Cafe Carpe

Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats and to let us know if you will dine here that night. Lonesome Bill Camplin greets spring. to be held along with a meat raffle

Ticket link will follow the bios. LONG MAMA Long Mama’s music blisters with the heart and grit of someone who has lost hard, loved harder, and licked her burns until they stung then silvered. In a drafty attic just west of the Milwaukee River she grew up on, you’ll find songwriter KAT WODTKE (Wood-key) raking […]

Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats, and indicate whether you are likely to dine here that evening. “Hearkening back to the traditional folk duos of the 1950s and 1960s, The Boston Imposters represent the genre at its most pure: two capable voices, supported by sparse-yet-effective instrumentation, working together to earnestly share stories anyone can relate […]

SISTASTRINGS.  Need I say more? .  CHAUNTEE ROSS (violin & vocals) & MONIQUE ROSS (cello and vocals) said they wanted to play here again. We thought about it for a while, and said yes, just because they are the bomb diggity.

Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats, and to indicate whether you are likely to eat here that night. This will be a great song swap with three Milwaukee ish songwriters, since Bill was once one. Songwriter, singer and guitarist John Sieger has a long resume. His band the R&B Cadets ruled the dance floors in […]

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 […]

Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats and to let us know if you will be dining with us this night. Although there are many guitarists who are exceptionally gifted at playing guitar, MICHAEL GULEZIAN (gu-LAY-ze-in), by contrast, has distinguished himself with his music – boundary-free, horizon-expanding, genre-bending, transcendent, soulful, kickass, mind-opening, emotionally imbued, exquisitely gorgeous […]

Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats and let us know if you are likely to eat here this night. THE 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 […]