09/18/2024
We had a visit today at the bookstore from a St. Paul Montessori high school 80/11 graders help move about 150 boxes across the street. They each got a couple free books. It was pretty cool.
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07/01/2024
A bunch of great Greg Brown interviews re: the book have happened in the past couple weeks, including one with Mike Pengra of Radio Heartland (The Current ) that dropped yesterday. You can check them out via our linktree - https://linktr.ee/ramshacklepress
📸 by Tim Conrad at Strawberry Music Festival in 1991
06/19/2024
Greg Brown will be on the latest episode of Basic Folk, via The Bluegrass Situation Podcast Network Thursday June 20th! Listen where you get your pods or at http://basicfolk.com
📸 Sandra Dyas
06/17/2024
Greg Brown Live - This Thursday, June 20 at 1 PM central time U.S. - Greg Brown is going to be doing a Zoom (reading, performance, and Q&A) via Acoustic Guitar. If you missed him at the book events, here is a chance for participation in a Live Event. You can sign up here: https://bit.ly/3VLv9uh
05/17/2024
Very cool! Become a new or renewing member of Folk Alley and get entered in a drawing to win a signed copy of Ring Around the Moon. ❤
Find the drawing more info here: https://folkalley.com/
05/10/2024
Thanks to No Depression for writing a little piece on our book with Greg Brown.
Find it here: https://tr.ee/sMB3us9pa_
📸 Sandra Dyas
04/30/2024
Today's is the Official Release Day for Greg Brown's book Ring Around the Moon. Grab your copy at the link or go buy it from Eddy at Driftless Books And Music or attend one of the last two launch events - Thursday in Minneapolis at Electric Fetus or Friday at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City.
04/25/2024
 2000 copies of our new Greg Brown book ring around the moon
04/10/2024
Please join us to celebrate the release of Greg Brown’s Ring Around the Moon: A Songbook. The collection of writings, drawings, and photographs accompany the lyrics and sheet music to many of Greg’s classic songs.
His seasoned songwriting, storytelling, and music are deeply rooted in the place he was born in rural Iowa. For many years he moved audiences with warmth, humor, a thundering voice and his unpretentious musical vision.
Four book events will feature Greg reading from the book, telling stories, taking questions from the audience and playing a couple songs.
April 26 – Driftless Books - Viroqua, WI
April 27 – Minnesota Marine Art Museum - Winona, MN – SOLD OUT
May 2 – Electric Fetus - Minneapolis, MN
May 3 – Prairie Lights Bookstore - Iowa City, IA
The book’s official release is on April 30th through Ramshackle Press.
Pre-orders, including limited editions are available through the website www.ramshacklepress.org
Video by Mei-Ling Shaw
03/26/2024
Please join us to celebrate the release of Greg Brown’s Ring Around the Moon: A Songbook. The collection of writings, drawings, and photographs accompany the lyrics and sheet music to many of Greg’s classic songs.
His seasoned songwriting, storytelling, and music are deeply rooted in the place he was born in rural Iowa. For many years he moved audiences with warmth, humor, a thundering voice and his unpretentious musical vision.
Four book events will feature Greg reading from the book, telling stories, taking questions from the audience and playing a couple songs.
April 26 – - Viroqua, WI
April 27 – - Winona, MN
May 2 – - Minneapolis, MN
May 3 – - Iowa City, IA
The book’s official release is on April 30th through Ramshackle Press.
Pre-orders, including limited editions are available through the website www.ramshacklepress.org
02/17/2024
Issue #7 is out! Stories, photos, poems and our first exerpt from the new Greg Brown book.
You can find it online through our ramshackle links and on the stand at Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Bluff Country Co-op, and Chapter 2 Books in Winona; People's Food Co-op, Larson's General, Oolala Consign, Pearl Street Books in La Crosse; Viroqua Food Co+op and Metaphysical Graffiti in Viroqua; River Lights Bookstore in Dubuque. Soon, People’s Food Coop and Treedome in Rochester and Menomenie Food Coop in Menomonie.
