Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
With members of Wild Adriatic and J-Council roaming the crowds, and Jamie Kent and Ryan Hommel lighting up the Outer Edge Stage, last night's Home Community Concert turned out to be the perfect on ramp to Mile 5. We've been Mile of Music fans since it first launched five years ago and we could not [...]
I watched the sun set behind Charlie Parr Wednesday night and thought, once again, about how lucky we are. The colors -- an optimistic gold, orange, pink and purple, proved to be a perfect backdrop and foil to Parr's bluesy folk music; they stretched out slowly across the sky behind him while his fingers, with [...]
Boom Forest came to town Wednesday night and made us all feel like family. The band's sage and, Wednesday night anyway, soloist, John Paul Roney strummed his father's guitar and welled up a little as he played his favorite song. He talked about how his dad used to call him after he'd seen a band [...]
The little girl played long and well, graciously acknowledging support with a dignified lift of her eyebrows. I'd have missed her entirely as I rushed along College Avenue late Saturday afternoon, paced by an increasingly strong Mile of Music FOMO. But, I looked down for a moment, caught her eye and chuckled a little. As [...]
You decide to go to a music festival in downtown Appleton. There are a lot of different artists, but you’ve only heard of a few of them. As you approach College Avenue you hear the sounds of many voices, guitars, basses, and drums all mingle together in a communal cacophony, but one sound cuts through [...]