The Cedar Presents
An Evening with VAN ORMAN & HELWIN WITH MARC ANDERSON
Thursday, June 18, 2026 / Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:30 PM
All Ages
Seated
$25 Advance, $30 Day of Show
*For Cedar Presented shows, a $4 facility fee is included in the ticket price (Ticket fee info here).
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
John C. Van Orman and Adam Helwin are singer-songwriter neighbors in the bucolic countryside of southwestern Wisconsin’s Driftless region, a place of unglaciated hills, fertile soil, and clear-running trout streams where they craft poetic songs to sing alongside traditional folk tunes and selectively curated covers. The duo is joined by percussionist and poet Marc Anderson for this special performance.
VAN ORMAN & HELWIN
Van Orman and Helwin play songs of love and loss, from the devout to the degenerate, with inspired vocal harmonies accompanied by an array of instruments including guitars, gourd banjo, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, harmonium, concertina, harmonica, and jaw harp.
John C. Van Orman and Adam Helwin are singer-songwriter neighbors in the bucolic countryside of southwestern Wisconsin’s Driftless region, a place of unglaciated hills, fertile soil, and clear-running trout streams where they craft poetic songs to sing alongside traditional folk tunes and selectively curated covers.
John has roots in American and British traditional material including ballads, cowboy songs and sea shanties. Adam was raised in church choirs and molded by the DIY ethos of punk rock. These seemingly disparate backgrounds entwine to produce extraordinary music, representing the best in psych folk, entwined with elements of traditional folk, country, blues, and punk-folk, restoring the original edge missing from so many interpretations.
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Marc Anderson
ECM recording artist, percussionist, composer, Zen priest, poet and spirit traveler
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