Wisconsin’s Maestro Liberace
Liberace is an American and Wisconsin original. Even decades after his death, he still attracts attention and was the subject of a ...
Duke Ellington in Wisconsin
Today is the anniversary of the death of musical legend Duke Ellington. The most prolific composer of the 20thcentury, Ellington ...
Dylan Slept Here
What makes an ordinary place extra-ordinary? Discovering that one of your heroes slept there, maybe. Commentator Dean Robbins recently stumbled ...
Woody Herman
This year marks the centennial of the birth of big band jazz legend Woody Herman. Writer Dean Robbins tells us ...
Nirvana in Madison
20 years ago, Nirvana’s album “Nevermind” went to number one on the music charts, bringing alternative rock to a mainstream ...
Girls Rock Camp
Some kids go to camp to swim, sing songs, and eat s’mores around the campfire. Other kids go to camp ...
Marching Band Camp
Every year, the award-winning Oregon High School marching band spends the first weeks of summer vacation in Deerfield for a ...
Civil War Songs
150 years ago, Wisconsin soldiers slogged through the second year of the Civil War. Madison-based band Count This Penny set ...
I’ll Take A Walk
Singer-songwriters Amanda and Allen Rigell of the band Count This Penny share a song inspired by one soldier's letters home.
Count This Penny
A hundred and fifty years ago, Wisconsin soldiers entered the second year of the Civil War. Now, some of their ...
Paramount Records
February is Black History month. Today, commentator Dean Robbins uncovers a little-known story, about the Wisconsin roots of some of ...
Bunny Berigan
75 years ago, a man from Fox Lake did something extraordinary. So extraordinary, that the state of Wisconsin erected a ...
Civil War Week: 1st Brigade Band
In 1864, eighteen men from Brodhead enlisted in the Union Army as the band of the 1st Brigade. Today, the ...
Holiday Music Motel
The fifth annual Steel Bridge Songfest takes place this weekend in Sturgeon Bay. It’s a collection of performances to benefit ...
Sound Storm: When The Grateful Dead Played Wisconsin’s Woodstock
In 1970, long-haired hippies and flower children from across the Midwest converged on a small Wisconsin farm for a weekend ...