The Waves Cafe

06/08/2024

Save the date: The Waves is back!

We are moving to St. Paul, to MetroNOME Brewery to be precise. The first of three shows at MetroNOME will be Sunday June 23rd from 7 to 9. MetroNOME is in downtown St. Paul, 385 Broadway St, across from CHS Field, home of the St. Paul Saints.

As usual, your hosts will be Paula Cisewski and Maura Bosch. The lineup for June 23rd will include poets Heidi Czerwiec and Lara Mimosa Montes, and multi-instrumentalists Kari Tweiten, Jeff Johnson, James Holdman, Nyttu Chongo, Patti Cudd and Pat O’Keefe.

06/19/2023

An impromtu Waves Solstice event this Wednesday, featuring music by astrid hubbard-flynn, David Introwitz-Williams, Jeffrey Brooks, M. Harlan Engelmann, Maura Bosch, and Ryann Daisy Swimmer, and photos by Vance Gellert.

09/23/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTpo58cp_IU

Here's what is cool about Waves: two performers who have never met, who, earlier in the program, have each played their own solo set, now meet on the stage for the first time to collaborate, and who knows what is going to happen!

Jeff and Mike perform an improvisation at the Waves: a cool surprising mix of guitar styles!

09/02/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hGmGNlc1t0&t=41s

Here's Paula Cisewski reading at the June Waves accompanied by Jeffrey Brooks messing around with a hi-hat cymbal. Our next Waves, which is happening this weekend (9/4), features Paula in collaboration with Kirk Johnson and Terrance J Fisher. Don't miss it!

Paula Cisewski reads her poem Late Capitalism Courtesy Book while Brooks messes around with a hi-hat cymbal

08/28/2022

Here is a link to the Trilloquy podcast hosted and produced by Garrett McQueen. The Waves Cafe, was featured on the most recent episode (the part about Waves begins at 01:05:00 and goes until nearly the end).

If you haven't already heard of Garrett McQueen, then now is the time! He's super-busy putting out wonderful content that covers all issues related to music, classical music, equity, peace, justice and beauty! We all could use a little more of his positive energy in our lives!

A "thrilling", "open-minded and omnivorous approach to music" that is "required listening for industry leaders and listeners alike." -New York Times

08/23/2022

Lauren Evans and Raycurt Lemuel will return to Waves on September 4 as part of the quartet known as MOETRY!

08/23/2022

We are inspired by Hannah Arendt who said, "The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle!"

Welcome to The Waves!