$10 donation

All ages

9pm music

Come celebrate Trans Day of Visibility by supporting your local trans folks and a vital organization to our community

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

What Resembles Us

Nightlight

8:30 doors, 9pm music

$10 all ages

https://burgundywaltz.bandcamp.com/

Help us welcome back some of our favorite folks!

$10 all ages

https://www.emilytheband.com/

https://marshojilla.bandcamp.com/

https://www.allegrahernandez.com/

$10 all ages

8:30pm doors, 9pm music

https://sarahannlkolder.bandcamp.com/

https://toyaway.bandcamp.com/

$10 suggested donation, no one will be turned away

8pm music

https://darrinbradbury.bandcamp.com/

https://brianjohannesen.bandcamp.com/

https://aleclang.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-on-the-end-of-the-world-with-you-single

8:30 doors, 9pm music

$10 all ages

https://www.theaubreymusic.com/

https://music.apple.com/us/album/mama-single/1769573546

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmoQv97JiIM

Performances by Dave Moore, Penny Peach, Justin K Comer, Joshua Thermidor, Bootcamp, thisworldisnotkind

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8pm

$10 suggested, but not required, donation

From Oliver Weilein, candidate for Iowa City city council:

Now that we won the District C primary (by 42 points!) we need to carry that energy onto the March 4th CITYWIDE election. So we’re booking a Get Out The Vote gig on February 27th at @trumpetblossom with local punk/hardcore, screamo, noise, poetry, and more. $10 suggested donation (no worries if not able, come anyways!) and it all will be going to @icmutualaid to continue their life saving work this winter. Come slam, bring a friend, get out and vote. I’ll be drumming in @bootcamphotties 😎

$10 all ages

8:30 doors / 9pm music

"Ego Death" is @lampman.jacob's 2025 solo project. ⚫️ alternative acoustic music

https://helmerguitars.com/band

All ages $10

8:30 doors / 9pm music

https://www.ivegotproblems.net/

https://www.mdenneymusic.com/bio.html

Join us for our first show of 2025 as we host some of our favorite musicians!

Wave Cage https://wavecage.bandcamp.com/

Jack Lion https://jacklion.bandcamp.com/track/fillmore

8:30 doors, 9:00 music

$10 all ages, as always

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