Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 9:18PM Pianist Laurence Hobgood, long-time musical director and arranger for celebrated jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, will perform solo and with Madison-based vocalist Sally deBroux, bassist Laurie Lang, and percussionist John Becker.
http://www.laurencehobgood.com/
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 1:48PM Widely recognized as one of Madison's (and Wisconsin's) best guitarists, Masino has played with dozens of bands from the midwest and is featured on the Gregg Clemons LP on Nemperor CBS Records (1980). He was a finalist in the Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar Competition 1999 (Memphis) and has opened for a long list of national bands. During the early 1980's John lived in New York City playing shows and worked as studio musician. We're thrilled to have him on the show!
http://www.reverbnation.com/johnmasinoband
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 12:29PM Peter Roller has been exploring guitar styles in a variety of cultural directions since discovering music like the blues of Mississippi Fred McDowell and the Bluegrass of Flatt & Scruggs as a teen. Over the past thirty years, while working as a professional musician and college instructor, he has written a body of guitar-led original music that leans variously towards Hawaiian slack key, bossa nova, Piedmont blues and steel guitar jazz. Roller is releasing his first full length CD of such pieces in Spring 2010, including his Dobro instrumental Rancho Mirage, the only work previously available on the widely popular Narada compilation Masters of Acoustic Guitar.
Roller is based in Milwaukee and teaches in the Music Department at Alverno College. He has played and recorded with area performers--bluesman, Steve Cohen, worldbeat band, Paul Cebar & the Milwaukeeans and gospel quartet, the Masonic Wonders. Previously, Roller was the guitar accompanist for first generation country bluesman, Yank Rachell, acting as producer and playing on his Bling Pig release Blues Mandolin Man.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 1:09PM Ida Jo, a fixture in the Madison music scene, returns to the show with Scott Lamps. Her soulful voice and unique songwriting a must listen.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 12:32PM Local author, storyteller, and songwriter Stuart Stotts performs his thought provoking and politically charged songs.
Mad Toast Live, folk, gaines, live, madison, music, songwriter, storyteller, stotts, stuart, wagoner, wisconsin in Music Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 12:50PM Violinist Randy Sabien and his String Jazz Quartet consisting of Mike Dowling, Jeff Eckels, Matt Turner and hosts, Chris Wagoner and Mary Gaines joining on violin and cello. The Brink Lounge was packed for one of the greatest Mad Toast Live shows to date.
Mad Toast Live, bass, cello, concert, guitar, jazz, jeff eckels, live, music, randy sabien, string, violin in Music Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 1:40PM Daylight in the Swamp is a contemporary bluegrass band based out of Madison,Wisconsin. The band members are a collection of some of the top musicians in the area. The various influences they bring to the group show the diversity of their backgrounds.
www.daylightintheswamp.webs.com/
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 12:47PM Led by songwriter Jay Moran, local rock/folk band Emmettville brings their talents to the Mad Toast Live stage.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 1:00PM Intemperance Collective is a Balkan band "playing the folk dance music of Eastern Europe and beyond with intemperate zest" and caters to folk dancers.
"The band features folk-dance and Balkan music cognoscenti, along with smoking vocals, an exciting and varied repertoire, and . . . [gasp!] . . . an instrumentalist who jumped ship to play the tuppan."
intemperancecollective.blogspot.com
Mad Toast Live, balkan, folk, intemperance collective, live, music, reptile palace orchestra in Music Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 12:08PM Artist, author, radio host and performer Gregg Williard reads his original cyber-punk fiction. Check out his radio show on 89.9 WORT in Madison every 3rd and 4th Friday of the month from 11:00 to 12:00 midnight (just before Mad Toast Live!).
www.wort-fm.org/programming-music-mixed.php
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 3:20PM Evan Murdock, previously of the Lonesome Rogues and the Kentucky Waterfalls presents his newest band: Evan Murdock and the Imperfect Strangers, which includes members of the Cork n’Bottle String band, Count this Penny and North Country Drifters and Big Mouth Collective.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 1:00PM 3 wayward Kentucky Colonels (really!) forming a Madison, WI based super group of pickin', grinnin', and general insanity. Featuring Col. Kirsten Earley, Col. Matt Earley and Col. Andy Moore from WI Public TV's "30-Minute Music Hour"
Mad Toast Live, andy, bluegrass, live, madison, moore, music, winn dixie, wisconsin in Music Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12:00PM Minneapolis songwriter Mother Banjo.
Her music combines the haunting sounds of traditional folk and gospel with contemporary alt-country and Americana hooks. Poetic and rich, her songs are sad, sweet and full of the stories that inhabit the wide open prairies of the Midwest.
Mad Toast Live, banjo, ellen, folk, live, minneapolis, mother, music, songwriter, stanley in Music Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 1:47PM The Weather Duo is the only post-contemporary chamber ensemble in Madison, WI, and possibly the world.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 12:09PM
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 1:52PM
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 12:00PM
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 1:00PM Songwriter Ritt Deitz and his band bring their gritty yet polished act to the show.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 12:00PM 
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 12:10PM
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