APPLETON, Wis. — There are some challenges to taking part in reside music behind a shifting metropolis transit bus.
Issues transfer. Busses cease. Roundabouts.
However Appleton musician Walt Hamburger mentioned there are benefits, too.
“My favorite part is the crowd can’t leave,” Hamburger mentioned. “I pulled on the stop (cord) and it wasn’t on, so we really had them. I just can’t imagine not doing the bus. It’s a thing that is unique to this festival.”
For the primary time since 2019, the Mile of Music pageant in Appleton is working a bus as certainly one of its levels.
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There was leaning, shifting and bracing because the bus made its manner across the metropolis with Hamburger and Todd Balke jamming on the again for a full home. Or, full bus.
“I’m dizzy,” Balke mentioned after the efficiency.
“I almost fell over. My teeth are still intact. That’s good,” Hamburger added. “The bus is particular, proper? “
“It is special,” Balke mentioned.
It’s operated in partnership with Valley Transit.
“This is an absolute blast. It’s just crazy,” mentioned Ron McDonald, the final supervisor of the service. “The passengers will start clapping, they’re stomping their feet, they’re going down the road clapping. It just doesn’t get much better than this on a bus.”
It’s additionally a manner the operation can assist the occasion and neighborhood.
“We’re a part of the entire Fox Cities, we’re about connecting the Fox Cities,” he mentioned. “This event is a Fox Cities event. People come from all over the region for this event and we’re excited to be part of this. This is the ten-year anniversary and we’re excited to be here.”
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Hamburger is a touring musician and an everyday at Mile of Music.
“When this festival started, I was a little shocked with its success,” he mentioned. “Up to that point, playing original music was not something that you could necessarily book at venues and make any kind of money or do as a job. None of us are rich, but we can get by and all; think a lot of that because of the Mile of Music and what they brought to the city and people just came out.”
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