2025 Concerts
All concerts are 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm.
Rain cancellations will be announced via social media between 3:30 and 4:00 pm.
Build your own bouquet 3:30 to 5:00 pm
Build a bouquet of flowers for $10. Available before all concerts. We’ll have flowers, rubber bands, and clippers. Bring your own vase and we’ll top it off with vase water. A fun way to support interns learning how to grow, harvest, and work with plants at ACG.
Tour the garden at 4:00 pm
We will be offering one of our summer tours before our Sunday, August 3rd concert at 4:00 pm. We will visit all the stops in ACG and leave you ready for Jazz music. Join the tour for $5. Learn more about our tours here.
JUNE 8 – YORVANIS DURAN QUARTET
An all-star ensemble delivering electrifying performances that celebrate and honor the enduring legacy and vibrant soul of Afro-Cuban music.
JULY 6 – JOHANNES WALLMANN GROUP
Johannes Wallmann, Fender Rhodes | Dennis Mitcheltree, tenor sax | Marcus Shelby, bass | Miguel McQuade, drums
Director of Jazz Studies at UW-Madison, pianists Wallmann assembles a stellar quartet to offer up a high energy, imaginative, and infectious performance of original compositions
JULY 13 – THE JAZZ GUYS QUINTET
Peter Mathistad, sax | Paul Muench, piano | Vince Jesse, guitar | John Schaffer, bass | Jim Huwe, drums
Back by popular demand, The Jazz Guys return with stylish and tight renditions of modern jazz, standards, and classic pop in carefully honed original arrangements.
JULY 20 – GERRI DIMAGGIO PROJECT
Gerri DeMaggio, vocals | Paul Hastil, keys | Bob Pesselman, guitar | John Mesoloras, bass | Rich Larson, percussion
After last year’s rainout, DiMaggio returns with her sultry mix of Brazilian melodiesand jazz standards, as original as it is enticing. Irresistible music honoring the traditions of Jazz and Latin rhythms, telling stories with tones of sadness and bittersweet joy.
AUGUST 3 – RYAN MEISEL QUARTET with Susan Hofer
Susan Hofer, vocals | Ryan Meisel, sax | Doug Brown, guitar | Dave Dinauer, bass | Adam Katz, drums
Modern and original jazz steeped in the history of swing, bop, and avant-garde. Vocalist Susan Hofer offers up an instrumental vocal style, matching Meisel’s fiery saxophone.
August 17 – LES CORDES EN BLEU
Gian Compuesto, guitar | Shea Henry, violin | Patrick Lindsley, bass
Music inspired by the legendary Django Reinhardt with a love of hot jazz, trad jazz, bebop, straight-ahead jazz, and jazz standards.
There is a portable restroom in the Northwest corner of the Garden behind the West-most hedge in the English garden.