Join Coppers & Brass (Frank Claudy, Joe Dutcher, Tara McGovern and Keith Reins) for our second annual Halloween Haunted Irish Music shows. We’ll feature grisly songs and happy tunes for an early show (5 pm at the Sanctuary on Saturday and 6 pm at Kalona Brewing Co. on Sunday that will let you get home… Read More Haunted Irish Music with Coppers & Brass
Coppers & Brass is honored to be performing the original music of our friend David Hicks from his wonderful collection The Storms of May in gratitude for his life and legacy. We will be playing Dave’s music to accompany my McGovern Music Studio’s sister school, the Champagne Academy of Irish Dance, at the Iowa Dance… Read More Coppers & Brass with Champagne Academy of Irish Dance performing the music of David Hicks
Wind your way through Iowa’s spectacular fall scenery to a delicious dinner and some heartfelt music tonight at the award winning Kalona Brewing Company and the light of the full moon and your happy hearts will carry you home.
Between my Irish trad band Coppers & Brass and my folk-rock duo with Jeffrey C. Capps The Soft and Low, I have an October filled with performances that one could attend and still get home in plenty of time to watch at least half a season of something (might I suggest Derry Girls?) October 13 (Sunday) Kalona Brewing Company with The Soft and Low. 6 pm. October… Read More This just in: music and sleep need not be mutually exclusive!
Jeffrey C. Capps says it best: “There’s just something about playing music in a place that feels like your living room … with really exceptional mood lighting and delicious beer.“ Mark your calendars: Saturday, Sept 14 at 8 pm at Sanctuary Pub.
I’m thrilled to share this information from my friends at ArtFarm19! I will be there with bells on. Bells and heaven knows what else. Anything is possible. Dear creative friends and collaborators, I wanted to let you know about ArtFarm19, a festival of creativity happening near Iowa City this July. ArtFarm19 brings together artists, educators,… Read More ArtFarm19, a festival of creativity hosted at Scattergood from July 4 – August 3
I have very good days and very hard days. Just like you. On the very hard days, I try a number of things to get back in tune. Different things work on different days. Social media never works. Dogs are a pretty reliable win. Poetry has never let me down. Naomi Shihab Nye wrote this… Read More Buttonhole
The Front Porch Music Festival is coming up again this Saturday, June 8 in the Longfellow neighborhood in Iowa City! Free? √ Accessible? √ Inclusive? √ Family-friendly? √ Dog-friendly? √ FUN?! √ √ √ This year, I am delighted to be joined by several of my fiddle students. We will play from 4-5 pm on… Read More The Front Porch Music Festival is this Saturday, June 8!
Wyoming was an unforgettable adventure. I’m so grateful.
John Rapson is that rare professor whose teaching leaves such an imprint on your mind and heart that you remain indebted forever. For this reason, I agreed to be part of this project well before I fully understood what it was. Then I read Kathryn Schulz’s June 2016 New Yorker article that inspired John and Nielo… Read More Hot Tamale Louie at Coe College 3/23
Tara McGovern 