📸 Jason Ray Photography
09/01/2023
Fall issue is in the mail and you can purchase via ramshacklepress.org in -- it will be showing up with our retail partners over the next week.......Talk of the Region, Death Doulas, Ember Choir, Embark Maple, Rattlesnake Hills, Gifts of the Superior Hiking Trail, City Life by Kunu, Volga Opera House, poems, photography, artwork by Katie Lawver and Bomgiizhik (Isaac Mirdoch) + more. 🫶
08/23/2023
Three years ago this month we started Ramshackle Press and began our first book with Peter Engen. We are ten books in now and about to release our 6th issue of Ocooch Mountain Echo. More is brewing.....
08/15/2023
House show with Mike Munson and Mikkel Beckmen AUG 18 (273 East 9th Street Winona). Tunes and stories from Mikkel's book - Gifts of the Superior Hiking Trail on Ramshackle Press📚. $10 suggested donation for adults and kids are free. Doors at 7:00 pm music and reading at 7:30 pm. BYOB + chair 🪑
08/11/2023
FloTsaM RiVer CirCuS
remaining Driftless region performance locations:
TBA - watch rivercircus.com
All shows are at 6 pm and last a little more than an hour.
Shows are FREE, but they rely on donations to keep afloat!
8-11 - Winona, MN - Levee Park
8-12 - La Crosse, WI - Pettibone Beach
8-13 - North La Crosse, WI - Black River Beach
8-15 - Lansing, IA - Coffee on the River
8-16 - Prairie Du Chien, WI - Washington St. Park
8-17 - Cassville, WI - Riverside Park
8-18 - Dubuque, IA - TBA
8-19 - Savannah, IL - TBA
08/10/2023
House show with Mike Munson and Mikkel Beckmen AUG 18. In Joe Tadie's backyard in Wi-nona! Tunes and a couple stories from Mikkel's book - Gifts of the Superior Hiking Trail. 📚Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3QxVGsQ
08/01/2023
You can now pick up Mikkel Beckmen's new book at Zenith Bookstore in Duluth, MN and Larson's General in La Crosse, WI. You can also grab the Ocooch Mountain Echo at Menomonie Market Food Co-op in Menomonie, WI. Skol!
07/19/2023
The second printing of Mikkel Beckmen's Gifts of the Superior Hiking Trail is hitting the streets. Thanks so much for helping selling out his first printing in one month! Grab your own copy at ramshacklepress.org or at one of our friends shops - Pearl St. Books (La Crosse), River Lights Books (Dubuque), Big Driftless (Decorah), Dotters Books (Eau Claire), Driftless Books, Metaphysical Graffiti (Viroqua), Chapter Two Books (Winona)📚
06/30/2023
Trish Johnson remembers her introduction to mindfulness techniques connected to sports. She was a competitive volleyball player in highschool, north of the Twin Cities in Forest Lake. She can still recall a guest of her coach coming to practice and having the players lay on their backs while they were walked through a series of prompts related to drawing attention to different parts of the body. It was a kind of invitation to a way of thinking and a presence that felt completely new to her. It was not an immediate leap toward meditation, but for Johnson it was the crack that opened the door. Read more about Johnson's path toward becoming a mindfulness instructor at the link - https://www.ocoochmountain.co/stories
📸 by Roger Averbeck
06/27/2023
These cool kids are all now for sale at Dotters Books in Eau Claire, WI. Support Local Bookstores and Local Authors.
06/16/2023
The book release shows Mikkel Beckmen did for Gifts of the Superior Hiking Trail with Charlie Parr were wonderful last week. They played and they read and they talked like old friends. Thanks so much for coming out everyone! The two of them are doing a show at Wussow's Concert Cafe in Duluth tomorrow night if you are up that way. You will enjoy it as much as all the folks that came out in Decorah, Dubuque, and La Crosse.
