CAFE CARPE

Bill has written a treatise on this. - (probably a bit outdated). Bottom line is that sometimes audiences are hard to find. Though we are a bar, it is not a bar gig. People have to be motivated to pay cover and pay attention in a listening room. After wading through it, if you still want to play here, contact Bill by phone (late mornings are best), or e-mail him at booking@cafecarpe.com... The club is owned by Bill Camplin and Kitty Welch, who began it in 1985. That's a long time ago. You'd think they'd have fixed the place up by now. Bill is a singer-songwriter of modest regional fame (we are a modest region), and as a performer has created a listening space in which he and others of his ilk love to play. Kitty does not enjoy modest regional fame. They live above the business. The Carpe has a lovely staff more competent than themselves who help keep the place running, including Dennis Geszvain, Mary Preston, Satchel Welch, and the occasional star appearance by Karen Reinhardt or..

Primary location: Fort Atkinson United States