Heartland Connections, 309 Bishop Hill St, Bishop Hill, IL (2026)

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05/28/2026

TONIGHT! Thursday, May 28th
Heather Maloney & High Tea are coming to Cà d'Zan House Concerts!

Good music, food, fun, and company. What else could you ask for? Come on out!

🍉 6pm – potluck & social hour
🎤 7pm – show
👨‍👩‍👧 All ages welcome
💵 $20–30 suggested donation
🎫Tickets: xroadscc.org/events
Bring lawn chairs/blankets, BYOB

Massachusetts-based “writer song-singer” Heather Maloney found music in the midst of three years at a meditation center, honing a sound moored in days of silent reflection and reverence for storytellers like Joni, Rilke, Ken Burns, and the anonymous authors of Zen parables. While she eventually traded the quiet, structured life of a yogi for the kinetic life of a touring musician, the core of her songwriting has remained centered around same curiosity about our inner world and the desire to articulate it through storytelling.

“Lyrics that cut to the chase” – Huffington Post
“Utterly gorgeous – visceral.” – Val Haller, New York Times
“Her not-so-secret weapon is that voice ”– Boston Globe
“Delicious... really excellent” – Graham Nash
“...stunning, breathy, and starkly memorable.” – SPIN Magazine

05/16/2026

TONIGHT! Saturday, May 16th
Keith Rea is coming to Cà d'Zan House Concerts!

Good music, food, fun, and company. What else could you ask for? Come on out!

🍉 6pm – potluck & social hour
🎤 7pm – show
👨‍👩‍👧 All ages welcome
💵 $20–30 suggested donation
🎫Tickets: xroadscc.org/events
Bring lawn chairs/blankets

From Keith:

I started doing this when I was 9 years old... from the very first performance with the Marion Boy's Club Singers, I was hooked... I love performing for people... I love the connections, the remembrances that my songs can evoke, the kind words from folks all over the world, and I LOVE who I am...let me tell you a story...

05/10/2026

TOMORROW! Monday, May 11th
Ingrid Andress is coming to Bishop Hill Creative Commons!
Angela Meyer will open. Very limited seating - don't wait to get tickets!

Good music, food, fun, and company. What else could you ask for? Come on out!

🍉 6pm – potluck & social hour
🎤 7pm – show
👨‍👩‍👧 All ages welcome
💵 $20–30 suggested donation
🎫Tickets: xroadscc.org/events

Multi-GRAMMY nominated singer-songwriter Ingrid Andress returns with the release of her latest single “Now I Know.” Andress co-wrote the deeply personal and powerfully relatable song alongside longtime collaborators Derrick Southerland and Sam Ellis about the strength gained from moving past hardship and embracing the unknown. Andress also worked with Ellis to co-produce the track. Fans can expect more new music coming from Andress throughout the year as she continues to put the finishing touches on her third studio album. The LP will follow her celebrated sophomore album, Good Person, and triumphant debut, Lady Like, both co-produced and co-written by Andress. Each album earned widespread acclaim and award-recognition. Good Person was selected as one of Rolling Stone’s 100 Best Albums of the Year and 25 Best Country & Americana Albums of 2022 and featured her GRAMMY-nominated, Platinum-certified No. 1, “Wishful Drinking (with Sam Hunt),” which was ranked by Billboard as one of the Top 10 most-played songs on country radio in 2022. Lady Like became one of Billboard’s Top 10 Best Country Albums of the year and set the record as the highest streaming country female debut album of all time upon release. The album also features her Multi-Platinum No. 1 radio single “More Hearts Than Mine,” which made history as the only debut single from a solo female artist to break the Top 20 on country radio in 2019. Lady Like also earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album and Best Country Song (“More Hearts Than Mine”) the same year Andress received a Best New Artist nod, making her the only country artist to be nominated in a “Big Four” category.

Angela Meyer keeps audiences coming back to share in the human experience through her honest writing and dynamic performances. She innately understands being in the audience as she grew up in a family of country musicians and fans of the genre. At 10 years old, her grandparents gave her a guitar for Christmas and her Grandma Darlene taught her those first three chords to play along with the songs coming out of their record player. Angela started to write her own songs at fifteen and quickly made it into her career. “Legions & Legends” is Angela Meyer's latest release and can be found anywhere music is bought or streamed. Tune into Angela's radio show, Muddy Water Radio, on WQUD 107.7 fm each Saturday from 2-5pm. The radio show that brings the very best country, western, and rodeo tunes to the airwaves across Eastern Iowa or from anywhere in the world via online streaming.

