Jake La Botz’s rough and tumble upbringing took him from juvenile delinquency and punk rock to learning blues from the last of Chicago’s pre-war era bluesmen. From there, with guitar […]
Celebrate the holidays with Irish folk band Ring of Kerry. Free admission! Presented by the Galena Center for the Arts Sponsored by First Community Bank of Galena Based in Minnesota, […]
Bryant Switzky is an award-winning singer-songwriter who performs soulful acoustic music that blends folk, blues, Americana, and pop. He released his third album, On the Edge of Something, in February […]
Madison Maennerchor returns to Folklore Village for the first time in 10 years! After the concert in the Plum Grove Church across the road from Folklore Village’s main building, the […]
Plymouth, Wisconsin – The annual Sartori Big Cheese Drop is nationally lauded as one of the country’s quirkiest New Year’s Eve traditions. This year marks our 18th annual event as […]
On January 3, 2025, not only will MadFolk be having its first concert of the year, but it will be celebrating its 50th anniversary/birthday by giving back to the Madison […]
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 […]