History
A list of all previous performers. Check back later for a more comprehensive archive, including photos.
Tree Frog Music Festival #1 – 1996 Randy Sabien – Saturday Evening Headliner Prudence Johnson – Sunday Evening Headliner Tumbleweed String Fever Cooker John Band Blue Ox Jazz Babies Laura MacKenzie The Hers Straight River Band Rebekka Fisher Band Nero’s House Band Mike Hildebrandt & Friends The Lost Walleye Orchestra Steve Cloutier Tree Frog Music Festival #2 – 1997 Trailer Trash – Saturday Evening Headliner Casablanca Orchestra – Sunday Evening Headliner The Movies Prairie Wind The Barefoot Winos The Divers Cooker John The Lost Walleye Orchestra Mike Hildebrandt & The Over and Back Band Will Hale Amy Kortuem-Bergquist Deadly Nightshade Family Singers Diane Jarvi Steve Cloutier Blue Ox Jazz Babies Tree Frog Music Festival #3 – 1998 Lucy Kaplansky – Saturday Afternoon Headliner Joe Juliano & Hot Cup of Blues – Saturday Evening Headliner Molly and The Makers – Sunday Evening Headliner Curtis and Loretta Clint Hoover Bradley Joseph Steve Jennings Band Mike Hildebrandt & The Over and Back Band Will Hale Ron Arsenault and Dave Pengra Rebekka Fisher Band The Divers The Barefoot Winos Bobby Llama Tree Frog Music Festival #4 – 1999 Best Kept Secret – Saturday Afternoon Headliner Joe Juliano & The Blues Belters – Saturday Evening Headliner Dean Magraw – Sunday Afternoon Headliner Cigar Store Indians – Sunday Evening Headliner Elements of Sound Ben Schulz Shades Cindy McCormick & Mona Viebahn Bobby Llama Terry Shropshire Rebekka Fisher Band Foremen The Senders Sugar Beat Michael Hauser & Flamenco 2000 Free Spirit Big Skyota The Four Yellers Jason Gay Mike Hildebrandt & The Over and Back Band We Three Tree Frog Music Festival #5 – 2000 The Divers – Saturday Afternoon Headliner Cigar Store Indians – Saturday Evening Headliner Ginger Commodore – Sunday Afternoon Headliner The Hothead Fiasco – Sunday Evening Headliner The District Jim McGuire Jazz Quartet Scott Frazer Duo Mount Vernon Pig’s Eye Landing SqueezerGrabbit The Tim Butler Band Curtis and The Kicks Bradley Joseph Dixie and The Cannibals The Sugar Kings Wayne Hamilton Laura MacKenzie with Paul Wehling Foremen Michael Hildebrandt with The Over and Back Band The Ross William Perry Band Tree Frog Music Festival #6 - 2001 The Wrigley Sisters – Saturday Afternoon Headliner The Butanes – Saturday Evening Headliner Steve Cloutier – Sunday Afternoon Headliner The Latin Sounds Orchestra – Sunday Evening Headliner Prairie Wind Midnight Ride Ellis The Urban Hillbilly Quartet Katy Tessman 13 Hertz Stockcar Named Desire Pushin’ Daisies Daddy Squeeze & The Doctor Front Porch Swingin’ Liquor Pigs Area 51 Lehto and Wright Ben Pena The Sugar Kings Dame Station Nikki Matteson Foremen Michael Hildebrandt with The Over and Back Band Tree Frog Music Festival #7 - 2002 Percy Strother – Saturday Afternoon Headliner The Lamont Cranston Blues Band – Saturday Evening Headliner Lucy Kaplansky – Sunday Afternoon Headliner Mike Hildebrandt & the Over and Back Band – Sunday Evening Headliner Moziak Latona’s Thirst Test Site 67 Terramara Paul Jones Foremen Renee Austin Midnight Ride 6 Mile Grove The Copperheads Counterpoints Drivetime Bluegrass Band Bill Isles Tim Allen and The Time Bandits Cam Waters City Mouse Tree Frog Music Festival #8 - 2003 Mary Louise Knutson Trio – Saturday Afternoon Headliner Lonnie Brooks – Saturday Evening Headliner Dave Moore – Sunday Afternoon Headliner Mike Hildebrandt & The Over and Back Band – Sunday Evening Headliner Brian Keenan Bob Cloutier Free Range Pickin’ High Risk Lehto and Wright Dan Schwartz Counterpoints Flathead Cats Jerry Kosak InPulse Gaelic Tribe Jack Norton’s Wizard Oil Vaudeville Co. Paul Metsa with Sonny Earl The Murphy Brothers Band Renee Austin Moses Oakland Quartet Tree Frog Music Festival #9 - 2004 Nachito Herrera – Saturday Afternoon Headliner Big Brother & The Holding Company – Saturday Evening Headliner Dazy Head Mazy – Sunday Afternoon Headliner Mike Hildebrandt & The Over and Back Band – Sunday Evening Headliner The McDonoughs 2nd Exit Band Ron