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A shout out to a new fantabulous website, courtesy of niece Sydney Shimko. Some of you may miss the retro look of what has been called the worst website ever, but this is user-friendly, upkeeper-friendly, and just plain friendly. We’ll miss you, old website, but it’s long past time to go our separate ways. Constructive criticism, suggestions, and any praise can go to info@biz254.inmotionhosting.com.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 7:00 $7.50 — THE NEW PIONEERS
Well these guys have been playing here for so long now (about 8 years) that we may have to change their name to “The group formerly known as New Pioneers”. They have remained a favorite for audiences here at the Carpe because the room is so good to hear the five of them simply playing to microphones set equidistant from them and, more importantly, because they represent the very finest in Bluegrass musicianship including their snaggle toothed, cro-magnon ogre of a banjo player, which, come to think of it, does not reduce the number of banjo players one might guess the identity of very much.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 8:30, $2 (Yes, just two dollars) COUSIN BONES
Cousin Bones is a loud but lyrical dobro / banjo duo out of Chicago. Foot-stomping storytelling- they do drinking songs, blues, and blue-grass… Blues-Grass if you will… Home town boy Wes Heine (born @ Fort Hospital) & Mike Sviokla from Boston have been writing and performing together as Cousin Bones for four years. This is roots music for the 21st Century.
MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 6:30, NO CHARGE, Lake Front Park, Milwaukee, WI RANDY SABIEN & BILL CAMPLIN This is the northern part of the linear lakefront area of Milwaukee at the eastern terminus of Kenwood Boulevard. All concerts take place in Lake Park Picnic Area #3, just south of the playground and tennis courts (Rain merely puts the performance into the Peck Pavilion, an architectural masterpiece just a stones throw away. Multi Instrumentalist and occasional singer Randy Sabien, one of the mid-wests premier musicians landed this gig (and rightfully so) and needed someone from this area to help haul his instruments to the site. Not able to remember who could help him nor knowing where in the hell the site was, I forced him to graciously allow me to show him the way, as it were. And for a few bucks more I coerced him into billing it as the two of us. Such are the powers of club owners.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 8:30 $10 — THE PINES Benson Ramsey and David Huckfelt return and their popularity keeps growing (as I hoped it would). Born and raised in the mid-west school of understated licks, thoughtful lyrics, and earthy images their continuing evolution as a duo is a thing to behold. So come and be held.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 8:30 $8 A band of some of the finest preserved specimens representing the innocent presumptions of folks born within a decade of the end of World War II, having suffered the reality of real life and the indignities of time and having come through it all with an undying enthusiasm for playing live music and all too willing to beg your attendance to bear witness to the occasional embarrassment of being caught playing with billyc, this quintet (or quartet or trio or duo) have been able to edit the memories of appreciative audiences to create a narrative of ongoing broad acceptance of their supposedly rightful place among those who care and are cared for.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 8:30 $8 ERNIE HENDRICKSON with M.J. BISHOP Two folks of the much younger variety of country music roots influence, each equipped with their own songs and excellent voices, the tonality of which also hearkens back to the less affected purity of early Nashville and its emerging sequined performers.