8:30pm doors

$10 all ages

Drummer/Improviser Akio Jeimus, originally from Chicago, currently residing in Japan. In 2024, he joined the Osaka-based band goat (jp), and has been playing festival stages in Europe including Rewire and Moers. As an improviser, Akio has collaborated with a wide array of world-class artists including Toshimaru Nakamura, Eiko Ishibashi, Otomo Yoshihide, and Geordie Greep. In 2021, Jeimus self-released Multipresence, a collection of self-recorded drum set solo improvisations, and has independently toured Japan five times since. As a teenager, he placed as a semi-finalist in the Guitar Center Drum Off national competition in USA.

Julian Urrego is a Colombian American guitarist / multi-instrumentalist currently based in Wichita, KS. He has come up in various scenes within Kansas and Texas, and is now studying jazz guitar at Wichita State University. With a wide palette of influences, he has explored many genres throughout the years, including improv, rock en español, thrash metal, grindcore, and folk. Current primary projects include the WSU Guitar Ensemble, the jazz combo Order’s Up, and a jazz guitar duo with Andrew Highbarger. He has studied with David Lord, WIlliam Flynn, and Tom Burchill.

https://mountemblem.bandcamp.com/track/dream-of-fading

8:30pm doors

$15, all ages

https://helmerguitars.com/band

Dave Helmer is a songwriter's songwriter from eastern Iowa. Helmer toured the country for 15+ years with his band Crystal City, and adds Dave Helmer Band as his newest project.

Helmer's love of guitar is reflected even further in his work as a professional luthier proudly supporting area musicians.

Helmer's signature Rock & Roll sound on his newest release "Such a Clown" has honest lyrics, catchy melodies, and ripping guitar work that sticks in your head.

https://tripleelvis.bandzoogle.com/

https://eeelvis.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-ep

Triple Elvis, is a Des Moines-based rock trio, emerged as a therapeutic response to life's stressors and struggles. 

Drawing influences from indie and alternative rock, post-punk, indie-folk, and modern indie-pop, with a unique sound is laced with angsty Dad-rock, sporadically invoking the spirit of primal howling sea-shanties. 

Members have played in the following Iowa bands: The Sapwoods, Love Songs for Lonely Monsters, ThunderScore, Wolves in the Attic, Spells, Superchad, Circus Fun, and Soothing Syrup.

8pm show

$10 all ages :)

https://bottombracketil.bandcamp.com/album/im-so-afraid-of-where

https://gunklungmusic.bandcamp.com/

https://earlygirl.bandcamp.com/album/do-i-even-cross-your-mind

Join us for a fun night of 100% locally-made music! The Whiskey Fund and its squad of local pros kicks off the night, after meeting at the bar for some of that brown liquor. Next up is Iowa's own Caribbean-Funk band, Jumbies!!, bringing the island vibes and steel drum sounds to push winter away a little bit longer. Show starts at 9pm, but come early and grab some yummy vegan food...and a table. Dancing shoes highly recommended. $10 at the door. ALL AGES.

8:30 doors, 9:15 music

$10, all ages

https://wombatnoise.bandcamp.com/

https://danpadley.bandcamp.com/music

https://sawyereditions.bandcamp.com/album/something-kept-close-outdoor-music

https://therighthere.bandcamp.com/music

https://lipstickhomicide.bandcamp.com/album/out-utero

https://samuellockeward.bandcamp.com/album/more-songs

8:30pm, $10, all ages

8:30 doors, 9:15 music

$10, all ages

https://dentalrecordsic.bandcamp.com/album/lou-sherry-more-now-than-then

https://dizzybridges.bandcamp.com/

https://ackodband.bandcamp.com/album/appendix-i-revisions-annotations

https://andthecanaryfell.bandcamp.com/album/in-memoriam

https://maulofamerica.bandcamp.com/

8pm $10 all ages

Tickets and details at englert.org

https://ci.ovationtix.com/36399/performance/11490267?performanceId=11490267

8:30pm doors, 9:15pm music

$10, all ages

https://marshojilla.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/onemorehourband/

https://burkewallace.bandcamp.com/

$12 GA / $8 students

Robbie Lynn Hunsinger was a top notch classical oboist before becoming a composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, media artist, creative technologist and educator. She is a pioneer in oboe performance, interactive installation, responsive media performance and creative technology and one of the few living artists to integrate, solder and code all of these elements herself.

She is a proud member of the LGBTQ community and a powerful environmental and conservation activist and is the Founder of the now famous Chicago Bird Collision Monitors program, one of the largest and most effective hands on conservation efforts in the world.

Robbie Lynn has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, toured with the Chicago and Atlanta Symphony, performed at Marlboro Music Festival, Blossom Festival, The Chicago Jazz Festival, The Chicago World Music Festival and South by Southwest. She has taught at several universities including Northern Illinois University, Elmhurst College, Fisk University and Watkins School of Art. She studied oboe with John Mack, Elaine Douvas and Grover Schiltz and graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music.

She was as an obbligato soloist with the Chicago Symphony and played duets with Evan Parker at two of Chicago’s FMP Festivals of Improvised Music. Her list of credits include playing English Horn on the Chicago Symphony’s triple Grammy Winner “The Wooden Prince” with Pierre Boulez, touring as an Oboe d’ Amore soloist with Robert Shaw’s Choral Institute in France, a national tour with the Warner Brother’s Orchestra and presentations and workshops at a number of conferences including her “Oboe and Xbox” presentation at Chamber Music America’s conference in New York. She has performed with Pauline Oliveros, led the Trio project with the late Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Joseph Jarman (which received a 4 Star review in Downbeat,) has played with Ken Vandermark, Michael Zerang, Jaap Blonk, Tatsu Aoki and sat in with Cassadra Wilson’s band at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall on her Miles Davis Tour.

Robbie Lynn has become a true ambassador for the oboe, forging distinctive paths in free jazz, rock and contemporary classical music as well as in cutting edge multimedia performance and installation. Her interactive installation “Blue-Yellow-Red” used the surround sound of 6 English Horns along with Chinese oboe and soprano sax.

Her irresistibly playful and immersive installations have won a “Best of Year” write up from Burnaway Magazine, glowing reviews in Make Magazine and funding from Nashville’s Metro Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has exhibited at the Frist Art Museum, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, ISEA Chicago and Thomas Blackman Gallery. Her ongoing VR collaboration with Theresa Loong was part of New York City’s 16 Days to End Gender Violence 2022 and won a Diverse Gamers Grant from the International Game Developers Fund. She also just completed a multiple year collaboration with Metro Arts on a new interactive music and light installation at Nashville’s Mill Ridge Park by Daily Tous Les Jours opened in August 2023.

She is a stellar musician, composer, media and installation artist and educator and is available as a presenter, visiting artist, educator and performer. Her masterclass specialties include oboe, beginning coding, beginning electronics, micro-controllers and improvisation.

8:30pm doors / 9:15pm music

$10, all ages

8:30pm doors, 9:15pm music

$12, $8 w/student ID, all ages show

8:30pm doors / 9:15pm music

$10, all ages

Tickets:

https://littlevillage.boldtypetickets.com/events/156554533/trumpet-blossom-fundraising-dinner?fbclid=IwY2xjawFO3GxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQ3I9l6Cd4rF5zRoJ0e8L2lI43yNyGgtpQY8qtREju2pq-QYHOGGUvvs0A_aem_YjiRHgzgNWJ7loXqxe6zkw

Join us for a special evening to gather and feast on all things weird and wonderful. Trumpet Blossom is proud to present a three-course dinner to raise funds in support of FEaST, the annual festival founded by Chris Wiersema. Enjoy a curated set list for the evening, a silent auction, and the company of friends.

General Information
Doors open at 6pm, first course served at 6:30pm

Drinks can be purchased separately throughout the night

All proceeds go to FEaST

Tickets: $90 per person, including tax & gratuity

Menu*
1st course: arugula & sweet potato salad with quinoa, apples & pears, pickled chive-pomegranate aioli, black pepper walnuts
2nd course: grilled tofu, zucchini corncakes, kale pistachio pesto, roasted red pepper-sweet corn relish, apple cider reduction
3rd course: ginger pumpkin tart with spiced cashews and maple bourbon whip

*Menu is vegan and made with gluten-free ingredients

Please reach out to feastiowacity@gmail.com with any questions and we would be happy to help.

8:30pm doors / 9:15pm music

$10, all ages

8:30pm doors / 9:15pm music

$12, all ages

$10, all ages 7:30 doors, 8:15 music, kitchen closes at 8, bar is open for the show

https://www.marquesmorel.com/

Marques Morel is an American songwriter/story-teller, midwestern-twanger/folksinger, guitar-thumper/harmonica wailer, street-performer/wandering troubadour, steadfast woodcutter/migrant worker, a father, a son, and a friend to all. 

“Taking his cue from the likes of Townes Van Zandt, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, and any number of other tattered troubadours, (Marques Morel) sounds like a cross between Johnny Cash, Bob Seger, and the late John Stewart (solo, The Kingston Trio) reciting ragged tales of the American West and its once-former glories,” writes Lee Zimmerman of The Alternate Root. 

Originally from the Illinois corn country, he has performed just about anywhere that anybody would listen: big city street corners around the world, county fairs, folk festivals, hole in the wall taverns/divebars/honky tonks, cabin porches, backyard barbeques, listening rooms, theatres large and small, and beside many campfires and woodstoves amongst the ghosts of his songwriter heroes. 

