Cà d'Zan House Concerts

06/24/2025

Get ready for some Country, this Sunday

06/19/2025

I wanted to take a moment to share some of the awesome shows we have coming up with all of you beautiful people!

Sat, Jun 28 - The Jenkins Twins
Mon, Jun 30 - Dyer Davis III
Mon, Jul 7 - Bandits On The Run
Sat, Jul 12 - Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves
Thu, Jul 17 - Kyshona Music & Joy Clark
Fri, Jul 18 - Josh Gilbert Band
Wed, Jul 23 - Stone & Snow
Thu, Jul 31 - Mean Mary

These are all at Ca d'Zan House concerts. We'll have a potluck dinner from 6PM to 7PM before each of these shows and then kick off music at 7PM. All of these are all ages. Suggested donation is $20-30. Bring a lawn or blanket to sit on and your favorite snacks and beverages and let's make some magic!

We also want to say a very special thank you to the Ken and Doris Kolb Charitable Trust. Many of these concerts would not be possible without their support!

06/19/2025

Won't you join us?

06/18/2025

06/16/2025

Another great night of music at Levitt AMP Galva Music Series. Fun talented musicians, great food and cool stuff. Be sure and come next week for Amanda Fish and Kiran Ahluwalia - sure to be a great show!!!!

06/12/2025

John Taylor and Jeni Grouws and the band are disappointed to announce that the show on Wednesday, June 18th at Cà d'Zan House Concerts has been cancelled for reasons beyond our control. We are discussing a future date and hope you'll join us then. Many apologies from us all and we hope to see you soon at Ca D' Zan House Concerts and at a Jeni Grouws performance! ☀️

Photo credit: Roberta Osmers

06/11/2025

Let's give the warmest of welcomes to Sina Theil!

TONIGHT! June 11th at Cà d'Zan House Concerts
🍉 6pm - potluck/social hour
🎤 7pm - show
💵 $20-30 suggested donation
👨‍👩‍👧 All ages, family-friendly
Tickets at xroadscc.org/events

Sina Theil is a German born, Irish based multi-instrumentalist, award winning artist, singer-songwriter, Social Media Influencer, Psychologist, Health & Wellness Contributor to Irish Runner Magazine, Yoga and Running enthusiast, Motivational speaker, TV and radio presenter and winner of several Irish music awards and “Rising Star of the Year 2022” awarded by the late Maryann McTeague Keifer at the American Celtic Listener Supported Music Awards. She started playing piano and composing her first songs at age 7.

In 2015 Sina Theil boarded a one-way plane to Dublin City, Ireland, with just her guitar, one backpack and a pocket full of dreams. Although she had been writing songs since age 7, at the age of 25 she had found herself stuck in the hamster wheel of a boring 9-5 office job in finance. “I used to dread going into work every day”, Sina remembers, “I felt so purposeless”. After a few years during which she grew steadily unhappier, she realized that if she couldn’t muster the courage to leave, her dreams would never come true. “I just knew that if I didn’t take the leap of faith and leave everything behind, I’d always live with regret”, Sina recounts. So she sold all her belongings, said farewell to everything she knew and launched herself into the adventure of a lifetime. “I knew zero people in Ireland. I had no money or social media. Never performed a professional concert. Really, I had all odds against me. But my dream was to carve out a music career for myself in Ireland. That desire and passion kept me going, even during the toughest times.”

Sina busked on the streets of Dublin City in order to finance her music studies at the prestigious music college BIMM Dublin and slowly worked her way up the industry ladder. “I knew that there were only two options: sink or swim. And I simply refused to sink”, Sina recalls.

