Benefit for Bitch Magazine featuring Stephanie Rearick, Nicole Gruter / Wilhelmina Baker

Art in the cafe...

Members of Red Pine


"Permutations of Red Pine"


September 2026



A Red Pine tree was planted at the corner of 212 Merry Street in the late 60s that evolved over the decades into a cooperative household. We are making it a place for comity and creativity; Clarity and the imagination; we change detritus of early 21st century late stage capitalism into art, shrine, paintings, music, sculptures, urban Permaculture and homesteading experiments. We appreciate the used, the worn out, ever crumbling and reassembling; as we all are all the time.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

For Madison's Stephanie Rearick, labels like 'classical' and 'arty' don't do justice to the genre-bending music box of sound that comes from her upright piano. It's by turns adventurous and accessible, ancient and futuristic, comforting and scary. On her 2005 album Star Belly, sounds from an old west barroom mingle with high concept cabaret and psychedelic distortion. -- The Onion

Nicole Gruter / Wilhelmina Baker...
Wilhelmina Baker is Nicole's current solo project. She sings arias through effects pedals, bares heart heart through a megaphone, pops out of a box to chastise the iraq war, turns from muslim to redneck with the help of Brooks and Dunn, and hands out tasty morsels that corresponde to the song at hand. Every show is different, multi-sensory (mmm..yummy), sometimes political, sometimes silly. Always entertaining!

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