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Richard Bock

VO5

press release: AtwoodFest began in the summer of 1982 as Atwood Summerfest, an annual fundraising event for the Goodman Center (then the Atwood Community Center). The Goodman Center withdrew as the host of the event in early 2014 to focus on their mission as a community center, opening the door for the SASY neighborhood association to partner with the Barrymore Theatre and the Wil- Mar Neighborhood Center to recreate the festival with a new name - AtwoodFest.

Celebrating 40 years as one of Madison’s longest running music festivals, AtwoodFest is proud to announce a new stage and music lineup for July 30-31, 2022. Live Music at AtwoodFest 2022 will feature something old, something new... something borrowed, and definitely some Blues. This year’s lineup boasts many new faces and sounds as well as fan favorites representing the musical traditions of AtwoodFest.

The new Sugar Maple Stage Presented by The Lauer Realty Group will be located in the United Way parking lot at 2070 Atwood and will feature teenage bands early in the day and then switch over to acoustic Americana mid-afternoon. Music will start just after noon each day. On Saturday, bands from the Madison Music Foundry will perform. Winners of the statewide high-school garage band competition, Rockonsin, will perform Sunday. Roots oriented acoustic bands will take over the Sugar Maple Stage at 3:00 pm each day and perform until early evening.

Here is the full schedule. Find more on the bands below.

Saturday, July 30:

Clyde Stubblefield Stage presented by The Harmony Bar: Mad City Jug Band noon, Inside Pocket 1:45 p.m., Lynda and the Zeros 3:30 p.m., Altered Five Blues Band 5:30 p.m., VO5 7:30 p.m.

Madison Heritage Stage presented by The Alchemy: Derek Ramnarace noon, Dana Perry 1 p.m., Kat and the Hurricane 2:45 p.m., Sam Price & the True Believers 4:30 p.m., Pine Travelers 6:30 p.m., Bodhicitta 8:30 p.m.

Sugar Maple Stage Presented by The Lauer Realty Group: Sandblasters 12:30 p.m., Stag 1:45 p.m., Lawnmower 3 p.m., The Roddys 4:30 p.m., Donna Herula 6 p.m.

Sunday, July 31:

Clyde Stubblefield Stage presented by The Harmony Bar: Steely Dane noon, Little Earthquakes 2:15 p.m., Loving Cup 4 p.m., Funkee JBeez 5:45 p.m.

Madison Heritage Stage presented by The Alchemy: Ted Hefko & the Thousandaires noon, Kirstie Kraus 2 p.m., Kelsey Miles Band 3:45 p.m., Gabe Stillman 5:45 p.m.

Sugar Maple Stage Presented by The Lauer Realty Group: Geology Club 12:30 p.m., You Got The Message 1:45 p.m., Third Coast Bluegrass 3 p.m., Frogwater 5 p.m.

JULY 30, 2022

Clyde Stubblefield Stage presented by The Harmony Bar: 

12:00 PM Mad City Jug Band (Madison) America's Most Adequate Jug Band!™ Jug Band & Hokum Favorites from the 1920s - '60s https://www.facebook.com/madcityjugband

1:45 PM Inside Pocket (Madison) Jazz quartet performing original compositions, hard bop, and contemporary jazz by Kenny Garrett, Pat Metheny, and others. Music that moves you. https://bobkerwinmusic.com/inside-pocket/

3:30 PM Lynda & the Zeros (Madison) With a bigger, funkier horn section and a dynamic new vocalist, Lynda & the ZEROs have a New-Mo-Funk style that is infectious and unstoppable. https://www.facebook.com/Lynda-the-ZEROS-118156711559965

5:30 PM Altered Five Blues Band (Milwaukee) The Blind Pig recording artists from Milwaukee are no stranger to playing AtwoodFest and are one of the few bands to have also performed at Atwood Summerfest. This year they nabbed 3 Blues Music Award nominations for Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Contemporary Blues Album. https://www.alteredfive.com/

7:30 PM VO5 (Madison) Madison’s one and only disco SUPERGROUP. No one gets a bigger dance crowd. VO5 has performed at AtwoodFest and Atwood Summerfest every year since 2009. They are that good! https://www.voh5.com/

Madison Heritage Stage presented by The Alchemy Café

12:00 PM Derek Ramnarace (Madison) The singer/songwriter from Old Soul Society performs solo-acoustic folkie rock. http://oldsoulsociety.com/

1:00 PM Dana Perry (Madison) Madison-based evo-folk artist Dana Perry has been making music passionately for 30 years. She is known for her thumping guitar style, combined with poignant lyrics and powerhouse vocals. Dana is a 15-time MAMA awards winner, including Acoustic Guitarist of the Year (2019), Folk/Americana Performer of the Year (20200, and Best Female Vocalist (2021). https://danaperrymusic.com/

2:45 PM Kat and the Hurricane (Madison) A genre-and-gender-bending synth-rock project delivering a unique blend of pop and haunting indie rock. http://www.katandthehurricane.com

4:30 PM Sam Price & the True Believers (New Orleans) Call it Soul Rock, New Orleans Roots Rock, Funk and Roll or Blue-Eyed Soul, the True Believers deliver songs that are alternately upbeat and rocking, slinky and funky, mellow and poignant, with lyrics that are honest, thoughtful, and “so from the heart, it hurts!” Formed by bassist/singer Sam Price (Honey Island Swamp Band, OTRA) as an outlet for his original songwriting, the band’s debut EP was chosen as the ‘Best Roots Rock Album of 2017’ by New Orleans’ Offbeat Magazine. http://www.sampricemusic.com/

