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- 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
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Oct 2, 2009 · This record has come to be known by collectors as the very first “rock and roll” record ever made in Wisconsin. It’s not clear exactly how many pressings were made of this record, but the number is not very large. The first 500 were made with a white label and listed the artist as simply The Whitecaps.
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 ...
Mar 14, 2018 · The sound is unique and captivates the ear. Shaped like a UFO the handpan is a relative newcomer to the music scene. The music sounds ancient but was first created in Switzerland around the year 2000 by two steel pan tuners. It has notes on the top that are played with the hands, and the bottom is like a resonating cavity.
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 ...
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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.
