Maple Street Concerts

Co-bill Gia Dagenhart and Heather Styka

Tickets $20

Lombard's own Gia Dagenhart is a budding singer-songwriter whose songs showcase poetic snapshots, dynamic vocals, and sophisticated themes. On stage, her natural confidence, warmth, and wit engage audiences and leave them buzzing.   Lilli Kuzma, host of "Folk Festival" on WDCB Public Radio, chose Gia to be her Folk Alliance Region Midwest DJ Showcase Artist in 2025. This opportunity sparked Dagenhart to record a seven-song debut EP, Artifact, which has received airplay on national college and folk radio stations. Artifact reflects the spirit of her live performances.      Growing up, Gia regularly attended intimate folk concerts. Inspired by artists Harpeth Rising, Emily White, Sons of the Never Wrong, Heather Styka, and Hadestown creator, Anaïs Mitchell, Dagenhart has been writing and performing since her teens. In 2026, she earned a B.A. in Music at Lawrence University (Appleton, WI).   In 2025, Gia lit up a packed room at the Two Way Street Coffee House in Downers Grove, IL—the same venue where her late father, Bryan Dagenhart, still holds the record for most performances—forty-five. Incidentally, he’s the founder of the Maple Street Concert Series. Gia returns to our stage having opened for Edie Carey in 2024. This will be her hometown EP release show. https://giadagenhart.com/

HEATHER STYKA- A Kerrville New Folk Finalist and award-winning songwriter with a #3 album on the FOLK-DJ charts, Chicago artist Heather Styka writes lyrics-forward songs that “make you feel as if you are peeking into her diary” (No Depression) with a “talent for telling stories and connecting emotionally” (Glide Magazine). Styka spent a decade touring coast-to-coast and has performed at Chicago rooms such as the Old Town School of Folk Music and City Winery, yet her performances remain as intimate and candid as a late-night conversation, peppered with humor, confession, and a disarming honesty. Armed with a guileless, unvarnished delivery, she’s equal parts wordsmith and entertainer.

Styka’s most recent release has expanded her sound as the creative force behind SELKEN, her bummer pop/indie rock project. Teaming up with producer and multi-instrumentalist JG Shadid, she crafted SELKEN's The Winds, an album that pairs Styka’s two decades of song craft with shimmering synths, ambient textures, and a groove-forward pulse. Rooted in vintage pop and alt-country, SELKEN marks a bold evolution—holding onto the emotional core of Styka’s songwriting while embracing a sound that’s expansive, cathartic, and alive with change.

House of Hamill Tickets $25

House of Hamill, a returning fan favorite, consists of Rose Baldino, Brian Buchanan and Caroline Browning. This Pennsylvania-based trio is a fixture on festival stages across the US, and they have shared their music and stories on the country’s premier folk stages. Their original song “Balls of the Brandywine” was a Grand prize winner in the 2024 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

The band’s newest release, “Wildfire,” marks House of Hamill’s most compelling work to date. Featuring their strongest and most exciting songwriting, “Wildfire” is filled with lyrical depth, sophisticated vocal and instrumental arrangements, and hooks that are simply irresistible. This album captures the vibrant energy and creativity that have become the hallmarks of a House of Hamill live show.

Whether they’re ripping through a set of original jigs and reels, adding lush three-part harmonies into traditional folk ballads, or cracking up an audience with stories from the road. House of Hamill puts on a show that captivates audiences from the very first note.

Lee Murdock is celebrating his 35th year in the place where it all began! Lee Murdock has uncovered a boundless body of music and stories in the Great Lakes. Taking snapshots from history, his songs summon the listener to take a front-row seat, to look through the eyes and into the hearts of individuals who have shaped our heritage on and around the Great Lakes. His concerts invoke a sense of place, but it is a universal place, and a timeless repertoire that celebrates the North American people, their triumphs and tragedies, work songs and pastimes. Noted as a fluent instrumentalist on six and twelve string guitars, Murdock combines ragtime, Irish, blues and folk styles with this flair for storytelling in songs. His musical influences span fifteen generations, and combine original compositions with traditional music. There is an amazing timelessness in this music. Great Lakes songs are made of hard word, hard living, ships that go down and ships that come in. The music is grounded in the work song tradition, from the rugged days of lumberjacks and wooden sailing schooners. Murdock comes alongside with ballads of contemporary commerce and revelry in the grand folk style. Lee’s fans have discovered a sweetwater treasure in his songs about the Great Lakes, finding drama and inspiration in the lives of sailors and fishermen, lighthouse keepers, ghosts, shipwrecks, outlaws and everyday heroes.