Lou & Peter Berryman performered at our house concert series on September 20, 2003.

It's the typical story: boy meets girl in high school, they play in folk bands, they marry and move to Canada for five years, move back, divorce and form a fresh guitar/accordion duo producing songs that are being sung by amateurs and professionals all over the world. OK, perhaps it's not typical. But then there is very little that is conventional about LOU AND PETER BERRYMAN.

"When it comes to being funny, I think I've spent the first thirty years trying to be as funny as Tom Lehrer and the last part will be trying to be as funny as the Berrymans. They don't come any funnier than that..." --Tom Paxton

Their songwriting style is a welcomed throwback to the days of Tin Pan Alley, where one wrote the words, the other the music, and all with complete devotion to the craft. But where the songsmiths of the '30s and '40s spent most of their time saying 'I love you' in 32 bars over and over again, Lou and Peter have redefined subject and device when it comes to the craft of composing songs.

"Lou & Peter Berryman write very eccentric, very funny satirical songs. . . delightful Wisconsin performers. . . If Tom Lehrer had grown up in America's Dairyland, his songs might sound like theirs." --The Boston Globe

Their unusual take on the world has lead to creations that are unlike any others. They are admired by, not only thousands of music fans, but by some of our greatest living songwriters.

"Lou and Peter Berryman! Long may they wave. Their F-Word song 'A Chat With Your Mother' is one of the great American folksongs of the 20th Century." --Pete Seeger

We had been trying to get Lou and Peter Berryman to our house concert series for some time and we're glad that it finally worked out. This was an evening that people will be talking about for some time to come, as some of us our still laughing from their good humor. A great time was had by all. Thank you Lou and Peter. Please be sure to visit Lou & Peter Berryman's website at www.louandpeter.com.

Lou & Peter Berryman's newest CD, is called The Pink One (2003).
To order it right now, click here.

Lou & Peter Berryman have a fabulous CD called House Concert,
which was recorded live at a house concert in Wisconsin.
It's our favorite CD of theirs; after all, with
a title like that how could they go wrong?!!
To order it right now, click here.


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