Mile of Music
Learning to make music at Mile of Music
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The festival offers hands-on lessons in music-making for all ages and skill levels.
Mile of Music's music education team, led by Lawrence University, believes music is a "birthright," offering hands-on opportunities for people of all ages and skill levels. Whether you're a toddler or an adult, you can explore workshops in everything from songwriting and dance to Brazilian Samba drumming.
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Mile of Music
Learning to make music at Mile of Music
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Mile of Music's music education team, led by Lawrence University, believes music is a "birthright," offering hands-on opportunities for people of all ages and skill levels. Whether you're a toddler or an adult, you can explore workshops in everything from songwriting and dance to Brazilian Samba drumming.
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[buckets drumming] [applause] [bright ukelele music] - Leila Ramagopal Pertl: Participants that come and want to watch one of the artists at the Mile also have a chance to come and get involved in 40 to 50 hands-on events that Mile of Music does every year for the education portion.
Creating their own pieces of music, which allow them to discover their own birthright of music-making.
- Teacher: ♪ And the woodchuck laughed ♪ ♪ And the woodchuck chucked ♪ ♪ If a woodchuck could chuck wood ♪ - Melissa Freeman: The music education team has been amazing.
You need to have young musicians and inspire creatives, young and old.
- An education in music means really just a community coming together around joy.
Whether you can just hit a drum one time, that you've been a part of how the soundscape of the Mile of Music has played out for that year.
And that kind of gives people who attend the Mile a little bit of a chance to understand, like, why music-making might be important to the artists.
It's 'cause they felt what it was like to make music and make music in community.
- Teacher: Okay, nice job.
Give yourself a huge round of applause on that.
Your first song.
And we're 20 minutes in...
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Clip: Special | 11m 22s | Banjo innovator Tall Tall Trees plays psychedelic rock at the 2024 Mile of Music festival. (11m 22s)
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Clip: Special | 25m 45s | Blues artist Sarah Potenza brings bold vocals to the 2024 Mile of Music festival. (25m 45s)
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Clip: Special | 21m 59s | California’s Rainbow Girls blend folk and rock at the 2024 Mile of Music festival. (21m 59s)
Preview: Special | 1m | This concert documentary offers a front row seat to Appleton's community music festival. (1m)
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Clip: Special | 27m 44s | Chicago's Nathan Graham blends blues and Americana at the 2024 Mile of Music festival. (27m 44s)
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Clip: Special | 12m 55s | Australian folk duo Minor Gold performs live at Mile of Music 2024. (12m 55s)
Mile of Music performers share 'A Song Before We Go'
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Clip: Special | 21m 37s | Mile of Music artists perform closing songs at the 2024 festival finale. (21m 37s)
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Clip: Special | 28m 14s | Chicago's indie rock band Marina City performs at the 2024 Mile of Music festival. (28m 14s)
Leon Timbo and The Family Band
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Clip: Special | 9m 4s | Atlanta's Leon Timbo and The Family Band perform live country-soul at Mile of Music 2024. (9m 4s)
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Clip: Special | 21m 56s | Americana singer-songwriter Joy Clark performs live at Appleton's Mile of Music festival. (21m 56s)
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Clip: Special | 14m 29s | Jeremie Albino and The Rosehall Band blend Americana and blues at Mile of Music 2024. (14m 29s)
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Clip: Special | 11m 1s | Illiterate Light, an indie rock duo, performs live at Appleton's Mile of Music festival. (11m 1s)
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Clip: Special | 20m 31s | Grammy-nominated Appleton native Hillary Reynolds performs live at Mile of Music 2024. (20m 31s)
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Clip: Special | 26m 35s | NYC supergroup Fantastic Cat performs live pop/rock at Appleton's Mile of Music festival. (26m 35s)
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Clip: Special | 6m 32s | Garage-style rock band Diet Lite from Milwaukee performs at the Mile of Music festival. (6m 32s)
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Clip: Special | 3m 51s | David Robert King plays "Cold-Hearted Woman" during a live acoustic set at Mile of Music. (3m 51s)
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Clip: Special | 28m 11s | Minneapolis-based Dan Rodriguez plays live Americana music at the Mile of Music festival. (28m 11s)
Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons
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Clip: Special | 3m 38s | Grammy-nominated Cory Chisel brings Americana roots to Mile of Music 2024. (3m 38s)
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Clip: Special | 12m 55s | Folk singer-songwriter Christopher Gold shares two songs at Mile of Music 2024. (12m 55s)
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Clip: Special | 7m 43s | Milwaukee native and folk artist Cassie Boettcher makes her Mile of Music festival debut. (7m 43s)
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Clip: Special | 18m 43s | Mile of Music festival performance by six-piece modern folk/Americana band Buffalo Rose. (18m 43s)
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Clip: Special | 5m 6s | Ben Mulwana and The Village perform Afro-soul rock, "Levitate," at Mile of Music 2024. (5m 6s)
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Clip: Special | 12m 39s | Bella's Bartok performs live theatrical indie rock at Appleton's Mile of Music festival. (12m 39s)
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Clip: Special | 8m 1s | Barnaby Bright performs alt-Americana live at Appleton's Mile of Music festival. (8m 1s)
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Clip: Special | 3m 33s | "Love in the Underground" by Bandits on the Run at the Mile of Music festival in Appleton. (3m 33s)
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Clip: Special | 12m 49s | Americana musician Abby Posner performs three songs at the 2024 Mile of Music festival. (12m 49s)
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