History

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