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SUMMARY:BIG BANG STRING THING
DESCRIPTION:BIG BANG STRING THING \nIt’s rare when the word acoustic conjures thoughts of music that can electrify the jump in your feet. Then again\, BBST is a rare group\, and an impressive collective of musical might. Energetic\, contagious\, and flat out fun\, BBST weaves a sizzling thread through multiple genres to deliver a tapestry of award-winning original music that defies one description\,yet\, connects with everyone. Perhaps that has a something to do with the fact that BBST is made up of veteran musicians who have toured\, recorded\, or shared the stage with Leo Kottke\, The String Cheese Incident\, Lyle Lovett\, The Smashing Pumpkins\, Darol Anger\, Mike Marshall\, John Hartford\, U2\, Asleep at the Wheel\, Garbage\, Willy Porter\, Riders in the Sky\, The Radiators\, David Grisman\, Alex DeGrassi\, Doc Watson\, Carrie Newcomer\, and Merl Saunders and the Rainforest Band to name a few. Or\, it could simply be that Big Bang String Thing knows how to craft a great sound. \nTHE BAND: \nBob Westfall (mandolin\, guitar\, vocals\, songwriting) has studied and worked with some of the top acoustic players in the country -Darol Anger\, Mike Marshall\, John Hartford\, and Alex DeGrassi. But\, while these influences are certainly evident\, Westfall’s songwriting are uniquely his own. An award-winning mandolinist\, Bob grew up in Texas and Minnesota\, and his style incorporates the best elements of storytelling with a hybrid jazz/pop/worldbeat/bluegrass feel. \nThe husband and wife team of Mary Gaines(bass) and Chris Wagoner (violin) provide the bottom and top of the BBST sound\, and have appeared in performance and on recordings with Westfall for over fifteen years. Gaines and Wagoner have similarly diverse backgrounds — formal classical training at the Univ. of WI\, jazz studies with the great bassist\, Richard Davis\, followed by years of performing and recording with jazz\, blues\, rock\, and folk artists and songwriters.
URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/big-bang-string-thing-6/
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SUMMARY:MADISON MALONE
DESCRIPTION:Born in the wonderful Wisconsin city that matches her name\, MADISON MALONE was immersed into an obsession with music immediately in her childhood. She traces back her love of music since the days of dancing and singing to The Beatles in her backyard of rolling hills in Portage\, WI. Madison started learning the piano at the age of 5\, writing music at the age of 12\, teaching herself guitar at 17 & is an alum of UW-Madison’s co-ed A cappella group\, Redefined. She is also a teacher at Madison’s Girls Rock Camp!\n\nMadison Malone calls her music soulful-pop because she believes that by putting her soul into everything\, honesty can be emulated in her story-telling & songwriting. The 21-year old believes that music is one of those few mediums of which almost all humans can relate. Whether it be rhythm\, the sound waves\, lyrics\, the movements of the musician\, or just the brilliance & comfort it produces while being performed\, music can connect the world on some sort of common ground. Madison has a driven passion to use & create music in her community and the world in order to inspire those that she crosses paths with. She wishes to show others that music can be this incredible\, spellbinding outlet where we can escape and turn all of our aspirations into reality.\n\n Check her out on Facebook.
URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/madison-malone/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150508T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150508T220000
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SUMMARY:OPEN STAGE
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URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/open-stage-68/
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SUMMARY:SIMON BALTO
DESCRIPTION:Back at the Carpe after a sold-out Lamplighter Session with Peter Mulvey and Count This Penny in December\, SIMON BALTO returns to offer an exclusive listen to the songs from his forthcoming album\, Murmurations. \nNational and international critics alike have compared his songcraft to many of the greats: Dylan\, Prine\, Baez\, Guthrie\, and others. \nWisconsin Public Radio’s Simply Folk host Stephanie Elkins described his writing as having ‘caught [her] by the side…and knocked [her] over.’ \nNo Depression magazine described his voice as ‘butter and honey’. \nThe Chicago-based promotional collective Music Means Family wrote that\, ‘There is a deeply satisfying component to each of his songs – a reminder of home\, woodsmoke\, and the first traces of your breath as winter begins to settle.’ \nThe evening will feature two sets of music from Balto. One will be songs from his first record (the acclaimed The Roads that Make Men Weary) and some favorite covers. The other will be an exclusive opportunity to hear his forthcoming record\, played in its entirety\, front-to-back\, stripped down to one man and a guitar. The record will be released later this year. People at the Carpe that night will be the first to hear many of these songs.
URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/simon-balto/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150513T200000
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SUMMARY:THE SUITCASE JUNKET
DESCRIPTION:THE SUITCASE JUNKET is a one-man tour de force out of Western Massachusetts. Matt Lorenz — aka Suitcase Junket — has been road dogging for three years\, solo and with his band Rusty Belle\, touring with Chris Smithers\, David Wax Museum\, and Peter Mulvey. He’s got a powerful new CD out called Make Time.\n\n\nMatt plays a collection of leather satchels\, baby shoes\, oil cans\, cast-iron kettles\, sticks\, bones\, and a ragged guitar he had pulled out of someone’s trash. At first the novelty is mesmerizing\, then the music is. Suitcase finds extreme sounds — the wicked grind of a guitar \, the vintage buzz of an old mic\, the wild insect drone in the throes throat singing  — and uses them to forward his restless skinny road-dog blues-playing big-hair cause. The boy has stories to tell.\n\n\nPeter Mulvey and many others sing Matt’s praises on a collection of various media\, including in-person speech\, echo chambers\, telephone\, shouting from the mountain tops and social media.\n\n\nMatt is a Vermont born musician\, visual artist and tinkerer\, and a professional showoff. “I aim to write good songs and sing them honestly” says Lorenz. He does that and more. The Suitcase Junket’s artistic vision is one of salvaged and repurposed objects\, images and emotions. His innovative junk-percussion constructions\, original album art featuring inanimate objects with wings\, and the high craft of his songwriting all combine to create a unique and engaging entity with a force and style all its own. Lorenz’s self-taught throat-singing adds a fascinating edge to the overall sound. “I’m interested in the hidden voices that reside within things: the songs stuck inside instruments\, the story behind the object\, the mysterious weight of a word\, the harmonic sequence that’s in every note waiting to be broken as light through a prism.”\n\nLorenz tours The Suitcase Junket nationally playing on festival stages and city street corners\, in concert halls and dive bars\, in living rooms and listening rooms. The sound isn’t easy to pin into a genre\, but The Suitcase Junket is often likened to Tom Waits\, The Black Keys and Andrew Bird. Lorenz’s songwriting is unexpected\, powerful and poignant\, drawing from the deep well of the American musical traditions of folk\, rock\, blues and storytelling\, all sharpened with a keen pop sensibility. With masterful command over instruments of his own creation\, he silences a room with the first notes of his throat singing and holds the crowd until the final chords of his guitar. When he plays you get the sense that he is truly playing and that he’d be doing it just as joyfully with or without an audience. \nThe Suitcase Junket has self-released two albums: Sever and Lift (2009) and Knock It Down. (2011) The third album\, Make Time\, came out on January 6\, 2015. “The band” is built around a resurrected dumpster-diamond guitar\, an old oversized suitcase\, a hi-hat\, a gas-can baby-shoe foot-drum\, a cookpot-soupcan-tambourine foot-drum\, a circular-saw-blade bell and a box of bones and silverware that operate much like a hi-hat. He pounds out rhythms with his feet and his twang-and-buzz guitar growls through a couple of old tube amps. On top of all this is the ethereal edge of his overtone throat-singing. This act is unique and not to be missed.”Make Time truly travels to various destinations of musical fortitude and emotion[…]It’s one hell of a ride that holds its resonance well after the record has stopped spinning.” – No Depression. \n“If croons could kill\, this one-man band would be a bounty hunter. Armed with a unique\, self-sufficient approach to raw instrumentation\, The Suitcase Junket is an artisan of song\, bending\, forging and sharpening each piece into an emotional tool.” -Performer Magazine. \n“His songs have a sense of beauty about them and are delivered with such forceful sound you can’t believe you aren’t listening to a full band.” – Greenfield Recorder
URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/the-suitcase-junket/
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SUMMARY:BILL CAMPLIN and THE SUPERLATANS
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URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/bill-camplin-band-8/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150516T203000
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SUMMARY:COLIN O'BRIEN and FROGWATER
