Live music and burlesque performance

8:30pm doors, 9pm show

$10, 21+

8pm doors / 8:30pm music

$15 GA, $10 student

tickets at: https://littlevillagetickets.com/events/187585788/friend-less-dayvyd-lunch

FRIEND LESS is a project by Jon Mueller. Its two recent EPs, Energy Rippers and Logic

of Relics (with Bundy K. Brown and James Plotkin) aim to provoke the heart, mind and

body through an unorthodox approach to rhythmic patterns. In performance, the pieces

from Energy Rippers lean on a system of AIR (Acoustic Improvised Rhythm) using drums

and voice to achieve a similar effect. More information about the project can be found at

rhythmplex.com.

Jon Mueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago, and

singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical

Music in New York. A prolific performer, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals

and venues throughout the United States, Canada, England, Europe and Japan.

In addition to his solo work, Mueller has collaborated and performed with groups such as

Who is the Witness?, Mind Over Mirrors, Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees,

and Pele. He has also worked with artists including Olivia Block, Aaron Turner, Faith

Coloccia, Timo van Luijk, Dawn Springer, Chris Hefner, Jason Kahn, Hal Rammel, Asmus

Tietchens, Z’EV, Rhys Chatham, Jarboe, James Plotkin, Duane Pitre, and Raymond

Dijkstra. He has released music on renowned labels such as Room40, Astres d’Or,

American Dreams, Table of the Elements, Type Recordings, Important Records, Taiga

Records, SIGE Records, and his own imprint, Rhythmplex.

7:30pm doors, 8pm music

$10, all ages

https://misschristinemusic.bandcamp.com/music

https://allegrahernandezmusic.bandcamp.com/

https://earlygirl.bandcamp.com/track/the-knife

Doors at 8pm, music at 9pm

$10, all ages

Hailing from Waterloo, Iowa, Katie and the Honky Tonks are a four-piece original honky tonk band owing its sound to 1960s Nashville. Their songs lean heavy on real stories, catchy hooks, and rhythms built for crowded dance floors. Fronted by Katie Sires on vocals and rhythm guitar, with Jesse Cotton on lead guitar, Johnny Love on bass, and Luke Sires on drums, they were named 2025 Iowa Music Awards Country Artist of the Year, and were considered for a Grammy after releasing their debut album, Ain’t No Shame. Proof that honky tonk is still here and very much alive. 

Their debut album, Ain’t No Shame, OUT NOW builds on the success of their 2024 EP, Two-Steppin’ in the Shower, which solidified their place in the Midwest country music scene. The EP earned widespread recognition, with Iowa Public Radio saying, “The EP sounds more like Nashville 1964, not Nashville 2024.” Lonesome Highway, in a review of "Ain't No Shame' says, "Katie and the Honky Tonks join the ever-growing canon of women like Summer Dean, Emily Nenni, Sarah Gayle Meech and Kimmi Bitter, to name but a few, that are representing genuine honky tonk music."  

https://www.katieandthehonkytonks.net/

Big Begonias took root in 2020, creating transcendental folk and honky tonk music, featuring original songs by Gabrielle Kouri. Gabrielle (Awful Purdies) plays guitar, banjo, and sings. George Spielbauer (Cedar County Cobras) plays various guitars. Bass guitarist Dave “Chief” Lumberg (Shoe Money, Mayflies) and drummer Daniel Miller (Lake of Wire, Kleenexgirlwonder) hold down the groove.

https://bigbegonias.bandcamp.com/

Alex Dupree is a songwriter based in Austin, TX. He released his first album in 2005, a piece of shambolic bedroom folk made with a group of friends called the Trapdoor Band. NPR called it “both poetic and political.” Over the course of three LPs with this group, and one under the pseudonym Idyl, Alex would root himself firmly but idiosyncratically in the traditions of American songwriting. “Sounds continue to unfold in ways that are timeless,” one reviewer wrote for Yahoo! Music’s Top 100 Albums of 2007, “Dupree just needed to discover them and dust them off.” During this time, he was also recording and touring extensively with Zookeeper, the folk-rock zag of emo pioneer Chris Simpson (Mineral).

In 2013, Alex moved to Los Angeles to study poetry, but songs were never far from his mind. He still wrote and performed with cosmic country bands Mister Paradise and Dawn & Dupree, leaning into a Willie Nelson-tinged croon for the bar crowd. He returned, more or less, to his own voice for 2017’s You Winsome, You Lonesome, put out on cassette by Keeled Scales. A full release with the label never materialized, and after some time floating between odd writing gigs, he returned to Austin.

Along the way he met Phoenix-based producer Michael Krassner (Boxhead Ensemble, Simon Joyner, Califone). Their collaboration resulted in the 2022 album Thieves. If You Winsome, You Lonesome is a suite of country storytelling (seen through the hazy marine layer of indie rock), then Thieves has narrative folk ballads at its heart. In the words of a UK reviewer, Alex is “a magician pulling the strings, sometimes a director setting the scenes” for these campfire stories of “caves and gangsters, bodies and bad guys, untrustworthy divas and the search for true love.”

