BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Cafe Carpe - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20121231T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130101T003000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130104T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130111T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 CREATED:20121228T231947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121228T231947Z UID:1500-1357329600-1357943400@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:OPEN STAGE DESCRIPTION: URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/open-stage-32/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130105T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130105T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 CREATED:20121228T232130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121228T232130Z UID:1502-1357416000-1357425000@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:OPEN STAGE DESCRIPTION: URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/open-stage-33/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130110T210000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 CREATED:20121216T150324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121230T234349Z UID:1473-1357844400-1357851600@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:NEW PIONEERS DESCRIPTION:This five piece bluegrass ball of fire featuring vocals\, banjo\, fiddle\, guitar\, bass and mandolin graces us every 2nd Thursday of the month (usually). 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-12/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130111T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130111T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 CREATED:20130109T175658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T175658Z UID:1536-1357934400-1357943400@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:OPEN STAGE DESCRIPTION: URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/open-stage-34/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130112T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130112T230000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 CREATED:20121229T191636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T025441Z UID:1509-1358022600-1358031600@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:BILL CAMPLIN AND THE TEMPUS FUGITS DESCRIPTION:Before it does\, catch them. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/bill-camplin-and-the-jaunty-jays/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130116T210000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 CREATED:20130109T025931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T030040Z UID:1522-1358362800-1358370000@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:F.A.C.T. stage reading of CHRISTMAS BELLES DESCRIPTION:Fort Atkinson Community Theater does a stage reading of this Jones Hope Wooten comedy\, rescheduled from a snowy pre-Christmas day. \nPlease bring a non-perishable food item for the Fort Atkinson Food Pantry. Admission is free. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/fort-atkinson-community-theater-stage-reading-christmas-belles/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130118T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130118T230000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 CREATED:20121216T150509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130118T210247Z UID:1475-1358541000-1358550000@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:PLUME GIANT DESCRIPTION:PLUME GIANT \nPlume Giant is Oliver Hill (guitar\, viola\, voice)\, Nolan Green (guitar\, harmonium\, voice)\, and Eliza Bagg (violin\, harmonium\, trinkets\, voice). The trio met as students at Yale\, and quickly began layering and stitching together their ideas into a collaborative sound that would become Plume Giant. After spending many hours putting their heads together and singing\, they turned these collaborations into many\, many songs\, and developed a sound that is very much their own. Plume Giant’s blend of ‘60s harmonies\, summery folk\, and campy\, whimsical humor has charmed audiences across the country on many tours around the east coast\, in the Midwest\, and out west. Their unique sound weaves together inventive harmonies\, evocative lyrics\, double fiddles\, and other melodious noises made with tambourines\, harmoniums\, melodicas\, and any other toys they can get their hands on! All of their songs are written together – in the living room\, on the porch\, or in the backyard somewhere. The three are always listening to each other to make sure they keep new ideas in the mix – and\, of course\, so they can always sing in tune! URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/plume-giant/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130119T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130119T230000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 CREATED:20121216T150734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130114T224045Z UID:1478-1358627400-1358636400@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:VENICE GAS HOUSE TROLLEY/ Guzzo Pinc with Pat Stillman open DESCRIPTION:Venice Gashouse Trolley \nVenice Gas House Trolley (Madison\, WI) grooves body and mind creating a unique and organic live music experience. VGHT’s original jam-based songs and poems transport audiences on a creatively wild and transformational journey through darkness and into the light. Spoken of by fans as “A Cerebral Groove” and “Sacred Existential Fusion Rock\,” VGHT brings a sense of passion and performance to every live show. \nPraised by the media and fans alike for their new approach to words and intense yet chilled psychedelic jam\, the Trolley has emerged as originators of their own genre. The band has held the position as the #1 Jam Band in Madison\, WI on ReverbNation since May of 2011 and was recently voted as one of the top 3 experimental music groups in Madison’s Isthmus Newspaper’s “Reader’s Favorites” poll. \nVenice Gas House Trolley features Flowpoetry\, a finalist for the MNSWA “Urban Griot” International/National Performer of the Year and a three-time Madison Area Music Awards finalist. VGHT encapsulates the dirty 1960s rock of Jefferson Airplane\, the slinky but aggressive and funky grooves of Claypool\, the eccentric and experimental sounds of Zappa\, the eclectic jam and fun attitude of Phish\, the rockin’ hip-hop and reggae beats of 311\, and the flowin’ words of Tom Waits. Through this creative mix\, the band has released three full length domestic CDs and has placed tracks on British compilations. \nHalf-JOKESingly\, Guzzo Pinc and Pat Stillman dig the likes of Soul Coughing\, Beck\, Femmes\, Pixies. Their debut album UNO will be available. \nThis event is a little more sonically challenging than most held here. Earplugs advised. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/gashouse-trolley/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130124T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130124T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 CREATED:20121216T151651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121228T235248Z UID:1483-1359057600-1359066600@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:MICHAEL MCDERMOTT/ ANTJE DUVEKOT DESCRIPTION:Michael McDermott returns with his wife\, Heather Horton\, in a co-bill with Antje Duvekot. \nThe anthemic\, arena-filling “Scars From Another Life” (from his forthcoming album Hit Me Back) paints the a picture of how far singer-songwriter Michael McDermott has come: “I was so down… I had completely lost my way / When I hit Broadway I began to realize / That all they are are scars from another life.” His life since becoming a recording artist—full of myriad highest highs\, gutter-skimming lows\, and absolute rock bottoms of the past two decades—could read like a screenplay\, but with stories so ridiculously outlandish that they couldn’t possibly be true. \nAll of it—the addiction\, the failed relationships\, the financial dramas\, the career hurdles—have left plenty of scars\, but McDermott’s moving on\, moving up\, and taking charge. He makes no excuses for his past—it has made him who he is today—but sings to everyone listening (and to himself): “Don’t run away\, they’re scars from another life.”\nIt’s been quite a ride since singer/songwriter Michael McDermott unleashed his debut\, 620 West Surf\, but one might even go so far as to say that his 2012 release\, Hit Me Back\, represents the work of a new artist: for the first time in his recording career\, McDermott is a father\, a philanthropic entrepreneur\, and has experienced the loss of an adored parent. All are major life changes which have found achingly honest expression in his songs. \nHit Me Back also exudes McDermott’s trademark embrace of faith and hope in the face of adversity. The lyrics are\, as always\, uniquely evocative: McDermott sings in poetry; his tunes are literate story-songs. On the haunting “Ever After\,” he offers the listener palpable insight into the jarring confusion and doubt felt in the days that followed his mother’s passing (in October 2011). The wryly observed title track puts a new spin on fighting a long-time nemesis\, alcohol. His demon-banishing in the aforementioned “Scars From Another Life” is echoed in the love-is-redemption refrains of “Let It Go.” The exploration of temptation and bowing to its siren call is explored in the Americana-laced “A Deal With The Devil.” \nInfluenced by such musical giants as Bob Dylan and Van Morrison\, McDermott exhibited a talent for mature and lyrically dense songwriting that soon caught the eye—and ear—of then-talent scout Brian Koppelman (now a screenwriter\, novelist\, director\, and producer; best known as the co-writer of “Ocean’s Thirteen” and “Rounders”)\, who immediately signed him to Giant Records. That first album\, 620 West Surf\, boasted a Billboard Hot 100 charting single\, (“A Wall I Must Climb”). McDermott continued to write introspective\, character-driven songs that won him an enduring band of appreciative followers. In the liner notes for McDermott’s self-titled album\, bestselling author Stephen King wrote: “Michael McDermott is one of the best songwriters in the world and possibly the greatest undiscovered rock ‘n’ roll talent of the last 20 years.” \nThe recording industry shakeup that marked the mid-1990s left McDermott without a contract\, and awash in debt and self-doubt. “Throughout the years\, I had continued to feel like I was on a mission\, of sorts\, singing spiritual songs\,” he once said\, “but never really feeling good about the other elements of my life.” McDermott released five more albums in the next decade\, some with label distribution\, others independently. He also continued playing live shows\, and riding a personal rollercoaster of addiction\, recovery\, and sometimes-misplaced ambition. \nHaving at last become more comfortable in his own skin\, scarred but smarter\, McDermott has in recent years begun to make more life-affirming choices. He has launched his own coffee line\, with sales from each bag of his two signature blends providing meals for seven children. Understandably\, he’s found posi tive inspiration in his wife\, Heather Horton (whom he married during a tour stop in Italy in May 2009)\, and the birth of their daughter\, Rain (in July 2010). And he’s once again a signed artist\, this time with New Jersey label\, Rock Ridge Music\, who will be releasing his forthcoming album. McDermott and wife Horton (a gifted musician/vocalist)\, and producer CJ Eiriksson (engineered albums for U2 and Matchbox 20\, as well as McDermott’s 2007 album Noise From Words) spent a whirlwind eight days in the studio to record Hit Me Back. \nOf course\, recent positive inspiration doesn’t mean he’s forgotten his tumultuous past or that he no longer faces present struggles. For McDermott\, a performer and storyteller to the depths of his soul\, his connection with fans and his uncanny ability to communicate universal truths through his own personal experiences are helping fade the many of the scars that remain. The demons aren’t gone; he’s just found a place for them to dwell in peace. It is coming to terms with those demons and putting them in their place that continues to fuel his art ever further. \nBlending uncommonly beautiful vocals with one of the sharpest poetic sensibilities in her field\, DUVEKOT has a remarkable ability to make us believe she is whispering secrets in our ear\, and we know that she believes every word she sings.”New Siberia” is her third studio album — and a masterpiece of the modern folk genre. She assembled it herself with a fresh confidence enhanced by the fan loy- alty displayed on Kickstar ter.com. Again produced by folk legend Richard Shindell\, the cinematic en- semble sound showcases Duvekot’s bold\, sure-footed path through emotional terrain most artists dare not even enter. “Musically\, I think I am in the strongest place I’ve ever been\,” says Duvekot. \n“This album is even more personal than the last one\, which was pretty personal\,” she adds\, alluding to “The Near Demise of the High Wire Dancer\,” voted top album of 2009 by lauded folk station WUMB 91.9 FM in Boston.The new record seeps further into the heart. She says “it includes a song about my mother that took me 20 years to write (‘Phoenix’)\, a song about my dreams of making music becoming shattered (‘The Life of a Princess’)\, and a song about not fitting into high school (‘Glamorous Girls’).” URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/michael-mcdermott-antje-duvekot/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson\, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130125T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130125T230000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 CREATED:20121216T151449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121231T030244Z UID:1480-1359145800-1359154800@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:JILL AND THE JAX DESCRIPTION:Fort’s own Jill and the Jax combine the harmonious vocals of Jill “Lazy Spice” Kessenich and “Honest” John Kleinschmidt\, backed by the always polysemous Jeremy Pinc on bass\, and Steve Tesmer\, considered by many to be the tallest Dobro player in Jefferson County. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/jill-and-the-jax/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson \, WI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130126T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130126T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T010153 CREATED:20130114T220820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130122T162855Z UID:1541-1359230400-1359239400@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:OPEN STAGE DESCRIPTION: URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/to-be-or-not-to-be-announced/ LOCATION:Cafe Carpe\, Fort Atkinson END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR