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:20221104T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221104T230000 DTSTAMP:20260610T230553 CREATED:20220916T165422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220916T165422Z UID:7319-1667593800-1667602800@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:CHICAGO FARMER DESCRIPTION:Buy ticket link lower on the page.  \n“Chicago Farmer represents the best qualities of Midwestern U.S.A. His lyrics\, his stories and his heart are true. He’ll give you that feeling of ‘going home’. He’ll make you want to say all those things you’ve been meaning to say but were too afraid. At the same time his songs can make you ask yourself some deep questions. His songs give you hope. If you didn’t know him I believe just his voice would make you believe every word he says. Definitely one of my favorite singers out there today.”– Pokey LaFarge \n“You can smell the dirt in the fields\, hear the wind as it blows across the plains\, and see the people that Chicago Farmer sings about. Each track captures a moment in time\, whether for a person or a particular place. Imagine if a John Steinbeck short story had been written as a song\, and this will give you a fairly good idea as to what the Chicago Farmer accomplishes on his albums.” – Honest Tune \n“I love Chicago Farmer’s singing and playing and songs\, but it’s the intention behind the whole of his work that moves me to consider him the genuine heir to Arlo Guthrie or Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. He knows the shell game that goes on under folk music… which is sacred to me. Chicago Farmer is my brother; if you like me\, you’ll love him.”- Todd Snider \n\n \n \n \n \nThe son of a small town farming community\, Cody Diekhoff logged plenty of highway and stage time under the name CHICAGO FARMER before settling in the city in 2003. Profoundly inspired by fellow midwesterner John Prine\, he’s a working-class folk musician to his core. \n“I love the energy\, music\, and creativity of Chicago\, but at the same time\, the roots and hard work of my small town\,” he shares. Growing up in Delavan\, Illinois\, with a population less than 2\,000\, Diekhoff’s grandparents were farmers\, and their values have always provided the baseline of his songs. \nHe writes music for “the kind of people that come to my shows. Whether in Chicago or Delavan\, everyone has a story\, and everyone puts in a long day and works hard the same way\,” he says. “My generation may have been labeled as slackers\, but I don’t know anyone who doesn’t work hard – many people I know put in 50-60 hours a week and 12 hour days. That’s what keeps me playing. I don’t like anyone to be left out; my music is for everyone in big and very small towns.” \nHe listened to punk rock and grunge as a kid before discovering a friend’s dad playing Hank Williams\, and it was a revelation. Prine and Guthrie quickly followed. The name Chicago Farmer was originally for a band\, but the utilitarian life of driving alone from bar to bar\, city to city – to make a direct connection to his audience and listener\, took a deeper hold. \n  \n“This is not your average ‘man with guitar.’ Chicago Farmer’s approach to solo folk music is traditional\, but his soul & energy are uncommonly powerful. Arriving with his classic acoustic guitar style is a voice smooth but broken-in that sounds wise beyond its years. He will stomp out a beat in leather boots to drive home a point and throw down a handsome harmonica solo to put a song over the top. The songs are about the places he’s been and the people he’s met\, so local ideas are abound in this music from the heart.”- CBS Chicago \n  URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/chicago-farmer-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221105T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221105T230000 DTSTAMP:20260610T230553 CREATED:20220718T171336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221102T130847Z UID:7145-1667680200-1667689200@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:ANNA TIVEL TRIO/ Christopher Porterfield of Field Report DESCRIPTION:“Singer-songwriters are often called poets. In truth\, only a few deliver the deep insight and sense of the new that breaking through the predictable achieves. Anna Tivel is one.” NPR\, Ann Powers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Everything here is testament to her storytelling gifts (she’s been likened to Steinbeck and I suspect she may have a novel or short stories collection in her) with her finely drawn characters and observations of an emotional life that ranges from defiance to regret\, joy to sadness.” — Folk Radio UK \n\n\n\nBio follows ticket link. \n\n \n \n \n \nOregon-based songwriter ANNA TIVEL’s newest album Outsiders starts with a lens so wide that we have left the planet to look back from a great distance at the turmoil and beauty of our shared humanity. From there\, the lens pulls close and unfolds in a gripping collection of stories so often ignored. Tivel’s flawed and honest characters move through a landscape of hurt and loss\, of small triumph and big love. In 11 songs full of recognition\, veracity and hope\, Tivel’s watchful and empathetic eye details the undeniable ache of living. \nOutsiders\, look up / The night is dark but brilliant and it turns out we are not so different \nRecorded almost entirely live to tape in Rock Island\, IL with producer and multi-instrumentalist Shane Leonard and engineer Brian Joseph (Bon Iver\, Sufjan Stevens)\, the album is a truly collaborative exploration. Tivel gathered the same vibrant group of friends from her acclaimed record\, The Question\, which NPR heralded as “one of the most ambitious folk records of 2019.” \n“We holed up together in a little house a few miles from the studio\,” she says\, “walked there every day to sink deep into the music. No one had heard the songs beforehand\, and I would play each one sitting on the floor trying to convey the gut feeling. Then we’d face each other in a circle and feel our way through\, working to find the heart of each song in a few takes. Shane brings this layer of uninhibited magic to every session\, setting the stage for everyone to listen deep and react with open doors. He gives himself as fully to sonic atmosphere as I do to words and I have a great amount of trust in his vision and admiration for the care he takes with the world of each song.” \nWhile writing the album in 2019-20\, Tivel found herself circling back again and again to this idea of otherness. “The deep division and ugly rhetoric being amplified–especially in the US–seeped into everything I wrote. I kept wanting to explore this feeling of being unseen\, profoundly lonely and disconnected\, and how it affects our perception of the world and our place in it\,” she says. “Outsiders is an album about looking more deeply into ourselves and each other\, really trying to see and examine the internal and external forces that keep us from connecting in real ways and the forces that draw us together.” \nThroughout her work\, Tivel has emphasized storytelling and this album is no exception\, building on the strength of her ability to observe and reflect with a clear-eyed empathy. Inspired by authors from Steinbeck to Morrison\, Didion to Dubus\, she imbues her songs with attentive detail and a dreamlike quality that leaves the ordinary feeling both palpable and poetic. “Tivel’s characters are common but unforgettable\,” NPR’s Ann Powers writes\, “Her images linger\, and become populated with the energy of the real.” \nOutsiders will be released by Mama Bird Recording Co. on August 19th. \nHundreds of thousands of miles away\, the endless expanse of a dream / Pausing the burning of cities to say we are beautiful when we believe \nAll this\, plus CHRIS PORTERFIELD of Field Report opens! URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/anna-tivel-trio-christopher-porterfield-of-field-report/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221111T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221111T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T230553 CREATED:20221019T190422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T192244Z UID:7439-1668198600-1668205800@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:MARK HEMBREE BAND DESCRIPTION:Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats and to indicate whether you are likely to eat here this evening.\nThe MARK HEMBREE BAND\nMark Hembree -bass\, Trent Cuthbert -guitar/mando\, Paul Kienitz -fiddle\, Michael Falk -banjo\nIt’s straight-ahead\, traditional bluegrass: hot picking\, solid rhythm\, tight harmonies\, good humor\, and a wealth of great stories make for an enjoyable show anytime you see the Mark Hembree Band.About That HembreeMark Hembree started his music career in Wisconsin in the 1970s\, and before long he 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. He 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”). He returned 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.Additionally\, Hembree 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.The Band\nAs experienced journeymen of the WI bluegrass scene scene\, Paul Kienitz\, Michael Falk and Trent Cuthbert (New Pioneers\, Nob Hill Boys\, Sweet Grass\, Squirrel Gravy\, Dance Around Molly\, etc.)