Live Music at the Tasting Room with John Dugglesby

John Dugglesby

John Dugglesby, an award-winning author of a dozen books and hundreds of magazine articles, made his professional performing debut at age five at the Sunset Supper Club in Muscatine, Iowa, singing, “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby” after the piano man bribed him with a nickel.  After a hootenanny fling in a “baby Kingston Trio,” he grew up as a percussionist playing everything from orchestra tympani to garage band rock and roll.  As an adult, he learned guitar as a more benign living room alternative.

Over the years John has labored in several underappreciated genres, folk, 60s rock, Cajun, bluegrass, and world music ensembles, but his main gig these days is playing over 100 one-man shows a year for listeners of all ages, at venues ranging from food/drink emporiums to senior centers, to libraries, to festivals (including Wisconsin State Fair, Taste of Madison and Milwaukee’s Bastille Days).  His songbook ranges from Stephen Foster and George M. Cohan to Beatles and Bruce Springsteen– as well as his own material– accompanied on guitar and a music store of other instruments.  John also leads drum circles and kitchen bands for groups including kids, seniors, and disabled people

The Cider Farm

The Cider Farm offers ciders made with organic, true cider apples grown near Mineral Point, Wisconsin. The ciders pair beautifully with the made from ‘scratch’ small plates featuring locally and organically grown ingredients.