The Music Hall

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2008

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215 South Main Street, Inside the Historic Viroqua Public Market,

Viroqua, WI 54665  MAP

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The GREENMAN MUSIC HALL ... a 120 person multi-use rental space within the Historic Viroqua Public Market complex, downtown Viroqua, WI, in the heart of the mystic Driftless Region....  created for music, dance, art, expression, bliss!   Colorful, inspiring and acoustically alive! 

The space is also nice as a conference room for lectures, seminars, business meetings, and the like.

The GREENMAN MUSIC HALL is adorned with vibrant colors of fire and water, has mirrored walls, a beautiful sprung hardwood dance floor and even a disco ball!

In partnership with the Sibby's Oz Ice Cream Parlor and the Meat~ing Place Cafe (both located inside the Public Market) The GREENMAN MUSIC HALL can also cater your event, featuring local, organic food.... delight in Pam's amazing beef and other culinary delights. 

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For more info or to book an event: email the GREENMAN Music HALL or call 608-637-1912. 

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friday

EVENINGS

 

Open Mic at the 'Oz' Stage

7pm most Fridays (see calendar)

Music performance, spoken word, improv, comedy... it's your soap box!

refreshments available from Sibby's Organic Zone Ice Cream Parlor

Stage, PA, mics, and mixer supplied.

In cooperation with Greenman Music - selected performances recorded for the Oz Open Mic compilation CDs

info: 608.637.1912   store@egreenman.com  

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may

10th

saturday

8pm

**TRIPLE BILL**

Laura MacKenzie

One  Drum

with

Gary Rue

&

Laura MacKenzie

Greenman Music Hall

Saturday May 10th

8pm

tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door

One Drum is an eclectic world music ensemble which performs songs, stories & dances rooted in the cultures of Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, the Middle East & the Americas. With an extensive collection of aboriginal, ancient, modern & one-of-a-kind percussive, string & wind instruments, One Drum weaves a tapestry that illustrates the common cultural origins of music. Making use of oral traditions of call-and-response, sing-along, creative movement, dance & hands-on-learning, One Drum expresses a universal spirit that knows no boundaries.

Based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Rockford, Illinois, One Drum performs extensively in the Midwestern United States with significant journeys beyond, collectively and as solo presenters. Comprised of a main group, the band often mingles talents with the extended family of One Drum performers.

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Gary Rue has been playing and writing since February of 1964 when he saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan show; he 'borrowed' his Dad's guitar for 6 years. In 1981, upon achieving (arguably) some degree of success in the music business, he began writing seriously for the stage. Over 1000 songs later, Mr. Rue has composed somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 pieces of musical theater, many of them for SteppingStone Theatre For Youth Development of St. Paul. THE STINKY CHEESE MAN, a piece he coauthored with Kent Stephens, has recently completed an international tour with The Dallas Children's Theater.

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Gary Rue PRESS NOTES:

"…trades on a good sense of how to make the subtleties count."
(Twin Cities) City Pages

"…vibrant, catchy, exciting melodies."
San Francisco) Bay Area Express

"…graceful, plaintive melodies. Gary's music is…very melodic, very beautiful."
Minneapolis Star Tribune

" …performs a wide variety of original compositions rooted in rock, pop, country, jazz and ethnic: sort of Roy Orbison meets Mose Allison meets Chet Baker meets Curt Weill."


Laura MacKenzie

"Celtic Music Wizard"

-Minneapolis Star Tribune

....Performing music from Ireland, Scotland, England, France and Northern Spain on a dazzling array of wind-powered instruments, including flutes, whistles, concertina, many bagpipes and voice.

"In my little black book of musicians and writers there's an entire page dedicated to Laura MacKenzie. Few musicians are persistent and talented enough to become accomplished at more than one instrument in a lifetime. It's common to find a great fiddle player that 'sort of' plays mandolin and guitar. Thus, 'multi-instrumentalist' has become a casual term for a musical jack-of all-trades.

