Music

Ojibwe singers Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings and Joe Rainey say that powwow music has changed their lives. Now, they hope to bring the tradition to new listeners.

A new management company hopes to provide a fresh start for the embattled Oshkosh Arena, home to the Milwaukee Bucks’ G-League affiliate.

Anna Jacobsen of Elk Mound and Andy Deitrich joined WPR’s Robin Washington on “Morning Edition” to talk their experience as part of Mucca Pazza, a band that consists of 30-odd musicians playing diverse instruments who are performing Sept. 13 as part of the Big Top Chautauqua concert series.

To help tell the story of House and Techno In Chicago Nick Karounos, John Curley, and Stuart Hackley founded the ARC Music festival in 2021, which has been held on Labor Day weekend each year since. 

Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen’s new release is “Reformation,” an album featuring early keyboard music by composers influenced by the English Reformation.

The Wisconsin Folk Song Collection comprises the work of scholars, musicians and Wisconsinites pre- and post-World War II who helped record and archive this part of our state’s history, such as Helene Stratman-Thomas and Sydney Robertson Cowell.

To learn about the Midwest’s rich music heritage, WPR’s “BETA” turned to award-winning music journalist Erin Osmon, who grew up in rural Indiana.

Over the weekend of July 26th the inaugural GRIDLIFE Summer Apex music and motorsports festival took place at Road America in Elkhart Lake. Over 16,000 car aficionados and music lovers alike attended the festival.

Along with co-author Amy Waldman, Jest captured his decades of behind-the-scenes stories in a new memoir, “We Had Fun and Nobody Died: Adventures of a Milwaukee Music Promoter.”  

James Kaplan tells the story of the three geniuses who were the main force behind Miles Davis’ 1959 recording of “Kind of Blue.”