Tuesday night belonged to the E Street Band, my sisters and me. Well, mostly it belonged to me and Bruce, but it was also fun to have my sisters along. I last saw Bruce Springsteen perform live back in 1984 when I was a summer intern at the hot rockin', flame throwin' Z95 radio station [...]
Born on the banks of a river that sings in any season and predated by a renowned conservatory, Appleton exhales music with every breath. Notes wafting out from open windows, street corners and pavilions form the city's welcome committee, inviting all comers to pull up a park bench and have a listen. The heartbeat here [...]
From her workshop in Heid Music’s front window, Kara McCanna coaxes infinite circles of stories from the instruments she builds and repairs. A professional violinist and luthier, Kara works with precision instruments to build ethereal ones. She is the conduit between musician and instrument, the means by which each has the ability to play on. [...]
Saturday night my daughter Molly and I found ourselves inexplicably alone at a gorgeous camp fire . (The gentlemen in our party had wandered off into the woods and landed at a neighbor's pond where they built socially distant sand castles and tried to catch fish with their bare hands.) So, we were quite blissful [...]
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 [...]