A rainbow stretched out over the Washington Inn in Cecil, Wisconsin Saturday night and, for us, the pot of gold at the end of it was the music we heard inside. Our son Vinnie hosted a reunion of his college a cappella group, Fundamentally Sound, and, when they headed into Cecil for Double Bubble, they [...]
It’s pretty easy to spot the motion W these days. On flags, hats, T-shirts, sweat shirts, license plates and baked goods, the University of Wisconsin logo has become a ubiquitous presence in a nation obsessed with sports and sporting personalities. For a team that hasn’t won a national title since 1941, the Badger men’s basketball [...]
I wasn't going to write about our spontaneous trip to the Midwest Semi-Final round of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella last week. (Mostly because I've written about Fundamentally Sound so many times I'm worried I made the awkward transition from proud mom to crazy stalker fan that has to sneak past security to [...]
We went to the Boogie Ballroom last Friday night to see Fundamentally Sound perform. We ended up falling in love with the Valley's newest dance studio and its charming owners, Zeke and Pamela Cribbs. A former Fundamentally Sound member, Zeke met Pamela in gospel choir class while they were both students at the University of [...]
In the span of five days, my son and his a ccapella group sang from a rickety river deck in Wisconsin's North Woods, for surprised patrons of the Washington Inn, to his grandma and our next-door neighbors in the living room of our house, and in University Hospital's ICU ward. They sing for the love [...]