Joy Dragland with Louka and Co.
The Wisconsin Union
Event Details
Date
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Time
7 p.m.
Location
The Terrace (See Event Details), Memorial Union
Description
Joy Dragland is a singer songwriter living in Norway via Brooklyn. Raised in the snowy midwest, Joy began writing songs at an early age to entertain her siblings on the way home from church. She started performing in small coffee shops in Wisconsin, until she met co-conspirator Leo Sidran with whom she formed pop duo Joy & the Boy. Together they wrote and recorded three studio albums & toured globally, charting in the top 40 in Spain with their cover of Marvin Gaye´s "Let's Get it On". Louka Patenaude, a veteran of the Madison music scene, is a performing guitarist, teacher, recording studio artist, songwriter and composer. As a professional teacher, his career goes back almost 20 years. He has appeared on many recordings and has toured throughout the Midwest, Europe and Pacific Asia. Louka & and Co. opens.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-265-6788 (voice only) to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Saturday, June 27, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.