6:30 PM Pine Travelers (Madison) Emerging from roots in folk and rock, Pine Travelers are a band whose sound has evolved into a funky multi-genre force that captivates audiences and keeps them coming back for more. Folk/Americana-influenced rock, tight funk grooves and reverb swelling mayhem. https://www.reverbnation.com/pinetravelers

8:30 PM Bodhicitta (Kenosha/Chicago) High energy Funk/Psychedelic Rock/Fusion from Kenosha and Chicago. The They strive to make each show unique and different, keeping audiences on their toes and dancin’ in the streets. https://bodhicittamusic.com/

Sugar Maple Stage Presented by Lauer Realty Group

Madison Music Foundry presents Teen Fest with two bands from the music school featuring MMF students. 12:30 PM Sandblasters (MMF Madison) and 1:45 PM Stag (MMF Madison)

Sugar Maple Series:

3:00 PM Lawnmower (Madison) Madison’s newest guitar driven acoustic band featuring Louka Patenaude and Isaac de Broux-Slone with Shauncey Ali on fiddle and David Havas on bass.

4:30 PM The Roddys (Madison) Madison musicians Doc & Terre Roddy, who moved to the Driftless area 10 years ago, are back in Madison for AtwoodFest! Terre's singing, rhythm guitar and bass, and Doc's songwriting and exquisite phrasing are a welcome addition to the Sugar Maple Stage! https://www.facebook.com/theroddys/

6:00 PM Donna Herula (Chicago) Donna Herula is a blues singer, songwriter, resonator slide guitarist and Chicago Blues Hall of Fame inductee. Playing a variety of blues styles, her songwriting tips the hat to the tradition while creating a fresh, contemporary perspective on blues and roots music. Her album "Bang at the Door" was nominated for a 2021 Blues Blast Music Award. She was voted "Artist of the Year" by the 2021 Doc's Blues Awards in the UK. https://donnaherula.com/

JULY 31, 2022

Clyde Stubblefield Stage presented by The Harmony Bar

12:00 PM Steely Dane (Madison) 14 of Dane County’s finest musicians unite to perform a superstar version of the legendary recording artist Steely Dan’s songbook. Perennial AtwoodFest favorites. https://steelydane.com/

2:15 PM Little Earthquakes (Madison) A blender-mix of musical styles and local artists with far off memories of their time Smokin’ with Superman. https://thisislittleearthquakes.com/

4:00 PM Loving Cup (Madison) Madison’s All-Star tribute to the music of the Rolling Stones. https://www.facebook.com/lovingcupmadison

5:45 PM The Funkee Jbeez (Madison) A super dope funk and soul ensemble from Madison and Chicago led by 2-time Grammy

nominated drummer Joey B. Banks. http://www.funkeejbeez.com/

Madison Heritage Stage presented by The Alchemy Cafe

12:00 PM Ted Hefko and the Thousandaires (New Orleans) Madisonian Ted Hefko left for the Big Easy long ago. He returns to the AtwoodFest stage with a band of local scenesters. Ted’s jazzed up, gritty bare bones sensibility brings raw life lessons and stories – hope and hustlers, saints and strays, drifters and the down-an-out – to life with the rough-hewn tone of backwoods folk, and the raucous vibrancy of classic Louisiana Rhythm and Blues. http://www.ted.hefko.net/

2:00 PM Kirstie Kraus (Nashville) Janesville native Kirstie Kraus started her career here in Madison fronting the band Thirsty Jones. Since relocating to Nashville in 2018, she has been blowing up the country rock scene. http://www.kirstiekraus.com

3:45 PM Kelsey Miles Band (Madison) With one of the biggest voices in Wisconsin, acoustic guitar in hand, and harmonica at her fingertips, Kelsey Miles delivers high-energy shows of blues, rock, soul, and a splash of country. A multiple MAMA winner, she will take you on a musical celebration of the soul; where you'll laugh, sing along, and dance the afternoon away. http://www.kelseymiles.com/

5:45 PM Gabe Stillman (Williamsport, PA) The award-winning Gabe Stillman Band is a three-piece machine that runs at full tilt for every performance. While their sound is unmistakably rooted in the blues, the band draws from the deep well of all American roots music. Gabe closes the Heritage Stage direct from his Saturday performance at the Prairie Dog Blues Festival. https://www.gabestillman.com/

Sugar Maple Stage Presented by The Lauer Realty Group

Rockonsin presents TeenFest

12:30 PM Geology Club (Waukesha) A finalist from Rockonsin 2022, Wisconsin’s statewide high school garage band competition, this group of teens is trying to share their music with the world. https://www.facebook.com/sugar.high.9250

1:45 PM You Got The Message (Madison) Smooth Pop. Winners of Rockonsin 2021. https://www.instagram.com/ygtm_official

Sugar Maple Series:

3:00 PM Third Coast Bluegrass (northern WI) TCB brings together longtime musical cohorts with deep roots in the Upper Great Lakes bluegrass scene going back to the ;70s. Their repertoire spans bluegrass classics, hidden gems, originals, and adaptations from amazing songwriters. “True to the tradition” vocals, seamless trios, and masterful instrumentals...what could be better? https://www.facebook.com/thirdcoastbluegrass

5:00 PM Frogwater (Milwaukee) Frogwater is the acoustic musical pairing of John "Jack" & Susan Nicholson. Renowned for their virtuosity and exuberant live performances, they like to think of themselves as musical ambassadors. Their repertoire spans from Celtic to Delta blues, from classical to pop, with a healthy dose of unique original material filling out the mix. https://www.facebook.com/frogwatermusic