Jeffrey Foucault & Dave Moore Listening Session

Finishing up his 2025 tours across the United States and Europe, Jeffrey Foucault (“invokes the silent watches of the night in pre-electronic American consciousness” — New York Times) returns to the Trempealeau Hotel this December (12/3) for an intimate split-bill with legendary Iowa songwriter Dave Moore.

In two decades on the road, Foucault — who grew up in Whitewater, WI — has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums – “Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” (The New Yorker), "Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection” (Uncut), “Songwriting Brilliance,” (Irish Times) – he’s built a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following that includes hard-to-please luminaries like Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, and Don Henley (“Jeffrey Foucault clocks American culture about as good as I’ve heard anyone clock it”).

Dave Moore represents a uniquely rich seam in the tapestry of roots music coming out of Iowa in the twentieth century. A celebrated rack-harp and button accordion player, as a youngster Dave absorbed the blues recordings of Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter, learned to play country-blues guitar, and then disappeared on a series of extended pilgrimages to Texas and south of the border to study Tejano and Conjunto accordion with legends Fred Zimmerle, and Santiago Jimenez Sr. (father of Flaco and Santiago).

Eventually Dave Moore brought what he’d learned back north, mixing it with country and blues, folk and Gospel, Ragtime and Tin Pan Alley, and releasing three seminal albums on Red House Records, in addition to playing regularly with Greg Brown, and influencing the generation of Midwestern songwriters that includes Foucault, Pieta Brown, Erik Koskinen, The Pines, and many others. 'Dave is pure magic'.-Jeffrey Foucault

On December 3rd, for one night only, the Trempealeau hosts Jeffrey Foucault and Dave Moore in an intimate night of songs and stories. Get your tickets now for this very special show.

Get tickets now for this incredible night. There are only 45 seated tickets at $30 They WILL sell out fast.

For this date our bar will open at 4pm. Salad, soup, walnut balls, vegan curry, Guinness Stew and desserts will be offered from 4pm until showtime. No food will be sold once the show begins, but help yourself to the bar.

For this and all Listening Sessions we respectfully ask that conversation be kept to a minimum during the performance.

ABOUT THE VENUE

The Historic Trempealeau Hotel was built in 1871 and moved to its present location after the great fire of 1888. Since then, it has hosted many great artists of which this show is a fine example.

This is a listening session. We ask that you limit conversation to set breaks.

No carry-ins allowed.

The Hotel has rooms for rent and there are two other inns within walking distance.

Trempealeau has a state park, wildlife refuge and plenty of other glorious sites to explore.