Songwriter Showcase encourages the creation and sharing of original music by regional singer songwriters. Dean Mattoon and Esmé Alexis effortlessly fuse style and voice in a celebration of entrancing vocal […]
The 35th Annual Folk Ball Festival will take place January 24-26, 2025 in the UW Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street. Folk Ball is Madison’s largest public participation international dance festival, powered […]
With ten albums under his belt, Wisco-Kentuckian acoustic roots rocker Ritt Deitz returns to North Street Cabaret with his son Wilder Deitz. Madison’s Isthmus said Ritt “resembles Tom Waits in […]
Rad is a classically trained blues and folk performer from Chicago who was born in Croatia. He is a master on the piano and accordion, whose music draws from the […]
When a stage four lymphoma diagnosis forced him off the road and into the hospital, Chuck Prophet didn’t know if he’d live long enough to see the end of the […]
Charlie Parr is an incorruptible outsider who writes novelistic, multi-layered stories that shine a kaleidoscopic light on defiant, unseen characters thriving in the shadows all around us. Parr has a […]
The 2025 Midwinter Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest is a celebration of the music of Django Reinhardt. This 21st annual event, hosted by Harmonious Wail, welcomes Ferench Gypsy Jazz Guitarist, Stephane […]
David Francey is a Scottish-born Canadian carpenter-turned-songwriter, who has become known as “one of Canada’s most revered folk poets and singers” (Toronto Star). Born in Ayrshire, Scotland to parents who […]
For the past 50 years, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. Born out of the rich Acadian […]
The Madison Flute Club would like to invite you to join us on Sunday Feb. 16th 2025 from 11:00-1:00 pm at Bethany United Methodist Church for a chili luncheon and […]
Songwriter Showcase encourages the creation and sharing of original music by regional singer songwriters. Iowa folk duo, Weary Ramblers bring years of experience to the stage with award-winning songwriting and […]
One man play featuring Tom Kastle on the life, songs, and time of Joe Hill