BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Cafe Carpe - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Cafe Carpe 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:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220402T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220402T210000 DTSTAMP:20260416T180239 CREATED:20220330T230801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220330T230943Z UID:6860-1648926000-1648933200@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:Acoustic OPEN STAGE DESCRIPTION:Out of respect for others\, please wear masks if the space becomes crowded. \nThis is an acoustic open stage. Share your songs (or stories- storytellers welcome) in a 2-3 song rotation with others. \nPlease support our business by buying drink and/or food. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/acoustic-open-stage/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220408T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220408T223000 DTSTAMP:20260416T180239 CREATED:20210701T191059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220331T033509Z UID:6183-1649449800-1649457000@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:AN EVENING w/ SAM BAKER DESCRIPTION:NOTA BENE: If COVID is still on the loose\,  proof of vaccination and mask-wearing in the listening room will be required. \n“Simultaneously beautiful and broken…Sam Baker is an artist worth waiting for” – NPR All Things Considered \n“The Bard of the Workaday World” – Wall Street Journal \n“Maybe the most captivating songwriter in America.” – Lone Star Music\n​\n“Sam Baker is an island of warmth and hope in dangerous times.” – Neon Filler \n\n \n \n \n \n\nSam Baker is a lyric writer\, artist\, and survivor. His songs are stories of everyday people facing everyday challenges: a young Mennonite welder who finds love\, a ditch digger supporting his family\, a veteran grappling with post-war life\, a single mother driving around with a car full of baby junk\, a widower writing ‘her’ name in the sand\, and a straight-haired orphan in a house full of curls. They are survivors. Like Sam. \nIn 1986 Sam was on a train for Machu Picchu when a bomb exploded in the carriage he was riding in. Seven died. Through a series of miracles\, and the help of everyday people doing their best–his angels–he survived. \nPhysical recovery was hard.  Emotional recovery harder. Melody came to him–compelled him to turn an old guitar upside down so his gnarled hands could play. Slowly\, the words came–one true line–“Sitting on the train to Machu Picchu\, the passenger car explodes.”  He made a record. Then another. There were glowing reviews\, more records\, awards in Rolling Stone; sold-out shows in Europe\, Canada\, and the US; songs in TV shows; and an hour with Terry Gross on Fresh Air. Sam was a singer. \nSam uses his art to tell his story–whether from a symphony in Oregon\, an art gallery in Santa Fe\, a large theater in Kansas City\, a small room in The Netherlands\, or a song-writer retreat with soldiers. He travels the world sharing his songs\, grateful for each day\, helping us see the beauty in little things and hope for things to come. \n\n​ URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/sam-baker/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220409T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220409T220000 DTSTAMP:20260416T180239 CREATED:20220309T021750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T021750Z UID:6826-1649534400-1649541600@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:TODD ALBRIGHT DESCRIPTION:Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats. COVID protocol of proof of vaccination and mask wearing in listening is likely to still be in place.\n\nTODD ALBRIGHT is a country blues\, twelve string guitar player and vocalist based in Detroit\, Michigan. Grounded in the pre-war era of the blues tradition (1880-1939)\, Todd is a mindful purveyor of blues history. His repertoire upholds musical pillars such as Blind Willie McTell\, George Carter\, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Leadbelly. His life’s work continues the distinguished tradition of the very roots of American music as told by the African American musicians who created it. Todd joined Jack White’s Third Man records in 2016. \n\nTodd’s vigorous\, gritty and soulful performances are accompanied by stories of the masters and a deep intuitive sense of respect for craft\, providing audiences with a meaningful experience while creating a transcendent moment. One of the top blues guitarists in the world\, Todd is the only contemporary twelve string player in his genre. \nTodd began playing the blues while still a teenager\, some twenty-five years ago. Initially\, he was drawn to the sound of the finger-picked style