Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Note: I am reposting this in honor of Mile 13 because I was talking to current MoM artist Dan Navarro about how it all began. I wrote this post in 2013... Grammy winners and grandmas shared VIP status during Appleton's Mile of Music, a four-day festival that celebrated both music and the Midwest, elevated new [...]
In the 12 years since Mile of Music launched, hundreds of bands have come to Appleton to say hello. This year, one of its favorites came to say good-bye. Wild Adriatic, a rock band based in New York, announced earlier this year that Mile of Music would be its last gig. Fourteen years after they [...]
I tore through the Mile of Music Festival like a crazy person this weekend, sprinting from one end of the Avenue to the other, determined to hear as much music as I possibly could. (As it turns out, that's a lot of music!) I soaked in every set I heard from Wednesday's night through Sunday [...]
When she and her husband Ben perform, Kassie Wilson likes to ask audience members how long they have been married. The couple, known professionally as Goldpine, an award-winning Americana duo, has been married for 16 years. Wednesday night at Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, Kassie’s question unearthed a couple who had been married 65 years. [...]
The support Dave Willems and his Mile of Music community offers their performers extends miles, even 850 miles, beyond College Avenue. Starting Wednesday night and extending through the weekend, the Mile of Music team will be hosting a fundraiser for hurricane victims, especially those in the devastated city of Asheville, North Carolina. That area of [...]