The Honey Pies, Jud Swenson

press release: Celebrate at Rural Musicians Forum’s 2019 fundraiser, a rollicking CABIN FEVER RELIEVER featuring the Madison group The Honey Pies.

The concert will be held February 2, 2019, at 7:30 PM in APT’s comfortable and warm indoor Touchstone Theater.  As a bonus feature, guitarist and River Valley favorite Jud Swenson will open the show.

The Honey Pies first performed at the 9th Annual Spring Green BeatleFest in September 2017. What was meant to be a one-time collaboration felt so comfortable that they set out to build on the experience and perform regularly. The trio’s ear-pleasing repertoire embraces folk, Americana, jazz, and pop, and will have you out of your seat and dancing in the aisles. 

The quartet brings crystal harmonies and virtuoso instrumental skills to the best of traditional music.  Tom Waselchuk has performed for more than twenty years in a swinging guitar duo with multi-instrumentalist Doug Brown. Doug has long been among the most in-demand freelance sidemen on the Madison music scene as well as being a band-leader, composer, and arranger. No stranger to the River Valley area, Arena native Jodi Jean Amble made a major splash in the Chicago scene fronting her eponymous band—nominally jazz, but equally at home with, pop, country, and more. She now lives in Madison and is continuing to turn heads. Rounding out the quartet and a recent addition to the group is bassist and vocalist Matt Rodgers.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.  Advance tickets can be purchased from BrownPaperTickets.com or click the link from the RMF website: ruralmusiciansforum.org.  Beer, wine and cider will be available for purchase at the concert.  A paddle “auction” will be held and door prizes will be awarded. It will be a fantastic night!  See you there.