Music

TIME TO INDULGE: Decadent Cabaret Resurrected for 42nd Year

all-local music festival returns after pandemic hiatus

James Johonnott, photos by Lee Butterworth |

HAIR TODAY. The crowd at Decadent Cabaret in 2020, the last time the all-local music fest was held.
HAIR TODAY. The crowd at Decadent Cabaret in 2020, the last time the all-local music fest was held.

Eau Claire’s all-local, two-day music event is back. After a two-year, pandemic-driven hiatus, the newly resurrected Decadent Cabaret will make a triumphant return this year for its 42nd go-round. Entertaining the Chippewa Valley since 1980, Decadent Cabaret is an all-local concert spanning two whole music-packed days, Friday-Saturday, March 3-4, and now being hosted at a new location: the Brickhouse Pub & Grub, 2233 Birch St., Eau Claire.

The 35-band lineup this year includes favorites like Ghosts of the Sun, Uncommon Denominator, Stumpt, Venison, The Jaggernauts, The Unlikely Event, Holty, Stare Across, Do It Yourself Daisy, Sloslylove, Drunk Drivers, Eddie Inc, Pit Wagon, Motherwind, The Rattlenecks, FM Down, Woodland Spring, Paint Dry, Neon Dale, John Buxton Experience, Dead Soul Symphony, Astronotever, Orenda Fugue, West Korea, Noah Estrada, The Over Unders, Giants of Midgard, Emma West, Riggs Calvero, Fathom, Thunderlung, Contingency, Sloar & Mordor, Parker Reed, and Yam Cannon. The schedule and final lineup may change in the months leading up to the event, so be sure to check their website (decadentcabaret.com) and social media (@decadentcabaret) for updates.


Decadent Cabaret • Friday, March 3 (doors at 6:45pm) & Saturday, March 4 (doors at 5pm) • The Brickhouse Pub & Grub (at the Labor Temple), 2233 Birch St., Eau Claire • $20/day, $30 for both days