Events Calendar
What's happenin' at the Hog
and Hog sponsored events, too!
Where & When: Unless stated, all events start at 8pm and are held at the Coffeehouse in the Wil-Mar Neighborrhood Center in Madison. Directions, parking and bus information. For updates due to weather, please contact us.
Admission is $2 for Hog members and $3 for non-members. Admission pays the rent. Peformers play for your tips in our ceramic piggy bank, affectionately named Phill-up the Pig. We recommend tips should not be silver, but should be what you truely feel the chance to listen to live folk music was worth to you. Special events and dances have higher admission fees.
Open Mike is available for walk-in's between the two scheduled sets. Sign up at the door when you arrive. Expect to do one to three songs. If more than one person sign's up, you may be asked to limit the number of songs to less than three.
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Monday, Feb. 2, 2009
7:00-8:30pm |
Coordinators Meeting
Hog business is transacted on the first Monday, aproximately every other month. Check here for exact meeting dates.
All members, volunteers and interested citizens are welcome to attend. You may have to look around for the meeting room, on the main floor or in the basement. On Monday's there is usually a contra dance group meeting in the main room where the Coffeehouse is held. Just ask one of them where the Hog is meeting. |
Friday, Feb. 6, 2009
8:00 - 10:30pm |
David Schindele
David presents a program of mostly original contemporary adult acoustic music; piano poetry headed for the heart. He will be joined by Jen Logueflower, formerly of the Bill of Rights Band, so this will be a rare chance to hear two keyboards playing in harmony. The harmony will extend to the vocals as well. Check daveschindele.com for more info and samples of David’s music. |
Friday, Feb. 13, 2009
8:00 - 10:30pm |
Dangerous Folk
“Blowing in the Wind" is a sing-along concert of those favorite songs that many of us remember from the 60s. From the days of “Make Love, Not War”, the best of love songs and peace songs remind us of the powerful anthems and “dangerous songs” from when the times they were a’ changing - songs that once again resonate for today’s world. Veteran folk singers David HB Drake, Julie Thompson, and Cap Lee lead those good old songs we grew up on. More info is found at: www.dangerousfolk.com |
Friday, Feb. 20, 2009
8:00 - 10:30pm |
Bowen Marvik
Bowen’s background is classical music and he discovered the guitar rather late in life. We’re glad he did. The Hog is Bowen’s favorite venue and it shows in his heartfelt original compositions and interpretations of folk, classical and new age pieces. This is his first Hog date in a year so come and help welcome him back. |
Friday, Feb. 27, 2009
8:00 - 11pm
SPECIAL EVENT
in partnership with the Madison Folk Music Society
Admission:
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Vance Gilbert
 Vance burst onto the singer/songwriter scene in the early '90s when the buzz started spreading in the folk clubs of Boston about an ex-multicultural arts teacher and jazz singer who was knocking 'em dead at open mikes. The word spread of this Philadelphia-area born and raised performer to New York; Shawn Colvin invited Vance Gilbert to be a special guest on her Fat City tour. Gilbert took audiences across the country by storm.
Gilbert is currently promoting his ninth release, which he describes as follows:
"...All I wanted to do was write as if I was someone else. I was in no way out to imitate the various songwriters that I allude to in the notes before each song. I was more shooting for a sense or a 'vibe' in the lyrics and music that was reminiscent, to my mind, of these various artists. Sometimes that sense was inadvertent, occurring to me when the song was half written. Other times I purposely tried to 'write like that..' More than anything else, this stretch of 'writing as someone else' has been one of the most inspirational and notebook-filling exercises I've done to myself since my days of writing children's theatre." |
| Friday, March 6, 2009 |
Graham & Company |
| Friday, March 13, 2009 |
Barley Brothers |
| Friday, March 20, 2009 |
Chris Powers |
| Friday, March 27, 2009 |
Christine Costanzo |
Monday, April 6, 2009
7:30-9:00pm |
Coordinators Meeting
Hog business is transacted on the first Monday, aproximately every other month. Check here for exact meeting dates.
All members, volunteers and interested citizens are welcome to attend. You may have to look around for the meeting room, on the main floor or in the basement. On Monday's there is usually a contra dance group meeting in the main room where the Coffeehouse is held. Just ask one of them where the Hog is meeting. |
| Friday, April 3, 2009 |
Steve Shad |
| Friday, April 10, 2009 |
Bill and Bobbi Malone |
| Friday, April 17, 2009 |
Jefferson County Bluegrass Band |
| Friday, April 24, 2009 |
High Scoll Acoustic Night |
| Friday, May 1, 2009 |
TBA |
| Friday, May 8, 2009 |
Mike and Patty McDougal |
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