JoAnn Riedl coming up from Milwaukee

TONIGHT (Friday, the 22nd) Stumpjack Coffee will be the place to be if you're in the mood for some high energy tunage. JoAnn Riedl, along with Jeannie Mayotte, is traveling from Milwaukee to perform here at 7:00pm.

Here's the brief press release we sent out, and thanks again to the Herald Times Reporter for printing this and all the other announcements of great stuff going on in the area. (And did you catch the fine article on our boy Kerry Michaels in today's Weekend Edition?)

JoAnn Riedl's deep, sultry vocals and percussive, rock-guitar style hails from Milwaukee, WI. JoAnn is a singer-songwriterwho combines folk, punk and rock into her at times gentle yet aggresive performances. Playing since 1998, Riedl performs solo a nd at times with backing bands, Kicked Out Scout and The Relief. She is also a front woman for The Barrettes, a four-piece girl band. JoAnn has performed several times in Canada, Ireland, and throughout the U.S. and has shared stages with many talented musicians along the way.

"She wages love and war on her guitar and explores issues that are as heavy as steel-toed boots, including the environment, sexism and revolution." -- Molly Snyder Edler, www.onmilwaukee.com

Lloyd Rohr's Saturday night gig

After slipping and sliding our way into downtown Two Rivers this morning I decided to close shop. It is ugly out...34 degrees, freezing rain, big pools of sloppy slush everywhere. Treacherous walking and driving, and if it freezes later today like they predict I imagine a lot of businesses will be closed tomorrow as well.

BUT, last night was a different story...the weather was good, Lloyd Rohr was great, and everyone had a fun time. I just added the photos from last night to the Flickr sets in the right-hand column - Lloyd's at the top of the list. Click on it and then click "view as slideshow" in the upper right if you want to view them all that way.

Acoustic Music this Saturday night/Closing early Thursday night

1) Tomorrow night, Feb.14th we will be closing a bit early in the evening, at 6:30pm, in order to conduct our first Valentine's Day special tasting event. The event had a limited seating allowance and that got filled up right away, and it's a private party kind of event, so we'll be locking the doors at 6:30 when those folks who signed up get here. Again, we'll be doing tastings like this pretty much every month from now on, and will let you know via email and the blog.

2) This Saturday night at 7:00 Lloyd Rohr will be bringing his acoustic and vocal talent to the Stump. Lloyd's got a great, mellow acoustic sound and this is his first gig at Stumpjack, so come on down if you're able and spend some relaxing and mellow time with us. We saw Lloyd perform a few months ago and really enjoyed the cool vibe he put out...this is going to be a very fine Saturday night.

Joe & Mike here this Saturday

This Saturday the 9th at 7:00pm: The music of Joe LaForce & Mike Retzinger.

We've been trying for probably more than a year to schedule a date with Joe and Mike to play here at Stumpjack Coffee. Either their or our schedules never seemed to mesh until now. So we are very happy to announce Joe and Mike's first-ever gig at Stumpjack this coming Saturday.

Come out in force people (no pun intended there, Joe, honestly) this Saturday for what promises to be a very good time of music, conversation and caffeine (or beer or wine?).

Flickr pics from Derek's Saturday night gig.

Derek Pritzl and Scott Cowling rocked the Stump for three hours (yeah, three hours!) tonight. We have to start cleaning up so the short report is that the house was full, everyone loved Derek, Scott plays some mighty tasty guitar, and we might have a video or two to put on here when Derek hooks us up with a disc from tonight.

Go here for the Flickr set.