The Portage Center for the Arts is hosting The Whiskey Farm in its Zona Gale Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Saturday as the second installment of its 2023-24 concert series.
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From polka to Punk Ballads
New music from Shawndell Marks, Mike Schneider Band and more
Singer-keyboardist
Shawndell Marks has most often recorded music in a band context, both for her solo albums and as a member of Gin, Chocolate and Bottle Rockets, Gold Dust Women, and various other groups. A notable exception to that is her 2020 Madison Area Music Award winning album
Keys to Unlock Your Dreams, a collection of original instrumental solo piano pieces. She revisits the solo approach in a much different way for the new EP
Punk Ballads, a collection of covers of songs by 1960s-1980s-era rock groups. The original records â by Black Flag, The Buzzcocks, The Cure, The Equals, Love and Rockets, and Ramones â are generally up-tempo, brash, guitar-based songs, so Marks spare and smoky recastings give each tune an arresting new personality. The EP was recorded live to cassette at various public locations around Sauk County that would normally be busy, but during the pand