It's called Steal Bridge Songfest and it is being held for the third year in a row.
The Festival is held on the weekend of June 14 - 16 2007 as a fundraising event to preserve the Historic Memorial [Street] Bridge.
The Bridge spans the Sturgeon Bay Shipping Canal District and measures 1,420 feet in length. Built in 1930 it is an example of a rolling lift bascule and movable span with 12 concrete and steel trusses.
On March 7, 2007 the Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation announced that it would be rehabilitating the Lake Michigan Landmark.
WIS DOT Report http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/projects/d3/michigan/alternatives.htm
Steal Bridge Songfest is the creation of Christie Webber and her brother Pat MacDonald Pat MacDonald's Biography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_MacDonald
The Festival regularly attracts many major industrial performing artist like:
Emiko, Jackson Browne, Jane Wiedlin, Eric McFadden, James Hall, Todd Carey, Pat MacDonald, Dorothy Scott, Freedy Johnston, Kim Manning, Johnathan Spottiswoode, and Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons.
The Festival is designed to bring people together through the celebration of song in an effort raise money to aide in the offset of the maintenance costs required for proper up keep of the Historic Bridge and , in so doing, assure the Landmark's survival by successfully remembering the past.
In my opinion this effort is to be applauded because the laborers who built the Michigan Bridge worked very hard to provide for the needs in their communities.
In the process, many died and all because they were willing to sacrifice their lives in order to make better the lives of the residents in a community, then divided by distance, but later brought together through the efforts of our ancestral visionaries.
This festival honours their commitment to a cause, a commitment to change, and a culture which continues to see a need for the change to come.
For more information visit: http://steelbridgesongfest.org/
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1 comment:
I think that's wonderful. All too often, we scrap the old for new 'Just Because'. I think it is im[portant to preserve our arcetechural treasures for 2 reasons:
First, There is a lot of history in old structures. - Even a bridge. It reminds of how things were in times gone by.
Second, it also enables to preserve our mother earth by not scarring her with new buildings and structures just for ' progress' sake'
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