “All I hear is Peter Mulvey\, Peter Mulvey- enough already.” Anonymous \nDayna Kurtz‘s depth is akin to the Nina Simone not only as a vocalist but as an interpreter and writer. A real equal opportunity purveyor of human musical expression\, she defies categorization while giving a big-boned\, highly emotive concentration to all she interprets or originates. “I’m not of the jazz\, blues\, folk\, R&B\, rock\, or pop worlds enough to belong to any of them\, but all of those things are in there\,” she says. \nKurtz began performing as a teenager\, and has had a solo touring career ever since. She opened for Richie Havens\, who became a fan and lent vocals to her debut studio album\, Postcards from Downtown. Dayna keeps winning over new fans in the music scene. In the past two years she has been invited to open up for Rufus Wainwright\, Antony & the Johnsons\, and Keren Ann. Additionally\, she has an admirer in fellow “Living Room” habitué Norah Jones\, who sings a duet with her on “I Got It Bad…” (From Beautiful Yesterday). The legendary Richard Thompson invited her to open up for a coast-to-coast nationwide tour that found Dayna converting some of his faithful fans. \nAnd she’s not just a riveting singer. Her guitar playing is flexible enough to take her to the musical places she visits\, whether she’s plucking an open pattern with an oddly cabaret feel or strumming some attitude into the bluesy realm. \nHer latest recordings are Secret Canon Vol. 1\, a late night smoky collection of lost nuggets from the mid-century jazz and early R&B cut out bins\, and American Standard\, which leans a little more toward country blues\, and is mostly original music despite the title. \nPaul Cebar Some idea of what Paul is about: “Milwaukee native Paul Cebar is a singing\, strumming\, and dancing museum of musical culture and a self-styled historian of myriad musical forms. Countless sounds pour forth when Cebar and his Milwaukeeans take the stage. New Orleans\, Chicago\, New york\, Africa\, Brazil\, Cuba\, jump-blues\, gospel\, jazz\, reggae\, calypso\, soul and vintage R&B are sterting points for something that becomes uniquely Cebar. This mishmash helps reimagine and liven up obscure classics\, and the band’s originals present new viewpoints on established styles.” The Onion AV Club \nJohn Sieger\, who was in the R&B Cadets with the above-mentioned Cebar\, is a prolific and excellent songwriter with a semi-country bent whose songs have impressed Dwight Yoakam\, Jerry Harrison\, The BoDeans\, Robbie Fulks and Flaco Jimenez enough to record them. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/mulvey-paul-cebar-daynakurtz/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121207T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121207T233000 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121030T204633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121207T134151Z UID:1316-1354912200-1354923000@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:Lamplighter- PETER MULVEY/ CLAUDIA SCHMIDT/ DAYNA KURTZ/ BILL CAMPLIN DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT See Lamplighter post regarding these shows. \nPeter Mulvey plumbs the depths. \nClaudia Schmidt “To say that Schmidt is simply a performer with a talent to entertain would be a miscarriage of understatement. Schmidt takes her audiences into her world as easily as the child who discovers the endless universes that exist in a cardboard box. \nFrom lying on sandy beaches under an endless barrage of northern lights\, to the expected anguish and frustration of spinning tires on cars stuck deep in snow\, from the age-old struggle of change between adolescence and adulthood to the observation of sheer idiocy\, she leaves it to the imagination of her audience to conjure their own images of her storytelling and song. No interpretation of a Claudia Schmidt song or story is wrong-she invites audiences to tie their associations to her style. \nSchmidt weaves her way through her concert in much the same manner as a jester. Interwoven anecdotes\, revealing her past and present\, bring people to expect a relationship between themselves and memories driven deep with the passage of time. The concert is an endless display of self-realization through humor and longing\, leaving audience members yearning to become an integral part of her world.”\nDoor County Advocate \nDayna Kurtz‘s depth is akin to the Nina Simone not only as a vocalist but as an interpreter and writer. A real equal opportunity purveyor of human musical expression\, she defies categorization while giving a big-boned\, highly emotive concentration to all she interprets or originates. “I’m not of the jazz\, blues\, folk\, R&B\, rock\, or pop worlds enough to belong to any of them\, but all of those things are in there\,” she says. \nKurtz began performing as a teenager\, and has had a solo touring career ever since. She opened for Richie Havens\, who became a fan and lent vocals to her debut studio album\, Postcards from Downtown. Dayna keeps winning over new fans in the music scene. In the past two years she has been invited to open up for Rufus Wainwright\, Antony & the Johnsons\, and Keren Ann. Additionally\, she has an admirer in fellow “Living Room” habitué Norah Jones\, who sings a duet with her on “I Got It Bad…” (From Beautiful Yesterday). The legendary Richard Thompson invited her to open up for a coast-to-coast nationwide tour that found Dayna converting some of his faithful fans. \nAnd she’s not just a riveting singer. Her guitar playing is flexible enough to take her to the musical places she visits\, whether she’s plucking an open pattern with an oddly cabaret feel or strumming some attitude into the bluesy realm. \nHer latest recordings are Secret Canon Vol. 1\, a late night smoky collection of lost nuggets from the mid-century jazz and early R&B cut out bins\, and American Standard\, which leans a little more toward country blues\, and is mostly original music despite the title. \nBill Camplin can smoke with the best of them.  