Our Winter Artist Showcase features our house band led by Sonofmel as we welcome our first FREE show of local and regional performers. We invite you in for our opening performances of the Showcase.

The amount of talent in the region is incredible and we are proud to bring these and future artists to the stage for you to enjoy at no cost. This is the first of 4 planned Artist Showcases.

As was our First Thursday event, this is a free concert for all. Please come give these artists a warm, Northwoods reception. You won't be disappointed!

Artists for this event include:

Sonofmel: Sometimes it takes traveling far from home to find out where one comes from. After almost 20 years of wandering, from Baku to Berkeley, Anchorage to Ankara, Sonofmel brings the foreign home to the familiar, piling prodigal wanderings and fistfuls of chords into spoken word, stories, and song. Sonofmel is also a volunteer board member of The Park Theater.

"Is it music or poetry? Talking blues? Whatever it is, it may be the most interesting folk from Minnesota since Dylan." --Keweenaw Music

Marlee Paine: Marlee Paine is an 11-year-old, self taught singer and songwriter from Stone Lake, Wisconsin. Some of her early accomplishments have been winning the Big Top Idol (Junior division), being featured in the Open Mic All Stars show, and opening with 'Unclaimed Freight' for Ricky Skaggs at Big Top Chautauqua!

Hemma: Emerging artist Hemma comes from a family lineage of singers, and has spent the last decade carving her own path as a singer-songwriter in the folk, Americana and jazz scenes of the Midwest.

Hemma is a moniker for Hanna Hebl, who is known to captivate the audience with unique and stunning vocals that paint an ethereal, pastoral longing passed down from artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.

Naomi Cochran: Naomi Cochran is a life-long Hayward resident and a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Her work appears in several regional journals and books, and has been featured in The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. She has published three chapbooks—Finding Ourselves in Alzheimer’s, Razed Lutheran, and The Truth About Everything. Her full-length collection, Fill in the Blank, received a 2017 Wisconsin Library Association award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry.

And with special guest, Molly Otis!

Featured performers are subject to change