Events

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Starts at 6:30. No cover

Join us for the book launch of My Seven Mothers: Making a Family in the Danish Women’s Movement with Pernille Ipsen! The distinguished author and historian will delve into her collective biography of the seven women who raised her and their lives and politics in the women’s and lesbian movements in Copenhagen in the 1970s, out now from University of Minnesota Press.

A chronicle of gender, sexuality, and feminism as it was constructed, contested, and lived, My Seven Mothers is an eye-opening account of the challenges and possibilities connected with liberation and radical social change during the 1970s. In this time of fierce struggles over family, sexuality, and child-rearing, it reminds us that new worlds are always possible.

A Room Of One’s Own will be vending the book at this event.

Start time 4:00pm. Open to the public.

Jack o'the Dust is a folk duo from Madison, WI. Andrew Doiel plays guitar, Amy McNally plays fiddle, and they both sing.

Start time 6:30. No cover

ONCE MORE, AUTUMN:

A project rooted in Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s artistic soil, Evan Walton fronts Once More, Autumn. A transplant of Minneapolis and an alumnus of Berklee College of Music, Walton fuses indie folk elements with alternative textures. Propelled by the instrumentation of Jeremy Boettcher (S. Carey), Isaac John (Underneath Oceans), and Steve Shaw (The Bathtub Marys), the band melds atmospheric tones with lush, driving riffs. Paired with Walton’s introspective and emotive words, Once More, Autumn offers dynamic and earnest musical expression.

VACANT CHURCH: "Vacant Church fills the room with atmospheric folk rock that sounds like Beck and a (happier) Lou Reed on a double date. There’s also a little My Morning Jacket in their big, reverby sound." - Isthmus.com... and/or, in my own words: light. dark. quiet. loud. folk. psych. pop. rock.

Start time 9pm. 21+. $10 cover

The Kenland band presents the Haunted Disco. A spooky dance party for ALL ages! The Kenland band is Ken Lonnquist, Henry Boehm, Doug Brown, Esperéeé Eckard-Lee, Dane Richerson and Chris Wagoner.

$10 adults/$5 kids. Start time 7:30

Your only (AND GREATEST) source for boot shufflin’ Cajun fun.

4pm start time. $10 suggested donation

It’s the best kids show in town. Spend every Monday with David, a beer and some yummy food!

$5 cover. Start time 5:30.

Want great harmonies at the Harmony? Then, you can’t miss this show. Bigtooth brings the vocal sweetness! 

No cover. 6:30pm start time.

Ready for some old school country / honky-tonk? We’ve got you covered!

 Canyonero  is Dan O'Brien and Nick Brown on vocal/guitar/bass, Andrew Harrison on lead, Matt Nafranowicz on pedal steel, and Ben Wolf on drums. This newly formed band has been playing country music for years in bands like Brown Derby, The North Country Drifters, the Nick Brown Band, and lots more.

Start time 6:30. No cover

The Mersey Brothers featuring Sean Michael Dargan will be paying tribute to a few of their favorite bands for this special Halloween show! Get into the groove will R.E.M., The Smiths and Crowded House!

Start time 9pm. 21+. $10 cover.

Purveyors of music that's dark, luscious, swinging, soulful, groovy, blues-inflected, and roots-haunted. They spice it up. Dress it down. Shake it. And want to share it with you.

$10 cover. Start time 9pm. 21+

Gaines and Wagoner are award winning musicians who  have been making sweet, sweet vintage & original jazz, blues & America music together for decades. 

Reid Johnston is a prolific singer-songwriter currently based in Madison.  Guitarist and reluctant tubaist, Johnston has also put in his time with musical outfits ranging from New Orleans Second Line to experimental art-rock and punk-polka.  Intelligent, whimsical, irreverent and honest, Reid's creations swirl around him like the circus master that he is.  Gaines & Wagoner play the first set and join Johnston for several songs at the end of his set. 

Start time 4pm. $15 suggested donation

The Harmony Mixed Open Mic happens every first Tuesday of the month. Sign up to perform is 6:30. Three song limit for musicians and 5 minute limit for spoken word/poetry/comedy.

No cover. Show starts at 7:00pm.

Best trivia in town with local flair! Your host, Paul, will guide you through an evening of factoid discovery and merriment.

No cover. Start time 6:30 

Madison Uphoff is a folk musician and actor, and is very grateful to be spending some time in her hometown after having lived in Los Angeles since 2022. During her time in California, she recorded her debut album, ‘Holding Pattern’, which can be found anywhere you stream music.

6:30 start time. No cover

After August is a band based in Madison, WI that emerged in 2022. They perform their own original rock songs and are known for their award-winning song writing, engaging harmonies, driving rhythms, and catchy riffs.

The Ghost Particles are Phil Davis, lead vocals, guitars, Dave Benton, electric guitars, backing vocals, Lee Laski, drums, backing vocals, Joel Tappero, bass guitar, Don Irwin, keyboards and piano, and Pauli Ryan, percussion. Veterans of the Madison music scene, they’ve recently celebrated the release of their second album, North Central.

