Jeff Burkhart

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Jeff Burkhart behind a mic.

Jeff Burkhart

Note: Moving to 6/11 due to air quality.

media release: Rain Garden Sessions: Every Wednesday, 5pm-7pm, through Labor Day, you can listen to some free music behind Willy East. Bring a chair or just stop by for a tune or three!

This week we have Jeff Burkhart. He 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.