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rMsKXaVFQho URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/lamplighter-peter-mulvey-claudia-schmidt-dayna-kurtz/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121208T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121208T230059 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121030T204717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121126T232947Z UID:1318-1354998600-1355007659@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:Lamplighter: PETER MULVEY/ CLAUDIA SCHMIDT/ RALSTON BOWLES/ DAYNA KURTZ DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT See Lamplighter post regarding these shows. \nAnother stellar gathering of some very bright stars. \nPeter Mulvey the good stuff just pours out of him. \nClaudia Schmidt\n“To say that Schmidt is simply a performer with a talent to entertain would be a miscarriage of understatement. Schmidt takes her audiences into her world as easily as the child who discovers the endless universes that exist in a cardboard box. \nFrom lying on sandy beaches under an endless barrage of northern lights\, to the expected anguish and frustration of spinning tires on cars stuck deep in snow\, from the age-old struggle of change between adolescence and adulthood to the observation of sheer idiocy\, she leaves it to the imagination of her audience to conjure their own images of her storytelling and song. No interpretation of a Claudia Schmidt song or story is wrong-she invites audiences to tie their associations to her style. \nSchmidt weaves her way through her concert in much the same manner as a jester. Interwoven anecdotes\, revealing her past and present\, bring people to expect a relationship between themselves and memories driven deep with the passage of time. The concert is an endless display of self-realization through humor and longing\, leaving audience members yearning to become an integral part of her world.”\nDoor County Advocate \nDayna Kurtz‘s depth is akin to the Nina Simone not only as a vocalist but as an interpreter and writer. A real equal opportunity purveyor of human musical expression\, she defies categorization while giving a big-boned\, highly emotive concentration to all she interprets or originates. “I’m not of the jazz\, blues\, folk\, R&B\, rock\, or pop worlds enough to belong to any of them\, but all of those things are in there\,” she says. \nKurtz began performing as a teenager\, and has had a solo touring career ever since. She opened for Richie Havens\, who became a fan and lent vocals to her debut studio album\, Postcards from Downtown. Dayna keeps winning over new fans in the music scene. In the past two years she has been invited to open up for Rufus Wainwright\, Antony & the Johnsons\, and Keren Ann. Additionally\, she has an admirer in fellow “Living Room” habitué Norah Jones\, who sings a duet with her on “I Got It Bad…” (From Beautiful Yesterday). The legendary Richard Thompson invited her to open up for a coast-to-coast nationwide tour that found Dayna converting some of his faithful fans. \nAnd she’s not just a riveting singer. Her guitar playing is flexible enough to take her to the musical places she visits\, whether she’s plucking an open pattern with an oddly cabaret feel or strumming some attitude into the bluesy realm. \nHer latest recordings are Secret Canon Vol. 1\, a late night smoky collection of lost nuggets from the mid-century jazz and early R&B cut out bins\, and American Standard\, which leans a little more toward country blues\, and is mostly original music despite the title. \nRalston Bowles\nMany of you have heard Peter perform Ralston’s beautiful song “Fragile”- His songs have caught the attention of other musicians\, such as Caroline Aiken\, Rachael Davis and Drew Nelson . \nHis distinct brand of folk music is a contemporary gem that shares the social insights brought by ’60s and ’70s predecessors\, but allows for an infusion of worldly influence and carries an undeniable personal and independent tone. His writing has garnered prizes from American Songwriter Magazine\, Nashville Songwriters Association International\, Country Music Television\, Unisong\, International Song Competition and Kerrville New Folk. \nOn his debut “Carwreck Conversations” and the follow-up “Rally at the Texas Hotel”\, Ralston worked with producer Marvin Etzioni to create the finely crafted collections that songwriter Peter Mulvey described as “connected to another time\, burnished like an heirloom”. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/lamplighter-peter-mulvey-claudia-schmidt-ralston-bowles-dayna-kurtz/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121212T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121212T223059 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121030T204815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121104T021157Z UID:1322-1355342400-1355351459@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:Lamplighter- REDBIRD DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT Read Lamplighter post regarding these shows. \nOUISEAU ROUGE \nRedbird is a loose affliction of four fine talents\, the ubiquitous Peter Mulvey\, Jeffrey Foucault\, Kris Delmhorst\, and David Goodrich– all imaginative instrumentalists and singers- who haunt the Cafe Carpe every December. They audially and audaciouslyand admirably pen a love letter to the body of American song- traditional tunes\, old jazz standards\, country songs\, and things that blur the line between those forms\, and sometimes slur their lines between songs as they spew camaraderie\, joy\, and the magic of live performance. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/lamplighter-redbird/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121213T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121213T230059 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121030T204913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121104T021123Z UID:1333-1355430600-1355439659@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:Lamplighter- REDBIRD DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT Read Lamplighter post regarding these shows. \nOUISEAU ROUGE \nRedbird is a loose affliction of four fine talents\, the ubiquitous Peter Mulvey\, Jeffrey Foucault\, Kris Delmhorst\, and David Goodrich– all imaginative instrumentalists and singers- who haunt the Cafe Carpe every December. They audially and audaciouslyand admirably pen a love letter to the body of American song- traditional tunes\, old jazz standards\, country songs\, and things that blur the line between those forms\, and sometimes slur their lines between songs as they spew camaraderie\, joy\, and the magic of live performance. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/lamplighter-redbird-2/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121214T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121214T230059 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121030T204954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121105T161932Z UID:1331-1355517000-1355526059@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:Lamplighter- REDBIRD FRIDAY SHOW SOLD OUT DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT Read Lamplighter post regarding these shows. \nOUISEAU ROUGE \nRedbird is a loose affliction of four fine talents\, the ubiquitous Peter Mulvey\, Jeffrey Foucault\, Kris Delmhorst\, and David Goodrich– all imaginative instrumentalists and singers- who haunt the Cafe Carpe every December. They audially and audaciously and admirably pen a love letter to the body of American song- traditional tunes\, old jazz standards\, country songs\, and things that blur the line between those forms\, and sometimes slur their lines between songs as they spew camaraderie\, joy\, and the magic of live performance. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/lamplighter-redbird-3/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121215T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121215T230059 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121030T205029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121031T213241Z UID:1320-1355603400-1355612459@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:Lamplighter- PETER MULVEY/ DAVID GOODRICH/ BILL CAMPLIN/SATCHEL PAIGE DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT Read Lamplighter post regarding these shows. \nPeter Mulvey \nKnown to many as a producer and accompanist for the likes of roots legend Chris Smither\, newwave Americana craftsmen Peter Mulvey and Jeffrey Foucault\, and folk sensation Redbird\, David “Goody” Goodrich continues to hone a sound all his own. His music has been adapted for use in feature and documentary films\, museum exhibits\, and even video games. Fans of Pat Metheny\, Bill Frisell\, and Ry Cooder will find DUST OF MANY HORSES the perfect companion. \nBill Camplin “…the proverbial best singer nobody’s ever heard of.” Kevin Lynch\, The Capital Times \nSatchel Paige URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/lamplighter-peter-mulvey-david-goodrich-bill-camplin/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121216T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121216T213059 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121030T205134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121030T205134Z UID:1328-1355684400-1355693459@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:Lamplighter- PETER MULVEY/ BIRDS OF CHICAGO/ DAVID GOODRICH DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT Read Lamplighter post regarding these shows. \nPeter Mulvey \nBirds of Chicago is a collective based around JT Nero and Allison Russell. Whether touring as a duo or with the full family band\, Nero and Russell have emerged as two of the most compelling new voices in North American Roots music. \nFor several years Russell and Nero’s respective bands\, Po’ Girl (Vancouver\, BC) and JT and the Clouds (Chicago\, IL)\, have collaborated extensively\, but on 2011’s Mountains/Forests\, released under the JT Nero banner\, they tapped into the true\, bewitching power of their voices together on an entire record. It also featured the full cast of characters that would round out the Birds of Chicago ensemble — the Clouds and Michelle