We welcome you to enjoy the evening of collaborative music that will blend folk songwriting and storytelling with cosmic country, dream pop, and live looping. Brought to you by Luke Callen, Old Pup, The Nunnery, Simon Cropp and Chris Gray. 

Meet the band:

The Nunnery begins with one voice, layered upon itself becoming a lush soundscape.
Sarah Elstran is an independent musician that bridges the gap between bright-eyed pop composition and hands-on atmospheric live layering of voice. Her vocal loops give us the kind of detail and wide multi-octave range that we might come to expect from a marquee pop star, while her production decisions continually keep us guessing as to what rabbit holes her tracks might fall into next.

Luke Callen: At the intersection of Harry Smith’s Old Weird America – the songs of heartworn highways – and the tumult of today you can find the music of Luke Callen. The songs – equal parts tragic comedy and hopeless reverie – paint a picture of the places and people that make up his earthly home. A poet – a player – a folk singer – Luke has traversed his country unraveling tall tales – short tunes and all that’s hidden underneath.
Luke has played hundreds of shows spanning both coasts, the American West, South, and Heartland. He has had the opportunity to provide support for Dom Flemons, Dead Horses, The Dustbowl Revival, Kacy & Clayton, James McMurtry, Whiskey Shivers, Charlie Parr, The Lowest Pair, The Last Revel, Lilly Hiatt, Chicago Farmer, and Robbie Fulks among others. He is a regular performer at the Historic Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah, OK – the progressive environmental festival Salmon Fest in Ninilchik, AK, as well as the regional indie Midwest Music Fest in La Crosse & Winona.

In 2022, Old Pup—the pet project of Milwaukee multi-instrumentalist Will Hansen—introduced listeners to its winning mixture of psych, folk, and country with the release of Incognito Lounge. That impressive debut was followed by a steady diet of live outings and an underlying uncertainty about exactly how Hansen and his rotating cast of collaborators might possibly follow up that album. On Friday, May 3, Old Pup surprised its budding fan base by releasing a new EP with no advance notice. Even more surprising than that unannounced EP drop is the content of the release itself.