…you can count on solid back-up\, a unique blend of driving classics\, original songs and masterly instrumentals that support the bands sound. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/mark-hembree-band-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221112T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221112T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T230553 CREATED:20220913T025858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221102T200800Z UID:7293-1668285000-1668292200@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:LUKE CALLEN BAND/ Old Pup DESCRIPTION:LUKE CALLEN  \nAt the intersection of Harry Smith’s Old Weird America – the songs of heartworn highways – and the tumult of today you can find the music of Luke Callen.  The songs – equal parts tragic comedy and hopeless reverie – paint a picture of the places and people that make up his earthly home.  A poet – a player – a folk singer – Luke has traversed his country unraveling tall tales – short tunes and all that’s hidden underneath. Full bio below ticket info. \n\n \n \n \n \nOriginally from the river town of La Crosse\, Wisconsin – the heart of the Driftless Region on the Mississippi River – and currently lives in Minneapolis\, Minnesota by way of Colorado  Luke brings his humble sense of humor and humanity wherever he may go.  His last two solo albums – I’ll Take it With Me (2017) and below your knows (2019) – reach from the ethereal to the eternally real – whimsical walks in the out of doors to hopelessness and heartache and all the in betweens. \nLuke has played hundreds of shows spanning both coasts\, the American west\, south and heartland.  He has had the opportunity to provide support for Dom Flemons\, Dead Horses\, The Dustbowl Revival\, Kacy & Clayton\, James McMurtry\, Whiskey Shivers\, Charlie Parr\, The Lowest Pair\, The Last Revel\, Lilly Hiatt\, Chicago Farmer\, and Robbie Fulks among others – You can follow his travels on Facebook – Instagram or in real actual life. \n“No dog ever eats Luke Callen’s homework. He does it all. He turns it in ahead of time. Not for a grade. Not for extra credit. It’s his work and he’s good at it.  Poet. Singer. Player. Just listen. First he captures your attention. You want to make comparisons with the giants whose shoulders he stood on. But don’t. He’s plenty tall enough in his own bare feet and his shoulders are wide enough to hold up the next batch of poets\, singers\, players. Keep listening. Now he captures your imagination. Luke is the hitch-hiker who picks you up. Get in. Toss your bindle in the back. Have you got a couple bucks for gas? No matter. He’s going take you all around the world.  Pay attention. He’s going to show you everything that’s in it. And it’s right Below Your Knows.” \n-Eddie Allen \n“Take heed\, take heed\, Luke Callen has a great new song “a walk out of doors” from his upcoming album\, Below Your Knows. An album built out of the roots that once was American folk music. It’s simple\, earthy\, and raw.  “A walk out of doors” is the first track off the album and it is nothing short of a masterpiece.  It’s beautiful and gritty. I don’t know if it’s the tonal quality of the resonator\, or Callen’s vocals\, but I could listen to this song ten thousand times and never grow tired.  The lyrics paint a beautiful picture\, the resonator places you within the picture\, and Callen’s voice makes it so you never want to leave. I feel like I’m sitting down around a campfire listening to Callen as if he’s right there in front of me. It’s incredibly intimate and I want nothing more than to witness him performing the song live.” \n– lttlbrthr \nMilwaukee band OLD PUP opens. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/luke-callen-band/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221117T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221117T203000 DTSTAMP:20260610T230553 CREATED:20221029T212920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221029T213030Z UID:7456-1668709800-1668717000@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-51/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221118T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221118T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T230553 CREATED:20221013T005219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T140822Z UID:7417-1668803400-1668810600@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:ERIK KOSKINEN/ LONG MAMA- SOLD OUT DESCRIPTION:Looking forward to a great night with 2 great acts.  