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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 by […]

A surprise addition to our schedule: "FISH FRY: COMEDY, OPERA and a SECRET RECIPE, a collaboration of two talented Madison-based companies, TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater and Fresco Opera Theatre. It’s Guys on Ice meets Chopped for A Night at the Opera. In this production, Sal, host of the best fish fry on Lake Cattywompus, announces a […]

Now Boston-based, these Midwesterners return home for a family reunion and seize the opportunity to perform here. THE BOSTON IMPOSTERS are Maire Clement and Davey Harrison. Davey is a string musician. Hailing from England, he plays mandolin, guitar, and banjo. A classically trained singer, he mainly uses his voice to perform his own contemporary folk […]

Seventeen years ago ROD PICOTT dropped his tool belt, picked up an acoustic guitar and released his first album Tiger Tom Dixon’s Blues. The acclaimed debut put a nail in the coffin of his construction career and ignited his second career as a singer-songwriter. July 19th 2019 finds Rod releasing his eleventh album, titled Tell […]

Tickets will be sold through Brown Paper Tickets.  Click on Buy tickets to get yourself some: PIPER ROAD is: Randal Harrison – Fiddle Bob Mason – Mandolin Mark Hembree — Bass Barry Riese — Guitar – Vocals Bill Kangaroo — Washboard Piper Road was born into the age of rock & roll with individual backgrounds diverse […]

SCOTT AINSLIE  has studied with elder musicians on both sides of the color line – in the Old-Time Southern Appalachian fiddle and banjo traditions, as well as Black Gospel and Blues. He plays this music with affection, authority, and power. Armed with a variety of instruments – vintage guitars, a fretless gourd banjo, a one-string, homemade […]

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, like this time, […]

An unexpected show just fell in our lap.  The talented Nashville songwriter BEN DE LA COUR would otherwise have been wandering aimlessly after a gig cancellation, so we lassoed him into performing here. There may even be a surprise guest. or two. What happens when the unstoppable force of our dreams meets the immovable object […]

SPOOK HANDY performed alongside Pete Seeger at festivals and concerts more than 50 times from 2003 – 2013 learning firsthand many of Pete’s songs and the stories behind them. Even more, he learned who Pete Seeger was and what he stood for. Spook is now traveling throughout the U.S. and Canada with his “Remembering Pete […]

Use the Buy tickets link below to get your seats.  The link will take you to Brown Paper Tickets website. More than four decades have passed since STEVE FORBERT made his way to New York City from his Meridian, Mississippi birthplace in quest of a career in music. It was the most unlikely time and […]

Musically, ROY BOOK BINDER is equally difficult to fence in or categorize. His eclectic repertoire includes blues, country tunes, bluegrass, folk, and popular songs that originated on Tin Pan Alley. He fantasizes that if he had been born 50 years earlier, he would have become a minstrel man. One of his musical heroes, Dave Van […]