and has since immersed himself in the foundational music and narratives of American culture. Over the years\, Todd has shared the stage with artists such as Roy Book Binder\, Charlie Parr\, Paul Geremia\, and Dakota Dave Hull. \nTodd’s first full-length LP\, Fourth Floor Visitor\, was released by Jett Plastic Recordings out of Detroit\, Michigan (2017). His latest album\, Detroit Twelve String: Blues & Rags\, is out now on Third Man Records (2017). \n\n\n\n\n\n“The character and emotional vibe of the performance are delicious…” Acoustic Guitar Magazine \n\n\n\n\n\n“…an explosion of acoustic wonder. Albright plays with heart\, daring\, and conviction.” American Blues Scene URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/todd-albright-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220414T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220414T210000 DTSTAMP:20260416T180239 CREATED:20220218T223348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220406T180810Z UID:6772-1649962800-1649970000@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:MARK HEMBREE BAND DESCRIPTION:Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats. \nATTENTION: re the coronavirus situation. The small space of the listening room prevents any reasonable distancing. For the safety of everyone\, and to protect the performers who cannot mask while performing\, we will be requiring: \n\n\nproof of vaccination\nmask wearing in the listening room\, (and recommending it in all of our spaces when not eating or drinking.)\n\nKeep checking for updates\, as circumstances could require further measures\, or even cancellation. \n\nHembree’s band combines powerful vocals and hot picking to bring a new sound to the bluegrass stage. Featuring MARK HEMBREE\, PAUL KIENITZ\, STARR MOSS\, and MICHAEL FALK. \nMark Hembree started his music career in Wisconsin in the 1970s\, and before long was hosting a live radio show from the Glenmore Opera House near Green Bay. After a couple of years in Denver with the Monroe Doctrine\, he returned to Wisconsin briefly before an audition at a local festival netted a job with Country Music Hall of Fame legend Bill Monroe\, the Father of Bluegrass Music. \nHe became a Blue Grass Boy in 1979 and worked with Monroe for five years\, then was one of the founding members of the Nashville Bluegrass Band. While in Nashville he recorded with several well-known artists\, including the all-star band Dreadful Snakes (with Jerry Douglas\, Béla Fleck\, Roland White\, Blaine Sprouse\, and Pat Enright) and Peter Rowan (on the Grammy-nominated album “New Moon Rising”). \nHe returned once again to Wisconsin in 1989\, played with local bluegrass groups the Rounders and Nob Hill Boys\, and Western swing bands the Western Box Turtles (including Asleep at the Wheel steel guitarist Eddie Rivers) and his own group\, the Best Westerns. \nAdditionally\, he has appeared as a guest lecturer and instructor at various music workshops\, seminars\, and film presentations\, as well as in Bill Monroe tribute shows on “A Prairie Home Companion” and at North Carolina’s MerleFest (performing with Del McCoury\, Roland White\, Blake Williams\, Peter Rowan\, and Bobby Hicks). He also appears in the feature-length documentary film “Powerful: Bill Monroe Remembered\,” directed by Joe Gray and produced by the International Bluegrass Music Museum. \n \nAt Mark’s side; Paul Kienitz\, well-versed in traditional bluegrass fiddling\, has performed and recorded with a number of fine Wisconsin bands\, including the Nob Hill Boys\, where he first met up with Mark Hembree\, resulting in future bands and projects. He was the featured fiddler in a special “Blue Grass Boys Reunion” Bill Monroe tribute featuring mandolin virtuoso Mike Compton and Blue Grass Boy alumni Bob Black\, Tom Ewing and Mark Hembree. The go-to fiddler in the Badger State\, he and Hembree are longtime partners in crime. \nGuitarist and singer Starr Moss spent nearly four years with the Chicago-based Henhouse Prowlers\, traveling in the U.S. and abroad. Two U.S. State Department tours afforded the opportunity to perform and collaborate with local musicians in Russia\, Mauritania\, Zambia\, Nigeria\, and Uganda. Other musical highlights include performances at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music and the International Bluegrass Music Association’s annual conventions. Starr’s fiery solos and solid rhythm power the ensemble.\nOn banjo is Michael Falk\, a hard-driving traditional banjo style and agile lead and harmony vocalist. His versatile playing serves well whether it’s a high-speed breakdown\, old-time fiddle tune\, or lonesome ballad. Michael has been playing with the Squirrel Gravy Bluegrass Band for the past four years after relocating to Madison from Ohio for graduate studies at UW Madison. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/mark-hembree-band-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220415T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220415T210000 DTSTAMP:20260416T180239 CREATED:20220415T184127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T184705Z UID:6915-1650049200-1650056400@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:ACOUSTIC OPEN STAGE DESCRIPTION:Impromptu decision- \nOut of respect for others\, please wear masks if the space becomes crowded. \nThis is an acoustic open stage. \nShare your songs (or stories- storytellers welcome) in a two song rotation with others\, being respectful of the time if songs are long. \nPlease support our business by buying drink and/or food. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/acoustic-open-stage-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220423T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220423T220000 DTSTAMP:20260416T180239 CREATED:20220204T200114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220421T015656Z UID:6742-1650744000-1650751200@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:JEFF STEHR/ MARK SORIANO/ ELIZA HANSON DESCRIPTION:This is a date rescheduled  from COVID-intense January.   \nPlease call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats. Proof of vaccination will be requested.  Mask wearing optional. This is supposed to be a warm day\, allowing us to have some upper windows open for air exchange. \nIt is not surprising that JEFF STEHR\, a twenty-first century\, glass half-empty cognoscenti songwriter from Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, enjoys stage names. Hunter Gatherer. Matthew McCudahy. Rich Caramel. In dark times\, entertainers need more than melodies and rhymes to conjure up the good times.The songs are mostly wordplay atop a bed of Jamaican one drop rhythms\, explicit and implied\, and dusted with powdered sugar\, cocoa and diatonic doom. All styles and influences are on the menu. All genres are accomplices. \nWhen he’s not doing solo shows\, Jeff plays the piano with The Best Westerns. \nELIZA HANSON knows how to smooth out life’s ups and downs by covering them with melody and charm. After releasing her first EP in 2016\, she has been very fortunate to enjoy acclaimed success around the Milwaukee area playing stages such as Turner Hall\, Milwaukee PrideFest\, Evanston SPACE\, The Frequency\, among many other venues. After a postponed 2020 tour\, Eliza got back on the road in 2021 bringing her music to places it’s never been before\, collecting new stories and friends along the way. Now home\, she’s gearing up to get back in the studio to record a full length record sure to combine the honesty of a traditional singer/songwriter\, mixed with an indie folk flare to project a style all her own. Eliza blends soulful vocals with carefully crafted lyrics to create an emotionally authentic listening environment. \nOver the last decade\, MARK J. SORIANO has played for many of Milwaukee’s favorite bands like Dropbear Collective\, The Oxleys\, Fellow Kinsman and The Hatchets. When the world shut down in 2020\, Mark stepped out of the drummer’s role and began recording as a solo artist\, releasing a handful singles and now his debut EP\, So Strange. As a Milwaukee native\, Mark not only pulls inspiration from folk\, country and alternative rock\, but from the unique experiences of the city itself. \n“This song and the entire EP were recorded over quarantine and was my way of dealing with everything. Like many other people\, I fell hard into my vices so all of the songs helped me reflect and ultimately\, turn things around. Music has always pulled me out of the dark and I hope these songs can help someone else.”-Mark \nUntil Dec. 13th\, all sales from this single\, made on bandcamp will be donated to the Safe Harbor Program at the Milwaukee Rescue Mission. The program is dedicated to helping men break free from addictions and provides both long-term and short term services. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/jeff-stehr-mark-soriano-eliza-hanson-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220426T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220426T213000 DTSTAMP:20260416T180239 CREATED:20220316T012415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220421T002826Z UID:6840-1651001400-1651008600@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:MARK HUMMEL and BLUES SURVIVORS DESCRIPTION:Ticket link is below the bio.  COVID precautions (proof of vaccination and wearing of masks in listening room) may still be in place.  Updates will be posted a couple of days before the show.  