Fast forward to the present day, Sina has received several Irish and International music awards, scored twenty-six number 1 singles across the Irish iTunes charts, has stacked up over 16,000 radio plays in Ireland and beyond, accumulated over 60,000 followers across her social media platforms, surpassed 1 million views on Youtube with her duet of “The Fields of Athenry” featuring Caitríona O’Sullivan and is currently celebrating her US tour debut supported by Culture Ireland. Furthermore, she has appeared on the front cover of the prestigious Irish Music Magazine and on Ireland’s leading celebrity magazine RSVP. She also featured in the Music Business Ireland publication and on one of Ireland’s leading music TV shows – “Opry Le Daniel” (Season 12). Sina sucessfully crowdfunded over €16,000 in three weeks to release her independent album and DVD “Live at THT Galway”, which has been broadcast on Irish national TV (TG4) several times to great acclaim. Sina has extensive TV and radio presenting experience and is an effective brand ambassador for any association or event that she is part of. She has toured Ireland and beyond extensively, both solo and as special guest on tour with Irish Folk sensation Dan McCabe, The Whistlin’ Donkeys, Mundy, etc.

Charity work is also very dear to Sina’s heart and since 2021 she has raised over €7,300 for Irish and Celtic charities, including Safe Home Ireland and the Celtic FC Foundation.

Thank you to Culture Ireland for your support in helping to make this tour possible!

06/10/2025

TOMORROW! Direct from Ireland! June 11th at Cà d'Zan House Concerts
Sina Theil

🍉 6pm - potluck/social hour
🎤 7pm - show
💵 $20-30 suggested donation
👨‍👩‍👧 All ages, family-friendly
Tickets at xroadscc.org/events

Sina Theil is a German born, Irish based multi-instrumentalist, award winning artist, singer-songwriter, Social Media Influencer, Psychologist, Health & Wellness Contributor to Irish Runner Magazine, Yoga and Running enthusiast, Motivational speaker, TV and radio presenter and winner of several Irish music awards and “Rising Star of the Year 2022” awarded by the late Maryann McTeague Keifer at the American Celtic Listener Supported Music Awards. She started playing piano and composing her first songs at age 7.

In 2015 Sina Theil boarded a one-way plane to Dublin City, Ireland, with just her guitar, one backpack and a pocket full of dreams. Although she had been writing songs since age 7, at the age of 25 she had found herself stuck in the hamster wheel of a boring 9-5 office job in finance. “I used to dread going into work every day”, Sina remembers, “I felt so purposeless”. After a few years during which she grew steadily unhappier, she realized that if she couldn’t muster the courage to leave, her dreams would never come true. “I just knew that if I didn’t take the leap of faith and leave everything behind, I’d always live with regret”, Sina recounts. So she sold all her belongings, said farewell to everything she knew and launched herself into the adventure of a lifetime. “I knew zero people in Ireland. I had no money or social media. Never performed a professional concert. Really, I had all odds against me. But my dream was to carve out a music career for myself in Ireland. That desire and passion kept me going, even during the toughest times.”

Sina busked on the streets of Dublin City in order to finance her music studies at the prestigious music college BIMM Dublin and slowly worked her way up the industry ladder. “I knew that there were only two options: sink or swim. And I simply refused to sink”, Sina recalls.

Fast forward to the present day, Sina has received several Irish and International music awards, scored twenty-six number 1 singles across the Irish iTunes charts, has stacked up over 16,000 radio plays in Ireland and beyond, accumulated over 60,000 followers across her social media platforms, surpassed 1 million views on Youtube with her duet of “The Fields of Athenry” featuring Caitríona O’Sullivan and is currently celebrating her US tour debut supported by Culture Ireland. Furthermore, she has appeared on the front cover of the prestigious Irish Music Magazine and on Ireland’s leading celebrity magazine RSVP. She also featured in the Music Business Ireland publication and on one of Ireland’s leading music TV shows – “Opry Le Daniel” (Season 12). Sina sucessfully crowdfunded over €16,000 in three weeks to release her independent album and DVD “Live at THT Galway”, which has been broadcast on Irish national TV (TG4) several times to great acclaim. Sina has extensive TV and radio presenting experience and is an effective brand ambassador for any association or event that she is part of. She has toured Ireland and beyond extensively, both solo and as special guest on tour with Irish Folk sensation Dan McCabe, The Whistlin’ Donkeys, Mundy, etc.