McGrath\, the luminous singer and picker from the hidden hills of Southeast Ohio. \nNero’s fractured country-soul voice wrapped in Russell’s silver and gold tones\, is a fine thing. Not too perfect\, not at all saccharine\, you’ll hear echoes of mountain gospel\, street corner doo-wop\, and classic soul. Accompanied by just a banjo and a guitar\, it’s haunting. Fired by the band\, it’s a full tilt revival. \nDavid Goodrich Known to many as a producer and accompanist for the likes of roots legend Chris Smither\, newwave Americana craftsmen Peter Mulvey and Jeffrey Foucault\, and folk sensation Redbird\, David “Goody” Goodrich continues to hone a sound all his own. His music has been adapted for use in feature and documentary films\, museum exhibits\, and even video games. Fans of Pat Metheny\, Bill Frisell\, and Ry Cooder will find DUST OF MANY HORSES the perfect companion. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/lamplighter-peter-mulvey-birds-of-chicago-david-goodrich/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121221T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121221T230000 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121116T144439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121220T195854Z UID:1449-1356121800-1356130800@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:CHAD ELLIOTT with BONITA CROWE has been cancelled/ OPEN STAGE in its place DESCRIPTION:due to weather.  Chad and Bonita were coming from the Twin Cities\, which has had 13 inches of snow by Thursday afternoon.   We are turning the evening into an open stage instead. \n  \nChad Elliott \n“Equal parts Townes Van Zant and Woody Guthrie. A remarkably competent finger style guitarist and arguably one of new folk’s most gifted new lyricists.” \nAveraging over 100 shows per year\, Chad Elliott has been on the road for more than a decade performing a blend of roots\, blues and folk music. He has played across the country and has been lauded as a modern-day troubadour. \nElliott has released an astonishing 18 full-length albums since he began his songwriting career. The most notable being his latest studio album\, “Redemption Man\,” released in 2009. Elliott worked with producer and guitarist Bo Ramsey (Lucinda Williams\, Greg Brown) on this album to achieve its distinctive electrified roots sound. It also features Pieta Brown on the song\, “Same\, Old Way\,” which was the 2009 Woody Guthrie Festival song contest winner as well as a 3rd place winner in the 2009 International Songwriting Contest for the Americana category. Two other songs on this album\, “Redemption Man\,” and “Illinois\,” won Elliott a new folk finalist spot in the 2008 Grassy Hill Kerrville Folk Festival. \nThere’s something in that Iowa soil- (Greg Brown\, Dave Moore\, Bo Ramsey\, the Pines) \nAbove all the Iowa songwriter’s music slips stories about life as he has experienced it through living with the homeless\, love\, divorce\, fatherhood and discovering inspiration in the modern world. \nChad will be accompanied by vocalist Bonita Crowe. Hear them here. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/chad-elliott-with-bonita-crowe/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121222T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121222T223059 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121114T230457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121114T230457Z UID:1446-1356206400-1356215459@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:NEW PIONEERS DESCRIPTION:This five piece bluegrass ball of fire featuring vocals\, banjo\, fiddle\, guitar\, bass and mandolin graces us with a Saturday show\, abandoning for the moment their every 2nd Thursday of the month slot. Its various members have been involved with traditional music locally\, regionally\, and nationally for many years. \nThe Pioneer’s lead singer and guitarist\, Jerry Wicentowski\, has been described by country music historian Bill Malone as “One of the finest singers in bluegrass music”. Jerry has also performed and recorded with such bluegrass greats as Tim O’Brien\, Andy Statman\, Byron Berline\, Tony Trischka and others. Mike Schmidt of Spring Green\, Wisconsin\, is the group’s banjo player. This former French horn player has been a Nashville session musician and member of the popular Wisconsin-based bluegrass bands\, Alive ‘n’ Pickin’ and the Piper Road Spring Band. He also performs occasionally with his wife Lori. Bruce King of Art Stevenson and High Water – also formerly of Alive ‘n’ Pickin’ – is on mandolin. Bruce and Mike are veterans of the Great Northern Bluegrass Festival in Mole Lake\, WI – performing there every year from 1977 to 1982. Fiddle player Paul Kienitz is a member in good standing of regional bluegrass favorites\, The Nob Hill Boys. Bass player John Jirak also has played banjo with various folks in the northeastern WI and Madison areas\, most notably with the Green Bay based Fox River Flyer. As a bass player\, he’s performed shows with the Chicago Bluegrass Band\, Miltown Ramblers\, Krause Family\, Old Cool\, Spare Time Bluegrass Band\, Bob Steeno and The Old Truck\, and Down From the Hills\, and currently Madison’s newest\, Kettle Moraine. \nIt serves us well if you call to reserve. