We are happy, Happy, HAPPY to announce the continuation of David Landau's Monday Night Kid Music at the Harmony. This is a high-energy, laugh-a-minute, good time for kids age 2-8 years. Their grown-ups get to relax and have a beverage. There is a kid menu, an adult menu, and a drink menu. Cover charge of […]

Join us on Tuesday, October 4, from 6:00–7:30pm at Tripp Commons in Memorial Union for Signe Aurell: Irrbloss by Maja Heurling and Ola Sandström. Signe Aurell was a Swedish woman who came to the United States in 1913, worked as a laundress and seamstress, joined the Industrial Workers of the World, and wrote poetry and […]

Tone Madison and Arts + Literature Laboratory welcome back Tatsuya Nakatani on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 7pm. Russell/Sexe (Tim Russell and Liz Sexe) will open the show. Tickets are $20 ($15 for students/ALL members/Tone Madison sustainers). Tickets may be purchased online in advance at Brown Paper Tickets up to 2 hours before the show, […]

ESAE is a pop-up acoustic ensemble that connects local musicians, singers and song-writers that happens twice a year. Auditions for the fall season begins on 9/13 and runs once a week, every Tuesday for 8 weeks. The final product is a performance on Saturday 11/19, held at the Wilmar Center in Madison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gSOhCXG3Ck

To classify Chris Duarte simply as a Blues Man is an understatement. In his own words, “rockin’ blues” or ”punk blues” describes him best. “Ferocious blues” also fits. Legend has it that Chris will play so hard that his fingers bleed in a set. The legend is true. Photos attest. Chris Duarte is a road […]

Chris Powers is one of Madison's foremost proponents of folk music, as a performer (most recently in Graminy and Old Tin Can String Band), as an educator (UW Madison Extension and as a bluegrass jam leader) and as a radio host (Mud Acres Bluegrass Special on WORT-FM). The Hog welcomes his return to the live […]

Think of the human voice in music. The most primal of instruments, it can melt you or move you to tears on the spot. Then it’s the saxophone, one-step removed from the human voice, and the next most powerful messenger in music. Johnny Hodges, Albert Ayler, Steve Lacy, Pharoah Sanders, Oliver Lake, King Curtis, Tim […]