Jeff White Thursday, 5-8 PM

Colleen Myhre Sunday, 2-5 PM

Another great weekend of live music is on tap at the Rookery, beginning tonight when we welcome a first time performer to our outdoor stage, and continuing on Sunday with a singer/songwriter who so impressed us last year we couldn't wait to have her back.

A native of the hills of western Wisconsin, Jeff White has toured America from coast to coast, England, Scotland and Wales singing alt-country, dark western, and love & lust songs that reflect the wide emotional spirit of human nature. Dramatic ballads, haunting love songs, and bittersweet remembrance are staple themes for this country and folk songwriter. 

Colleen Myhre is a folk-country-blues singer/songwriter grounded in passionate and sincere family values, whose songwriting ranges from honest emotion and earthly imagery to the raucousness of horses, strippers, and whiskey. The hard-boiled Myhre has been described as "part Lucinda Williams and part Charlie Parr, whose gritty songwriting is as rawhide tough as it is genuine." Folk Music Weekly lauded her most recent album, Ride of My Life, as "powerful music, involved lyrics and straight-forward arrangements (which) easily exceed the folk rock music standards for the new millennium."

Jeff White on Thursday. Colleen Myhre on Sunday. Live. Outdoors. Only at the Rookery!

Remember, we now accept (and strongly encourage) reservations for outdoor dining on Thursday evenings, from 4:30 until 5:45 PM. If you have a reservation for outdoor dining you're welcome to be seated anytime prior to that reservation to enjoy the music while you wait your turn to order. If you don't have dining reservations you're still welcome to enjoy the music with a beverage and we'll offer you food (and a table) when and if we can. 

Meanwhile all seating on Sunday afternoons will continue to be first come first served and feature our special patio grill menu from 1:30 to 4:30 PM.  

You can check out the Rookery's full summer music lineup by clicking on the image below which links to our online calendar. Or click HERE for a PDF version you can print out for yourself.