Call if you have concerns. \nMARK HUMMEL and BLUES SURVIVORS w/Rusty Zinn\, Billy Flynn\, Randy Bermudes\, and Wes Starr. \n“this is a rare pairing of guitarists Rusty Zinn & Grammy winner Billy Flynn with the amazing rhythm section of Wes Starr( drums) & Randy Bermudes (bass). Top it off with Grammy Nominee\, two-time Blues Award winner Mark Hummel on harp & vocals and you have one of the heaviest blues bands on the planet!!!” \nMark Hummel\, Rusty\, Billy\, Wes & Randy’s resumes include touring and recording with Asleep at the Wheel\, Fabulous Thunderbirds \, James Cotton\, Otis Rush\, Jimmy Rogers\, Jimmy Vaughn\, Snooky Pryor\, Kim Wilson\, Delbert McClinton\, Marsha Ball\, Brownie McGhee\, Charlie Musselwhite\, Charles Brown\, Eddie Taylor\, Legendary Blues Band\, Luther Tucker\, Jimmy Dawkins\, Omar and the Howlers\, Anson Funderburgh and many more.\n\nVideo:  https://youtu.be/8k85RXyeWYY\n“Hummel\, a specialist in West Coast Blues\, knows a thing or two about about how to please an audience” – New Yorker \n“Hummel plays the harmonica with the fat\, full sound that made Little Walter sound almost like a saxophonist rather than a harp man”.  -Chicago Sun-Times \n“Mark Hummel is a Harmonica Virtuoso. He is one of a handful of the Best Players ever on the Instrument”. – Blues Revue Magazine URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/mark-hummel-blues-survivors/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220428T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220428T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T180239 CREATED:20220318T211243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T211533Z UID:6851-1651170600-1651177800@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:SONG CIRCLE w/ TRICIA ALEXANDER DESCRIPTION: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 somewhat regularly on the last Thursday of each month (unless interrupted by a pandemic). \nTraditional 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 or from anyone in the circle. \nEveryone is welcome to attend. $5 cover for musicians and audience. Come early and have a bite to eat- therein lies our sustenance. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/song-circle-w-tricia-alexander-46/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220429T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220429T223000 DTSTAMP:20260416T180239 CREATED:20220406T195854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220406T201205Z UID:6871-1651264200-1651271400@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:MATT SAYLES & the DRIFTLESS REVELERS DESCRIPTION:Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats. \nCOVID precautions may still be in place\, so be prepared to show proof of vaccination and to wear a mask in the listening room. \nTHE DRIFTLESS REVELERS formed in the second spring of the first global pandemic of the 21st century\, with one ear turned toward the shellac platters and Victrola virtuosos of the early to mid 20th century\, and the other ear glued to the soundscapes of the 1960’s & 1970’s American freak-folk scene. \n​Featuring the original songwriting of Ben Nelson\, Matthew R. Sayles\, and Jerod Kaszynski\, the Driftless Revelers will pleasure a crowd with plectral banjo tones\, the mournful wailing of resophonic steel guitars\, and the up-right bass bellows of an era that can’t quite be defined\, but revels in the timeless ephemera of weird old-time American music. \n​With influences as varied and eccentric as a proper musty smelling thrift store record collection\, the band grooves merrily through early roots blues and jazz music\, to hillbilly and string band howlers\, all the way into the not-quite folk but not-quite psychedelic realms of their own creation. \n​A Driftless Revelers show will lure you in with their joy–keep you dancing with their search for the cosmic groove in the confines of stringed instruments–and will send you on your way with flashbacks of the Driftless Revelery found only in the essence of the intangible reaches of notes once played– that then fall silent. \nPlease call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/matt-sayles-the-driftless-revelers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220430T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220430T210000 DTSTAMP:20260416T180239 CREATED:20220412T005757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T140538Z UID:6903-1651348800-1651352400@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:BILL CAMPLIN w/ MICHAEL HECHT DESCRIPTION:Michael will do readings from Herman Melville (Billy Budd)\,  Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughter House Five)\, Quentin Crisp\, and William Golding (Lord of the Flies) \nBill will provide appropriate musical interludes. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/bill-camplin-w-michael-hecht-2/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR