BingBong, Jeff Burkhart, DJ 45 Freakout

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Lori Ushman

BingBong standing outside the Crystal Corner Bar.

BingBong (from left): Pam Barrett, Brian Bentley, Julie Kiland, Danny Hicks.

media release: Comparisons with the Pretenders aptly position Bing Bong as heavily influenced by the power pop of the early MTV years. However, the group’s individuality and creativity shines in lyrics, instrumentation, and even video production – as witnessed in this stop motion “Jurassic Lego” accompaniment to their song “Bouncing Ball.”

Jeff Burkhart is a songwriter and performer who has been featured on PBS Wisconsin, and has performed at the Waterfront Festival, High Noon Saloon, Willy Street Fair, The Bur Oak, Harmony Bar, and many other venues.

Growing up in small town Indiana, he cut class to find adventures on the backroads, bounced around in North Carolina for a couple of years, then landed in Madison WI, where he found many great musical collaborators in various bands playing locally and regionally at coffeeshops, barrooms, taverns and outdoor festivals. 

The Dirty Shirts’ album Two-Dollar Turpentine is a Madison honky-tonk classic of his original songs and was selected as one of the best albums of the year by Isthmus in 2010.

His latest album, Just a Kid was entirely self-recorded in a beautifully open old warehouse on the near eastside of Madison and was released in April of 2022.  The album was reviewed in Tone Madison:

https://tonemadison.com/articles/an-outsider-comes-full-circle-on-jeff-burkharts-just-a-kid/

With between set tunes by DJ 45 Freakout (of WORT-FM program Chudblast, every other Tuesday at 11 pm).