📸 Rosei Skipper at Comfortably Lost near La Crosse
06/07/2023
Today is release day for Mikkel (Mikkel Bee )Beckmen's book Gifts of the Superior Hiking Trail about his 24 day solo thru hike of the famous North Shore trail. You can order the book and find tickets for his three days of shows and readings with Charlie Parr in Decorah, Dubuque, and La Crosse - https://linktr.ee/ramshacklepress
06/02/2023
In honor of the garlic at OME HQ and throughout the Driftless we are having a back issues sale for the month of June. Grab a copy to fill out your collection or for a friend. Visit the in the . 🤓
05/31/2023
One week from today our latest book comes out - Gifts of the Superior Hiking Trail by Mikkel Beckmen (Mikkel Bee). There are three book/concert events planned for next week that include Mikkel and Charlie Parr. Tickets via www.linktr.ee/ramshacklepress
Wed, June 7 - Decorah, IA - Pulpit Rock Brewing
Thurs, June 8 - Dubuque, IA - Fox Den Motel
Fri, June 9 - La Crosse, WI - Comfortably Lost
The book is available for pre-order at ramshacklepress.org
05/23/2023
Our latest book - Gifts of the Superior Hiking Trail by Mikkel Beckmen comes out June 6. You can pre-order at ramshacklepress.org. Three book/music events, which include Charlie Parr, will celebrate release week in Decorah, Dubuque, and La Crosse. Find more info and tickets: https://linktr.ee/ramshacklepress
05/15/2023
We are excited to be involved with the Driftless Music Project through Minnesota Marine Art Museum and an interesting show with Sam Amidon . We think you should check it out - a few tickets remain. Follow the link here: https://bit.ly/3Ini3LU
05/10/2023
NEW BOOK. Pre-Order Today. Ships June 6. www.ramshacklepress.org
Folk percussionist MIkkel Beckmen, known for playing regularly with Charlie Parr and Mike Munson, among others, is publishing his first book with ramshackle press. Mikkel did a solo thru hike of the Superior Hiking Trail in 2021. The 310 mile trail skirts Lake Superior, the largest fresh water lake in the world. On his 24 days of hiking he brought no music, electronics, or even books. Just a journal to record thoughts each day. The book has 24 chapters, one for each day of hiking the trail. It is an ode to self-discovery, the natural world, and one person's question, "Who am I in relation to wilderness and to the land?"
The book includes artwork by his daughter Siri Marie, and a postcard/bookmark with a code that takes you right to Charlie Parr's "817 Oakland", which Mikkel proposes as the hiker's anthem.
04/25/2023
We will be participating in the Ridges & Rivers Book Festival this weekend in Viroqua. Eddy will most likely be running around, catch him if you can - but I will be at a book table at Eagles Club (216 S. Rock Ave). Stop and say hi 🤓. We will have all the Ramshackle books and the magazines (including the new issue #5).
04/24/2023
Summer issue is out! You can order/subscribe at ramshacklepress.org and have it sent right to your door. 😘
In this issue: Mindfulness w/ Trish Johnson • New Fiction from Nickolas Butler • Book Friend • Talk of the Region • Tiger Cape • Worm Farm Institute • Get Going Driftless • Simply Begin • Driftless Insider • Sam Amidon • Francis Densmore • UME Studio • Art by Peet Fetsch, Sean Morrison, and Rachel Feigal
Photo by Michael Leis
There at Oolala Consign, Larson's General , Pearl St. Books and People's Food Coop in La Crosse, Chapter 2 Books, Bluff Country Co-op, and Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona, People's Food Coop and Treedome in Rochester. This weekend they will be in at Viroqua Food Coop and Metaphysical Graffiti.
04/06/2023
A second printing of Tim Eddy's "I Only Asked for Blue" is back at both shops in Viroqua and on our website at www.ramshacklepress.org 🤟
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Greg Brown Book Release and Events
Please join us to celebrate the release of Greg Brown’s Ring Around the Moon: A Songbook. The collection of writings, drawings, and photographs accompany the lyrics and sheet music to many of Greg’s classic songs. His seasoned songwriting, storytelling, and music are deeply rooted in the place he was born in rural Iowa. For many years he moved audiences with warmth, humor, a thundering voice and his unpretentious musical vision. Four book events will feature Greg reading from the book, telling stories, taking questions from the audience and playing a couple songs. April 26 – Driftless Books - Viroqua, WI April 27 – Minnesota Marine Art Museum - Winona, MN – SOLD OUT May 2 – Electric Fetus - Minneapolis, MN May 3 – Prairie Lights Bookstore - Iowa City, IA The book’s official release is on April 30th through Ramshackle Press. Pre-orders, including limited editions are available through the website www.ramshacklepress.org Video by Mei-Ling Shaw
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