Fall Swedish Weekend is back in-person at Folklore Village. Join Paul and Marikay Dahlin, Becky Weis, Earl and DoAnn Holzman and other friends for three days of music workshops, evening performances and dance parties, delicious Swedish food, and fellowship with friends both old and new. All participants in this event must be fully vaccinated against…
Shake Rag Alley invites you to join the first annual Ghostly Gathering featuring a variety of festive experiences on the 2.5-acre campus in the historic heart of Mineral Point! Proceeds from this fall fundraiser support Shake Rag Alley arts and crafts programming and historic preservation. Admission to the event includes: One drink ticket. Food and…
Bob Bovee and Pop Wagner met in 1971 over a bowl of chili one winter’s night in the West Bank neighborhood of Minneapolis. After dinner, they played some old-time music, and they’ve been doing that off and on ever since. A Wagner-Bovee performance offers a generous dose of authentic cowboy songs, plenty of square dance…
Dar Williams was always in the right place at the right time for the success she’s had over a 25-plus-year career. She rose out of the vibrant mid-'90’s Boston scene, inspired by the eclectic influences of alt-rockers, Berklee jazz musicians, slam poets and folk artists, like Patty Griffith, Melissa Ferrick, the Throwing Muses, Vance Gilbert…
Performers and audience members alike are warmly welcome to the Open Mic hosted over Zoom. For more information and a virtual invitation, email programs@folklorevillage.org.
The Honey Pies is an exciting collaboration of Madison-based music veterans. Jodi Jean Amble made a major splash in the Chicago scene fronting her eponymous band —nominally jazz, but equally at home with pop, country and more — and as a member of the highly eclectic ensemble Jenny Dragon. Tom Waselchuk leads the MAMA Award-winning…
Performing their current album, "World Gone Mad," as well as classic songs of The Band, The Weight Band is led by Jim Weider, a 15-year former member of The Band and the Levon Helm Band. The Weight Band originated in 2013 inside the famed Woodstock barn of Levon Helm. Weider was inspired by Helm to…
In roaring '20s Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap … until he finds out he’s been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another “Merry Murderess,” Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining…
Performers and audience members alike are warmly welcome to the Open Mic hosted over Zoom. For more information and a virtual invitation, email programs@folklorevillage.org.
In a career that has already spanned a half-century, Jorma Kaukonen has been one of the most highly respected interpreters of American roots music, blues and rock. A member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and a Grammy recipient, Jorma was at the forefront of popular rock and roll, one of the founders…