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may

16th

friday

8pm

The SPECIAL CONSENSUS

Friday, May 16th

8pm

Greenman Music Hall

tickets $8 in advance, $12 at the door

THE SPECIAL CONSENSUS is a four person acoustic bluegrass band that began performing in the Midwest in the spring of 1975

THE SPECIAL CONSENSUS repertoire features original compositions by band members and professional songwriters (such as “Ten Mile Tennessee” and “Margarita Breakdown”). The repertoire also includes traditional bluegrass standards (songs by Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Jim and Jesse McReynolds, etc.) and songs by artists from other musical genres (such as “Blue Skies” by Irving Berlin). As a result of this musical diversity, The Special Consensus has performed at the most traditional bluegrass festivals and has also been the band to bridge the gap between traditional and progressive bands at more diverse festivals and fairs.

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may

17th

saturday

2pm

may

23rd

friday

 

through

May

26th

monday

 

GRAND OPENING!

Sibby's Organic Zone Ice Cream Parlor

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Driftless

Jazz Fest 2008

This year drummers rule at the Driftless Jazz Festival! Our lineup of Persuasive Percussion is sure to thrill you. Ernie Adams, Davu Seru and Rich MacDonald will be featured in several groups across the weekend.

We're also featuring some of the best regional musicians such as Tim Whalen, David Cooper, Geoff Lowe, Karyn Quinn and the Jfar Coretet. The results are guaranteed to be amazing. But don't take our word for it - come see and hear for yourself!    Jazz Fest Website  the festival hotline: (708) 646-3951


friday May 23

Jazz 101 - Understanding Improvised Music

Jam Session hosted by the Driftless Jazz Collective

                                                                

        7pm, Greenman Music Hall - inside the Viroqua Public Market, Free         

                                                                

                                                        

Jazz 101 is a discussion to try to help anyone who feels they don't understand jazz and improvised music. We'll discuss the basic structure of the music, show some great videos of jazz performances and help to provide a peak behind the curtain. These discussions will help any listener uncover new ways to enjoy all types of music.

The jam session welcomes all musicians to perform and all people to enjoy! The Driftless Jazz Collective is guitarists Dave Ware and Ted Parrish, drummer Jason Smith and multi-instrumentalist Tom Gullion. Bring your axe!


saturday May 24

Street Beat Blues - Ted Parrish Trio, Jim Schaffer

    1pm, Viroqua Food Coop, free

Becoming-listener (again!) in Ghana with Davu Seru

    3pm, VIVA Art Gallery, inside the Viroqua Public Market free

Tom Gullion Quartet featuring Ernie Adams, Tim Whalen

David Cooper and Kelly de Haven

    7pm, Greenman Music Hall - inside the Viroqua Public Market, $10

Street Beat Blues kicks off the festival outside at the Viroqua Food Coop. There'll be food and blues to start the weekend right! Ted Parrish and his trio from Chicago will kick things into the right groove. Jim Schaffer brings his own flavor of the blues. It will be a great event!

Street Beat Blues is also a green event. One of our sponsors, Prarie Solar, will be providing electricity for the event with its mobile solar unit. This unit collects light from the sun and converts it to electricity. Sustainable, organic meets the blues. What a perfect Gumbo!

Featured artist Davu Seru shares his experiences traveling to Ghana with us at 3pm. VIVA Art Gallery is hosting this great event. Davu recently traveled to Ghana and made some startling discoveries. Come hear them!

David Cooper and his wife Kelly de Haven open the evening concert. David's an amazing trumpet player and his wife is a similarly great singer.

The Tom Gullion Quartet headlines the evening. They recently has great success at the Freedomfest festival in Madison. Come hear energetic, inspired jazz from some of the region's best players. Tim Whalen has built a great reputation as a name to watch and will be playing piano. Karyn Quinn joins them from the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse.

Ernie Adams is featured and will bring his artistry that he has displayed over the years with some of the greatest names in jazz, including, Ramsey Lewis, Nancy Wilson, Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry.


sunday May 25

Jazz Brunch with Christie Knapp

    10am, Drifless Cafe

JFar Coretet Poetry Slam

    3pm, General Store, free

INTOIT

Project Fourthstream with Davu Seru, Rich MacDonald

    7pm, Greenman Music Hall - inside the Viroqua Public Market, $10

One of the perennial favorites of the festival, vocalist Christie Knapp brings her elegant, always-swinging style to the Driftless Cafe for an awesome jazz brunch. Come join her and guitarist Mike James for a great, mellow start to the day.

