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Summer Soulstice Music Festival won’t be happening in 2021

May 18, 2021

For two decades, the East Side’s annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has marked the arrival of summer with a day full of music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up carrying a giant lizard. Of ...

Summer Soulstice cancels 2020 fest, launches virtual “Tribute to Soulstice” for East Side businesses

Matt Wild

April 27, 2020

The organizers of the annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival announced on Monday that the 2020 installment of the fest has been canceled. The fest was previously scheduled for June 20. It would have been the 20...

Relive the 2019 Summer Soulstice Music Festival with these photos

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 24, 2019

Remember a few years ago, when the East Side was lousy with empty bars, empty buildings, and gone-out-of-business businesses? Yeah, it's not really like that anymore. If you needed proof, this past Saturday's S...

Here’s the lineup for the 2019 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild

April 16, 2019

For nearly two decades, the East Side's annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has marked the first day of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up carrying a giant lizard. (Actuall...

Relive the 2018 Summer Soulstice Music Festival with these photos

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 25, 2018

Beautiful weather. Beautiful people. A beautiful neighborhood that may have more axe-throwing cat-and-poke bars than sit-down-and-just-have-a-drink bars these days, but a beautiful neighborhood nonetheless. The...

Here’s the lineup for the 2018 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild

May 17, 2018

Summer Soulstice 2017, a minute-by-minute recap

Matt Wild

June 26, 2017

For nearly two decades, the East Side's annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has marked the arrival of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up carrying a giant lizard. On Saturda...

Talking Summer Soulstice, summer festivals, and Arte Para Todos with Chuck Watson

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 6, 2017

Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none of the ...

Here’s the lineup for the 2017 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild

April 5, 2017

For the past 17 years, the East Side's annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has marked the first day of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up carrying a giant lizard. On Saturd...

Relive Foreign Goods’ Summer Soulstice performance with live EP, video

Matt Wild

September 13, 2016

If you somehow failed to catch a show from jazz/blues/funk/hip-hop collective Foreign Goods this summer, you clearly weren't trying. The group, led by the ever-busy Jay Anderson, was practically in 10 place...

Summer Soulstice 2016: A minute-by-minute, soul-searching recap

Matt Wild

June 27, 2016

//This past Saturday, the Summer Soulstice Music Festival celebrated its 16th year on the East Side. This fall, I'll celebrate my 20th. By all living-in-Milwaukee logic (not to mention all good sense), I s...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild

May 3, 2016

//For the past 16 years, the East Side's annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has celebrated the first day of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up carrying a giant lizard...

Here’s the lineup for the 2015 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 21, 2015

For 15 years, the East Side’s annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has celebrated the first day of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up to the thing carrying a giant lizard. O...

Summer Soulstice 2014: A minute-by-minute recap

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 23, 2014

The East Side’s annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival is meant to ring in the first day of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up to this thing carrying a giant lizard. All of th...

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