Mother Fool's Coffeehouse

Mother Fool's Coffeehouse first opened in the spring of 1994. At that time it was under the ownership of Jean Lister. Jean ran it for a year, creating a very homey and comfortable community space, then decided to move to Minneapolis. She sold the coffeehouse to us, Stephanie Rearick and Jon Hain, in June of 1995. We had met Jean when our old band, Your Mom SRO played at Mother Fool's. We have music at the coffeehouse every Friday and Saturday night, and have released a compilation CD, "Live at Mother Fool's," on our own record label, Uvulittle Records, featuring a number of our regular performers. The recordings are of live performances that took place at Mother Fool's, and include such Madison notables as Andy Ewen, Biff Blumfumgangne, Ritt Deitz, Elizabeth Schaefer, Les Lokey, Pascal, and others.