We’re a neighborly bunch at Radio Milwaukee. So when the World’s Largest Music Festival moves into the neighborhood for nine days every year, we extend invites to come over, listen to some good music, maybe grab a drink — typical backyard hangout stuff.
The first batch of invitations go to the musicians coming to town for Summerfest. We reach out to artists and managers and record labels, all in an effort to line up as many Studio Milwaukee Sessions as we can handle. It turned out we could handle a lot, because we’re getting ready to host nine different sessions over the next three weeks (if you see a link, you can use it to listen to past sessions):
- Tuesday, June 17 — NilexNile (noon)
- Thursday, June 19 — Buffalo Nichols (noon)
- Thursday, June 19 — Hiss Golden Messenger (2 p.m.)
- Saturday, June 21 — Claire Martine (noon)
- Saturday, June 21 — Kashus Culpepper (3 p.m.)
- Friday, June 27 — Rubblebucket (1 p.m.)
- Friday, June 27 — Wishy (3 p.m.)
- Saturday, June 28 — Cassandra Lewis (3 p.m.)
- Thursday, July 3 — Friko (1 p.m.)
The next invites go to Radio Milwaukee members, so if you’re one of those, you should have already started seeing them in your inbox.
Under normal circumstances, we’d stop there. But we can all agree that Summerfest is pretty special, so we decided to do a little something extra and give everyone the chance to score a spot at these typically member-only events.
Right now, you can enter to win a spot for you and a guest to the sessions for Buffalo Nichols, Hiss Golden Messenger, Claire Martine and Kashus Culpepper. Then, as the weekends keep coming for Summerfest, we’ll update the contests page on our website so you can get even more opportunities to catch all the rest of the artists on the schedule.
