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18 South Water Street West |
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Fort Atkinson, WI 53538 |
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(920) 563-9391 |
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Please call to confirm data and make reservations. Note our show-times. |
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THE CALENDAR IS SOMETHING LIKE THE FOLLOWING: |
REMEMBER THAT RESERVATIONS ARE ONLY HELD UNTIL 15 minutes before SHOWTIME, since, especially for popular shows, we have the problem that some who reserve do not show, and some who show have not reserved. For the performer, a bird in the hand is worth two on paper. This does not apply if the tickets have been paid for in advance, and is, of course, only a problem for shows which sell out. If you show up late and there is still space you can get in. The bottom line is courtesy- if you do not intend to use any or all of the tickets you have reserved, or if you know you cannot make it on time, please call to let us know.
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2008
Please call to confirm data and make reservations.
920-563-9391
Last year Kitty set up a carpooling group on yahoo, since some people have expressed that they would come to more shows if carpooling were an option. A number of you come from the same place, and could save some money and have a smaller environmental impact if you rode together.
FLOOD UPDATE-
Many of you have been expressing concerns about our status, what with us being on the river and all. We are high enough that we are fine so far (6/19/2008), but many in and out of town are not. Many roads near and far are closed because of the flooding, so check out the Jefferson County website www.co.jefferson.wi.us/jc/public/jchome.php for road closure information. Donations to the American Red Cross are needed for flood relief efforts. Pictures available at http://940wfaw.com/pages/2434760.php .
WED JUN 18 $3
THE LANDMARK ALLSTARS
The Landmark All-stars began making music together at the Landmark Tavern in Jefferson, where John Short has led a jam for more than 20 years. Since then, they’ve played in small town bars across southern Wisconsin, with a few parties and benefits thrown in. Between them, they have hundreds of years of experience at various things. They feature high lonesome harmonies and enduring songs of life. They have such a good time picking and singing these mostly sad songs that the audience goes away happy. You can’t ask for more in a troubled world. The Landmark All Stars are John Short, guitar and vocals; Dave Ward, banjo and vocal; Sid Boersma, fiddle and vocal; Patti Graham, dobro and vocal; Tony Hozeny, mandolin and vocal; Dominic Frinzi, bass and guitar.
THU JUN 19 8:00 $12.50 advance
CLIFF EBERHARDT
Red House
recording artist Cliff Eberhardt knew by age seven that he was going to be a
singer and songwriter. As a child Cliff taught himself to play guitar, piano,
bass and drums. In his teens Eberhardt was fortunate enough to live close to
the Main Point (one of the best folk clubs on the East Coast). He cut his
teeth listening to the likes of James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen,
Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bonnie Raitt, and Mississippi John Hurt -
receiving an early and impressive tutorial in acoustic music. At the same
time, he was also listening to great pop songwriters like Cole Porter, the
Gershwins, and Rodgers and Hart, which explains his penchant for great
melodies and clever lyrical twists.
A driving force of the Greenwich Village New Folk movement and well known
among his peers, Cliff’s songs have been covered by the likes of Ritchie
Havens, Buffie St. Marie, Erasure, Lucy Kaplansky and the folk superstar band
"Cry, Cry, Cry" (Dar Williams, Richard Shindell, Lucy Kaplansky).
"Eberhardt is a superb singer, with a vast credible range of emotions, and a
soulfulness that draws from rock and pop, but also from the best folk ballad
styles." - The Boston Globe
And he's incredibly funny.
Red House Records is pleased to announce the Spring, 2007
release of The High Above and the Down Below, the
first CD in 5 years from Cliff. He delivers 12 new original songs backed by a
tight jazz combo that allows his powerful voice and strong guitar playing to
shine in a way that they never have before. Showcasing his heavy pop and jazz
influences, Cliff reinvents himself on this new collection destined to become
a classic.
FRI JUN 20
2nd Annual SACRED SITES RUN benefit w/ SKIP JONES, CLIFTON MILLER, PATRICK KLAYBOR
Following a summer solstice event at Aztalan Mounds Park
there will be a run/walk to the effigy mounds at Koshkonong. In the
evening, there will be a benefit musical performance here.
