Tagged Summerfest

The history of Summerfest is chock-full of infamous shows—the time George Carlin got arrested, for example. One of the more recent examples comes from 2013, when bombastic rock band Imagine Dragons played the M...

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Summerfest announced its 2023 dates today: June 22-24, June 29 - July 1, and July 6-8. So yeah, the 2023 Big Gig (the festival's 55th anniversary!) will do the three-"Thursday-Friday-Saturday"-weekend thing aga...

In a Thursday-at-6-p.m. press release titled "Summerfest 2022 Celebrates Music & Community. Festival Fulfills Nonprofit Mission Despite Challenges Resulting from Pandemic," Summerfest announced—let's scroll...

Summerfest! Music, food, beer, bleachers, and more! About that "more" part: There's a ton of stuff to do at Summerfest, and a ton of time-honored stuff at that. You know, like riding the Skyglider or whatever. ...

Every year when the Summerfest lineup is announced, I look at it with anticipation. I don't even know what I'm looking for, but I know that Summerfest matters to me and that it can often deliver something I wan...

Thursday marks the official start of another Summerfest. Now in its 54th year, the "Big Gig" has long been home to deep fried delicacies, prime people watching, and hundreds upon hundreds of musical acts from a...

In case you missed it, Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) is, um, going through some stuff. Because of that stuff, it will likely not offer direct Freeway Flyer buses to Summerfest this year—similar to last...

There are approximately 8,000 stages on the Summerfest grounds, but only one of them can claim to be the festival's "smallest." And no, we're not talking about the JoJo's Martini Bar stage, which needs to be so...

There’s an old Milwaukee saying we totally made up: If you can’t manage to score free or discounted tickets to Summerfest, you’re not really trying. Looking to enjoy the dulcet tones of Boyz II Men and Rick Spr...