DESCRIPTION:Colin is joining up with some Milwaukee friends to provide you with a lively evening. \nBanjo\, fiddle\, guitar\, footboard playin’ COLIN O’BRIEN\, recently released his CD\, “After a Song”\, recorded in Nashville with some of music city’s best pickers: Larry Perkins\, Matt Combs\, Mark Howard and Dennis Crouch. Those boys were so enthralled with Colin they urged him to move there\, which he and his wife\, after a bit of consideration (1 or 2 minutes)\, did. \nIt was in the summer of 2011 that Nashville music legend Larry Perkins heard Colin’s set at the John Hartford Memorial Festival. Larry was side-struck. He immediately invited him down to Nashville make a record. The result\, After A Song\, features 12 of Colin’s originals and a band comprised of some of the late John Hartford’s band mates. \n“After A Song…Bottles the lighting that was John Hartford’s engagingly off-center songwriting” – Jon Weisberger\, The Nashville Scene. \nColin even played John Hartford’s banjos for the sessions! In addition to his solo work Mr. O’Brien has also recently formed The Colin O’Brien Stringband. It’s a veritable acoustic supergroup featuring some of Music City’s finest players\, Matt Combs\, Mike Compton and Todd Phillips. The group will be releasing a live recording “Live at the Station Inn” in very early 2013. \nColin has recently signed on with Nashville Artist Management and Promotion Company Rockin’ Robyn Productions. \nFROGWATER is a Milwaukee-based acoustic duo who perform Celtic\, bluegrass\, blues\, ragtime\, regional instrumental dance. \nJohn (Vocals\, Acoustic Guitar\, Banjo\, Mandolin) & Susan (Vocals\, Viola\, Mandolin) are particularly influenced by their love of  Irish & Scottish music\, with their passion being evident in performance. The intoxicating blend of their energy and style of music is sure to engage you.and create that festive atmosphere.: Fiddle\, Guitar\, Mandolin\, Ukulele\, Harmonica and banjo. The band’s repertoire spans the breadth of many traditional styles including Old-Time\, Celtic and regional instrumental dance music\, Blues\, Ragtime\, Ballads and original compositions- they pride themselves on being both eclectic and entertaining!
URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/colin-obrien-w-frogwater/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150521T190000
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SUMMARY:NEW PIONEERS
DESCRIPTION:The regular second Thursday date of May 14 did not work\, so the group chose this as the May date. \nThis five piece bluegrass ball of fire featuring vocals\, banjo\, fiddle\, guitar\, bass and mandolin appears here regularly on the 2nd Thursday of the month. 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. \nLike them on Facebook.
URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/new-pioneers-23/
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SUMMARY:JENN RAWLINGS/ AWNA TEIXEIRA/ HUCK NOTARI
DESCRIPTION:THE HEARTLAND’S SPRING TOUR 2015 \nVintage folk\, heartfelt country balladry\, and a side of accordion- you don’t want to miss songwriters Awna Teixeira (of Po girl)\, Huck Notari\, (from Portland\, OR)\, & Jenn Rawling (Midwest born) as they croon their way across the Midwest for just 3 weeks this May. It’s a rare songbird migrating for this limited edition of time. I’d grab this\, hold it close\, and call it the geode of evenings. \nAWNA TEIXEIRA -​​Portuguese Canadian\, Awna Teixeira has been touring steady in different bands since 2001. Awna’s songs convey that classic old time feel of back porch spirituals. Crossing borders with her Portuguese upbringing\, you can also hear her tales of heartache and travel through accordion driven European folk. While performing primarily on banjo\, accordion\, guitar\, Awna has added playing percussion with her feet both on Tambourine and an old suitcase. She is releasing her second full length album ‘Wild One’ March 2015.\n“Dark vivid lyrical imagery\, beautifully layered instrumentation\, delicate yet fierce vocals”\n-Santa Fe New Mexican\nJENN RAWLING-​ Vintage American Folk singer/songwriter Jenn Rawling composes highly melodic songs from fascinating scraps of images and phrases\, singing them with a vibrant\,immediately engaging yodel-edged alto. Rawling’s playful\, poetic lyrics are enhanced by her sophisticated sense of phrasing and pace.\n“A rare songwriter whose varied and distinctive melodies trace the calls of birds and the motion of honey bees. Her songs don’t connect the dots- they leap\, and the intuitive connections she makes are so true that she takes us with her. “ Andrew Calhoun\, Waterbug  Records\nHUCK NOTARI -​is best described as Original Country Folk. Steeped in the authenticity of time gone by\, he draws his listeners into a timeless place of old values. Growing up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and living the mountain life deeply impacted Huck. After many travels\, it is his appreciation for simpler times\, the country\, and down-to-earth people that come through loudest in his genuine smile and heart breaking melodies. Huck lives in Portland\, OR and plays regularly in the Northwest.\n“Huck is one of the finest songwriters in America today – songs full of truth and peace – they do what songs ought to do” – Samantha Parton\, The Be Good Tanyas
URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/jenn-rawlings-awna-teixeira-huck-notari/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150523T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150523T230000
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SUMMARY:SONG SWAP w/ JIM BARNARD/ DANA PERRY (Dakotah Rose had to cancel) / TIM COUGHLIN JR.
