Events

Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, challenge your brain with a trivia challenge that will make you smarter AND happier!

No cover. Start time 6:30pm

RITT DEITZ book release celebration 

live musical performance by Ritt and Wilder Deitz!

 Local musician and songwriter Ritt Deitz is also a writer.  Come celebrate the release of his unusual debut novel, SETTLE DOWN, which takes place in 1980s Virginia and on Madison’s Near East Side.

Free admission Books available for purchase Book signing after the show

Start time 6:30pm

It’s the best kids show in town. Spend every Monday with David, a beer and some yummy food!

$5 cover. Start time 5:30.

Want great harmonies at the Harmony? Then, you can’t miss this show. Bigtooth brings the vocal sweetness! 

No cover. 6:30pm start time.

Termed, ‘a prominent guitarist,’ by the New York Times and praised by The Washington Post for his ‘astonishingly florid’ improvisations, David Rogers presents an evening of Spanish, Flashy Settings of Pop Tunes, Classical, Contemporary as well as music by J.S. Bach and original compositions. 

An endorsing artist for Aquila Strings (Italy), his music has been featured in major guitar magazines such as Fingerstyle Guitar in the United States and Akustic Gitarre, in Germany. His solo and ensemble performances have been broadcast on American National Public Radio and Bayrische Rundfunk

No cover. 6:30 start time.

Sean Michael Dargan is almost too tall, standing six feet, four inches in his favorite black-and-white saddle shoes. On a good day he writes and plays pop rock in the vein of Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann, and the Gin Blossoms. Guitar and voice are his main instruments, but if you’re not nice he’ll go get his bagpipes. He’s performing with his trio and has recently released his sixth studio album, “A Little Bit Distracted…”

As openers, BingBong brings their special form of power pop.

$10 cover.21+. 9pm start time.

The Cajun Strangers are back for the season! Are you ready to shuffle to the beautiful sounds of Madison’s finest Cajun band? You know you are!

$10 suggested donation. 4pm start time.

Robert J. is an award-winning singer/songwriter/recording artist who has been a mainstay in the Wisconsin music scene for decades.  Whether playing solo or with his band The Moon Gypsies or The Rowdy Prairie Dogs, Robert's music blends the styles which flow along the Mississippi River, from blues to country, folk to rootsy rock and roll. 

No cover. 6:30 start time.

Best trivia in town with local flair! Your host, Paul, will guide you through an evening of factoid discovery and merriment.

No cover. Start time 6:30 

John Masino is an award winning guitarist known for rockin’ hard with his four piece band. Come see him perform solo. His guitar work is second to none!

No cover. Starts at 6:30pm

An indie pop project unafraid to stretch and play with labels, LINE weaves singer-songwriter sensibilities with multi-genre arrangements. For the past 7 years, vocalist Maddie Batzli has worked with close collaborators to create songs that include multi-part harmonies, intricate basslines, folk instrumentation, ghostly electric guitar riffs, and synth tracks. Core bandmates include Austin Lynch and Esther Chun who have been integral collaborators in the project since its origin, as well as current bandmates Emily Mills and Aux Doucette. LINE’s soaring vocals, playful stage presence, wide-ranging instrumentation, and advocacy for human rights has earned them a place as a staple in Madison’s indie pop scene.

Seeking a change of pace through a minimalist side project, Batzli and guitarist/producer Charlie Koz are releasing The Woodside Sessions EP as an acoustic duo in September 2025. This new release centers vocals drawing comparison to Natalie Merchant, Enya, and Dolores O’Riordan (of the Cranberries,) and arrangements reminiscent of Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. Koz and Batzli are touring the EP during the month of September across the east coast and the midwest, concluding with a bittersweet final show in Madison on October 3 at the Harmony before their move to Brooklyn, NY. The October 3 show will showcase songs from the new EP in LINE’s acoustic duo configuration, as well as a set with the full band, including fan favorites from over the years. Although this show is the “grand finale” of this iteration of the band, LINE will continue on as a project, exploring remote collaboration and a wide range of genres. 

