MAD TOAST LIVE!

Chicago Jazz mandolin player, Don Stiernberg, is joined by Andy Brown & Jim Cox for a wonderful afternoon of music. 

donstiernberg.com/

video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuH6gjq7LMw

Led by long time Madison front man, Mike Droho, Compass Rose combines beat box, guitar and violin to create strong pop music. We have been trying for years to get them on the show!

http://www.mikedroho.com/

video  http://youtu.be/LeTHJea2LNE

Robert 'One-Man' Johnson sings classic and original blues & ragtime songs and plays guitar, harmonica, hi-hat cymbal and footpiano ...simultaneously

http://www.housedogmusic.com/home.html

video

Robert 'One-Man' Johnson sings classic and original blues & ragtime songs and plays guitar, harmonica, hi-hat cymbal and footpiano ...simultaneously

http://www.housedogmusic.com/home.html

video

Johannes Wallmann, the new director of Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, put together a of world class ensemble to play his beautiful original compositions.  We teamed up with the Madison Music Collective to put on this memorable show.

The Band:

Johannes Wallmann on piano

David Cooper on trumpet

Darren Sterud on trombone

John Christensen on bass

Devin Drobka on drums

Marty Erickson on tuba

http://www.johanneswallmann.com/

video  http://youtu.be/J1fSNA8K9SQ

Led by Jimmy Voegeli, The Jimmys powerfully blend rock, soul, and swing into a fun and energetic show.

http://www.thejimmys.net/

Accomplished Milwaukee based blues performer Steve Cohen.

http://www.stevecohenblues.com/index.html

video http://youtu.be/v9lUXqPLKiw

Arguably the greatest living keeper of the bebop flame, alto saxophonist Richie Cole returns to Madison in this season kickoff program for Madison Music Collective’s “Jazz on a Sunday” series hosted by Chris Wagoner and Mary Gaines of Mad Toast Live.  Richie will be joined by a rhythm section led by our celebrated local pianist Dave Stoler.

http://www.richiecole.com/Richie_Cole/HOME.html

Wat the video here

After Rolling Stone and Spin hailed his 1992 release, “Can You Fly” a masterpiece, its success led to a major label deal with Elektra (produced by Butch Vig), for whom Johnston released “This Perfect World in 1994, which included his breakthrough hit, “Bad Reputation”.  Other critically acclaimed albums followed and critics have continue to praise Johnston effusively, solidifying his reputation as one of the finest and most singular voices in the singer-songwriter genre.  Splitting his time between NYC and Madison, you may have caught Freedy in past years in rare Madison shows with Garbage alums, Butch Vig and Doug Erikson and Madison main-stays James “Pie Cown, Bill “Stick” Bielefeld and Jay Moran in their clandestine cover-band, The Know-It-All-Boyfriends.

www.freedyjohnston.com