DESCRIPTION:JIM BARNARD is a singer-songwriter with strong contemporary folk and blues roots. His alluring melodies and engaging lyrics are wrapped in expressive vocals and a soulful\, distinctive\, finger-style guitar. \nJim’s warmth and humor on stage make an instant connection with any adult audience. His smooth-textured vocals and vibrant acoustic guitar artistry often draw comparisons from listeners to James Taylor or Charlie Rich. Lyrics that explore themes ranging from lost and found love to the foibles of the human condition have evoked audience thoughts of John Prine or Bruce Cockburn. From comic to cosmic\, his repertoire is punctuated with performances that beg for an encore. \nHis debut CD\, “Artificial Flowers”\, released in 2013\, was received with high acclaim. Jim’s bluesy composition\, “Baby Please Baby Me” is featured on the Madison Songwriter’s compilation CD\, “Made at Home”. \nJim’s music is woven from diverse influences that include Bob Dylan\, James Taylor\, Chris Smither\, Randy Newman\, Keb Mo\, Bonnie Rait\, Bruce Cockburn\, Shawn Colvin\, James McMurtry\, John Prine\, Leon Russel\, Dave Van Ronk\, and Ella Fitzgerald. \nTIM COUGHLIN\, JR. is a singer-songwriter\, multi-instrumentalist\, and recording artist from small town Wisconsin and Illinois\, who has come to find his home in Madison\, WI. Having been an active musician in various bands and projects across a wide range of genres since the age of sixteen\, Coughlin’s solo music stands as a focused effort to show the world his own sound as it has developed over the last ten years\, and on into the future. It is expressed as a varied blend of new and old\, indie and roots\, landing somewhere between influences like Gary Higgins and Conor Oberst. \nIn November 2014 he started work with engineer Will Bailey recording his first LP – “Dark Rooms” – from his home studio in Madison\, WI. A follow-up to the debut “How?” EP released in early 2014\, the album features the sort of introspective\, moody folk heard on “How?” but with a more developed\, experimental\, approach and sound. Released in early 2015\, “Dark Rooms” brings the project a step forward\, and shows a fuller picture of things to come. \nHis live show is raw and improvisational while still remaining faithful to the sound heard on the recorded work. Occasionally featuring friends and musical co-conspirators he has met along the way\, every show is unique in its own right. Tim Coughlin Jr. always promises a memorable experience for the listener to take home with them. \nSadly\, Dakotah had to bow out and DANA PERRY will be the third performer.\nDAKOTAH ROSE started singing as a 4-year-old at an upright piano in a living room. Almost twenty years later\, it looks very similar. Dakotah has been playing piano\, singing and song-writing all her life and picked up the guitar around the age of 12. She took piano lessons for 10 years\, making her piano style heavily influenced by classical music. Her youngest musical influence was her father\, who also wrote songs and was heavily influenced by folk music from the 60s era and Rock and Roll from the 70s. She was lucky enough to be introduced to the music of Joni Mitchell at the ripe age of 13\, and followed the trend of looking up to other strong female musical leads like Regina Spektor\, Amanda Palmer\, Grace Slick and Fiona Apple. A strong believer in the power of femininity and woman roles in the music realm\, she likes to experiment with her playing styles and her listening ear\, believing that all things are inter-connected and all genres can learn from one another. Like all areas of music and life\, she believes in expressions\, not impressions\, and that good\, free and wild things in life come with openness and playfulness. Her efforts and intentions are to use music as a vessel to emulate this. \n 
URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/song-swap-w-jim-barnard-dakotah-rose-tim-caughlin-jr/
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SUMMARY:JEFFREY FOUCAULT