$12 Adv/$15 D.O.S. Start time 9pm. 21+

Gaines and Wagoner are award winning musicians who  have been making sweet, sweet music together for decades. 

G&W will be joined by Nathan and Matthew, an energized singer-songwriter and remarkable electric cellist from Minneapolis

Suggested donation $15. Show starts at 4pm.

The Harmony Mixed Open Mic happens every first Tuesday of the month. Sign up to perform is 6:30. Three song limit for musicians and 5 minute limit for spoken word/poetry/comedy.

No cover. Show starts at 7:00pm.

It’s our monthly offering of Annie & the Oakies.  Get ready for a most pleasing mix of folk, Americana and bluegrass.

No cover. Show starts at 6:30.

The Stop and Listen plays old-time stringband music with a unique set of instruments and voices. We specialize in fiddle tunes, old-time songs, jug band numbers, and country blues. They bring some serious drive and groove with harmonicas (sometimes a couple at once), extraordinary improvisation on cello and fiddle, banjos of uncompromising size, and a bass with a chip on its shoulder. Songs are sung with an old-time swagger, harmonies included.

No cover. 6:30 Start time.

Rocking audiences with a celebration of life's joys and trials, the Lower 5th shares their unique blend of Americana, which they simply call "Midwestern Soul". Their music drifts from charged renditions of timeless classics to soulful originals that keep happy crowds singing and dancing into the night.

Derek Ramnarace (of Old Soul Society)  opens.

$10 cover. Start time 9pm. 21+

Sláinte Irish Dancer are coming! Get ready for some jigs and reels!

7;30 start time. No cover but donations are appreciated!

Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, challenge your brain with a trivia challenge that will make you smarter AND happier!

No cover. Start time 6:30pm

Jeff Burkhart is a songwriter and performer who has been featured on PBS Wisconsin, and has performed at the Waterfront Festival, High Noon Saloon, Willy Street Fair, The Bur Oak, Harmony Bar, and many other venues. 

Growing up in small town Indiana, he cut class to find adventures on the backroads, bounced around in North Carolina for a couple of years, then landed in Madison WI, where he found many great musical collaborators in various bands playing locally and regionally at coffeeshops, barrooms, taverns and outdoor festivals.

Start time 6:30pm. No cover

Get ready for a truly dynamic show. It’s a Kat and the Hurricane sandwich and the bread is two bands from Cleveland, Ohio.

$15 cover. 9pm start. 21+

O’Darby Irish Pub Band are back in rotation at the Harmony! Catch the first in this season’s monthly offering of reels and jigs starting after the Packers game.

Start time 6:30. $10 Suggested donation.

Madison's hardest working Bluegrass band, Soggy Prairie, is proud to host the Madison Bluegrass Roundtable, a monthly series highlighting Southern Wisconsin's Bluegrass scene. The series will feature new and upcoming bands, as well as well established groups. Each month will feature a set from Soggy Prairie followed by a set from a guest band.  This month’s guest band is Dig Deep.

Start time 6:30. No cover

This internet depiction of the band is meant only to pique your curiosity and cause you to attend our show. Will it work? Only you know.

Starts at 6:30. No cover

Join us for the book launch of My Seven Mothers: Making a Family in the Danish Women’s Movement with Pernille Ipsen! The distinguished author and historian will delve into her collective biography of the seven women who raised her and their lives and politics in the women’s and lesbian movements in Copenhagen in the 1970s, out now from University of Minnesota Press.

A chronicle of gender, sexuality, and feminism as it was constructed, contested, and lived, My Seven Mothers is an eye-opening account of the challenges and possibilities connected with liberation and radical social change during the 1970s. In this time of fierce struggles over family, sexuality, and child-rearing, it reminds us that new worlds are always possible.

A Room Of One’s Own will be vending the book at this event.

