Cafe Carpe

18 S. Water Street
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
Tel: (920) 563-9391

Cafe Carpe Website

Live Music Schedule:

7/30 Mother Banjo, Bill Camplin

8/6 Piper Road Spring Band
8/7 Peter Mulvey, Hayward Williams
8/12 The New Pioneers
8/13 Ronnie Cox
8/14 Cliff Eberhardt
8/20 Icarus Drifting
8/21 Bill Camplin

9/8 The New Pioneers
9/10 Garnet Rogers
9/16 Ken Bonfield, Dakota Dave Hull
9/18 The Buzzards
9/24 Boulder Acoustic Society
9/26 Anne Hills

10/22 Mile Dowling Solo
10/23 Bill Camplin

11/12 Chris Smither

Description:

The Café Carpe is a restaurant, bar, and music club in downtown Fort Atkinson, a city of 12,000 in southeastern Wisconsin- 35 miles southeast of Madison, 60ish miles southwest of Milwaukee, 20 miles northeast of Janesville, about 6900 miles west of Baghdad. Fort Atkinson is noted for being the birthplace of Peter Urban and onetime home to Jeffrey Foucault, the place where he cut some of his musical teeth on a few bottles of beer. Of most interest to anyone bothering to get to this site is the music club part of the above-listed triumvirate.

The Carpe has a talk-free, smoke-free listening room separate from its main bar-dining area. (This does not mean that one can talk and smoke for free.) The room, which has great acoustics, seats 60 people comfortably but can hold 70 people who are enthralled enough by a performance that they only almost forget they are sweaty, their butts hurt, and they can’t move without a serious invasion of someone else’s personal space.

Shows are primarily on the weekend nights, and there is a cover charge for all performances except the periodic open stages.

Directions:

Cafe Carpe is on the river at 18 South Water St. West, which is just south of the Rock River and just west of the first block of South Main St. (The bridge over the river divides North and South Main.) There is only one other bridge in town which crosses the river, and it is the Robert Street Bridge.  If you find yourself on or near that bridge, go east a few blocks to reach Main Street.  (If you are coming from the south and you cross the Rock River you have gone too far north, and if you are coming from the north and have not crossed the river you have not gone far south enough.)