ALI SPERRY is a Nashville singer-songwriter whose songs tell stories of the universal quest for connection. Ali gathered her nearest and dearest Nashville musician friends to flesh out the songs on her debut album Storybook in 2012, with lush arrangements, integrating elements of folk ballads, feel-good rock and roll, and atmospheric string-infused pop. The group came […]

OLD-TIMEY ROOTS, NEW-TIMEY SOUNDS RED TAIL RING is the musical brainchild of two old-time-minded Michiganders – Michael Beauchamp and Laurel Premo. The collaboration blends the loving attention of revivalist fervor with the playful creativity of starting from scratch. Whether rendering a traditional tune or one of their many original compositions, the duo infuses each song […]

PETER MULVEY  “The cream of the crop… sings with a clarity reserved for the likes of legends." Davis Enterprise Use the link below to purchase tickets. It will be a wonderful day in the neighborhood. Peter will have just taken Europe by storm, and Fort Atkinson is next. MIKE MANGIONE opens.

More than 4 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 nineteen albums of mostly original songs, exploring folk, blues, and jazz idioms featuring […]

RICK HARRIS has been a working musician since the mid-1960s, first as a drummer in both rock and blues bands playing throughout the Midwest and more recently on guitar performing his own original vision of American roots music. He currently lives in Mineral Point and spends his days pursuing his two passions: songwriting and painting. Rick […]

CATHY BARTON AND DAVE PARA A versatile duo, Dave and Cathy perform and conduct workshops with hammered and fretted dulcimers, banjo, guitars and Autoharp, as well as “found” instruments like bones, spoons, mouthbow and leaf. Their music ranges from driving string band music to contemplative ballads and airs. They have a knack for finding unusual, […]

This five piece bluegrass ball of fire featuring vocals, banjo, fiddle, guitar, bass and mandolin appears here regularly on the 2nd Thursday of the month- BUT they are accommodating another act by performing on the 3rd Thursday this month. Its various members have been involved with traditional music locally, regionally, and nationally for many years. The […]

The BriarPickers are a violin/mandolin duet consisting of mandolinist Brian Ray and fiddler Paul Kienitz, melding traditional Appalachian folk melodies with classical chamber music sensibilities. This conversational paradigm is the thread woven through the coupling of old-time ‘rustic’ properties with the intrinsic chamber music approach; being that of constructed or made in a plain and […]

BEN DE LA COUR has lived a different kind of life. After growing up in Brooklyn, he set out to see the world as an amateur boxer, janitor, bartender and agricultural worker living in Havana, Paris, Los Angeles, London and New Orleans before settling in Nashville. His travels have taken him to some strange and sometimes […]

Round robin song circle led by TRICIA ALEXANDER– done informally, not from the stage, no microphones. This is a lovely gathering of singers, songwriters, musicians and music appreciators! Traditional Round Robin protocol applies – everyone is part of the circle and has an opportunity to: play, pass or request a song from someone in particular […]

In his own words: I am a song writer, singer and guitarist who’s been around the block more than a time or two or three. I grew up in the folk tradition (Paxton, Dylan, Ochs, Seeger, Prine, Goodman) and played and sang for my own enjoyment as often as I could. Over the past 20 […]

From the time COREY MATHEW HART started singing at a young age, his voice has amazed audiences. “The human voice is such wonderfully complex instrument. So often, words can fail to portray the whole meaning or idea you are trying to get across, but in song you can convey more emotion and add more depth […]

Vicky and Sarah will be sharing the evening, playing and harmonizing on each other's tunes.  Sounds like fun, no? VICKY EMERSON "The music on Vicky Emerson's latest release Wake Me When the Wind Dies Down drips with folk, traditional country and even a bit of blues and pop. Her music is rich with instrumentation such as […]