30-Minute Music Hour begins its new season with a performance by Michael Perry & the Long Beds live in the studios of Wisconsin Public Television in Madison. If you would like to attend the live performance in our studio, please send an email ASAP to [email protected]. We'll reply with your confirmation. Attendance is free and…View post

Mike and the band will be joined by special guests LASKA at the Stoughton Opera House for a night of music, storytelling, and laughter. Perry began writing songs in the early 1990s during long nights when he was struggling to survive on prose; fast-forward twenty years and the Long Beds are currently recording their third album. Often…View post

An intimate Winona House Concert with Mike and the Long Beds featuring Ben Lester on the pedal-steel guitar (S. Carey, Tallest Man on Earth, and Shane Leonard). Hope you can join us for a delightful night of songs, memorable stories, and humor. Ticket are $20 and are available here.

Come celebrate the release of the Wisconsin Vinyl Collective Volume Three charity album benefiting the Keep Wisconsin Warm Fund (founded by Erik Kjelland and Butch Vig). Mike contributed a spoken word track; he'll be performing the piece as well as new and favorite Long Beds music. Performances by Michael Perry and the Long Beds, The Mascot Theory,…View post

Come celebrate the release of the Wisconsin Vinyl Collective Volume Three charity album benefiting the Keep Wisconsin Warm Fund (founded by Erik Kjelland and Butch Vig). Mike contributed a spoken word track; he'll be performing the piece as well as new and favorite Long Beds music. Performances by Michael Perry and the Long Beds, The Mascot Theory,…View post

Come celebrate the release of the Wisconsin Vinyl Collective Volume Three charity album benefiting the Keep Wisconsin Warm Fund (founded by Erik Kjelland and Butch Vig). Mike contributed a spoken word track; he'll be performing the piece as well as new and favorite Long Beds music. Performances by Michael Perry and the Long Beds, The Mascot Theory,…View post

Come celebrate the release of the Wisconsin Vinyl Collective Volume Three charity album benefiting the Keep Wisconsin Warm Fund (founded by Erik Kjelland and Butch Vig). Mike contributed a spoken word track; he'll be performing the piece as well as new and favorite Long Beds music. Performances by Michael Perry and the Long Beds, The Mascot Theory,…View post

It's a book festival, and Mike's bringing the band! This year's Untitled Town lineup is remarkable: Walter Mosley, Jamie Ford, Susan Orlean (long before it published, she critiqued a passage of Truck for me), William Kent Krueger, Nickolas Butler, Andrea Gibson, and more, more, more. On Thursday, April 25, Mike will playing a show at the Tarlton Theatre…View post

​Wisconsin’s favorite bestselling humorist and author Michael Perry returns with his band the Long Beds for a night of music, storytelling, and laughter. Performances: June 8-9 ​Tickets: $35 and available here.

​Wisconsin’s favorite bestselling humorist and author Michael Perry returns with his band the Long Beds for a matinee performance of music, storytelling, and laughter. Performances: June 8-9 ​Tickets: $35 and available here.