Michael Perry and the Long Beds are heading up to perform under the Big Blue Tent at Big Top Chautauqua Sunday August 6, 2023 at 7:30 PM. Every Long Beds show is built on roughneck ballads and freight train rockers interspersed with hilarious off-the-cuff tales from Mike’s diverse experience as a Wisconsin farm kid turned…View post

Sunday, November 12th, 2023, Michael Perry and the Long Beds head across the border for a return engagement at Icehouse MPLS. Show starts at 5PM. The Long Beds feature all-original songs written and sung by Michael Perry (New York Times bestselling author of numerous books including: Population 485, Truck, The Scavengers, and Forty Acres Deep).…View post

The Premiere of the "Mike and Mary Situation" at Cloudland – Minneapolis, MN Put a Wisconsin farm boy and volunteer firefighter turned bestselling author and songwriter onstage beside an East Coast Yale grad who earned her chops in FedEx trucks and Texas honky-tonks and you’ve got the Mike and Mary Situation. Michael Perry, the New…View post

The Mike and Mary Situation heads to Big Top Chautauqua's The Backstage concert venue for an intimate, relaxed evening of songs, stories, and good-natured onstage exchanges grown out of making music for years and years and miles and miles. "Me and Mary. This was after sound check prolly a decade or so ago on a…View post

Howdy Folks: Fire up the tubes on that old Philco radio and listen as Michael Perry joins WDRT 91.9 FM's Eddy Nix on Complexly Folk, Sunday April 07, 2024. If you are out of range you can stream the show live here. Show runs between 5 – 7PM CT. Mike joins at 6PM. Among other…View post

Thursday, April 18th, 2024, on the first night of a 3-day tour, Wisconsin’s favorite bestselling humorist and author Michael Perry returns to The Stoughton Opera House with his band the Long Beds for a night of music punctuated by storytelling and laughter (as featured on the recent PBS special Michael Perry: On the Road, some which…View post

On Friday April 19th, 2024 Michael Perry and the Long Beds make the second stop of their 3-day tour at The Historic Temple Theater in Viroqua, Wisconsin, for a night of music punctuated by storytelling and laughter (as featured on the recent PBS special Michael Perry: On the Road). Perry's song lyrics parallel his prose--sometimes poetic, sometimes…View post

PLEASE NOTE: This event is sold out. On Saturday, April 20, 2024 Michael Perry and the Long Beds close out their 3-day tour with a stop at The Mabel Tainter Theater, in Menomonie, Wisconsin, for a night of music punctuated by storytelling and laughter (as featured on the recent PBS special Michael Perry: On the Road, some…View post

On Wednesday May, 8th, 2024, the Mike and Mary Situation heads to The White Squirrel Bar in Saint Paul, MN for an intimate, relaxed evening of songs, stories, and good-natured onstage exchanges grown out of making music for years and years and miles and miles. (Photo credit David Tanner Photography) Put a Wisconsin farm boy and…View post

Live! Sunday June 23, 2024. Michael Perry and the Long Beds return to Minneapolis. Full band show at ICEHOUSE MPLS. Backed by a band named after his 1951 International Harvester pickup truck, Michael Perry returns to the Icehouse. The set list runs from roughneck ballads to freight train rockers. "I look like a logger, but…View post