WPR Music, Arts & Culture calendar

You are invited to attend the Eugenie Mayer Bolz Family Concerts: Harp Ensemble, Opus One & Sinfonietta Orchestras. The performance begins with the WYSO Harp Ensemble, directed by Jenny DeRoche. Opus One, conducted by Steve Kurr, will perform Basile’s Galop by Basil Barès (arr. Jeffrey S. Bishop), Dance Pizzicato by David Bobrowitz, Four Royal Dances […]

WPR is bringing live classical music to local breweries. Stop by for an afternoon of classical favorites, pop covers and local cider. We’ll be at Pomona Cider Co. in Milwaukee with Fine Music Duo. Grab a friend and spend the afternoon supporting local music, local radio, and a local brewery. This event is free, but […]

Ken Lonnquist returns to the Tap Room in Madison! Ken is a fine singer/songwriter, actor, playwright and composer for self produced shows and for other companies including the Children’s Theater of Madison. He is also the lead singer for the O’Darby Irish Band.

Cream City Hotclub at Leola Hall at the Sauk Prairie River Arts Center (105-9th Street, Prairie du Sac) Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 2pm $20 Inspired by Hot Club de France, the 1930s swing jazz group, Cream City Hot Club continues the upbeat, danceable style popularized by Louis Vola, Stephane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt, and led […]

The Madison Maennerchor presents songs about sailors and the ocean, love and loss, the outdoors and more. Works in German, English, Italian and Japanese include traditional folk and drinking songs; the Blue Danube Waltz; and contemporary works, including the premiere of a song composed by a current choir member. Refreshments available following the concert.

Dr. Faythe Freese, Professor Emeritus University of Alabama https://www.thediapason.com/artists/faythe-freese will present an organ Recital/hymn sing on the https://www.berghausorgan.com/firstlutheranmanitowoc 2009 Berghaus Organ in conjunction with the 175th Anniversary of First Lutheran Church.

You are invited to attend the Youth Brass Choir & Youth Orchestra Concerts. The winners of the 2025 Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition, Ava Flores (oboe) and Asha Sundaram (flute), will be featured. The concert begins with Concerto for Oboe in C Major, VIIg:C1 by Franz Joseph Haydn (ed. Alexander Wunderer), featuring Ava Flores. Asha Sundaram […]

Madison musicians from the folk and Celtic traditions play traditional music from the French regions of Canada. Last heard at this year’s String Gathering in Baraboo, Quebec! plays the dance music of the Maritime provinces that reflects the French, Irish and Scottish roots of the early European settlers. Come to listen or come to jam […]

AREPO, made up of cellist and vocalist Elizabeth Kate (she/her), guitarist Marco Slaviero (he/him), accordionist Noël Rubli (he/him), and clarinetist Madara Eleonora Mežale (she/her) formed as a contemporary music group in 2022. Though conventional in number, AREPO embraces their unconventionality in quartet instrumentation as they believe disruption to the expected is vital for the future […]

Announcing the 5th Annual Sound Cheq Music Fest in Bayfield County Featuring 50 bands at five cool Washburn venues! May 23th, 24th and 25th This year will be a bigger and better line up than ever before with country, folk, blues, rock, jazz and bluegrass music! All bands have a northern Wisconsin connection, so it […]

Enjoy a wide variety of live, local music by 50 bands at six Washburn, WI venues, May 23-25. Weekend passes are $30, Day passes are $15

AREPO, made up of cellist and vocalist Elizabeth Kate (she/her), guitarist Marco Slaviero (he/him), accordionist Noël Rubli (he/him), and clarinetist Madara Eleonora Mežale (she/her) formed as a contemporary music group in 2022. Though conventional in number, AREPO embraces their unconventionality in quartet instrumentation as they believe disruption to the expected is vital for the future […]

Colin & Friends Concerts presents Rhumba Strumba, a FREE concert of orchestral harp, steel pan, organ/piano and soprano! Colin Welford, Faye Seeman and Liam Teague, Cyndy Stiehl–jazz, classics, Caribbean!