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Long Mama’s music blisters with the heart and grit of someone who has lost hard, loved harder, and licked her burns until they stung then silvered. In a drafty attic just west of the Milwaukee River she grew up on, you’ll find songwriter Kat Wodtke (Wood-key) raking through notebooks in search of a salve: words, stories, and sounds to temper the dumpster fires we never mean to light. Flickering behind each song is Wodtke’s lived insight into our human faults & fissures – the moments in life when we can slip and lose our footing, or claw our way out…better people on the other side of the blaze.
Wodtke coined the name Long Mama (after a prickly, shade-loving cactus) and teamed up with guitarist Andrew Koenig and drummer Nick Lang, a pair whose chemistry adds dusky afterglow to Wodtke’s musical landscapes. Upright bass ace Samual Odin came aboard soon after, along with regular collaborator Eva Nimmer, whose backing vocals blend so elegantly with Wodtke’s that one could mistake them for blood harmonies.
Resurrectionists, a band hailing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
History and Formation:
The Resurrectionists came together in early 2019. The project emerged after the breakup of another band called Work, in which the bassist and singer/guitarist Joe Cannon were both members.
Work had a mix of punk energy and slower, desperate-sounding songs. When Work disbanded due to the drummer moving to Texas, Joe and bassist Jeff Brueggeman explored various successor projects.
The Resurrectionists were born out of the idea of focusing exclusively on the slower, more melancholic side of their music.
Allen Coté is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, multimedia artist, divemaster and ship captain, originally from Austin, TX and currently based in Milwaukee and Door County, WI. Coté is proficient in guitar, lap steel, bass, ukulele, mandolin, and many others; and received the Wisconsin Area Music Industry’s 2011 “Specialty Instrumentalist of the Year” award. He holds his 25 Ton Master with Aux Sail Merchant Mariner Credential, captains several ships in Door County, and guides scuba and snorkeling tours on shipwrecks in the region.
Allen Coté has contributed to recordings and performances by numerous national and international artists. He has also provided original scores and sound design for film and live theatre productions with worldwide distribution, received “Best Score – International Short Documentary” from the Hollywood North Film Awards, and composed ten seasons of the Emmy-winning PBS television show Wisconsin Foodie.
Doors at 6:30pm, Music at 7:30pm, $10