Americana Matinee: Amy LaVere + Will Sexton, Long Mama, Joseph Huber

Sun Sep 28 2025 at 04:00 pm to 07:30 pm UTC-05:00

The Cooperage | Milwaukee

The Cooperage
Publisher/HostThe Cooperage
Americana Matinee: Amy LaVere + Will Sexton, Long Mama, Joseph Huber
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Join us for an early matinee show with friends from Austin, TX, Memphis, TN, and Wisconsin! (...and stick around for the Packer game.)
About this Event

The Cooperage presents a rare matinee! Join us after brunch for a day full of tunes with some of our oldest friends and favorite musicians!


Amy LaVere and husband Will Sexton have been music collaborators and touring companions for 11 years. The quality of their craft, the miles traveled and their original catalog is ever growing.

LaVere’s songwriting is pointed and clever with lyrics that are hard to shake. Once you hear her captivating voice, it will be forever instantly recognizable.

Over the past three decades, Will Sexton has grown into a skilled musical polymath: an esteemed writer, producer, session player and solo artist with a string of acclaimed LPs to his credit. Sexton’s seasoned guitar playing and velvet vocals are a superb fit to LaVere’s distinctive talent and smooth, percussive upright bass prowess. Amy and Will are among the finest musical craftsmen and performers in the Americana genre. Their spellbinding show is incomparable, something you must see for yourself.

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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 they 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 and 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.

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Joseph Huber hails from the state of Wisconsin, and seems to bring forth the varied voices of whatever it may be that lies dormant within either the fertile soil or the callous concrete of that world. It has been said, "You don’t just like Joseph Huber’s music. You feel it’s something that the rest of the world needs to hear, and how criminal it is that it isn’t spreading far and wide." That sentiment could be related to the fact that the voices which Huber unearths are subtle and take more than a hurried listen to truly absorb. A person who appears reserved and matter-of-fact in everyday speech brings forth songs that are anything but that.



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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Cooperage, 822 South Water Street, Milwaukee, United States

Tickets

USD 14.09

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