SAT JUN 21 8:30 $14
PETER AND LOU BERRYMAN
Lou and Peter Berryman began their musical partnership in high school in Appleton, Wisconsin, way back in the sixties. By the eighties, they had established themselves as a prominent feature of the songwriting subculture of Wisconsin's capital, playing their original material every week for almost ten years in the run-down but trendy music room of Madison's Club de Wash. Gradually expanding their circuit, they began crisscrossing the continent and gaining national attention with appearances on such programs as Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion and NPR's Weekend Edition. Regular appearances at festivals and folk music clubs all across the country now serve as venues for the songs contained in their twelve recordings and three songbooks, which have been performed by everyone from Garrison Keillor to Peter, Paul and Mary. The popularity of Lou and Peter Berryman -- whose friendship survived a brief marriage in the seventies -- is a testament to their intelligent and wickedly funny material which is never bawdy or risque but is rich with wordplay and witty images. This duo is not to be missed.
http://members.aol.com/berrymanp/
FRI JUN 27 8:30 $6
CALEB HAWLEY
Caleb Hawley emerges
from the frozen tundra of Minneapolis, MN. He is a soul singer, folk lyricist
and a jazz composer. His sound could be compared to a mix of some of his
influences such as; Martin Sexton, Randy Newman, Keb Mo, Ray Charles and The
Yellow Jackets.
A graduate of Berklee School of Music in Boston, MA with a degree in Jazz
Composition, 22 year old Caleb moved to New York City to pursue a music
career. His first solo album “Greatest Hits” was released in Spring 2007.
www.calebhawley.com
http://www.myspace.com/calebhawley
SAT JUN 28 8:30 OPEN STAGE
CLOSED JULY 4
WED JUL 9 8:00 $10 advance/ $12 day of show
REDHEAD
REDHEAD will release its debut album Ordinary Girl this month. Though just a
few months old as a band, it has been twelve years or more in the making.
Most will know vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Susie Keynes as one third of
Fruit, the all-girl trio from Adelaide renowned for their harmonic pop and
soaring vocal performances. Together with Mel Watson and Sam Lohs, Keynes made
eight records between 1996 and 2006 and forged a considerable international
following through relentless touring around Australia, the US and Europe.
In November 2006, however, unforgiving schedules and diverging interests led
the threesome to call a hiatus: “We were on tour in North America and had our
last show in Seattle, and we were putting it to bed for a while because
everybody decided the time was kinda right to get out of the little pattern we
were in of touring and making records and…knock on some other doors of
opportunity.”
Keynes returned home to Adelaide, content to hang up the guitar for a while
and settle into suburban normality. “I wasn’t burnt out, but I didn’t know
what I was gonna make, and I was just waiting to see which way my heart and my
head were going to push me.” After a couple of months, she found a new
motivation: “I’ve always been a bit of a rocker, and loved it when Fruit was
in its full format with drums and bass, and I could really fang out on my
electric guitar a lot more.”
After ten years of creating highly-crafted pop with two other
singer-songwriters in Fruit, Keynes was ready to strip back to a more
elemental sound. She turned up the amp a little, switched to analogue pedals
and just enjoyed fiddling with new guitar tones: “It’s like pulling a blanket
off something and getting back to things that are a little more simple. And I
liked it”.
With a bag of new songs, Keynes called upon bassist CJ Rhodes for some
“musical noodling”. Keynes and Rhodes were first introduced a couple of years
ago in Nashville by Fruit’s drummer, Yanya Boston, while Fruit was touring
North America and Rhodes was attending bass master-classes with Regi Wooten.
The pair bonded over a backpackers’ ritual – watching the AFL grand final live
at a bar in the wee hours – and soon became friends. Back in Adelaide, she
enlisted Rhodes to add bass to her new songs.
After a couple of gigs as a duo, Boston agreed to add drums and REDHEAD was
born. (The name refers to Keynes’ cropped red hair, by which she was often
distinguished from her Fruit bandmates, and by which she’ll now be remembered
by Fruit fans when she tours with REDHEAD. Very clever.) With a few more gigs
and a live recording at the Grace Emily under their belts, and recording
started on the new album, it was clear that REDHEAD’s output bore little
resemblance to Fruit’s trademark sound: “It’s almost by accident, but I think
it’s a signature feature, that there’s actually no harmonies on this record”.
The harmonies that were so fundamental to Fruit’s success quickly proved
incongruent with Keynes’ new material, thereby confirming to her that she had
achieved the looser sound she was aiming for: “I just thought, as I was
recording it, this sound doesn’t want harmonies…I was going to double up and
do my own harmonies, but I just thought, no, I just wanted to keep it simpler
and, sort of, more of an analogue-y feel and less expansive and…like a bunch
of fives right there”.
www.myspace.com/susiekeynes
THU JUL 10 7-9 $7.50 THE NEW PIONEERS
FRI JUL 11 8:30 $8 BILL CAMPLIN & the JUbillYANTS
SAT JUL 12 no music
WED JUL 16 SORRY HOWARD LEVY cannot make this date
THU JUL 17 8:00 $3 T-N-T
FRI JUL 18 8:30 $15 JAMES LEE STANLEY www.jamesleestanley.com
SAT JUL 19 no music
THU JUL 24 7:00 $3 THE LANDMARK ALL-STARS
FRI JUL 25 8:30 $10 TIM GRIMM www.timgrimm.com
SAT JUL 26 8:30 FLATFOOT- Aaron Keim & Chris McGarry
Just the calendar:
WED JUN 18 $3 THE LANDMARK ALLSTARS
THU JUN 19 8:00 $12.50 CLIFF EBERHARDT
FRI JUN 20 8:30 SACRED SITES RUN benefit w/ SKIP JONES, CLIFTON MILLER, PATRICK KLAYBOR
SAT JUN 21 8:30 $14 PETER AND LOU BERRYMAN
FRI JUN 27 8:30 $6 CALEB HAWLEY
SAT JUN 28 8:30 OPEN STAGE
CLOSED JULY 4
WED JUL 9 8:00 $10 advance/ $12 day of show
REDHEAD
THU JUL 10 7-9 $7.50 THE NEW PIONEERS
FRI JUL 11 8:30 $8 BILL CAMPLIN & the JUbillYANTS
SAT JUL 12 no music
WED JUL 16 SORRY HOWARD LEVY cannot make this date
THU JUL 17 8:00 $3 T-N-T
FRI JUL 18 8:30 $15 JAMES LEE STANLEY
SAT JUL 19 no music
THU JUL 24 7:00 $3 THE LANDMARK ALL-STARS
FRI JUL 25 8:30 $10 TIM GRIMM
SAT JUL 26 8:30 FLATFOOT- Aaron Keim & Chris McGarry
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or at
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many other fine independent artists are offered at the cdbaby site.
*Our friend Mark Olson has moved his gallery which showcases his fine black & white photographs (they say those are the best kind). Mark Olson Fine Art is now at N4328 South Street in Cambridge. For further information, or to see examples of Mark's fine work, visit: www.markolson.us or call (608) 423-4424.
*Our one other persona grata Jeffrey Foucault resides in cyberspace at www.jeffreyfoucault.com. Jeffrey's newest CD is GHOST REPEATER, produced by Bo Ramsey. Check it out. In August of 2004 he released his critically-declaimed CD "Stripping Cane", produced by the wizard David Goodrich, under the respectable Signature Sounds label. His first and very worthy CD "Miles from the Lightning" can be purchased at the Cafe Carpe, at his performances, through his website, or at www.cdbaby.com. He also struts his talents along with those of Kris Delmhorst, Peter Mulvey and David Goodrich on a beautiful CD entitled "Redbird". Jeff is one of the few artists about whose work it can be said, "It spices about shivers." Quotha.Web design by Satchel Paige Welch. Contact at cafecarpe@sbcglobal.net