Marques has had the honor of sharing stages with some of the great songsters of our time- Charlie Parr, Arlo McKinley, Joe Pug, Willy Tea Taylor, Riley Downing, Billy Don Burns, Pokey LaFarge, and Chicago Farmer to name a few of his favorites.  

https://www.johntillmusic.com/

Till was exposed to country blues through an older brother's record collection that included now folk-blues legend Mississippi John Hurt and Mississippi hill country bluesman Fred McDowell. You can hear his admiration for singer/songwriter Chris Smither as well.

Those sounds now seems a perfect soundtrack to Till’s youth.

“I was so surrounded by the country, like we always found a way to get out,” said Till. “We took family trips to places like CECO, which was only 40 miles away. We’d also go south on long road trips to Bull Shoals in the Ozarks. My dad grew up putzing around on farms in Naperville when he got out of Chicago as a kid. He kind of glorified that, and it’s where I fell into it.”

Join us for a night of original midwestern roots rock!

https://naturalhabitsband.com/

8:30 doors, $10

All ages as always

8:30pm doors, 9:15pm music $10, all ages as always

About Luke Callen:

In an age of quick fixes, flashing screens, and pop ‘songs’ that are more formula than art, an album that takes its sweet time is a radical act. “Also Going Nowhere”, Luke Callen’s third full-length effort is just that - a collection of songs that spread out through time and space, dripping with honest Midwest charm and a mischievous glint. It’s music that you can relax into, paired with lyrics you’ll want to chew on and savor, that ask something of their listener. These songs are proof and reminder: you don’t actually have to go anywhere at all to, you know, get somewhere.

This no-frills arrangement style is like a drink of water for those of us who crave something real and honest to listen to. The sonic palette pays homage to a whole plethora of elements endemic to the American music tradition without feeling derivative or landing too hard on any one side of the genre question. Sure, fans of John Prine, The Band, or Randy Newman will undoubtedly hear traces of Callen’s biggest influences, but there’s a modern assessment within the music that is the distinct voice of an artist coming into his own and sharing stages with fellow pickers and balladeers like Charlie Parr and Margo Cilker.

About Brian Johannesen:

“With gritty vocals and a swaggering, everyman style of country rock Johannesen’s sound is at times reminiscent of acts like Lucero, Ryan Bingham, and James McMurtry. ”

— Glide Magazine

9pm doors, 9:30pm music

$20 GA / $15 with student ID / free with FMWT pass

8pm doors, 8:30pm music

$20 GA / $15 with student ID / free with FMWT pass

Formerly known as Justice Yeldham, Granpa is the new persona for maverick Australian free noise musician Lucas Abela. The difference between the two are subtle, Abela still performs on shards of broken glass turned into crude musical instruments. Played by pursing his lips against the panes and vibrating them using vocal techniques akin to throat singing crossed with raspberries, creating an erratic array of strangely controlled, while oddly musical, cacophonous noise. While Yeldham is centered on ecstatic pure improvisation often resulting in maniacal performances, Granpa is an attempt to rein in the instrument and take it in a more musical direction. Abela also hopes the change might help to dispel the negative connotations his bloody forays as Yeldham have created, the blood for some overshadowing a truly unique musical output. However this transformation is far from complete Yeldham being the Hyde to Granpa’s Jekyll, occasionally taking over his subconscious.
http://dualplover.com/yeldham/

$10, all ages as always

From Dan Butler (The Bassturd) :

Greetings Patriots! I am very excited to announce that on July 13th my longtime friends Brian Boelman, Brandon Boelman, Todd Courson, Cody Hennesy, and I will be reuniting our incredibly weird high school band Todd’s Neat Futons for our first live performance in nearly 30 years. It’s been quite a trip revisiting all of these old songs again in preparation for this show. My main takeaway is that we had absolutely no pretentiousness or focus. We really didn’t care at all and were just having fun playing music. I am very excited to have the opportunity to get to play with these guys again.

I will also be performing a duo set with another longtime friend Sam Locke Ward. Sam and I will be backing each other up on selections from each of our respective catalogs.

Lastly, another longtime friend Jason Hennesy will be performing a set, joined by his son Zef! Jason has, in my opinion, always been an incredible songwriter. I am very much looking forward to seeing him perform.

This is going to be an epic show! Please come join us on Saturday, July 13th at Trumpet Blossom in Iowa City, IA. I hope to see every single one of you there.

Friday June 28

9pm doors/9:30pm music

$15, all ages

https://jacquialpine.bandcamp.com/album/difficult-body-3

https://daviseisenberg.bandcamp.com/album/accept-when

Caroline Davis, saxophone; Wendy Eisenberg, guitar

“We wrote “Accept When” between 2022 and 2023, after a long, beautiful period improvising together intimately in the safety of a friend’s practice space. Our friendship, the quality of attention that colored the light of that and all our other practice spaces, became the basis for our activity and growth as songwriters and our relationship as improvisers. Friendship, how we relate to each other, is our nucleus: the central and essential part of our movement; the positively charged central core of our atom.

A nucleus is supposed to be an especially essential form in eukaryotic cells. Their nuclei are surrounded by a membrane, which in that world permits them to be said to have “true nuclei.” Even their smallest parts, their organelles (incidentally also the name of Caroline’s keyboard heard throughout the record), are held by that membrane. The deepening of our musical friendship, the affordance of space we give to the possibility of synchronicity, the reminders we write of the preciousness of our existence - all of this we put into these songs for you, to help us all accept these miracles and metaphors, in our lifeboats.”

Tickets at: https://englert.org/event/dan-bern/

Ticket Options

$20.00 + Fees – General Admission (purchased online in advance)

$25.00 + Fees – General Admission (purchased at the door)

Undefinable by genre, crossing over and through folk, rock, singer-songwriter, and kids music, Dan Bern is a rare, and true renaissance artist, a captivating live performer with a multi-generational following. He has written thousands of songs, released dozens of albums, and played shows –from coffee shops to Carnegie Hall.
Dan’s songs have appeared in numerous films and TV shows.

https://anitavelveeta.bandcamp.com/

https://fend.bandcamp.com/track/team-up

https://earlygirl.bandcamp.com/

8pm doors, $10, all ages

((Update: John Till had to cancel his appearance due to vocal issues/concerns; we wish him a safe & speedy recovery!))

8pm doors, 8:30pm music

$10 all ages

Join us as we welcome these talented singer/songwriters for an intimate night of music with country, blues, folk, and americana influences.

This is Marques’ first time on our stage and we are really looking forward to his sparse yet richly layered songs. We’re in for a treat!

Jordan is one of our favorite local musicians and always puts on a great show featuring some of her classics and hopefully some new pieces we’ve been hearing about.

https://mmorel.bandcamp.com/album/trail-of-the-ghost

https://jordansellergren.bandcamp.com/

8pm doors, 8:30pm music

$15 GA / $10 w/student ID / free w/FMWT pass

Tickets at https://littlevillagetickets.com/events/150112366/gwenifer-raymond-wales

Gwenifer Raymond began playing guitar at the age of eight shortly after having been first exposed to punk and grunge. After years of playing around the Welsh valleys in various punk outfits she began listening more to pre-war blues musicians as well as Appalachian folk players, eventually leading into the guitar players of the American Primitive genre.

She released her sophomore LP ‘Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain’ at the end of 2020 to a rapturous response. Her debut ‘You Never Were Much Of A Dancer’ emerged on Tompkins Square to the same response in 2018. She has found herself equally embraced by fans of old-west and equally, by left field/experimental audiences.

Appearances throughout the UK and the EU have established her as one of the leading lights of the scene, and not to be missed under any circumstances.

Gwenifer on her process for the 2020 record: 

"My new album, ‘Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain’, has eight songs in it. All were recorded in a basement flat in central Brighton, locked-down amidst a global pandemic. I recorded them myself and neither I, nor any of the songs saw said outbreak coming. Coronavirus may have dictated the circumstance under which the album was recorded but it did not otherwise inform any of the compositions that run through it; like I said, we didn’t see it coming.

Growing up in Wales was not a theme strongly present in my first record (perhaps not too surprising in an album of ‘American Primitive’), but I feel as though my memories of that time have started to insinuate themselves in the tunes here. In my opinion, landscape does a lot to shape a community’s folk music; from my childhood I recall tall, spooky trees, black against the grey sky, breath misting in cold air, and I have tried to take something of Welsh folk horror to make my own ‘Welsh Primitive’.

Whilst this isn’t the only theme present in the album, childhood memories do form the background for a couple of tracks: coal trains steaming along the foot of our garden, rattling the glasses on the kitchen table; and the titular ‘Strange Lights…’ dancing above the peak of the mountain which loomed over the house where I grew up. Dead men also feature prominently, as well as personal tragedies and the madness of touring.

It’s possible this album is leaning more into the left-field than the first – the songs are longer and more ‘compositional’ for lack of a better word, rather than deriving so heavily from the folk and blues traditions, though, they’re still there – all of those dead men are hard to shake. Some parts go fast and others go slow. Sometimes I play more aggressively than I intend to and other times I play exactly as aggressively as I intend to. I still say it’s punk music and I have no idea what key the last tune is in.

For Erik Satie, Master Wilburn Burchette, and Ruben the dog."

https://danpadley.bandcamp.com/

9pm $10, all ages