Start time 4:00pm. Open to the public.

Jack o'the Dust is a folk duo from Madison, WI. Andrew Doiel plays guitar, Amy McNally plays fiddle, and they both sing.

Start time 6:30. No cover

ONCE MORE, AUTUMN:

A project rooted in Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s artistic soil, Evan Walton fronts Once More, Autumn. A transplant of Minneapolis and an alumnus of Berklee College of Music, Walton fuses indie folk elements with alternative textures. Propelled by the instrumentation of Jeremy Boettcher (S. Carey), Isaac John (Underneath Oceans), and Steve Shaw (The Bathtub Marys), the band melds atmospheric tones with lush, driving riffs. Paired with Walton’s introspective and emotive words, Once More, Autumn offers dynamic and earnest musical expression.

VACANT CHURCH: "Vacant Church fills the room with atmospheric folk rock that sounds like Beck and a (happier) Lou Reed on a double date. There’s also a little My Morning Jacket in their big, reverby sound." - Isthmus.com... and/or, in my own words: light. dark. quiet. loud. folk. psych. pop. rock.

Start time 9pm. 21+. $10 cover

The Kenland band presents the Haunted Disco. A spooky dance party for ALL ages! The Kenland band is Ken Lonnquist, Henry Boehm, Doug Brown, Esperéeé Eckard-Lee, Dane Richerson and Chris Wagoner.

$10 adults/$5 kids. Start time 7:30

Your only (AND GREATEST) source for boot shufflin’ Cajun fun.

4pm start time. $10 suggested donation

Want great harmonies at the Harmony? Then, you can’t miss this show. Bigtooth brings the vocal sweetness! 

No cover. 6:30pm start time.

Ready for some old school country / honky-tonk? We’ve got you covered!

 Canyonero  is Dan O'Brien and Nick Brown on vocal/guitar/bass, Andrew Harrison on lead, Matt Nafranowicz on pedal steel, and Ben Wolf on drums. This newly formed band has been playing country music for years in bands like Brown Derby, The North Country Drifters, the Nick Brown Band, and lots more.

Start time 6:30. No cover

The Mersey Brothers featuring Sean Michael Dargan will be paying tribute to a few of their favorite bands for this special Halloween show! Get into the groove will R.E.M., The Smiths and Crowded House!

Start time 9pm. 21+. $10 cover.

Gaines and Wagoner are award winning musicians who  have been making sweet, sweet music together for decades. 

Reid is an eclectic and humorous Madison-based singer-songwriter.

Start time 4pm. $15 suggested donation

Madison Uphoff is a folk musician and actor, and is very grateful to be spending some time in her hometown after having lived in Los Angeles since 2022. During her time in California, she recorded her debut album, ‘Holding Pattern’, which can be found anywhere you stream music.

6:30 start time. No cover

After August is a band based in Madison, WI that emerged in 2022. They perform their own original rock songs and are known for their award-winning song writing, engaging harmonies, driving rhythms, and catchy riffs.

The Ghost Particles are Phil Davis, lead vocals, guitars, Dave Benton, electric guitars, backing vocals, Lee Laski, drums, backing vocals, Joel Tappero, bass guitar, Don Irwin, keyboards and piano, and Pauli Ryan, percussion. Veterans of the Madison music scene, they’ve recently celebrated the release of their second album, North Central.

Both bands consist of animal lovers and are thus donating the cover charge to the Dane County Humane Society.

$15 cover. 9pm start time

It’s our third annual Lightfoot Tribute show!

Ken Lonnquist and Doug Brown celebrate the life and songs of Gordon Lightfoot.

$10 donation. 8pm start time.

It’s our monthly offering of Annie & the Oakies.  Get ready for a most pleasing mix of folk, Americana and bluegrass.

No cover. Show starts at 6:30.

