Nate Gibson & the Stardazers w/ Marty Stuart & his Fabulous Superlatives 4/20/24 @Stoughton Opera House

I'm very excited to share that the trio version of Nate Gibson & the Stardazers will be warming up the Stoughton Opera House crowds tomorrow for my very favorite band, Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives! Tickets to both shows have been long SOLD OUT, but if you're one of the lucky ones who already purchased tickets, be sure to come out early!

Marty and the band have a new Record Store Day LP coming out tomorrow morning with Chris Hillman and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds (it's a live recording from the 50th Anniversary Sweethearts of the Rodeo tour), so as soon as you get out of the Record Store Day lines, you'll want to head to Stoughton. For those with tickets to the first show, the Stardazers will get started at 1:30, and for those attending the evening show, we'll go live at 5:55.

It's sure to be an enjoyable afternoon and evening with a Country Music Hall of Fame legend and the tightest band in show business. R-a-w-k!

101 Hodag Jokes is now available online from The Hodag Store!

Do you love cryptids? Do you love jokes? If so, perhaps you would love some jokes about cryptids! 101, to be specific. And did I mention limericks? And cute hodag illustrations? A thorough description of hodags and a 10-page bibliography of hodag references?! We've got you covered!

Marcus Cederström, Anna Rue, Fred Chao, and I (Nate Gibson) have a new jokebook out, 101 Hodag Jokes, and it is now available for sale online from The Hodag Store in Rhinelander, WI.

https://www.thehodagstore.com/product/101-hodag-jokes/715?cs=true&cst=custom

And if you are in the Rosendale NY area, please visit our friends at Postmark Books, as they also have a handful of books available!

A Polka Party on Back to the Country 4/10/24

Thirty years ago, on 4/21/94, polka was adopted as the official Wisconsin State Dance. There will be all sorts of polka events throughout the state this month to celebrate (including the big Polka Party on Pinckney on 4/18), and tomorrow’s Back to the Country program adds to the polkabration!

It seems to me, there was a time when nearly every country band included polkas in their sets and tomorrow morning I’ll be playing three hours of my very favorites: Hot guitar polkas by Merle Travis, Joe Maphis, Chet Atkins, Hank Garland, Don Rich, Jimmy Bryant, Roy Clark, George Barnes, Biller & Wakefield, T.K. Smith, and many more! Vocal polkas about baseball, cocker spaniels, apple pie, beer, and marijuana! Swing Billy polkas from King Records! Yodeling polkas! Rockabilly polkas! One-man band polkas!

It’ll be a three-hour polkabilly extravaganza from 9am-noon (CST)! Tune in via 89.9fm in Southern Wisconsin or stream via wortfm.org and don’t forget your dancing shoes!

Nate Gibson & the Stardazers & Hot Club of Cowtown at the Stoughton Opera House 4/11/24

A lot of people gathered outside my office today because they heard that Nate Gibson and the Stardazers would be playing a concert on the roof of Memorial Library.

Alas, I'm sorry to disappoint, but our next gig is actually this THURSDAY evening (4/11) at the Stoughton Opera House, opening in the lounge for the legendary Hot Club of Cowtown. We're live at 5:55pm. Hope to see some friends there for what is sure to be a great night of honky-tonk and western swing!