LONG MAMA had to cancel their last gig due to COVID\, so this will be their first shot at the Carpe.  ERIK\, who produced their new record\, is a seasoned Carper. \nLONG MAMA: Songwriter Kat Wodtke leads Andrew Koenig and Nick Lang (Ryan Necci & the Buffalo Gospel)\, along with Samuel Odin (Horseshoes & Hand Grenades)\, on a haunting journey of wide-open spaces and tight spots\, each song blistering with heart and grit. \n​With a penchant for the theatrical\, Wodtke’s songs weave tall and not-so-tall tales of mountain manhunts\, doomed honeymoons\, stalled engines\, and gravel roads into an experience as captivating as the landscapes she’s traveled. Her longtime love affair with classic country\, folk\, Americana\, R&B\, and punk music braids each into Long Mama’s singular sound. \nPoor Pretender\, Long Mama’s debut LP out October 28\, was engineered by Erik Koskinen and recorded live over a long\, snowy weekend in small-town Minnesota. The album showcases the band’s particular ability to conjure the beautiful in the broken\, the silver in the ore. Shimmering below the surface of each song is Wodtke’s lived insight into our human faults and fissures: the moments in life when we can slip and lose our footing…or claw our way out\, better people on the other side of the canyon. \nA blend of American folk\, country\, rock-n-roll\, and blues\, ERIK KOSKINEN realizes a sound that is distinctive and fresh while familiar and classic. Erik has recently released Burning The Deal on Real Phonic Records/Tone Tree Music. The “Big Plane” video clip features Amelia Fleetwood (daughter of Mick) and the track is out now. \nKoskinen’s albums are a lyrical and musical metaphor of America’s theaters of war\, history\, relationships\, and reflections in the mirror. Burning The Deal was produced by Koskinen and Bernie Larsen (Melissa Etheridge\, Jackson Browne) and recorded by Jason Mariani (Mumford & Sons\, Kenny Loggins) at Brotheryn Studios in Ojai\, California. \nKnowing but not didactic\, Koskinen channels the ways of Whitman and reverently enters the anthology of uniquely crafted wry songs with the likes of Woody Guthrie and Ry Cooder while speaking as plainly as your neighbor. The Minneapolis Star Tribune calls Koskinen “the real deal” and “the best country songwriter in Minnesota.” \nKoskinen just completed a tour out west with frequent collaborator Jeffrey Foucault. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/erik-koskinen-long-mama/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221119T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221119T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T230553 CREATED:20220913T030059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221119T231240Z UID:7314-1668889800-1668897000@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:MIKE DOWLING- DESCRIPTION:So excited to have the fabulous Mike back in our country and our room. \nMIKE DOWLING \n“Dowling is one of the most relaxed and highly skilled acoustic guitar players of his generation that I have ever heard. Everything he performs appears natural and deceptively effortless and with a tone\, particularly when he plays slide guitar that is very much his own and that very few others can emulate. His vocals have an engaging edge and alongside his consummate guitar skills there was nothing to criticize. After a number of encores a member of the audience spontaneously stood up and gave a heartfelt thanks to Mike for such a wonderful evening.”  – Blues in Britain\, performance review \nMike digs deep into the musical bag of American roots guitar\, favoring the melodic Piedmont style of acoustic blues masters like Mississippi John Hurt and slide great Tampa Red. But Mike can’t be pigeonholed as a blues player\, or even as a fingerstylist. From bottleneck blues to vintage jazz and much more in between\, Mike’s musicality\, depth\, and mastery of the instrument translates fluently to flattop\, archtop\, and resonator guitars alike. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/mike-dowling-5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221125T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221125T230000 DTSTAMP:20260610T230553 CREATED:20220907T235911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221001T030653Z UID:7289-1669406400-1669417200@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:LOST SOULS DESCRIPTION:the new tradition of the newly-plated LOST SOULS playing the day after Thanksgiving \n Buy tickets following bio \nAmericana\, folk\, blues and humor (intentional & otherwise…)\, this could be the band for you.  