2025 Performers
All music is at the Rotary Park gazebo just outside the Opera House and is free throughout the festival.
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Thursday, July 3rd
BOO MULLARKY
6:00 pm - Thursday
Boo Mullarky is the amazing one-human jug band medicine show performing ragtime blues, old time, good time and Cajun tunes with foot percussion and guitars!
DAVINA & THE VAGABONDS
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Thursday
Davina Sowers and the Vagabonds have created a stir on the national music scene with their high-energy live shows, level A musicianship, sharp-dressed professionalism, and Sowers’ commanding stage presence. With influences ranging from Fats Domino and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Aretha Franklin and Tom Waits, the band is converting audiences one show at a time, from Vancouver to Miami and across Europe.
Friday, July 4th
CARISA
NOON - Friday
Carisa is one of our favorite up and coming singer songwriters! Carisa’s music is best categorized as bedroom cafe. It hints at some of her influences, primarily bossa nova, folk, and jazz.
THE SPINE STEALERS
1:15 pm - Friday
The Spine Stealers are a two-women duo making “spooky folk” influenced by the north-wood Wisconsin pines, 24/7 truck stop diners, heartbreak and dark lakes. They started learning guitar together around bonfires in their shared hometown during the height of the pandemic, soon writing songs inspired by lonesome winters, the heartaches of nostalgia and broken ideas of love.
CHIP CRUZ
2:30 pm - Friday
Chip Cruz is a Spanish-American guitarist and composer. Cruz is known for his percussive and jam-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic, steel and Weissenborn guitars and a diverse range in different musical genres.
SALTYDOG
3:45 pm - Friday
Saltydog is a funk jam Improvisational exploration that takes the audience & band on a journey through their playfully crafted folk driven tunes inspired by the likes of everyone from The Talking Heads, The Band, those classic country and jam band staples along with everyone in between.
The band spawned on the banks of Duluth’s ice covered stones by brothers Jacob and Owen Mahon. This midwestern psychedelic cowboy review features Calvin (Calzone) Lund, Lefty Johnson, Gavin St. Clair, and Sam Deters.
The band’s genuine kindness, passion, enthusiasm and joy for their craft is apparent, enchanting & makes for an additive live performance. There is something for everyone at a Saltydog show. You are beautiful, you are welcome, you will groove, we will vibe.
CHARLIE PARR
5:30 pm - Friday
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 new record with only his name on it, and it isn’t shiny and perfect and commercial and catchy. It’s him. It’s pure Charlie Parr and that’s enough. He hasn’t moved to LA or Nashville; he’s stayed in the cold grey north of Minnesota, because that’s his home.
JED & COMPANY
7:30 pm - Friday
Madison’s new hard-rippin’ Grateful Dead tribute band, including original members of Lackin’ Some Direction, Fringe Character, Del Mar and New Speedway Players. WIth high-level high-energy jamming, experimental setlists, soulful vocals and fresh takes on the catalog, Jed & Company will impress any discerning Wisconsin Deadhead.
Saturday, July 5th
DAVE LANDAU
NOON - Saturday
Voted 2019 Children's Performer of the Year by the Madison Area Music Association
Storytelling and performing children's music are two of my passions and talents. I travel to elementary schools, preschools, and libraries to perform musical programs that are educational, entertaining, and motivating. While music is my passion, my love is teaching. For 11 years I taught first grade in Verona, Wisconsin. My programs are an extension of my favorite part of teaching, which is helping children understand themselves and the world around them.
KENDRA SWANSON
1:15 pm - Saturday
With strong, expressive vocals and energetic instrumentation on banjo, guitar, and fiddle, Kendra Swanson applies a timeless sound to original compositions written from (and about) the American heartland. It has been described as "soulful," "homey," "sincere," and "heartfelt," delivered with a passionate voice that cuts through the loudest of bars (and the hardest of hearts).
THE IOWANS
2:30 pm - Saturday
“Where the wind is wild and the sky is blue, and time lingers like morning dew…” The Iowans, led by first cousins Christina and Katie who have been creating music since childhood, bring listeners on a musical journey combining their genetic harmonies and original songs with elements of folk, indie, orchestral, old-time, and groovy jazz. This perfect storm delivers an adventurous journey into the Americana landscape. Soul searching, spirit lifting music from the heart of the Driftless.
MOONHOUSE
3:45 pm - Saturday
Folkadelic Americana - check it out for a real good time!
THE JIMMYS
5:30 pm - Saturday
The Jimmys are an award-winning festival favorite bringing people together from coast to coast, Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean since 2010! The Jimmys feature band leader Jimmy Voegeli phenomenal Hammond B-3 keyboardist, singer and songwriter; an experienced killer rhythm section steeped in blues with Perry Weber on guitar, Chris Sandoval on drums and John Wartenwieler on bass and the icing on the cake is the best horn section in the Midwest—Pete Ross on saxophone, Chad Wittinghill on trumpet and Joe Goltz on trombone. It doesn’t get any better than this – The Jimmys will deliver!.
"The Jimmys are excellent musicians, and every performance is like a party!” –Bruce Iglauer, Alligator Records
LOVING CUP
7:30 pm - Saturday
We are a Rolling Stones tribute located in Madison, Wisconsin. We love to rock.
Sunday, July 6th
CED
12:00 pm - Sunday
Ced Ba'etch' is a Madison based french expatriate guitar player/singer. His guitar picking is an alternating bass melodic fingerstyle and his vast repertoire encompasses Hawaiian slack key, americana "big thumb" guitar, 1920's country blues, movie soundtracks, french pop music of the past and Parisian waltz as well as original material.
FENDRICK & PECK
1:15 - Sunday
Fendrick & Peck (Madeline Fendrick and Brian Peck) have put together what can only be described as a variety show of songs, poems, and stories. Their music is all harmony…exquisitely crafted lyrics and composition with unbridled delight peppered throughout. Frequent instrument swapping, quirky tales of their exploits, and sudden dives into deep heart stuff will leave you bubbling at the end of a concert!
COMPACT DELUXE
2:30 pm - Sunday
Instrumental Organ and Guitar Combo from Madison, WI. Cool retro songs.
DON’T MESS WITH CUPID
4:00 pm - Sunday
Don't Mess With Cupid is a 9 Piece Soul group based out of Madison, Wisconsin. We play Otis Redding, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Al Green Marvin Gaye and More.
WONDERFUNK
6:00 - 7:30 pm - Sunday
Led by Ben Majeska of Armchair Boogie and Trevor Northsoul, Wonderfunk features a rotating cast of all-star musicians on a mission to funk things up. Each live performance delivers gold in the form of soul, tappin' feet from stanky beats, and fires off like your mother-in-law after one too many martinis. Have you the moxie to mettle with the beast that is Wonderfunk? The time is nigh, the vibes are high, and funk is fly.