Charity work is also very dear to Sina’s heart and since 2021 she has raised over €7,300 for Irish and Celtic charities, including Safe Home Ireland and the Celtic FC Foundation.

Thank you to Culture Ireland for your support in helping to make this tour possible!

06/10/2025

📸Wil-Sim Drone and Photography

02/23/2025

It's happening!

After years of dreaming, planning, and working toward financial sustainability, we recently received our first payout from the Crossroads Cultural Connections Endowment Fund. This means that our work isn’t just thriving—it’s becoming self-sustaining, just as we envisioned!

When we started Crossroads Cultural Connections, one of our biggest goals was to create a way for this work to continue indefinitely. It's one thing to do what we do for the here and now, but, if it can't continue beyond the lifetime of those currently involved, would we really make a lasting impact? That’s why setting up an endowment fund was one of our very first steps. At the beginning of 2024, we set an ambitious goal of raising $100,000 for our endowment fund. We got off to an amazing start, raising over $90,000, but then life threw us an exciting curveball—we had the opportunity to purchase and make the Bishop Hill Creative Commons a permanent physical location for the organization. With major updates like new siding, a new furnace and central air, and interior renovations needed, we decided to put raising funds for the endowment on the backburner and shifted our focus to these projects.

A couple of weeks ago, we got some incredible news: the first annual payout from our endowment fund was available! The amount was $6,634.84 and we had the option to either take this full amount as a payout, take a portion of this as a payout and reinvest the remainder, or reinvest the entire amount back into the endowment fund. We chose to take $3,500 to directly fund the 11 school programs that we did this month and reinvest the remainder. To put things in perspective, in total we did 12 school programs in 2024, and only two months into 2025 we have already done 11!

With the funding from the endowment, we were able to reach over 2,300 students, teachers, and staff at Stark County Elementary School, Visitation Catholic School - Kewanee, IL, Orion CUSD #223, Cambridge Unit School District 227, Oak Grove School District #68, Wethersfield District #230, Galva Elementary, Galva JR/SR High School, and Bureau Valley High School. All at NO COST to the schools.

The programs featured Farmer Jason (of Jason and The Scorchers), Seán Dagher (a Quebec-based artist famous for his sea shanty recordings that are featured in Assassin's Creed Black flag), Morgan Myles (The Voice Season 22 runner-up), and Peterson Farm Bros (Popular for their farm-themed parody songs on YouTube).

This is just the beginning! This first payout helped us bring these incredible experiences to students, and it’s the first of many more to come. Every year, this fund will keep growing and providing reliable support, which will allow us to continue bringing world-class artists to our area for concerts and school programs FOREVER while simultaneously continuing to grow the capacity of the organization FOREVER.

This fund is our way of ensuring that generations to come will continue to experience the power of music, art, community, and culture. and we’re beyond grateful for every single one of you who has helped us get here.

If you'd like for this to be part of your legacy, I hope you'll consider donating and/or setting up a planned gift.

To donate by check:
Mail to Galesburg Community Foundation, 246 E. Main St., Suite 101, Galesburg, IL 61401 and write “Crossroads Cultural Connections Endowment” in the memo block.

For other donation options (real estate, securities, grain, life insurance, retirement assets, vehicles, etc.), including planned gifts, please call the Galesburg Community Foundation at (309) 344-8898 to arrange your gift.

The endowment fund is a long-term investment that provides steady, reliable funding year after year. Here’s how it works:
- 5% of the fund’s balance is eligible to be paid out annually.
- The remaining interest is reinvested towards the principal.
- Over time, the fund will keep growing while continuously supporting our mission.

To put it into perspective—if we hit our $100,000 goal and never added another dollar, assuming an 8% annual return, in 50 years the principal of the fund could grow to $250,000 while paying out nearly $500,000 over that time.

THANK YOU!!!