The Jfar Coretet is probably the hardest working band in the area. This band has been rehearsing, growing and expanding their sound for the last couple of years. It's always great fun to follow where they're leading us! This time around will be no exception. They're combining some amazing poetry with their improvised ensemble. This is where the Beat generation meant to arrive.

Members of the INTOIT ensemble will open the evening concert. This ensemble attracts some of the best drama and comic talent in the area and always amazes us with new, fresh ways of performing.

Project Fourthstream, the duo of pianist/composer William Neil and woodwind specialist Tom Gullion will take to the stage. This latest work of the group extends the "digital acoustic" soundscapes that William Neil has been producing. He'll be hot off a tour of New York state and Chicago for this performance. Featured guest artist Davu Seru


monday May 26

Ted Parrish Trio featuring Catherine Hall Parrish

Christie Knapp

Tom Gullion Quartet featuring Geoff Lowe and Rich MacDonald

    1pm, Greenman Music Hall - inside the Viroqua Public Market, $10

The final event of the festival is all about having a great time! Great food, great atmosphere, great music! Organic Valley, one of our corporate sponsors, has donated some great food items. There will also be a host of local vendors providing that perfect lunch.

Ted Parrish features his talented wife, Catherine Hall Parrish. Their work together is always brilliant.

Christie Knapp returns this time with a full jazz quartet and will certainly delight you with some great new material she's presenting at the festival.

Tom Gullion's Quartet is seeking to repeat the exciting music they performed at last year's fest. Bassist Geoff Lowe is coming up from Chicago and drummer Rich MacDonald is joining them from Minnesota. Tim Whalen performs again on piano. It is certain to "rock out" - in a swingin' sort of way.


TRAVEL & LODGING INFO

For more information about the Driftless Jazz Festival, dial the festival hotline: (708) 646-3951 or e-mail festival@fourthstream.net.

 

june

13th

friday

8pm

KG and the Ranger

KG & The Ranger - western music performers
Fri, June 13, 2008

Live at the Greenman Music Hall

8pm

fundraiser for

Viroqua's Wild West Days  

 

For a musical journey through the sagebrush...
Saddle up your imagination for a ride to the Old West with award-winning cowboy yodelers KG & The Ranger. Their smooth harmony singing will bring back memories of the Sons Of The Pioneers, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and other cowboy stars of the silver screen. They yodel in harmony! They keep the audience entranced with interesting bits of history about the cowboy songs they sing. And Ranger Rick twirls his lariat in a fascinating display of trick rope-spinning. Western entertainment for all ages!

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june

27th

friday

7:30pm

 

Returning to Greenman Music Hall

Sibby's Organic Zone and The Viroqua Public Market are proud to present...

Red House Recording artists

The Pines

Friday, June 27th

8pm

Greenman Music Hall

Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door

Website - LISTEN TO THIER MUSIC

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Made up of Iowa natives David Huckfelt and Benson Ramsey, up-and-coming duo The Pines actually began their musical partnership in Arizona, where they both lived in a Mexican barrio and first began playing together. Committing to a musical career, they returned to their Midwestern roots and moved to Minneapolis, a city that has launched many folk and rock acts from Bob Dylan to The Replacements to The Jayhawks. Like these Twin Cities legends, The Pines weave together many musical styles to create their own unique sound that is hip and haunting. The son of Greg Brown’s producer and sideman Bo Ramsey, Benson was reared on folk and blues music and continues to let those influences shine, even on louder electric songs. David also has a deep love for traditional music, and together the two of them craft music that evokes the ancient while incorporating newer rock and pop grooves. Both strong writers and musicians, David and Benson have distinct voices that complement each other, causing audiences and critics alike to tout them as a powerful young force in American roots music. Although they have not been touring long, they have already shared the stage with the likes of Jolie Holland, The Arcade Fire, Kelly Joe Phelps and Spider John Koerner. The Pines’ highly anticipated new CD Sparrows in the Bell was produced by Bo Ramsey and recorded in Minneapolis. Featuring dark, poetic originals and a couple surprising covers, the album will be their first on world-renowned roots label Red House Records. Their first self-titled record was released on Trailer Records and features guest artist Dave Moore. Following the release of their new album, The Pines will be touring extensively across the country.