05/09/2026

TONIGHT! Saturday, May 9th
Zach Pietrini & Marky Hladish are coming to Bishop Hill Creative Commons!

Good music, food, fun, and company. What else could you ask for? Come on out!

🍉 6pm – potluck & social hour
🎤 7pm – show
👨‍👩‍👧 All ages welcome
💵 $20–30 suggested donation
🎫Tickets: xroadscc.org/events

Zach Pietrini’s Midwestern, indie americana songwriting aesthetic is the sonic embodiment of a well-worn denim jacket. At the forefront of the Americana resurgence, Pietrini—lead vocalist and guitarist for his namesake band—takes an everyman’s approach to the genre with a knack for honest storytelling and a wistfulness that comes across in both the music and lyrics. The band takes its cues from Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, and David Ramirez, reinterpreting and rejuvenating American roots styles through a contemporary lens. Pietrini’s songs “situate him at the confluence of all that an urban Millennial audience finds relatable” (Milwaukee Magazine), performing old-soul themes of ennui, regret, disappointment, and nostalgia with a modern twist.

Pietrini came up on the Chicago music scene before moving to Milwaukee, where he honed his signature “foot-tapping and pensive steel-guitar-driven” style (Milwaukee Magazine), making regular appearances at Summerfest, Mile of Music, Bastille Days, and other festivals. The band has also toured prolifically throughout the United States, including opening for Huey Lewis and the News (5,000 in attendance) and playing SXSW, returning home often to play at local venues like Anodyne and Colectivo Backroom as well as house shows in living rooms around Milwaukee.

Pietrini’s dynamic live performances are intimate, yet high-energy, and his “beguiling friendliness” (88Nine), “nearly confounding” versatility (Shepherd Express), and laid-back stage presence bring a very Wisconsin sense of Gemütlichkeit to his shows. Voted Best Live Act in Milwaukee by Milwaukee Magazine and regularly in the running for Best Band in Milwaukee by 88Nine, The Zach Pietrini Band is preparing for its 9th release in 2022- Rock & Roll is Dead, and will be hitting the road late September.

Marky Hladish will open the show.

05/08/2026

TOMORROW! Saturday, May 9th
Zach Pietrini & Marky Hladish are coming to Bishop Hill Creative Commons!

Good music, food, fun, and company. What else could you ask for? Come on out!

🍉 6pm – potluck & social hour
🎤 7pm – show
👨‍👩‍👧 All ages welcome
💵 $20–30 suggested donation
🎫Tickets: xroadscc.org/events

Zach Pietrini’s Midwestern, indie americana songwriting aesthetic is the sonic embodiment of a well-worn denim jacket. At the forefront of the Americana resurgence, Pietrini—lead vocalist and guitarist for his namesake band—takes an everyman’s approach to the genre with a knack for honest storytelling and a wistfulness that comes across in both the music and lyrics. The band takes its cues from Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, and David Ramirez, reinterpreting and rejuvenating American roots styles through a contemporary lens. Pietrini’s songs “situate him at the confluence of all that an urban Millennial audience finds relatable” (Milwaukee Magazine), performing old-soul themes of ennui, regret, disappointment, and nostalgia with a modern twist.

Pietrini came up on the Chicago music scene before moving to Milwaukee, where he honed his signature “foot-tapping and pensive steel-guitar-driven” style (Milwaukee Magazine), making regular appearances at Summerfest, Mile of Music, Bastille Days, and other festivals. The band has also toured prolifically throughout the United States, including opening for Huey Lewis and the News (5,000 in attendance) and playing SXSW, returning home often to play at local venues like Anodyne and Colectivo Backroom as well as house shows in living rooms around Milwaukee.

Pietrini’s dynamic live performances are intimate, yet high-energy, and his “beguiling friendliness” (88Nine), “nearly confounding” versatility (Shepherd Express), and laid-back stage presence bring a very Wisconsin sense of Gemütlichkeit to his shows. Voted Best Live Act in Milwaukee by Milwaukee Magazine and regularly in the running for Best Band in Milwaukee by 88Nine, The Zach Pietrini Band is preparing for its 9th release in 2022- Rock & Roll is Dead, and will be hitting the road late September.

Marky Hladish will open the show.

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309 Bishop Hill St
Bishop Hill, IL
61419

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