Description from the band: Brian Lucus (Looper) leads fellow FIENDS Bill Kangaroo, Bob Mason, Mark Hembree, and Mike Schmidt to the Listening Room @ the historic Café Carpe. Special Guests are expected. Showtime is at 8 pm if everyone comes early enough to get fed by that time.

Two acts new to the Carpe will share the evening. Ticket link on the way An evening with CROWES PASTURE is both intimate and expansive, a masterful blend of luminous harmonies, banjo and guitar textures, and story-driven songwriting rooted in the American folk tradition. Twice nominated as “Roots Act of the Year” by the New […]

LIV LAFLUV is a midwestern musicmaker. She reaches into an imperfect world and spins beautiful yarns full of adventure, heartbreak, humor, and hopeful promise.  Her voice draws you in with its effortless dynamic range and will tear your heart out while making you laugh.  She has a fire in her belly and a twinkle in […]

Stone Oak Reunion Concert!     Ticket link follows bio. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Stone Oak Bluegrass Band crisscrossed the upper Midwest — from the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan, from the Illinois border to the far reaches of the North Woods — delighting hundreds… thousands… perhaps even tens of thousands with […]

Chicago Blues Hall of Fame, music legend CORKY SIEGEL, and Jazz violinist RANDY SABIEN combine virtuosity, wit and showmanship. Full bios below ticket link. Ticket price will be $40 day of show. Blues harmonica ace, pianist, vocalist, Corky Siegel  earned his craft at the feet of  legendary first generation bluesmen Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf  as a part of […]

Round robin 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 Wednesday of each month. Traditional Round Robin protocol […]

Please call 920-563-9391 to reserve seats and to indicate whether you are likely to eat here. STEVE BORCHARDT, PERRY BAIRD, and  CHRISTIAN ELLESTAD first came together as THE AD HOC TRIO in 2021 for Fort Atkinson’s Rhythm Remix fest. Encouraged by the sound they developed and the response of audiences, they’ve continued their musical collaboration performing a blend […]