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That was the early 1950s, just in the wake of Frankie Yankovic's having made the Slovenian style of polka one of the most popular forms of music in Wisconsin. By the 1960s, the Verne Meisner Band ...
It includes Wisconsin field recordings, notes, and photographs made by UW–Madison faculty member Helene Stratman-Thomas as part of the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project, co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin and the Library of Congress during the summers of 1940, 1941, and 1946; and recordings collected by song catcher Sidney Robertson Cowell during the summer of 1937 for the ...
- 10 Great Bands And Musical Artists from Wisconsin.
- #10 – BoDeans. Before the BoDeans got its start as a rock band, Sam Llanas and Kurt Neumann met as high school students in 1977 at Waukesha South High School.
- #8 – Bon Iver. The founder of Bon Iver, Justin Vernon grew up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and founded his first band in 1997 called Mount Vernon. This came about while he was still in high school and met with a group of students at a jazz camp.
- #6 -Woody Herman. Woody Herman was born in Milwaukee on May 16, 1913, to a father who had a passion for show business. This played a key role in the young man’s upbringing as he learned how to sing, dance, and play the clarinet and saxophone by the time he was twelve years old.
By recording thousands of songs by musicians and groups of many different genres, the studio’s collection captured the sound of Wisconsin in the 1960s. Aired: 10/11/19 Rating: NR
- 8 min
- Ava Max
- James “Curley” Cooke
- Bill Miller
- Paul Cebar
- Greg Koch
- Joe Schermie
- Spanic Boys
- Jidenna
- Korey Cooper
- Danny Gokey
It's true that Ava Max's career is just getting started; she released her debut full-length album, "Heaven & Hell," last fall. But the budding pop star has already earned gold, platinum and diamond certifications for her singles in several countries around the world, and is the first Milwaukee native since Steve Miller to have a top 10 hit on the B...
When Steve Miller formed his band in 1966 in San Francisco, friend and fellow Wisconsin native James "Curley" Cooke was part of the original lineup on guitar. The Wausau native only lasted a year in that band, but he continued to work with Miller on stage and in the studio, and with Miller's Chicago-born, Racine-raised keyboardist Ben Sidran. He al...
Born on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation in northern Wisconsin, Miller's big break came when Tori Amos selected him as the opening act for her "Under the Pink" tour in 1994. The following year, he was playing Native American flute on Vanessa Williams' version of the Oscar-winning "Colors of the Wind" for the Disney film "Pocahontas." He's collect...
There's good reason Bonnie Raitt, Los Lobos and Nick Lowe are such big fans of Cebar — and have been known to jam with him when they come to Milwaukee. With the R&B Cadets, Paul Cebar and the Milwaukeeans and Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound, Cebar specializes in a style all his own that draws inspiration from around the world, from New Orleans and Memphi...
Joe Bonamassa once proclaimed the Wauwatosa native to be "the best guitar player in the world today." Koch has lived up to that high praise, with a dazzling blend of blues, country, jazz and funk across 17 albums, four DVDs and multiple bands and other recordings. And he's been gracious enough to share some of his tricks in instruction books and le...
Three Dog Night had 14 top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and six gold and one platinum album, from 1968 to 1972, when Madison-born bassist Schermie was part of the band. Listen to:Three Dog Night's cover of the Randy Newman-penned "Mama Told Me Not To Come" — their first Hot 100 chart-topper — is better known today than the original recording, ...
When Sinead O'Connor scrapped plans to be a musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" with just three days' notice in 1990, the show's then-bandleader G.E. Smith reached out to this little-known Milwaukee father-and-son-led rock band to fill the slot. Interview requests and orders for their album came pouring in, and together Tom Spanic and his son Ia...
The son of noted scientist and professor Oliver Mobisson, singer and rapper Jidenna was born in Wisconsin Rapids and lived all over the United States (and spent some years in his father's native Nigeria) before Janelle Monáe discovered him, signing him to her Wondaland Records label in 2015 — the same year he helped Monáe crack the Billboard Hot ...
Christian rock act Skillet was founded by John Cooper in his native Memphis, but Cooper and his wife and bandmate Korey Cooper ultimately settled in Korey's native Kenosha around 2005. Their popularity among Christian music fans and hard-rock lovers continues to grow; four albums released between 2006 and 2016 have either been certified gold, plati...
There have been plenty of singing-show competitors from Wisconsin, but none as successful as Milwaukee-born Gokey. A fan favorite beginning with his audition at the end of the "American Idol" Season 8 premiere in 2009, Gokey ended up in third place, and attempted a country career before becoming an award-winning Christian pop artist with four Chris...
Apr 23, 2010 · In 1970, long-haired hippies and flower children from across the Midwest converged on a small Wisconsin farm for a weekend of peace, love and music. The Sound Storm music festival’s lineup was stacked with mostly regional artists, but also included The Grateful Dead, who played a five hour set. Historian Michael Edmonds tells the story.
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Eau Claire. The Eau Claire Municipal Band, founded in 1902, is the city's oldest community musical organization. The Chippewa Valley, especially Eau Claire, has groups and performers in the indie rock, metal/hardcore, hip hop, jam, blues, bluegrass, and jazz genres. Bands such as Arms Aloft, Bon Iver (Justin Vernon graduated from the University ...
