Ordinary Elephant
Sat, May 16
|Big River Theatre
Saturday, May 16 • 7pm Tickets: $17/$20 (Youth always 1/2 price) Scroll down for bio, video & tickets!
Time & Location
May 16, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Big River Theatre, 121 S Main St, Alma, WI 54610, USA
About the event
International Folk Music Awards 2017 Artist of the Year Ordinary Elephant captivates audiences with their emotionally powerful and vulnerable songs, letting the listener know that they are not alone in this world. The collaboration of husband and wife Pete and Crystal Damore, their connection, and their influences (such as Gillian Welch, Guy Clark, Anais Mitchell) all meet on stage. “Two become one, in song... hand-in-glove harmonies surprise the listener with focused intensity and musical mastery,” says Mary Gauthier.
When Crystal and Pete talk about living on the road, they mean it quite literally. After walking away from established careers in veterinary cardiology and computer programming, the pair moved into an RV in 2014 and began touring relentlessly, earning widespread acclaim with the kind of riveting performances that soon made fans of luminaries like Tom Paxton and Mary Gauthier. In 2017, the duo took home the International Folk Music Award for…