You Winsome, You Lonesome got a belated vinyl pressing in 2024, commemorated by a 22-date tour of Texas. Alex’s second album with Michael Krassner, Talking to the Dog, is scheduled for release in 2026.

https://alexdupree.com/

One More Hour & Make Good Choices

8:30pm doors, 9pm music

$10/pay what you can, all ages

https://ratstallion303.bandcamp.com/

https://mazuband.bandcamp.com/album/mazu

8:30pm doors, 9pm music

$10, all ages

Join us for an evening of songwriters in conversation about their songs, all on stage at the same time, taking turns and feeding off each other.

Writers:

Abigayle Oakley: https://www.abigayleoakley.com/
Remi Goode: https://www.remigoodemusic.com/
Brian Johannesen: https://brianjohannesen.com/

$10 in advance
$15 at the door

tickets: https://littlevillage.boldtypetickets.com/events/185577793/songwriter-round-abigayle-oakley-remi-goode-brian-johannesen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGn8Wh9d1KQ

https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/band/bootcamp/

8:30pm doors, 9pm music

$10, all proceeds to help with Jackie’s move

tickets: https://littlevillage.boldtypetickets.com/events/186315600/bcmc-with-dayvyd-lunch

8pm doors, 9pm music

$15 GA / $10 student

“On Stash, the absolutely energy-drenched 2nd album from BCMC, the guitar and keys duo soars through waves of pleasant rhythmic turbulence on the way to show us just what they got:

Needle down: increased activity dubs and baubles the sonic surface of BCMC’s Stash planet. Waves from Arabian, Indian, Flamenco and Soul groove in alliance under the expanse of an all-world flag, representing a borderless pursuit of cosmic music moments in the hand, of/by/for all the people of folk, rock and jazz, psych, west coast psych, prog, DIY, experimental, traditional, programmatic, impressionistic, liturgic, electric...!

Maybe it’s in the DNA between Cooper Crain on organ & synth and Bill MacKay on guitar? BCMC’s groove-based understanding/space-based alignment of purpose is two-headed (four-handed) intuition in music, aurally forming whenever playing, composing, improvising, or all the above. Stash is part guitar and keyboard recital, part unbridled electroacoustic assembly of spontaneous international deep and wide sounds. Happening between them, somehow. Like the time: guitar and keyboard pushing, then pulling back in space. The sound of two people agreeing on this. Patterns emerge, units form, and then, we feel BCMC alive in the wide-open air of the room.

Also in Stash: written things, shorter strands, riffs, prog/funk/church organ breaks, psychedelic blues-rock soloing on synth. Echoes of Floyd/Doors/Deep Purple/Iron Butterfly/Velvets/Can wove into a jangly nest, then trembled with an occasional British folk peregrination. Insistent chord/rhythm discovery: jam it out. Having taped, take a second pass in places. Improvisation, layers, inner-player dialogues revolve the flow, open it up.

Drop the needle down into Stash anywhere. You find one sonic widescreen or another in time. Vivid, judiciously-tripped minimalist songs; tropical soundtrack capacity and time, horizons and water flown in from the border, fine frontier and mellow high.

Stash was recorded on half-inch 8-track tape by Greg Norman at Electrical Audio, then recorded more and mixed to 2-track 1/2" tape at Sweat Loge by Cooper and Bill. Stash’s different textural feel is down to wondering about, then dialing details in the sound, getting good signal in a few good spaces with a few new (old) machines in the chain. And in the mix, not a digital module was stirring: Stash is straight AAA, student!”

https://www.instagram.com/pinemusicandart?igsh=MTh5djZ2aG80ajF1MQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

8:30pm doors, 9pm music

$10, all ages

https://www.instagram.com/pinemusicandart?igsh=MTh5djZ2aG80ajF1MQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

8:30pm doors, 9pm music

$10, all ages

https://warrenjacksonhearne.bandcamp.com/music

https://clintniosi.bandcamp.com/

https://tommysanteeklaws.bandcamp.com/

7:30 doors, 8pm music

$10 GA / $8 student

https://davidlord.bandcamp.com/

8:30 doors / 9pm music

$10, all ages

https://www.youtube.com/@haakonnelson9869

https://birdlabs.bandcamp.com/music

https://measuresofagony.bandcamp.com/

A fundraiser for United Action for Youth

https://tremolofields.bandcamp.com/album/red-birds-on-a-branch

https://jamestutson.bandcamp.com/album/still

https://itsjimswim.bandcamp.com/

$10 suggested donation, pay what you can

7:30 doors, 8pm music, all ages

8:30pm doors, 9pm music

$10, all ages

https://www.aaronmoseley.com/hambone-the-maple-babies-1

https://dizzybridges.bandcamp.com/

https://7-11jesus.bandcamp.com/album/white-noise

Performances by:

Gabi Vanek // Justin Comer // Mystic Cross // Granular Breath

There’s a Chris sized pit in all our hearts. A night full of noise is incoming as an attempt to fill the gaping hole, or maybe just to get together and commiserate on how big that cavity is.

Doors are at 8 PM. Show at 9 PM. You are invited and encouraged to come early to the home of all things weird, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, to enjoy dinner at 6 PM.

Thank you to @tinylittlehammers for continuing to overwhelm with your design and spirit.

Thank you to a stacked lineup of artists who jumped on the opportunity to celebrate Chris. Our town is lucky to have you.

$10 suggested donation (No One Turned Away For Lack of Funds). After paying all of the artists, proceeds from the show will be used to continue to bring weird music to town in Chris’s legacy.

Doors 7:30, music at 8pm

$10, all ages

https://www.instagram.com/trioblique_jazz/

https://neptune-band.bandcamp.com/

https://sinnerfrenz.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/active_trash_the_band/

9pm music

$10, all ages

8pm doors, 9pm show

$20, all ages

tickets: https://littlevillagetickets.com/events/185145841/dan-bern-sam-knutson

https://danbern.com/

https://samknutson.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-covers-deep

Dan Bern is a captivating live performer who has enthralled a loyal and ever-growing fan base in the US and Europe since the mid ‘90s. His songs range from deeply moving to wildly imaginative and hilarious, often within the same song.

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He has been compared favorably to the great masters of songwriting, such as Guthrie, Dylan, Costello. Though he draws from the great American tradition of songwriting, there is something deeply unique and compelling that makes you want to get to know the man behind the songs.

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He conjures incredibly specific imagery like in a painting. Though he may turn to cynicism and political satire at times, the beauty of his work is that he is able to imagine better worlds, revealing a deep capacity for empathy and optimism. Bern connects with his audiences skillfully and directly, weaving the topical and local in with the more universal themes. He has written for many films and TV shows, and has made more than thirty albums.

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“If you ever read the name “Dan Bern” give yourself a treat and go see him. He’s been one of my favourite songwriters and musicians for the past 25 years. His songs are a mix of thought provoking lyrics and a wonderful dry wit. You’ll have a great night out!  —Roger Daltrey

"Sam Knutson is one of Iowa City’s most enigmatic songwriters. His music flows from rebellious to reverent, from deep honesty to the tallest tales; it includes songs about both internal and external weather, and songs about mistakes and youthful foolishness with dry, self-deprecating humor. His songs are wildly unique and yet comfortingly familiar. What they are is authentically Sam Knutson songs.

He fronted a really good band that did four CDs and got considerable critical acclaim, but the touring wore him down, as it does. He toured smaller folkie venues as a solo artist for a decade or so, and brought the Iowa Opera House concert series to life.

Sam started out as many indie singer/songwriters did in the 80s, with records on cassette, switching to CDs in the 90s. There are still CDs, but nowadays much of his music is offered digitally from his Bandcamp page. His catalog is rich and deep, and well worth exploring." 

8:30pm doors, 9pm music

$10, all ages

https://mazuband.bandcamp.com/album/mazu

https://daisyglue.bandcamp.com/music

https://littlevillagetickets.com/events/184648196/masma-dream-world

Masma Dream World invokes magic and healing as a form of worship to the universal Dark Mother.

Blending drone, bass, noise, percussion, and voice with the use of experimental electronics, field recordings, synthesizers and effects to  create devotional soundscapes for deep listening. Trained in butoh, Devi invites you to participate in cathartic ceremonies and sound-healing rituals.

The sophomore album was released in February 2025 to critical acclaim, including a coveted spot on the cover of The Wire Magazine. The album was born from an extensive period of time spent deepening her spirituality through meditation, Hindu mysticism, and Advaita Vedantic texts.

MDW ceremonies have been performed at international festivals such as Le Guess Who?, REWIRE, Transmission Waves Festival, DUNK, Raw Power Festival, and Afrofuturism Festival presented by Carnegie Hall, just to name a few.

Latest releases:

September 2025 -  "A grave in a lucky Site" EP

February 2025 - "Please Come To Me" Album
 

"music rooted in drones and ritual rhythms..like a visitor probing a dark cavern, occasionally knocking something loose that clatters noisily into the void" - New York Times

"a strange, discomfiting document of the singer-composer’s energy..tangles together traditional African sounds and rhythms with Western electronic styles ranging from ambient to harsh noise" - The FADER

"a divine, spectral source of unease..“mother” is the only lyric in the song, but it hits you like a paragraph, rummaging through your skin until it crawls" - Paste Magazine

“A matrix of lucid electronics.. On PLEASE COME TO ME, Masma Dream World plumbs the abyssal depths of the divine feminine, charting a path of devotion to the Mother Kali” - The Wire ‘Cover Story’

https://stephaniecatlett.bandcamp.com/music

https://freegrasstrio.bandcamp.com/track/jingle-hell

Celebrate the release of Stephanie's new full-length album, Bright Day (out June 5!). Full band show with the lovely Freegrass Trio opening.

All ages, $7 cover
Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm

Come enjoy the best vegan food in the state (world?), have one of Trumpet Blossom's inventive cocktails, and hear some songs from the heart.