event Honest Monday

Marc Ballini and Ryan Ogburn have long had a weekly residency at East Side club The Jazz Estate, though the local musicians veer more toward jam band-style improvisation rather than straight-up jazz. Ogburn plays mandolin, and he and singer-songwriter-pianist Ballini started playing with guitarist Craig Baumann of the now-defunct Fat Maw Rooney in spring 2008. But Ballini, Ogburn, and Baumann are more interested in providing a soulful backdrop for one of Milwaukee’s most laid-back bars, so the instrumental pyrotechnics are kept to a minimum most of the time. Joined by Danny Miller on harmonica, and Peyton Lencho and Kevin Rowe on upright bass, the group goes by Honest Monday, holding court every week for the Estate’s aptly-named Honest Mondays.

Marc Ballini and Ryan Ogburn have long had a weekly residency at East Side club The Jazz Estate, though the local musicians veer more toward jam band-style improvisation rather than straight-up jazz. Ogburn plays mandolin, and he and singer-songwriter-pianist Ballini started playing with guitarist Craig Baumann of the now-defunct Fat Maw Rooney in spring 2008. But Ballini, Ogburn, and Baumann are more interested in providing a soulful backdrop for one of Milwaukee’s most laid-back bars, so the instrumental pyrotechnics are kept to a minimum most of the time. Joined by Danny Miller on harmonica, and Peyton Lencho and Kevin Rowe on upright bass, the group goes by Honest Monday, holding court every week for the Estate’s aptly-named Honest Mondays.

Marc Ballini and Ryan Ogburn have long had a weekly residency at East Side club The Jazz Estate, though the local musicians veer more toward jam band-style improvisation rather than straight-up jazz. Ogburn plays mandolin, and he and singer-songwriter-pianist Ballini started playing with guitarist Craig Baumann of the now-defunct Fat Maw Rooney in spring 2008. But Ballini, Ogburn, and Baumann are more interested in providing a soulful backdrop for one of Milwaukee’s most laid-back bars, so the instrumental pyrotechnics are kept to a minimum most of the time. Joined by Danny Miller on harmonica, and Peyton Lencho and Kevin Rowe on upright bass, the group goes by Honest Monday, holding court every week for the Estate’s aptly-named Honest Mondays.

Marc Ballini and Ryan Ogburn have long had a weekly residency at East Side club The Jazz Estate, though the local musicians veer more toward jam band-style improvisation rather than straight-up jazz. Ogburn plays mandolin, and he and singer-songwriter-pianist Ballini started playing with guitarist Craig Baumann of the now-defunct Fat Maw Rooney in spring 2008. But Ballini, Ogburn, and Baumann are more interested in providing a soulful backdrop for one of Milwaukee’s most laid-back bars, so the instrumental pyrotechnics are kept to a minimum most of the time. Joined by Danny Miller on harmonica, and Peyton Lencho and Kevin Rowe on upright bass, the group goes by Honest Monday, holding court every week for the Estate’s aptly-named Honest Mondays.

Marc Ballini and Ryan Ogburn have long had a weekly residency at East Side club The Jazz Estate, though the local musicians veer more toward jam band-style improvisation rather than straight-up jazz. Ogburn plays mandolin, and he and singer-songwriter-pianist Ballini started playing with guitarist Craig Baumann of the now-defunct Fat Maw Rooney in spring 2008. But Ballini, Ogburn, and Baumann are more interested in providing a soulful backdrop for one of Milwaukee’s most laid-back bars, so the instrumental pyrotechnics are kept to a minimum most of the time. Joined by Danny Miller on harmonica, and Peyton Lencho and Kevin Rowe on upright bass, the group goes by Honest Monday, holding court every week for the Estate’s aptly-named Honest Mondays.