DESCRIPTION:JEFFREY will be appearing with BILLY CONWAY on this special Memorial Day show.  Close out your holiday with some food and fine music. \nTHE NEW YORKER:\n“Jeffrey Foucault\, sings stark\, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest.” \nMOJO:\n“Songwriting brilliance.” \nTHE IRISH TIMES:\n“Quietly brilliant…” \nUNCUT:\n“The music of Wisconsin native Foucault is the kind so many aspire to but never attain: beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection…” \nLauded for ‘…stark\, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest.’ (The New Yorker) and described as ‘Quietly Brilliant’ (The Irish Times)\, Jeffrey Foucault has released four collections of original songs under his own name\, and two full-band collaborations with contemporary poet Lisa Olstein under the moniker Cold Satellite. His songs\, ‘Beat-up troubadour folk\, whittled to dolorous perfection’ (Uncut)\, mine the darker seams of American music to distill a terse amalgam of blues\, country\, rock ’n’ roll\, and folk. ” \nSN&R (SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW):\n“Jeffrey Foucault is cut from the same cloth as John Prine… Like Prine his voice leans toward the gravelly but stops short of Dylan-esque mumble-grumble and has just a twinge of country. Also like Prine\, Foucault lyrically tends toward some surprising twists that illuminate the realities of contemporary life – songs like “Americans in Corduroys” from his Ghost Repeater album\, which mixes a honeymoon with commentary on war. He’s smart and pays attention to melody and a strong hook in his songs… a sure bet for a good show.” \nIn September of 2015 Jeffrey Foucault will release SALT AS WOLVES\, his fifth collection of original songs. Featuring Foucault’s longtime rhythm section Billy Conway (Morphine) on drums and Jeremy Moses Curtis (Booker T) on bass\, and reuniting him with legendary electric guitar player Bo Ramsey (Lucinda Williams\, Greg Brown)\, SALT AS WOLVES offers twelve tracks that exist out of time\, like a field recording of a place that never existed: a lean\, bold blues record that deftly weaves together disparate strands of sound and experience\, raw love and desperate wisdom.
URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/jeffrey-foucault-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150529T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150529T230000
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SUMMARY:STRANGLED DARLINGS
DESCRIPTION:Thoughtful indie folk music (Americana doom pop) by people young\, hungry & in the area so why not come give them a listen? \nSTRANGLED DARLINGS brings a punk intensity to their live show. Taking a cello and making it a hip hop bass. Taking mandolin and slapping it like a stubborn mule. The Portland-based duo has been creating original tunes since 2009 and breaking the mold for what hipsters consider indie music. They bring a lyrical intelligence and political punch to songs that otherwise might have just been another break up song. Their song material focuses more on witchcraft in the Civil War\, the morality of Somali piracy and the curse of Anna Nicole Smith’s breast implants. The band has released three studio albums and a fourth is due out this fall. Their live show mixes technical mastery with deadpan humor and a little something to shake your rumpus.Strangled Darlings are on an extended US tour to support their upcoming 2014 release  of “Boom Stomp King”. The album focuses solely on the duo sound; the current touring set-up. Boom Stomp King is a record about objects\, shelter\, the ephemeral nature of your history.Strangled Darlings are George Veech on vocals\, mandolin\, harmonica and Jessica Anderly on vocals\, cello/bass­­­­­­­. \n\n\nThe band’s name derives from a William Faulkner quote about editing your creative process without sentiment. \n[the] music can feel organic and untethered\, but these numbers\, perhaps appropriately\, have the handcrafted aspect of American quilts — colorful\, stitched-to-each-other artifacts pieced together using the fabrics of dozens of other\, older garments. This allows for a richness in texture\, a sense of history and a sort of comfortable resonance with the past. Staccato circus-carny rap songs follow sweeping gypsy waltzes with Tom Waits edginess and the gangling grace of a Decemberists narrative.  — Sleeping Hedgehog\, March 2011 \n Seemingly unrelated genres converge into a dark and twangy mix of twisted freak folk\, Romany melodies\, Cab Calloway saunter\, Tom Waits murder ballads and everything in between\, all hammered out on a mix of traditional and modern instruments.  —Williamette Week March 2011
URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/strangled-darlings2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150530T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150530T223000
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SUMMARY:KAREN JOHNSON
DESCRIPTION:KAREN JOHNSON \nSweet-voiced Fort folksinger Karen loves Nancy Griffith\, Allison Kraus\, and others of that genre.\nGive her another listen here.
URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/strangled-darlings-2/
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