Arsenault and Dave Pengra Jack Norton and The Mullet River Boys Kreg Viesselman Counterpoints The Cat’s Meow Jazz Band Ivan Whillock & Friends Rebekka Fisher Band Big Ditch Road Deb Brown & Blonde Faith City Mouse Midnight Ride The New Primitives Tree Frog Past Performers 1996-2004 Tim Allen and The Time Bandits - 2002 Area 51 - 2001 Ron Arsenault and Dave Pengra (from City Mouse & Lost Walleye Orchestra) – 1998, 2004 Renee Austin – 2002, 2003 The Barefoot Winos – 1997, 1998 Best Kept Secret – Headliners 1999 Big Brother & The Holding Company – Headliners 2004 Big Ditch Road - 2004 Big Skyota - 1999 Blue Ox Jazz Babies – 1996, 1997 Bobby Llama – 1998, 1999 Lonnie Brooks –Headliner 2003 Deb Brown & Blonde Faith - 2004 The Butanes – Headliners 2001 The Tim Butler Band - 2000 Casablanca Orchestra – Headliners 1997 The Cat’s Meow Jazz Band - 2004 Cigar Store Indians – Headliners 1999, 2000 City Mouse – (electric version of Lost Walleye Orchestra) 2002, 2004 Bob Cloutier - 2003 Steve Cloutier – 1996, 1997, Headliner 2001 Ginger Commodore – Headliner 2000 Cooker John Band – 1996, 1997 The Copperheads - 2002 Counterpoints – 2002, 2003, 2004 Curtis and Loretta - 1998 Curtis and The Kicks - 2000 Daddy Squeeze & The Doctor - 2001 Dame Station - 2001 Dazy Head Mazy –Headliners 2004 Deadly Nightshade Family Singers - 1997 The District - 2000 The Divers – 1997, 1998, Headliners 2000 Dixie and The Cannibals - 2000 Drivetime Bluegrass Band - 2002 Elements of Sound 1999 Ellis - 2001 Rebekka Fisher Band – 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 Flathead Cats - 2003 Foremen – 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 The Four Yellers - 1999 Scott Frazer Duo - 2000 Free Range Pickin’ - 2003 Free Spirit - 1999 Front Porch Swingin’ Liquor Pigs - 2001 Gaelic Tribe - 2003 Jason Gay - 1999 Will Hale – 1997, 1998 Wayne Hamilton - 2000 Michael Hauser & Flamenco 2000 - 1999 Nachito Herrera – Headliner 2004 The Hers - 1996 High Risk - 2003 Mike Hildebrandt & The Over and Back Band – 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, Headliners 2002, 2003, 2004 Clint Hoover - 1998 The Hothead Fiasco – Headliners 2000 InPulse - 2003 Bill Isles - 2002 Diane Jarvi - 1997 Steve Jennings Band - 1998 Prudence Johnson – Headliner 1996 Paul Jones - 2002 Bradley Joseph – 1998, 2000 Joe Juliano & The Blues Belters – Headliner 1999, with Hot Cup of Blues – Headliner 1998 Lucy Kaplansky – Headliner 1998, 2002 Brian Keenan - 2003 Mary Louise Knutson Trio – Headliner 2003 Amy Kortuem-Bergquist - 1997 Jerry Kosak - 2003 The Lamont Cranston Blues Band – Headliners 2002 The Latin Sounds Orchestra –Headliners 2001 Latona’s Thirst - 2002 Lehto and Wright – 2001, 2003 The Lost Walleye Orchestra (acoustic version of City Mouse) – 1996, 1997 Cindy McCormick & Mona Viebahn - 1999 The McDonoughs - 2004 Jim McGuire Jazz Quartet - 2000 Laura MacKenzie – 1996, with Paul Wehling - 2000 Dean Magraw – Headliner 1999 Nikki Matteson - 2001 Paul Metsa with Sonny Earl - 2003 Midnight Ride – 2001, 2002, 2004 Molly and The Makers – Headliners 1998 Dave Moore – Headliner 2003 Mount Vernon - 2000 The Movies - 1997 Moziak - 2002 The Murphy Brothers Band - 2003 Nero’s House Band - 1996 The New Primitives - 2004 Jack Norton and The Mullet River Boys - 2004 Jack Norton’s Wizard Oil Vaudeville Co. – 2003 Moses Oakland Quartet - 2003 Ben Pena - 2001 The Ross William Perry Band - 2000 Pig’s Eye Landing - 2000 Prairie Wind – 1997, 2001 Pushin’ Daisies - 2001 Randy Sabien – Headliner 1996 Ben Schulz - 1999 Dan Schwartz - 2003 2nd Exit Band - 2004 The Senders - 1999 Shades - 1999 6 Mile Grove - 2002 Percy Strother – Headliner 2002 Terry Shropshire - 1999 SqueezerGrabbit - 2000 Stockcar Named Desire - 2001 Straight River Band - 1996 String Fever - 1996 Sugar Beat - 1999 The Sugar Kings – 2000, 2001 Terramara - 2002 Katy Tessman - 2001 Test Site 67 - 2002 13 Hertz - 2001 Trailer Trash – Headliners 1997 Tumbleweed - 1996 The Urban Hillbilly Quartet - 2001 Kreg Viesselman - 2004 Cam Waters - 2002 We Three - 1999 Ivan Whillock & Friends - 2004 The Wrigley Sisters – Headliners 2001