Is it true they’ve won multiple awards and are incredibly good looking?  Is it true they are masters of their instruments and on-stage behavior?  Well\, no – but you might enjoy them anyway. \nThe Lost Souls (previously known as What’s His Name & Some Other Guys\, Syd Hartha & the Monkeyminds\, & Devil in the Outhouse) clearly have identity issues – but then again\, doesn’t the whole damn country these days?  I mean – do any of us know who we really are?  Which is precisely why an evening of music\, frivolity\, and drinking may be just what you need. \nGreg on too many guitars and vocals.  Looper on harmonica\, lead guitar and vocals. Kenny on the upright bass. URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/the-lost-souls/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221126T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221126T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T230553 CREATED:20220913T030551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T040435Z UID:7316-1669494600-1669501800@cafecarpe.com SUMMARY:HAYWARD WILLIAMS/ Paul Mitch DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets below bios. \nHAYWARD WILLIAMS is a veteran singer/songwriter from Milwaukee\, WI. With seven full length records under his belt\, Williams is set to release his latest effort: Every Color Blue.  A Soul record of the highest order in a time when Soul is needed the most. \nGrowing up in Wisconsin in the 80’s and 90’s convinced Hayward Williams to search for something more out there in the world. Foregoing higher education\, he joined a band and learned much about what to do and what not to do in the Midwest music scene. Playing in pubs for many years \, getting thick skin and finding a notably sharp tongue\, avenues opened up to Williams. Headlining European tours\, major US festivals and a few trips to Australia later\, Hayward has carved out an impressive niche in the folk music business. \nWilliams’ The Reef\, was produced by venerated songwriter\, friend and collaborator Jeffrey Foucault. Utilizing an impressive rhythm section of Billy Conway (Morphine) on drums and Jeremy Moses Curtis (Booker T\, Levon Helm\, Session Americana) on bass\, The Reef is an unequaled Americana record with soaring vocals and hooks that dig in deep. “The surprisingly soulful voice of Milwaukee-based singer/songwriter Hayward Williams emanates from a slight\, almost unassuming figure\, yet that voice is imbued with so much power\, it’s difficult to imagine it coming from anywhere other than midway between Memphis and Muscle Shoals… The Reef is an album to return to again and again.” – Allan Wilkinson\, Northern Sky Magazine (UK) \nEvery Color Blue was slated to be recorded in Chicago during the spring of 2020. Obviously\, that didn’t happen. With musicians spread across the country in lockdown\, changes had to be made. Music making became a therapeutic exercise for those stuck in a world where everything else had come to a halt.  Eight original tunes and four songs written by dear friends\, Jeffrey Foucault\, Kris Delmhorst\, J. Hardin and John Statz\, make up the whole of this soulful revue. Jeremy Moses Curtis (Bass/Producer)\, Charlie Koltak (Drums) and Brooks Milgate (Keys) are the backbone of this impressive line-up of friends and collaborators who were let off the chain to create something that is truly missing in the new world we live in\, Soul. \nPraise for Hayward’s previous release: Pretenders  “Often dark\, always honest and in the groove\, Williams continues to break new ground in new traditional folk rock. There’s a ghostly spirit that floats through the songs on “Pretenders.” Williams is a wary caretaker of those spirits. His songs brim with the smoke and mirror lyricism of Leonard Cohen—with the rocker’s heart of Neil Young.”  -Andy Moore ISTHMUS (Madison\, WI) \nPAUL MITCH is a multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer in southern Wisconsin. Paul is a seasoned veteran of both the studio and the stage\, cutting his teeth as a freelance engineer and performer in Chicago and throughout the midwest. In addition to his solo work\, Paul is half of midwest folk-americana group Lost Lakes with fellow songwriter Corey Mathew Hart. Paul’s latest album “Echoes & Shadows” has been dubbed “ a well-worn\, contemplative piece of Americana” with lyrics that “paint a narrative tied to turbulence” by Tone Madison. \n\n \n \n \n \n  URL:https://cafecarpe.com/event/hayward-williams-paul-mitch/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR