Coming Events
June 11, 8-11pm, Graminy will play at Mother Fool's Coffeehouse, Madison, WI, $7.
June 5, 1-4pm, Graminy will play at Wollersheim Winery, for a "Music on the Vine" free concert and release party for our new CD, "Water Grass Place," sponsored by River Arts.
Past Events
Recent Performances
May 6, 2011, Thirsty Roots (with members from Graminy) played for the Prairie Hill Contra Dance in Delafield, WI.
April 29, 2011, eleike played a concert at Wild Hog in the Woods Coffee House, Madison, WI
April 22, 2011, Graminy played at The Rathskeller, Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 16th, 2011, Thirsty Roots (with members from Graminy) played for a contradance at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison
February 19, 2011, Fiddlasaurus Rex played for a contradance at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison
February 5, 2011, eleike performed a house concert at my home, in Madison.
January 28th, 2011, Graminy played a concert at Wild Hog in the Woods Coffee House, Madison, WI
Oct. 16, 2010, eleike played at Indian Lake County Park for the inaugural Indian Lake Trail Run.
Oct. 10, 2010, World premiere of Water Grass Place, a 40-minute class-grass suite by me, performed by Graminy and the River Arts Choir. Commissioned for the River Arts 10th Anniversary Celebration, River Arts Center, Sauk Prairie, WI.
Sept. 28, 2010, Graminy played on Mad Toast Live, Brink Lounge, Madison, WI
September 25, eleike played at the Hilldale Farmers Market, Madison.
July 3, eleike played at the Hilldale Farmers Market, Madison.
May 22, 2010, eleike played at the Mt. Morris Camp for a creativity conference (private event).
May 15, 2010, 8pm, Fiddlasaurus Rex played for a contradance at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison.
April 20, 2010, Graminy performed at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison for a special Earth Day celebration.
April 16, 2010, Thirsty Roots played for the annual caberet at the First Unitarian Church in Madison.
April 3, 2010, I played a dance with Thirsty Roots (a new ensemble composed of Sweet Grass members Shauncey Ali and Trent Cuthbert and eleike members Eleanor Mayerfeld and me) at the Prairie Hill Contra Dance in Delafield, WI.
March 14, eleike played at the MACSAC Open House, Monona Terrace, Madison.
March 6, 2010, I played a dance with Kevin McMullin and Bill Obermeyer at the Prairie Hill Contra Dance in Delafield, WI.
February 6, 2010, The Wiretappers played for a contradance for the North Texas Traditional Dance Society at the Plaza Arts Center in Carrollton, Texas.
February 5, 2010, The Wiretappers played a concert at the Trinity Hall Irish Pub in Dallas, Texas.
January 30, 2010, eleike played at the Washington Hotel Coffee Room in Madison, 402 West Lakeside St.
December 11, 2009, eleike played a concert at the Wild Hog in the Woods Coffee House, 953 Jenifer St., Madison, at 8pm.
November 21, 2009, Fiddlasaurus Rex played for a contradance at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison, at 8pm.
October 17, 2009, the Barn Owls played for a contradance at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison, at 8pm.
October 10, 2009, eleike played at the Washington Hotel Coffee Room in Madison, 402 West Lakeside St.
September 12, 2009, eleike played at Bike the Barns, sponsored by MACSAC (Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition) at Elver Park in Madison.
August 1, 2009, The Wiretappers played a dance at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society in Madison at the Concourse Hotel.
June 26, 2009, eleike played at the Wild Hog in the Woods Coffee House, 953 Jenifer St., Madison.
June 19, 2009, eleike payed live on the Mud Acres show, hosted by Chris Powers on WORT radio.
May 30, 2009, eleike played for the Burgers and Brew fundraiser for REAP, the Research, Education, Action, and Policy on Food Group, in Middleton, WI.
May 17, 2009, eleike played for the neighborhood Weed Feed at Glenwood Children's Park in Madison. For a video clip, click HERE.
May 16, 2009, I played again with the Barn Owls, my old band, for a dance at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison.
May 9, 2009, I played a dance with the fiddler Kevin McMullin and guitarist Roger Diggle at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison.
April 11, 2009, eleike played at the Washington Hotel Coffee Room in Madison.
March 27, 2009, eleike played at the MACSAC open house at Olbrich Gardens in Madison.
March 7, 2009, Fiddlasaurus Rex played for a contradance at Prairie Hill in Delafield, WI.
March 1, 2009, eleike played for a fundraiser for Alder Chris Schmidt, in Madison.
February 18, 2009, eleike performed at the Greenway Crossing Montessori School in Madison.
December 20, 2009, eleike played a concert at the Washington Hotel Coffee House, Madison, WI. s
October 17, 2009, The Wiretappers played for a contradance at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison.
October 16, 2009, The Wiretappers played a concert at the Wild Hog in the Woods Coffee House in Madison.
October 10, 2008, eleike played for the annual Gymanfa Ganu in Cambria, WI.
Premieres
October 10, 2010, another new "class-grass" composition of mine was premiered. Graminy and the River Arts Choir performed Water Grass Place, a 40 minute suite for class-grass ensemble and choir, at the River Arts Center in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.
April 20, 2010, a new "class-grass" composition of mine premiered in a special free Earth Week concert celebrating the 40th Earth Day and the 40th Anniversary of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. The concert was titled Ecotones: A Musical Ecology of Wisconsin, and features all pieces by University of Wisconsin-Madison composers. My composition, "Gatherings," was performed by Graminy, which is Chris Wagoner (fiddle), Shauncey Ali (fiddle and viola), Mary Gaines (cello and voice), Chris Powers (steel-string guitar), and me (mandolin). The performance took place at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison.
My composition, The Wick of the Land, was premiered May 13, 2007 by the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society at a concert of rural-themed music organized by the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Letters. The concert was part of an Academy exhibition on Wisconsin's People on the Land at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. The Wick of the Land represents my musical, and sociological, response to the works in the exhibit.
For more info, click here.
Sustainable Consumption and Society
A conference of RC24 (Research Committee 24 on Environment and Society of the International Sociological Association)
Held June 2-3, 2006
University of Wisconsin, Madison
For the conference site, click here.
Last updated May 29, 2011
Michael M. Bell, environmental sociologist, social theorist, and composer