About Us

The story:

Barb Sorensen was in WI on St Patrick's Day 2025 for a parade which was cancelled. Instead of moping around afterwards, she and her sound person headed out to Mt Horeb to explore the Troll Trail and take silly photos.

Along the way they found a wooden bridge crossing over a walking path.  They decided to re-enact the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff - because, well after all, Mt Horeb is known to be a Norwegian city.

Barb began acting the story, playing all the characters in intervals. Soon, local musician Mitch Doty and his family (Jenna and Theo) came strolling by on their afternoon walk on the path beneath the bridge. 

Being a creative family, they walked over to see if they could "play" too. So Mitch became the Troll to cross the bridge and produce the dramatic Billy Goat/Grumpy Troll final scene for the camera. Excellent acting!

In their conversation after the video was completed, Barb learned that Mitch and his family are musicians as well. The lived nearby.and she and her sound person were invited to Mitch's house for a short impromptu concert on their family's front porch.

Barb and her sound person were blown away at their music and presentation. That was when Barb decided she wanted to try and book Mitch and his family band - Lex Murphy and the Lawmen - for concerts. 

Later that afternoon Barb and her sound person went to visit a farm which was struggling financially. After she returned home she called up the farm to ask if they would consider letting her produce a fund raiser concert event for them.  While the owner was initially interested, Barb never heard back from the farmer and could not reach them again.

But the spark of creativity had ignited within her and she thought it would be fun if all the local area Mt Horeb musicians had an original concert showcase. It would be the first all original indie showcase in the area.

After broaching the topic to Mitch to see about interest from the local musicians and to find out how many there might be.. it turns out that Mt Horeb is a music loving city! They love their musicians and original new music and have tons of high quality original artists. 

Mitch, Lex Murphy and the Lawmen, and another choosing-to-remain-anonymous local area musician got on board and began to meet and put the event together grass roots style.

2025 is the first year. The rest of the story is about to unfold as we move forward with this event.

We invite you to join us at the inaugural showcase and enjoy the music.