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1 week ago | 
shepherdexpress.com | Jamie Lee Rake
“Make Music Milwaukee truly celebrates accessibility, spontaneity, and creativity in a way that feels different from the city's bigger festivals. It brings music into our everyday spaces, breathes life into public areas, and invites everyone—whether performing or just listening—to be a part of it.
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1 week ago | 
shepherdexpress.com | Jamie Lee Rake
Leah and Andrew Rudick could have had an actual sibling rivalry.
Instead, as a sister and brother who often co-headline as touring stand-up comedians, they are more apt to cooperate than act as competitors.
“We perform together pretty regularly,” says Andrew of the comic with whom he often shares stages and can't help but share parents.
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1 week ago | 
shepherdexpress.com | Jamie Lee Rake
If folk music is made up of songs by members of a community for that community, the song circles Emma Koeppel leads might be considered a form of community organizing.
“Overall, I'd say I hold the hope that a song circle is a place where people can feel an embodied sense of community and be resourced and fed by that sense of togetherness.
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1 week ago | 
shepherdexpress.com | Jamie Lee Rake
Juneteenth Parade and Celebration Presented by Northcott Neighborhood House
The end of chattel slavery in the United States is a fine thing to celebrate; June 19, the date the Emancipation Declaration was signed by President Lincoln, is a great day to celebrate it. The two-hour parade commences at 9 a.m. Folks unable to attend it in person may see it televised live on TMJ4. The day's entire celebration, however, goes from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and includes plenty to do.
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1 week ago | 
shepherdexpress.com | Jamie Lee Rake
Their name may not be an obvious clue, but Dumpstaphunk is the latest incarnation of a muti-generational musical legacy. That heritage comes primarily from Ivan and Ian Neville. Both men are progeny of the funk trailblazers who founded The Meters, whose 1960s roots eventually grew into the still-active Neville Brothers.
Dumpstaphunk may not have extended the family brand, but for one member needing a pick-up band for one big show.
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1 week ago | 
shepherdexpress.com | Jamie Lee Rake
Listening to their Bloodywood's powerful multi-lingual metal in the form it currently takes, it's tough to believe the band started as a joke. But the act that formed to post remakes of Western pop and Indian bhangra to YouTube with incongruously hard sonics wound up being pioneers of a unique brand of metal. It's one that proudly flaunts the group's East Indian identity sonically and lyrically while connecting dots internationally.
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1 week ago | 
shepherdexpress.com | Jamie Lee Rake
Sisters? Forming a rock band? It's not an unprecedented idea. But unlike forebears like Fanny and Heart, The Warning's Daniela Villarreal Vélez (guitar, piano) and her siblings Paulina (drums) and Alejandra (bass) make for a self-contained unit without non-familial members.
The uniqueness surrounding their coming together as a band doesn't end there, however. Other groups may have benefitted from their members having played the Rock Band video game.
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1 week ago | 
shepherdexpress.com | Jamie Lee Rake
Milwaukee’s Eric Benét first came to national attention in the early '90s with his sister, Lisa, in the R&B duo Benét, but his musical pedigree extends back to the 1980s. It was then that he was active in Gerard, the pop band that spun off one-hit wonder Keedy. However, it wouldn't be until his emergence as a solo artist in 1996 with True To Myself that he received the kind of sustained, high-profile attention that has truly made his name.
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2 weeks ago | 
shepherdexpress.com | Jamie Lee Rake
Cedarburg Cultural Center Youth Plein Air Contest
The Buzz assumes mostly adults read this column, but this is for artists ages 17 and younger.
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3 weeks ago | 
shepherdexpress.com | Jamie Lee Rake
Door County Contemporary Art Fair
It may at first seem odd for a Milwaukee website to recommend a road trip to the thumb in the state's handprint. But when the Wisconsin's biggest city and nearby Racine are represented by eight galleries out of 20, it's a pretty big deal for the for the visual art scene down here. Find out more about the four-day event being held at Fish Creek's Peninsula School of Art.
