Cafe Carpe

Please call to reserve seats and to indicate whether you will eat here this night. Singer, songwriter DAN MAGUIRE 's style is the product of a slow cook alchemy that started in Tulsa, OK. Steeped in the Southern style rock and roll, and country music popular at the time, and in that area, he gravitated […]

A lovely in-the-round song swap with JIM CRAIG,  MARK DVORAK, and BILL CAMPLIN should make for a fantastic evening of music and camaraderie. Ticket link follows bios. JIM CRAIG came of age during the folk boom, “listening to Pete Seeger and Dave Van Ronk, but also more obscure musicians like Dock Boggs and Pink Anderson, folks who were […]

A SAMHAIN CONCERT with Music, Poetry & Folklore celebrating the Ancient Celtic Bonfire Festival of Winter with FOUR SHILLINGS SHORT:  Four Shillings Short, the husband/wife duo of Aodh Og O’Tuama from Cork, Ireland and Christy Martin from California, bring together music, stories and folklore from the Celtic lands to celebrate the Ancient Celtic Bonfire festival of […]

BAD POSTURE CLUB is a Minneapolis-based folk duo made up of Maren Day and Morgan Kavanagh. Their songwriting explores themes of home-places, memory, and family. Purposefully open and sparse, they craft intricate and experimental harmonies with their two voices, banjo, guitar, and a 100 year old portable pump organ. Bad Posture Club invites the listener […]

LEE KANEHIRA & The Chicago Blues Piano Trio CD release party!  They will be joined by special guest Joe Nosek, harmonica player from the Cash Box Kings. Bio follows ticket link. Lee was The winner of 2018 Chicago Blues Piano Contest and also was a featured artist for the Otis Span Tribute concert at the […]

The 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. His small town roots, tilled with city streets mentality, are turning […]

more to come Hailing from Cork in the south of Ireland, award-winning songwriter and much sought-after guitarist PATSY O’BRIEN is renowned for his ability to meld songwriting and guitar styles seamlessly. It’s a trait that caught the attention of NPR who featured his arrangement of The Star Of The County Down (see below) on their All Songs […]

Jim and Steve have been working together as a duo since 2017, performing at Summerfest, the Harley-Davidson Museum complex, and other area venues. JIM OHLSCHMIDT is a Sheboygan native who began playing guitar in the late 1960s. His musical career began with the release of his debut album, Behind The Eye, in 1977. Since then […]

ELLIS PAUL   doesn’t just write songs; he’s a guitar-carrying reporter who covers the human condition and details the hopes, loves, losses of those he observes, turning their stories into luminous pieces of music that get under your skin and into your bloodstream. And much like the artists who have influenced him, everyone from Joni Mitchell, […]

TIM GRIMM is a bit of a Renaissance man in the performing arts world, forging a rich and varied career that blends his love of songwriting, travel, and acting in theatre, film and television. For most of his 25-year career as a storytelling balladeer in the tradition of John Prine, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Tim […]