Both bands consist of animal lovers and are thus donating the cover charge to the Dane County Humane Society.

$15 cover. 9pm start time

It’s our third annual Lightfoot Tribute show!

Ken Lonnquist and Doug Brown celebrate the life and songs of Gordon Lightfoot.

$10 donation. 8pm start time.

The internationally acclaimed premium rock band Optometri returns to action after extended period of dormancy to assist in vanquishing despair and restoring your flagging joyfulness. This long overdue reunion show is a benefit for the outstanding community radio station WORT, a cultural resource of deluxe quality and import.

$10 Cover. 9pm start. 21+

Chris Powers, a native of Philadelphia, PA, picked up the guitar at the age of 14, and within a few years knew the chords to every Beatles song. After graduating from Beloit College, he settled in Madison and began organizing a series of successful string bands, including the string-jazz trio Nobody’s Bizness (featuring Mary Gaines plucking bass lines on her cello) and the long-lived Bluegrass Survivors. He toured Wisconsin for many years with the UW-Extension’s Heritage Ensemble – mixing folk music with American History, and played guitar in the orchestra of several Madison Theater productions. He developed and teaches group adult guitar courses with themes like “Jazz Chords and Swing”, “Fingerstyle Blues” and  “Bill Monroe Bluegrass Ensemble”, and teaches private lessons too. On Friday mornings you can hear him on WORT-FM radio hosting the “MudAcres Bluegrass Special.”  He and fiddler Shauncey Ali regularly moonlight with the Old Tin Can String Band.

No cover. 6:30pm start time.

It’s our monthly offering of Annie & the Oakies.  Get ready for a most pleasing mix of folk, Americana and bluegrass.

No cover. Show starts at 6:30.

Robert J. is an award-winning singer/songwriter/recording artist who has been a mainstay in the Wisconsin music scene for decades.  Whether playing solo or with his band The Moon Gypsies or The Rowdy Prairie Dogs, Robert's music blends the styles which flow along the Mississippi River, from blues to country, folk to rootsy rock and roll.  

No cover. 6:30 start time.

Van Orman and Helwin play songs of love and loss, from the devout to the degenerate, with inspired vocal harmonies accompanied by an array of instruments including Viennese guitar, gourd banjo, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, harmonium, concertina, harmonica, and jaw harp. 

 John C. Van Orman and Adam Helwin are singer-songwriter neighbors in the bucolic countryside of southwestern Wisconsin’s Driftless region, a place of unglaciated hills, fertile soil, and clear-running trout streams where they craft poetic songs to sing alongside traditional folk tunes and selectively curated covers.  

John has roots in American and British traditional material including ballads, cowboy songs and sea shanties. Adam was raised in church choirs and molded by the DIY ethos of punk rock. These seemingly disparate backgrounds entwine to produce extraordinary music with elements of country, blues, traditional, and psych-folk, restoring the original edge missing from so many interpretations. For this special evening, John and Adam will be joined by Todd Menton and Drew Miller of Boiled in Lead. $10 cover. 9pm start. 21+

O’Darby Irish Pub Band serve up  their unique blend of harmonies with aplomb!

Start time 5:00pm. $10 Suggested donation.

Madison's hardest working Bluegrass band, Soggy Prairie, is proud to host the Madison Bluegrass Roundtable, a monthly series highlighting Southern Wisconsin's Bluegrass scene. The series will feature new and upcoming bands, as well as well established groups. Each month will feature a set from Soggy Prairie followed by a set from a guest band.  This month’s guest band is Barred Owl String Band

No cover. 6:30pm start time. 

Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, challenge your brain with a trivia challenge that will make you smarter AND happier!

No cover. Start time 6:30pm

Rachel Drew is a singer-songwriter from Chicago, celebrated for her soulful voice and catchy, self-penned tunes that blend pop, rock, folk, and retro soul. Her latest album, Old Sky New, was recognized as one of the 13 Best Chicago Albums of 2024 by the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ/Vocalo-NPR. Rachel’s music has been featured on NPR’s Great American Folk Show and WFMT’s legendary Midnight Special program. Alan Harrison of The Rocking Magpie writes of Rachel’s latest album, “There’s something of a hint of Dusty in Memphis, minus the strings here; as Rachel has a similar breathy and pearlescent voice that reels you in... the arrangements are pure Laurel Canyon at its height when Linda Ronstadt and Mama Cass could do no wrong.”

No cover. Start time 6:30pm.

Your monthly dose of down home Cajun music. Prepare to shuffle!

$10 suggested donation. 4:00pm start

After years of sharing festival bills and bumping elbows at open jams, Starr Moss, Trent Cuthbert, Michael Falk, Claire Kannapell and Paul Kienitz have convened to make their own brand of bluegrass-inspired music. Bigtooth, the culmination of this shared history, keeps one hand on the book of bluegrass standards and the other on the songwriting pen. Count on a distinctive repertoire that intertwines traditional material and original compositions, delivered with precision, finesse, and style.

No cover. 6:30pm start.

Max Capacity & the Sellouts return to the Harmony for their annual Second Harvest Fundraiser. Do ya dig late 70s and 80s music? We sure do! Start off you Thanksgiving weekend right by bringing your family out to party before the big feast.

$10 suggested donation.8:00pm start

Recover from the Thanksgiving celebration with Cork ‘n Bottle String Band. They are the anit-triptophan.

No cover. 7:30pm start

Bands to be announced

$20 suggested donations

Dogtown Hollow is a Madison-based roots-rock outfit buoyed by the strength of two recent EPs -- "Rivers, Roads & Bridges" (2024) and "Watch Your Step!" (2025) -- and a 2024 Midwest Country Music Organization nomination as Americana Artist of the Year. If you like funky country beats, crafty songwriting, and high-flying harmonies, Dogtown Hollow delivers. 

This show is sponsored by WVMO 98.7FM.

No cover. 4:00pm start time

This showcase features the following artists:

Tim Case is a songwriter from Eau Claire. His latest album is 2025's "Hall of Mirrors" praised by the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram as "A modern, uniquely-Wisconsin take on classic folk and Americana music.” 

 Jules Iolyn is a Madison-based musician writing songs with fierce independence, sass, and wit. By blending the lines between genres, she appeals to all kinds of folks who just like good, smart music. And even those who don’t. With Jules, the essence is in the details.  

JT Spartz applies his unique voice to crafty lyrics as a singer both playful and sincere. Drawing on two recent EP releases (July 2024 & 2025) with his Madison-based band Dogtown Hollow, expect to hear familiar originals tailored for solo-acoustic performance.

No cover. 6:30 start time.

Hailing from Madison, Wisconsin, the Lake VibeZ duo of Ty Rittenmeyer and Lauren Kelly are redefining smooth. From champagne-soaked choruses to introspective late-night verses, the duo captures the tension between fantasy and reality, nostalgia and now. Their music evokes everything from dockside daydreams to rooftop dance parties, wrapped in a sound that’s influenced by funk, country, indie and yachtrock.

When Starbeam formed in 2023, Carmela and Justin had a more traditional arrangement of drummer and guitar duo. As we all know, life pushes forward and with that motion, the Madison based duo evolved to become their current incarnation: synthy/indie-pop adjacent sweethearts, belting out original tunes about love lost and love found. There is one thing that has been true through their entire time together--the sincerity.

$10 cover. 9pm start time. 21+

Cornfields aren't the only things in Nebraska... Based in Omaha, Secret Formula is a 4-Piece Progressive Groove Rock band that emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. With a formula of storytelling lyrics and free-flowing riffs and grooves, the band's eclectic style and ever-expanding catalog of songs keeps audiences on their toes. 

Magic Conch is a four-piece rock group formed in Madison in October of 2016. For the uninitiated, the Magic Conch Shell is the all-knowing sea shell of wisdom from SpongeBob Squarepants and the source of the band’s name. Much like the unpredictable response one may receive from the Magic-8-ball-esque shell, Magic Conch writes music ranging from aggressive, hard-hitting rock to mellow, soulful pieces. Much of this diversity stems from the unique musical tastes of each band member, all of whom are no strangers to the music scene.

$10 cover. 9pm start time. 21+

It’s our monthly offering of Annie & the Oakies.  Get ready for a most pleasing mix of folk, Americana and bluegrass.

No cover. Show starts at 6:30

Marisa Balistreri is a Madison, Wisconsin-based vocalist. A former professional Italian opera singer, Marisa currently collaborates with her songwriter-guitarist husband, Stefan Hall on original jazz tunes inspired by music from around the world. Marisa's group performs as a duo, trio or quartet and plays jazz standards, jazz Manouche, Latin jazz and originals in several languages. They play music to make people feel hopeful about humanity.

No cover. Start time 6:30pm.

Singer, Songwriter, and guitarist extraordinaire Andy Ewen will perform an acoustic show with fellow Honor Among Thieves founder Doug DeRosa on bass and emerging young guitarist Ryan Repenshek. 

No cover (but tips are appreciated)! 6:30 start time.

Madison's hardest working Bluegrass band, Soggy Prairie, is proud to host the Madison Bluegrass Roundtable, a monthly series highlighting Southern Wisconsin's Bluegrass scene. The series will feature new and upcoming bands, as well as well established groups. Each month will feature a set from Soggy Prairie followed by a set from a guest band.  This month’s guest band is the No Name String Band

No cover. Start time 6:30.

This internet depiction of the band is meant only to pique your curiosity and cause you to attend our show. Will it work? Only you know. 

Starts at 6:30. No cover

Charlie Rae is the quintessential raw, electric, and boldly original artist. Her music transcends previously defined genres, combining soaring vocals with unpredictable melodies that are stunningly powerful, and profoundly new.

No cover. Start time 8pm

An intimate and lively burlesque show that is quintessential Madison.

Doors at 9. Show starts at 9:30. $15 cover

Happy Holidays to all of our fans! Join us with family and friends!