Tomorrow night, for the first time in a couple of months, Milhouse will host a quiet show in their living room, featuring three songwriters, one with a four-piece acoustic band.

Walter Mitty & His Makeshift Orchestra are coming through all the way from Portland on a month and a half tour that winds through most all the inhabited parts of the US and they are bringing upbeat songs about real life along with them. Their most current album, Overwhelmed & Underdressed, is full of beautiful, honest lyrics with subject matter that can be both socially relevant and personal, accompanied by acoustic string instruments, tambourines, and hand drums.

Local support will be provided by Jake Simmons, who will be performing solo for the first time in a while, after a long while of full band sets with JS & the Little Ghosts.  Jake Simmons writes songs about world problems that are influenced by power-poppers like Elvis Costello and Ted Leo.

Circle, Get Square! is the long-standing songwriting project of a musician named Travis who grew up in the Kalamazoo area and has been living in Chicago for the past year.  He’ll be returning to play a set at this show, offering up clever and sincere songs that echo anti-folk and lo-fi pop musicians such as The Moldy Peaches or David Dondero.

Door time is 8:00pm and donations will be accepted for Walter & co.  Come support some traveling musicians and have a good time!  No tom-foolery will be tolerated.