The Problem Party
2026-05-30 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-05-31 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
You find yourself in a tavern, noticing a strange collection of adventurers waiting for you at the bar with a tale to tell… meet The Problem Party, a band of explorers ready to set off on yet another wacky episodic journey!
Our heroes prepare for a hilarious adventure featuring an immersive story, zany characters, and unbelievable twists and turns. As always, their fates lie in the dice, which randomly determine the direction their story takes!
The Problem Party is an improvised, episodic show and you'll get all the context you need up top. Follow along for future shows to be privy to easter eggs and callbacks, plus a completely new and sidesplitting story every time!
Our adventurers are puppeted by the talented and devious Game Master Owen Lyon-Smith. A rotating cast of NPC performers bring fresh goofiness to the all-new side characters you’ll meet every time.
Roll with The Problem Party as they solve problems the only way they know how…by causing more!
Tickets $15: The Problem Party via ThunderTix

Sage & Aera: Spare Organically Inspired Indie Folk
2026-06-04 20:00 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Sage & Aera is an indie folk duo combining the songs and instrumental prowess of Sage Cook (Elephant Revival) with the uniquely captivating voice and upright bass of Aera Fox. As a founding member of and cornerstone and principal songwriter, banjo player and guitarist in the Colorado transcendental folk group, Elephant Revival, Sage Cook penned some fan favorites like “Go On,” “Cosmic Pulse,” and “Down to the Sea.” Embarking on a subsistence farming adventure in 2013, Sage and Aera moved to Kansas in hopes that deepening their connection to the land would also lead to greater self-realization. During this period of self-reflection and isolation, they co-founded indie atmospheric folk-pop band WE DREAM DAWN with local drummer Weston Hill. In 2023, rejuvenated and inspired by their work with the land, Sage & Aera chose to strip away all the superfluous layers and lay their hearts bare as a purely acoustic duo. Emerging from their self-imposed isolation is purposeful, pure creativity, organically rooted and cosmically inspired folk music for the modern era.
And now, finally, the album Sage & Aera started working on over 8 years ago (as WE DREAM DAWN) is out EVERYWHERE! “Love Undoubtedly Underlies Everything” was released to North American Non-Commercial and College Radio stations. For the week of October 14th, 2025, it was the #15 most added album on the NACC charts. All songs were penned by Sage Cook and are performed acoustically as Sage & Aera in live performance. The album is currently receiving widespread airplay on JPR, HPPR, KSYM, WPRK & more.
Tickets: Sage & Aera: Spare Organically Inspired Indie Folk via ThunderTix

Tony Furtado Duo feat. Luke Price
2026-06-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Tony is an evocative and soulful singer, a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the ﬂair of a master chef (he’s also an accomplished sculptor, but that’s another story). All of the music of America is in Tony’s music. Relix hit the nail on the head when writing of Tony: “True talent doesn’t need categories.”
“Tony Furtado, banjo player, is back…in a big way,” writes banjo master Tony Trischka in his liner notes to Decembering, the brand-new album from Tony Furtado. “He’s planted his flag in the midst of the fertile ground that is modern banjo. Texturally fresh, confidently audacious, rich and giving, this recording is a masterpiece.” Decembering is a welcome return to the banjo and a much-needed ray of sunshine and light in these troubled times.
Tony has performed throughout the world at top venues and appeared at such prestigious music festivals as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, Jazz Aspen, Kerrville Folk Festival, Strawberry Music Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Sisters Folk Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival and countless others. He especially values the opportunities he has had to tour with such legendary musicians as Gregg Allman and with such esteemed slide guitarists as David Lindley, Derek Trucks and Sonny Landreth.
Luke Price
Five-time Grand National Fiddle Champion Luke Price is a multi-instrumentalist performer, composer, and studio musician based in Portland, OR. He has his roots in American fiddling and swing traditions, but his interests and influences are diverse ranging through Soul, Jazz, Pop, and Americana. Luke is a Berklee School of Music alum and regularly plays and sings in a vintage soul/pop tinged band, “Love, Dean” alongside his wife Rachael Price. Luke brings a unique voice to any music he plays, whether he’s on the fiddle, guitar, or singing.
Tickets $25 Advanced sale: Tony Furtado Duo feat. Luke Price via ThunderTix

The Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee
2026-06-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
The Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee play music the way it sounded before bluegrass, old-time, and country went their separate ways. Rooted in the Blue Ridge music traditions of Southwest Virginia, the band draws from the fertile gray area of the 1940s and early 1950s — a transitional period where traditional and modern styles mingled freely, musicians who had grown up on old-time music at local fiddlers conventions were eager to try new things, and bands attempted to imitate new sounds they heard on radio and records. The Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee’s sound is earthy, direct, and unadorned: five masterful musicians and singers delivering stirring harmonies and hard-driving instrumental work with no modern gloss and no apology, alongside a handful of original compositions that sit seamlessly in the tradition — an approach described by Bluegrass Unlimited as sounding like “a lost volume from Rounder’s Early Days of Bluegrass series.” Their recordings Live at WPAQ and Live at WPAQ II were captured in single takes around a single vintage RCA ribbon mic, standing in a circle, exactly as much of this music would have been recorded nearly eight decades ago.
Tickets: The Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee via ThunderTix

Summer Camp - Bits of the Bard
2026-07-27 09:00 - 2026-08-06 13:00
July 27th – August 6th Mondays-Fridays 9am-1pm
Experience the timeless magic of William Shakespear’s wonderous tales in this immersive exploration of his delightful and sometimes dastardly characters.
Meet the Instructors:
Jane Entwistle: Improv and Acting
Keefe Healy: Puppetry and Playwriting
Jordan Kaulana: Music and Story Telling
Suzanne Mackay: Directing and Choreography
Other Guest Teachers:
Adaryn Healy Performance
Hazel VanBuskirk Costumes
Tuition $400: Bits of the Bard Camp via ThunderTix
