Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I got goosebumps watching Bridger's set at the Appleton Beer Factory on Friday (definitely not due to the chill in that steamy air). I just loved watching the young, four-member group up there on stage wowing a packed crowd at a music festival that grew up along with them. I've known singer/guitar player Jack Coughlin [...]
I saw a friend Wednesday night at Jones Park and he waved me over to say hi. As he stood there, wearing a Mile of Music volunteer shirt and actively supervising a group of young trash picker-uppers, he gave me some insight into why this annual event works as well as it does. "This is [...]
I imagine, when this whole thing is over and the wicked pandemic witch is at last dead, someone will need to coax us all back into the glorious freedom of our lives. I'd like to think musicians will be our Glindas, summoning us with their eloquent songs to "come out, come out wherever you are" [...]
In seven years, both Appleton and the summer music festival it hosts annually have evolved graciously in scope, logistics, venues and variety of talent. At Mile 7 I saw excellent rock, soul, blue grass, country, folk and mariachi bands in places as vast as the Jones Park Amphitheater and as quaint as the tiny house [...]
The music brought us to the Green Bay Botanical Gardens last Sunday. The beauty took our breath away. I'll add introducing me to that lovely, peaceful place as another reason I'm grateful to the Mile of Music team, producers of the excellent Grass Roots Festival. We showed up right at noon for the seven-hour event, [...]