After traversing 5 continents and 20 countries with only a guitar and a backpack, (Siri Undlin) HUMBIRD returns home to sing songs from the edge of the world. Combining a wintry longing with the warmth of a familiar folktale, Humbird stretches traditional genres of folk and Americana to embrace the unexpected. This music invites a […]

MARK ERELLI finished up a graduate degree in evolutionary biology shortly after his eponymous debut was released on Signature Sounds in 1999. He has won several prestigious awards, including the Kerrville New Folk contest and the International Song Contest, where a song he co-wrote with Catie Curtis ("People Look Around") bested 15,000 entries to win […]

ZANDER SCHLOSS has spent three decades-plus playing music with The Circle Jerks, The Weirdos, Joe Strummer, and as half of the “Dynamic Duo,” Sean & Zander. His inaugural solo release, Song About Songs, represents a cerebral evolution hatched from a lifetime of external chaos, then channeled into an exquisitely crafted soundscape of inner peace, harmony, […]

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- except when they don’t. 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 […]

RAY BONNEVILLE is a poet of the demimonde who didn’t write his first song until his early 40s, some 20 years after he started performing. But with a style that sometimes draws comparisons to JJ Cale and Daniel Lanois, this blues-influenced, New Orleans-inspired “song and groove man,” as he’s been so aptly described, luckily found his […]

*******Unfortunately, James Lee cannot make this show.  He hopes to reschedule soon.   It is only a long-lived singer-songwriter career that lets JAMES LEE STANLEY unite the unpredictable creative turns and the eclectic elements that make up his world. His remarkable ability as a vocalist and composer allow him to create songs, each recorded with […]

ZAK TROJANO is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, a finger-style guitar player, a fly-fisherman, and a beer drinker. He watches more than he talks, the guy at the end of the bar nursing a drink while the afternoon light angles in, letting the conversation pile up around him like snowfall. He grew up in New Hampshire, outside […]

Currently residing in Madison Wisconsin, Nebraska native ERIC MILLER is a musician with unusually wide interests. He slips easily between genres, but as a performer his heart lives in the world of the 17th and 18th centuries, in particular music composed for the viola da gamba. This instrument, having seven strings and frets like a […]

APOLOGIES:  CANCELLED DUE TO HEALTH EMERGENCY VON STRANTZ/NATIVE LAND NATIVE LAND: musical nomadic husband & wife duo journey in search of their home land while writing songs for the people that they meet along the way from town to town and state to state. Native Land creates songs pulling from their strongest influences with the heart […]

SistaStrings are Milwaukee-based sisters who are using their gifts of music to creating social change. As classically trained instrumentalists (violin and cello), MONIQUE and CHAUNTEE ROSS are a dynamic, collaborative pair riffing on elements of classic and gospel music to create a unique sound rooted in passion. Their sound is soulful and fresh, a truly […]

THE RADIO WRANGLERS hail from Wisconsin and are heavily influenced by the sounds of the 1930's, 40's and 50's with influences ranging from Country and Western, Western Swing, and Honky Tonk. The band has had the pleasure of playing at Opryland in Nashville, and opening for such acts as Wayne Hancock and Carolyn Martin's Western Swing […]

THE BINDLESTIFFS are a remarkable collection of local musicians. Tom Waselchuk  (guitar) founded the band The Dang-Its, which have taken home a host of MAMA Awards, including 2014 Country/Bluegrass Album of the Year. Tom’s musical resume includes work with The Stone Oak Band, The Full Count Jazz Band, Chris Plata & Extra Hot, and Marcy […]

A bunch of people called last minute today, and the show is now SOLD OUT. If you called to reserve and do not intend to come to the show, please contact us to cancel your reservations. We will open at 5:30. What a great double-bill!!! SAM BAKER will make his Carpe debut, and DANNY SCHMIDT […]

Round robin song circle led by TRICIA ALEXANDER– (performer, poet, healer, “with a voice, music and lyrics that resonate the heart”) done informally, not from the stage, no microphones. This is a lovely gathering of singers, songwriters, musicians and music appreciators, poets, and storytellers held regularly on the last Thursday of each month (except sometimes). Traditional Round Robin […]

Ranked as the most influential dulcimer player of the last decade by readers of Dulcimer Player News, RICK THUM has made his mark on every aspect of the hammered dulcimer world. He will be sharing the night with STEPHEN  SEIFERT, the #1 mountain dulcimer player. Don't count on any dueling dulcimers. Rick is perhaps best known […]