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july

18th

friday

8pm

 

Charlie Solomon

Friday, July 18th

Greenman Music Hall

8pm

Charlie Solomon is in a category by himself. Hidden in the middle of Wisconsin, Charlie is producing a sound that his fans describe as "Raw, infectious, penetrating, enchanting, honest, and above all, beautiful." It is difficult to describe why the words and music of Charlie Solomon are so full of experience and wisdom.

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July

25th

saturday

8pm

 

Greenman Music Presents...

Johnna Morrow &

Steve Sklar

Friday July 25th

7:30pm

Greenman Music Hall

Johnna Morrow and Steve Sklar have been musical partners for many years, previously in the award-winning jazz fusion group, Little Green Men, and currently as leaders of Big Sky and the Overtone Orchestra.

You can enjoy videos of them in action at http://youtube.com/throatsinger

Johnna has been called by MP3.com,"Absolutely the most stunning Female Rock Vocal you will ever hear!" and is also a standout on flutes, acoustic guitar, didgeridoo, and other instruments.

Steve is the leading western Tuvan Throat-Singer, a sound healer, and also plays guitar, didgeridoo, Himalayan singing bowls, the Tuvan igil, and other exotic instruments.

Not familiar with Throat-Singing, a national art in Mongolia and Tuva? Here's an improvised duet that Orange, CA musician John Pascuzzi and I performed in concert LA last year: http://khoomei.com/mp3s/sklarscuzzi.mp3 John's playing the igil (Tuvan version of the Mongolian morin xuur), with Steve Sklar throat-singing.

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BONUS - Tuvan Throat Singing Workshop:

Steve Sklar will be teaching Tuvan Throat Singing on Saturday July 26, 9-4 and Sunday 9-1, following the Friday night concert. Contact Kathleen@FullCircleRetreat.com or 608-675-3828 to register for the workshop. More information about the workshop at: http://www.fullcircleretreat.com/workshop-descriptions.htm

august

9th

saturday

8pm

Iowa Blues Hall of Fame legend

JOE & VICKI PRICE!

Saturday August 9th

Greenman Music Hall

8pm

tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door

website

Right from jump street, the electrifying sound of Joe Price hits you in all the places you live:  The insistent, driving rhythm chops, the taproot boot-stomps, the splintering, thrilling slide runs up the fret board, and that voice—a keening, haunting miracle seemingly channeled from the ghosts of past masters—all add up to a one-man blues tornado who can pack, command and wring-out a dance-floor with the authority of an eight-piece showband.

And while Price inhabits classic blues standards as if they were favorite shirts, his own deep and varied bag of original music is so formidable—so thoroughly imbued with life’s mysteries—that noted Grammy-award nominated singer/songwriter Greg Brown has long referred to Joe as “the Buddha.”

Clearly, this man was born to play the blues. 

 Growing up in a remote rural setting easily could turn out to be a severe disadvantage to a fledgling musician. But for Vicki (Ewing) Price, the particular mix-and-match, peek-a-boo forays into country, blues and R&B-influenced gospel afforded by her formative years in Waukon, Iowa circumscribed a crucible that would forge a distinctive, blues-belting guitarist who is as earthy, unique and seductive as a greenhouse orchid.

Of course, the intersection/collision of Vicki’s life with that of incendiary, mercurial Iowa Blues Hall of Fame legend Joe Price more than 25 years ago accelerated the process, but—make no mistake here—the creative, musical impact of this most-fortuitous of romantic pairings was and remains a bustling two-way street in nearly every way imaginable, and the artistic achievements of both partners are irrevocably intertwined.  

The on-stage interplay between Joe and Vick (which is as natural and copacetic as it is off-stage) makes that connection clear, and the mutual admiration society is well-tended.  

 

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september

13th

saturday

8pm

The Greenman Music Hall is Proud to Present...

The Reverend Eddie Danger

Saturday September 13th

8pm

Greenman Music Hall

$10

Described as “Cosmic Folk with a Tribal Twist of Jazz” or simply “Feel Good Music”. 

A One-Man Band playing over 25 instruments.  The lyrics are word heavy stories with an underlying message usually about political or environmental justice, Metaphysical epiphanies or frustrations and blowing off the suburban teen angst, bad love, & trashy rap star negative vibe mentality saturating today’s music.  “I have bad days like anyone else.  I just make a conscious effort in my songwriting to focus on the positive.  Even my sad songs tend to see the light through the clouds”. –Ed Danger

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october

10th

friday

8pm

Curtis and Loretta

Friday, October 10th

8pm

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Heartfelt original acoustic songs, plus traditional music from the British Isles, America and beyond.

"Loretta's almost operatic alto and Curtis' rich tenor form a lush, polished and varied vocal blend. The pair's instrumental interplay is equally compelling, with Loretta's harp textures dancing in and around Curtis' deft guitar and mandolin lines."
.....Dirty Linen

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november

1st

Saturday

8pm

Michael Whisler

acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter

Saturday, November 1st

Greenman Music hall

8pm

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Michael Whisler is young self-taught acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter. He composes for both 12 and 6 string guitars with dynamic power and speed while drawing from American folk, blues and classical music.

His tunes range from ripping fast paced instrumentals to slower more emotional ballads and even dissonant free time melodies. He also blends a unique bottleneck tone to some of his compositions which utilize alternate tunings.

Although Michael is mainly a solo guitarist he does throw in his low warm vocals to some of the tunes, while all along never noticing there isn’t a band backing him up.

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december

12th

friday

8pm

Bucky Halker

and Don Stiemburg

Friday, December 1st

Greenman Music Hall

8pm

Bucky Halker

He’s tall and lanky with a big guitar and big American songs. Singer, teacher, maybe part preacher. Writer, thinker, agitator. A beer and shot man with a Ph.D. and a suitcase of songs. Bar band front man and student of history. Folksinger, rocker, alt-country twanger.

“The living heir of Woody Guthrie . . . Halker reaches into his strings and conjures up the passionate fire of John Steinbeck.” (Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, Germany)

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219 South Main, Viroqua, Wisconsin

Inside the Viroqua Public Market

(across from Western Wisconsin Technical College)

USE:   ideal for private events, conferences, workshops, business meetings, private parties, fitness classes, art exhibits, and theater. 

Sound reinforcement Two Bose L1 monitor & PA system with a 500W powered sub (more info on the Bose L1), Mackie powered monitor/main.  Karaoke setup (for a small fee), 96 sq.ft. of modular stages and seating available.

Lighting: Overhead truss rigging, DMX LED overhead spots, moonflower effect, programmable control board

Off street parking, both Downtown Main Street and Public Market entrances.

World-class shopping in the adjoining Viroqua Public Market

Capacity: is 175 people for standing room only and approximately 120 people with table seating.  

1,500 sq. ft.

CATERING: In partnership with Sibby's Oz Ice Cream Parlor and the Meat~ing Place Cafe The GREENMAN MUSIC HALL can also cater your event, featuring local, organic beef, Sibby's Organic Ice Cream and other culinary delights.  Beer, wine, beverage concession available as well!

For more info or to book an event: email the MUSIC HALL or call 608-637-1912.  

Some Past Performers

at the Greenman Music Hall!

 

Inside The GREENMAN Music HALL....

 

Patchouli

 

Dance party with Sable

 

 Fundraiser Dance at the MUSIC HALL!

Typical set-up for banquet at the MUSIC HALL

We can cater your event

Disco Ball Included!

 

Ember Swift to a Packed House

Stirs the Senses

 

The MUSIC HALL has Incredible Acoustics

a warm, intimate atmosphere

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