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/new-pioneers-11/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121226T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121226T220059 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121115T030136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121115T030136Z UID:1436-1356550200-1356559259@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:THE MERRY HORDE DESCRIPTION:“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 with one of Fort’s own\, locally harvested\, bands. These guys may be getting up there\, but they can still bash out the chords and belt out the harmonies that will make the hair on your arms stand straight up! Again this year a special featured act…direct from Rifle\, Colorado\, Frog & Toad will be performing a mix from their album “Fables”. And to boot\, this performance is for a good cause; the Fort Atkinson Food Pantry. All proceeds will go to the Fort Atkinson Food Pantry. The music and the fun are free. So bring some canned or packaged goods\, or stop by your favorite ATM on the way down so you can make a cash donation of your choosing to the Food Pantry. Please call the Cafe Carpe 920-563-9391 to reserve seats. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/the-merry-horde/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121228T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121228T223059 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121115T031457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121115T031457Z UID:1433-1356724800-1356733859@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:DEVIL IN THE OUTHOUSE DESCRIPTION:This blurb from the Devil themself: \nWho: Devil in the Outhouse- Looper (Brian Lucas)\, Scott (McCormick)\, Greg (Valde)\, & Sven (Ollie)\, will be offering their traditional holiday concert – which is unlikely to include much holiday music. However\, there will be folk\, blues\, comedy and bathroom services available. The show starts at 8:00\, but we encourage you to come early and eat dinner at the Café Carpe. The food is great and we certainly don’t want Kitty and Bill to go out of business. Who else would let us play in such a nice music room? \nWhy: So you can hear Sven play amazing slide guitar & Scott play a funky blues accordion\, so Greg can pretend he’s in a band\, so you can watch Looper fantasize about women in the audience while drinking bourbon…but mostly so you can escape from your dysfunctional family during the holidays. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/devil-in-the-outhouse-2/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121229T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121229T203000 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121115T031615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121229T000441Z UID:1439-1356813000-1356813000@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:SAM LLANAS DESCRIPTION:Sam Llanas is a singer\, acoustic guitarist\, and songwriter in several rock and roots rock bands active from the 1980s to the 2000s\, including the BoDeans and Absinthe. Sam is known for his unusual and distinctive voice. \nCareer\nLlanas was one of the founding members of the roots rock band the BoDeans\, which he formed with high school friend Kurt Neumann in Waukesha\, Wisconsin. In 1985\, after adding Guy Hoffman (drums) in 1984 and Bob Griffin (bass)\, the quartet signed a contract with Slash/Warner Records and shortened their name to the BoDeans. \nUnder the guidance of producer T-Bone Burnett\, they entered Hollywood’s Sunset Sound Factory in October to record their first album. The critically-acclaimed debut Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams was released in 1986. In the late 1980s and early 1990s\, the band had several singles in the top 40 “mainstream rock” charts. In the mid-1990s\, the band had two top 10 songs in the “Adult contemporary” charts. \nThe BoDeans took some time off in the late 1990s so Neumann and Llanas could record solo albums. Llanas founded Absinthe\, with the help of Milwaukee musicians Jim Eannelli (guitars and bass) and Guy Hoffman (formerly of Oil Tasters and Violent Femmes\, currently of Radio Romeo). They have released one album\, 1998’s A Good Day To Die. In 2011 Sam Llanas released 4 A.M. (The Way Home) and left the BoDeans to pursue his Solo career. \nAs always\, please call to reserve seats. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/sam-llanas/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20121231T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130101T003000 DTSTAMP:20260609T161803 CREATED:20121206T001233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121230T151929Z UID:1466-1356980400-1357000200@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:SAM LLANAS trio NEW YEAR'S EVE DESCRIPTION:This New Year’s Eve\, following our tradition\, we have a food and music package deal. Appetizers\, soup\, salad\, entrees and dessert\, all served buffet style- something for vegetarians as well.  It’ll be grand.  Doors open at 6:30\, food begins to appear around 7:00\, with courses rolled out gradually. \nSam Llanas will be accompanied by his lead guitarist Sean and drummer Ryan.  Music will begin at about 9:30 after dinner. \n$50 includes dinner and tip for dinner\, as well as the show.  Drinks and any gratuity on them are not covered.\n\nCover charge is $30 for those who wish to come only for the show. \nRESERVATIONS are the way to go. Planning is really hard without them. \n  URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/sam-llanas-trio/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR