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- Stoughton Opera House 2023-24 season opens Sept. 15 with ‘Lone Pinon’
- Stoughton Festival Choir: Let the People Sing!
- Louisiana Calling with The Sonny Landreth Band and The Iguanas
- Stoughton Opera House 2021-22 season kicks off Sept. 16
- Music Appreciation Series: Ancora String Quartet with guest Violinist Sahada Buckley

True to those Kentucky roots, Carter continues to pour all he has back into bluegrass. For thirty years, he has been the fiddle player for the Del McCoury Band—the most awarded group in bluegrass history. He’s won three Grammy awards, including 2018’s “Best Bluegrass Album” with the Travelin’ McCourys, of which he is a founding member. And he’s taken home five IBMAs for “Fiddle Player of the Year,” a staggering number that isn’t quite so crazy once you realize just how many bluegrass greats have turned to Carter for collaboration. In 2021, they won Bluegrass/Americana Band of the Year by the Wisconsin Area Music Industry. The Ballroom Thieves' fourth album, CLOUDS, is a song cycle born of mixed experiences and fueled by the power of imagination.
Stoughton Opera House 2023-24 season opens Sept. 15 with ‘Lone Pinon’
Stoughton Opera House going strong into second century - archive.jsonline.com
Stoughton Opera House going strong into second century.
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The Stoughton Opera House is the heart of the creative economy in Stoughton. The Opera House draws over 20,000 visitors to Stoughton's vibrant downtown each year. These visitors not only attend shows, but also patronize local businesses in Stoughton. This influx of visitors brings substantial revenue for Stoughton's economy.
Stoughton Festival Choir: Let the People Sing!
Once in a while at the end of the day, or after a show is done, he'll wheel out the piano. After the COVID-19 pandemic cost the historic venue more than a season of entertainment, this year features a strong lineup of perennial fan favorites and promising newcomers. "Dust Bowl Dream," a wistful narrative about a depression-era farmer, builds on its slow pace and vivid lyrical imagery with powerful harmonies from Sarah Jarosz and twin fiddles from Carter and fellow IBMA-winning fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes. The John Hartford tune "Six O'Clock Train" marks a slower, more ominous moment, calling in vocal harmonies and guitar from Billy Strings.
Louisiana Calling with The Sonny Landreth Band and The Iguanas
The quintet also presented an invitational concert on the prestigious Dame Myra Hess series at the Chicago Public Library, broadcast live on WFMT. In the fall of 2019, Michael Perry & The Long Beds released Long Road to You, an EP featuring five freshly-recorded songs and a spoken word piece from the Long Beds headlining stint on 2019’s Wisconsin Vinyl Collective tour. The set list will also include solid favorites, a couple fresh ones, and—between songs—easygoing humor and tangential tales arising directly from Michael Perry’s other gig as a humorist and New York Times bestselling author.
It was the small, dedicated staff who fought tooth and nail to make sure the Opera House wouldn’t become a thing of the past. Gillian Welch, an American singer and songwriter, is one of many to tag the backstage walls of the Opera House. Meanwhile, the Opera House's 111-year history is always at the forefront of Brehm's mind.
Sue Richards plays clarinet for the band and noted that ages can range from people in their 20s to people in their 80s. The Christmas concert with the Festival Choir is a highlight of their winter season. Overall, restoration work included plaster, carpet, floor lights, dressing rooms, paint, and increased accessibility for those with disabilities. State of the art sound and lighting equipment combine with the historic building features to make the Stoughton Opera House a "crown jewel" of southern Wisconsin. The beautiful space boasts Victorian and modern elements that combine for an unmatched performing arts experience. Celebrating their 35th anniversary, Cherish The Ladies has shared timeless Irish traditions and good cheer with audiences worldwide.
South Artists Regional Art Tour scheduled for Sept. 16-17
A native of the Fox Cities, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before transferring to Madison, where he received his bachelor's in communication arts in 1996. His first big job after school was as education outreach director at Madison's cable access station, WYOU. After some peripheral involvement with the Opera House, in 2007 he became its director.
Opera House History
In addition to the $600,000+ generated by ticket sales at the Opera House each year, studies show that event-related spending by arts patrons averages nearly $20 per person in additional spending for hotels, restaurants, parking, souvenirs, refreshments, and more. It is estimated that the Opera House generates upwards of $787,000 in revenue for the businesses within town of Stoughton. The theater's original curtain still hangs over the stage, greeting Opera House audiences with vintage advertisements for local businesses of years-gone-by. Ladysmith Black Mambazo has performed for millions of people, singing a message of peace, love and harmony.
Stoughton Opera House 22-23 Season Brochure
The prolific band will release Wild as the Night and Broken at the Break of Day together on vinyl as well, giving listeners the option to hear the music as a collective body of work in a playlist-focused era. Recently signed to UK roots label the Last Music Company, the Hot Club of Cowtown continues to amass a devoted following worldwide through its one-of-a-kind versatility and virtuosity. Career highlights include the Fuji Rock Festival (Japan), Lincoln Center, the Grand Ol’ Opry, the Glastonbury Festival (UK) and all points in between. Tran has given masterclasses and workshops for the Jacobs School of Music Young Pianists program, the National Federation of Music Clubs Conference, and for teachers in the Madison area. His scholarly edition of the Chopin Barcarolle Op. 60 has been downloaded more than 3000 times and has been praised by International Chopin winner Kevin Kenner, Juilliard Professor Hung-Kuan Chen, and Van Cliburn Winner Jon Nakamatsu. Tran’s students have won prizes for piano and composition and have gone on to pursue degrees at UC Berkeley and UCLA.
I’m the musical director for John Hodgman’s Little Gray Book Lectures, and the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine. In addition to the music thing, I have been known to do a little podcasting and writing here and there. The album's namesake track, a good-time duet with longtime friend Dierks Bentley, plays on Carter's dexterity on the fiddle with an flashy solo—while also showcasing his charisma as a frontman and vocalist. "Good Things Happen," a Jamie Hartford number with vocal harmonies from Aoife O'Donovan, marks the kind of tender moment fit for a first dance or sweet serenade.
The theater's debut show was Ullie Akerstrom's comic play, The Doctor's Warm Reception. For over 50 years, the Opera House was the hub of Stoughton's arts and culture scene, hosting not only plays and musical performances, but political rallies, temperance speeches, high school graduations, and more. In the middle of the 20th century, the theater fell into ruin and was closed; however, the town did not give up hope on the historic space. In the 1980s, the city and local citizens decided to save the building and restore it to its former glory. Today, the venue is used once again for myriad events, and is a cornerstone of Stoughton's arts community. Winner of the MAMA award for best cover band and Madison Magazine’s Best Cover Band, Steely Dane is dedicated to not only faithfully reproducing the Steely Dan and Donald Fagen songbook, but to bringing an energetic live-show experience to the crowd.
The theater plays host to a wide variety of musical and theatrical performances throughout the season - rock, folk, classical, oddities, comedy...you name it. Known for sublime acoustics and an early 20th century aesthetic, don't pass on a chance to see a show or just pay a visit to the Stoughton Opera House. For 60 years, South Africa’s five-time Grammy Award winners, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has warmed the hearts of audiences worldwide with uplifting vocal harmonies, signature dance moves and charming onstage banter.
Award-winning Austin, Texas-based Hot Club of Cowtown may be the world’s most globe-trotting, effervescent string trio, who’s joyful sound blends the traditional Western swing of the 1940s American southwest with European hot jazz influences of the same era. The Hot Club of Cowtown, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2022, writes its own original songs and reinterprets everything from hoedowns to American songbook standards in its own, original style. The band is guitarist Whit Smith, fiddler Elana James, and upright bassist Zack Sapunor. The Spine Stealers are a Wisconsin-based folk band influenced by the northwood pines, 24/7 truck stop diners, heartbreak and dark lakes.
The duo formed around late night bonfires in their shared hometown during the height of the pandemic where they learned guitar together and wrote songs inspired by their experiences of heartache and nostalgia. In its early days, the theater's repertoire primarily featured plays, vaudeville reviews by traveling companies, and concerts. Since its reopening, its repertoire has consisted of plays by local companies, classical music concerts, and concerts by well-known touring musicians and bands. After several albums with ’Til Tuesday, Mann began her solo career in 1993 with the album Whatever and made a name for herself through her independent success and the founding of her record label, SuperEgo Records.