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Join us as Kenosha’s Downtown and Harborside Area celebrates the coming of summer at this colorful and musical lakefront festival!

A few spots are still available for Street Artists to participate.

If you are interested or know of any other artists interested in participating at Bloomin’ Days,

Please clickHERE to send an e-mail to secure your place.

Check out “Days of Wine and Roses” and my arrangement of “I’m an Old Cowhand” on my page! They’re from the John Valdez Quintet gig at Jazz at the Station on Saturday night. My apologies for the low quality of the recording (especially I’m an Old Cowhand) I had to compress the files somewhat in order for them to fit on here.

~from Dustin’smyspace page

We are looking forward to see Dustin at Bloomin’ Days 2008!

Enjoy!

Pat McCurdy will be on the Bloomin’ Days main stage this Saturday June 7 2008. You can contact him through his my space page

We hope to see Chris in this year’s Bloomin’ Days festival. In the meantime, you can contact Chris through his myspace page.

*Musician spaces are still available for Bloomin’ Days 2008! Contact John Schuld today to reserve your spot!

Dear Artist,

Your are invited to participate in Lemon Street Gallery’s art-making, fund-raising event, LemonAID ‘08!

Formerly know as Caged! Artists in Their Natural Habitat, LemonAID’08 promises to be our biggest event ever. This great ART day has been moved to Downtown Kenosha, where it will be a featured activity of Bloomin’ Days, a large community event. To compliment the new premier location, we selected the new name, LemonAID.

Participation details: On Saturday, June 7th up to 40 artists will arrive at the event grounds Continue reading →

Mark your Calendar June 6 - 7, 2008

Join Kenosha’s Downtown & Harborside neighborhood in celebrating summer at this vibrant and artistic musical festival. Enjoy a great lineup of live regional and local bands on the main stage, as well as over 100 musicians and artisans performing from the sidewalks throughout the district. You’ll also find plenty of children’s activities including the popular Bloomin’ Bike Parade, wonderful food, a beer & wine garden, informative exhibits and local vendors. Local merchants will also offer special promotions and activities.

Contact:

Music: John Schuld
Email: jtschuld@aol.com
*Musician spaces are still available! Contact John today to reserve your spot!

Street Artisans: Francisco Loyola
Email: francisco@franciscoloyola.com
*Artist spaces are still available! Contact Francisco today to reserve your spot!

www.KenoshaBloominDays.com

presents

LemonAID 08

Our biggest fundraiser and live auction of original artwork of the year.

In Collaboration With Bloomin’ Days; LemonAID… is a day long art event. 40 artists will donate their talent and time to create a painting, collage or drawing during the day of the event.

The public will be able to view the artists’ works-in-progress.Works will be auctioned @5pm to highest bidder that evening. The proceeds to benefit Lemon Street Gallery.

Lemon Street Gallery is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving visual artists, and providing the community quality visual arts experiences. To learn more visit: www.lemonstreetgallery.org

“T-Man” Latz and the Real Deal playing at Bloomin’ Days
June 9th, 2007

Click HERE to go to “T-Man” Latz website.

She will be playing at the Main Stage at Bloomin’ Days
http://www.myspace.com/macyntaylor

My musical journey began with my Brownie troop when I was seven years old. My troop was going to have a talent show at a local nursing home. I said to my dad, who was co-leader of the troop, “Dad, I don’t have a talent”. He told me that we had an old guitar at home and he would show me a few chords so that I could sing a couple of Christmas carols. After the show, as we were all leaving, the activities director told my dad and me that she enjoyed my performance and asked if I would come back again sometime. My dad said the troop would be happy to come back again the next year, but that, if she would like, I could come back the next month and do a whole show for them by myself. I panicked, grabbing my dad’s arm and saying, “Dad, I can only play two songs”. He assured me that I learned the two songs so fast that I could easily learn twenty by the next month. He was right. We went to a different retirement home each week to develop my confidence. Then for St. Patrick’s Day, I learned some Irish songs and sang at some Irish pubs. From there I began playing, churches, festivals, farmer’s markets, coffee shops, fund raisers, charity events, memorial dedications, or any other place that we could find. I really enjoyed it. I was always telling my dad to find me more gigs. I started playing on the sidewalk after we took my sister to school in Madison. I saw the street musicians on State Street and asked my parents if I could give it a try. The next time we took my sister to school, I went out on State Street with a mandolin and a coffee can under the watchful eye of my brother. I actually made some money. That was also how the nickname “Sidewalk Superstar” got attached to me. From then on, whenever we would visit my sister, I would bring a banjo or guitar and play for a while on State Street. Then I got a gig playing on the UW Student Union Terrace Saturday evenings during the summers. A professor of music became interested in my performances, and suggested that I attend classes at the university. I was too young to live in Madison by myself and my sister lived in a sorority house, so I couldn’t stay with her. We decided that I would enroll at UW Milwaukee. It is within commuting distance of my house and has the only finger-style guitar major available in the world. This educational opportunity has allowed me to meet some of the top finger-style players in the world and has markedly improved my skills and technique. I am continuing my education at UWM and performing publicly every chance I get. I hope to see you at one of my shows.

from her myspace page

by Tammy Peacy

Photography courtesy of Franco Tarsitano

When Maria Caravati decides that she wants something, she figures out how to go about getting it. Whether it be starting her own business almost ten years ago, or organizing the downtown festival Bloomin’ Days last summer, she isn’t going to sit around waiting for things to happen.

“The thing is that people do have ideas, but few will actually follow through and do something with their ideas,” says Maria. “It’s laziness. It is thinking someone else should do it. I say you do it. It feels wonderful knowing each of us can make a difference. Even if it is a small difference– that’s where it all begins. Now I understand that not everybody has the natural ability to organize an event, but team up with somebody who does have the ability, chances are the other skills will balance it out.”

This is how she organized Bloomin’ Days. Continue reading →