Music

15 Mother Fool's 15 - Live and Web Stream - Starring Jon and Stephanie


June 4, 2010

Come celebrate 15 years of coffee with Mother Fool's owners Jon and Stephanie.

Featuring: Music - Talking - Jingle Contest - Food - Memory Lane Slideshows - Prizes

Stephanie Rearick - $6


May 29, 2010

Piano pop cabaret.

"Amanda Palmer gone psychedelic and retro -- one of the rawest, most original aesthetics we've heard in awhile." - Keyboard Magazine

10% Day to support East Timor Action Network


May 23, 2010

Mother Fool's will be donating 10% of our proceeds to the East Timor Action Network sister city project.

Daniel Girma - Reading - free


May 22, 2010

Daniel Girma is a senior who will soon be graduating from Middleton High School. Next year he will be attending Columbia University to study writing and music..

Ricky Stein - $6


May 21, 2010

Ricky Stein aspires to make music that comes straight from the heart.

Katie Todd - $6


May 14, 2010

Piano based pop rock band from Chicago.

Crooked Mouth String Bandw/ special guest Bob Jacobson - $7


May 8, 2010

String band cabaret? Vaudeville honky-tonk?

No Show


May 7, 2010

We'll be open but don't have a show scheduled.

Art reception - free and open to the public


May 2, 2010

Come meet the artist!

Dana O'Shea will be hosting a reception from 6 - 7 pm.

Boo Bradley w/ Bare Hands Jug Band - $6


May 1, 2010

Boo Bradley is a hot blues stompin-, jelly roll jumpin-, rag jazz infusin-, two-man acoustic jug attack from Madtown, Wisconsin.

Recreation Station w/ Vanessa Tortolano - $6


April 30, 2010

Vanessa was raised in Hawaii where she studied musical theatre and vocals from the age of 5-18. She then moved to L.A. to "make it" soon realizing it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be.

Charlie Cheney w/ Julia Brown - $6


April 24, 2010

Charlie Cheney is a former Madisonian now living in mainland Michigan.

Rachael Cantu - $8


April 23, 2010

Rachael Cantu is known for her evocative blend of indie folk rock delicately infused with distinctly powerful vocals, gentle melodies and heartfelt lyrics.

Lac La Belle - $6


April 17, 2010

Strains of the early decades of recorded rural American music informed by Detroit's post-industrial decay. Lac La Belle has all the vitality and beauty of the best Americana.

Poor Howard Stith - $6


April 16, 2010

"Poor Howard" Stith has been performing traditional and original 12-string blues for over thirty years and has shared the stage with such notable bluesmen as John Jackson, Archie Edwards and Peg... [more]

Lonelyhearts w/ Melissa Czarnik - $7


April 14, 2010

On record the Lonelyhearts' songs build upon waves of synths, guitars, and harmony vocals. In live performances, the band keep it simple: one keyboard, one guitar, two voices.

Donna Herula w/ Lonesome Dan Kase


April 10, 2010

Chicago blues singer and slide guitarist, Donna Herula, plays old-time Delta and country blues on her National steel resonator guitars.

Aniv de la Rev - $5


April 9, 2010

Aniv de la Rev, Madison's premier punk/cumbia/rock band since 2003, will be performing for the last time at Mother Fool's Coffeehouse on Friday April 9th at 8PM.

Meet April's artist


April 4, 2010

Free and open to the public! Come meet this month's artist.

No Show.


April 3, 2010

We will be open until 11 so stop on in.

Pamela Means - $7


April 2, 2010

Pamela Means, internationally touring, award-winning, singer-songwriter and jazz musician; on tour with new acclaimed, acoustic album, "Precedent."

Flo et Christo - $5


March 27, 2010

"Christo" (Chris Ruppenthal of Caravan GSE, and Mal-O-Dua) and "Flo"(Dr. Florian Bertrand) premi-re at Mother Fool's Coffee house with a new gypsy jazz project!

Rose Polenzani w/ Rose Cousins - $8


March 26, 2010

About Rose Polenzani:

A Spring Equinox concert with The JoAnne Pow!ers/Jennifer Pendur/Michael Brenneis Trio - $7


March 20, 2010

Multi-faceted percussionist Michael Brenneis joins infamous Madison saxophonist JoAnne Pow!ers and bassist Jennifer Pendur to celebrate the first day of spring with a program of ecstatic, spirited... [more]

Al Rose - $6


March 19, 2010

"Rose blurs musical boundries while singing some of the sharpest, wittiest lyrics this side of Nas... One audaciously entertaining ride." - Chicago Tribune

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