Robert J. is an award-winning singer/songwriter/recording artist who has been a mainstay in the Wisconsin music scene for decades.  Whether playing solo or with his band The Moon Gypsies or The Rowdy Prairie Dogs, Robert's music blends the styles which flow along the Mississippi River, from blues to country, folk to rootsy rock and roll.  

No cover. 6:30 start time.

Van Orman and Helwin play songs of love and loss, from the devout to the degenerate, with inspired vocal harmonies accompanied by an array of instruments including Viennese guitar, gourd banjo, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, harmonium, concertina, harmonica, and jaw harp. 

 John C. Van Orman and Adam Helwin are singer-songwriter neighbors in the bucolic countryside of southwestern Wisconsin’s Driftless region, a place of unglaciated hills, fertile soil, and clear-running trout streams where they craft poetic songs to sing alongside traditional folk tunes and selectively curated covers.  

John has roots in American and British traditional material including ballads, cowboy songs and sea shanties. Adam was raised in church choirs and molded by the DIY ethos of punk rock. These seemingly disparate backgrounds entwine to produce extraordinary music with elements of country, blues, traditional, and psych-folk, restoring the original edge missing from so many interpretations. For this special evening, John and Adam will be joined by Todd Menton and Drew Miller of Boiled in Lead. $10 cover. 9pm start. 21+

O’Darby Irish Pub Band serve up  their unique blend of harmonies with aplomb!

Start time 5:00pm. $10 Suggested donation.

Madison's hardest working Bluegrass band, Soggy Prairie, is proud to host the Madison Bluegrass Roundtable, a monthly series highlighting Southern Wisconsin's Bluegrass scene. The series will feature new and upcoming bands, as well as well established groups. Each month will feature a set from Soggy Prairie followed by a set from a guest band.  This month’s guest band is Barred Owl String Band

No cover. 6:30pm start time. 

Rachel Drew is a singer-songwriter from Chicago, celebrated for her soulful voice and catchy, self-penned tunes that blend pop, rock, folk, and retro soul. Her latest album, Old Sky New, was recognized as one of the 13 Best Chicago Albums of 2024 by the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ/Vocalo-NPR. Rachel’s music has been featured on NPR’s Great American Folk Show and WFMT’s legendary Midnight Special program. Alan Harrison of The Rocking Magpie writes of Rachel’s latest album, “There’s something of a hint of Dusty in Memphis, minus the strings here; as Rachel has a similar breathy and pearlescent voice that reels you in... the arrangements are pure Laurel Canyon at its height when Linda Ronstadt and Mama Cass could do no wrong.”

No cover. Start time 6:30pm.

Your monthly dose of down home Cajun music. Prepare to shuffle!

$10 suggested donation. 4:00pm start

After years of sharing festival bills and bumping elbows at open jams, Starr Moss, Trent Cuthbert, Michael Falk, Claire Kannapell and Paul Kienitz have convened to make their own brand of bluegrass-inspired music. Bigtooth, the culmination of this shared history, keeps one hand on the book of bluegrass standards and the other on the songwriting pen. Count on a distinctive repertoire that intertwines traditional material and original compositions, delivered with precision, finesse, and style.

No cover. 6:30pm start.

Max Capacity & the Sellouts return to the Harmony for their annual Second Harvest Fundraiser. Do ya dig late 70s and 80s music? We sure do! Start off you Thanksgiving weekend right by bringing your family out to party before the big feast.

$10 suggested donation.8:00pm start

Recover from the Thanksgiving celebration with Cork ‘n Bottle String Band. They are the anit-triptophan.

No cover. 7:30pm start

Dogtown Hollow is a Madison-based roots-rock outfit buoyed by the strength of two recent EPs -- "Rivers, Roads & Bridges" (2024) and "Watch Your Step!" (2025) -- and a 2024 Midwest Country Music Organization nomination as Americana Artist of the Year. If you like funky country beats, crafty songwriting, and high-flying harmonies, Dogtown Hollow delivers. 

No cover. 4:00pm start time