Badgerland Bluegrass News

BBMA Winter Newsletter

BBMA Winter Newsletter

Although we’re all no doubt immersed in the holidays, now is also the time to start looking forward to the Badgerland Bluegrass Music Association’s annual Big Thaw concert.

Always held in the spring, the event this year has been moved up a few weeks, to March 21, to decrease the chances that it will be competing with sort of good weather that makes even the most ardent bluegrass fan disinclined to spend time indoors — no matter how good the lineup.

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BBMA Fall 2025 Newsletter

BBMA Fall 2025 Newsletter

The start of fall always brings the melancholy reflection that bluegrass festival
season is practically at an end.

But at least those of us who managed to get out and about this summer have some pleasant memories to look back on. Alongside the many, many wonderful festivals held in other parts of Wisconsin and the rest of the
Midwest this summer, there were some notable ones in our corner of the state.

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BBMA Summer 2025 Newsletter

For everyone who attended our annual Big Thaw concert on April 12, we know it was time well spent enjoying a wonderful lineup of local bands, good food and drink and some camaraderie.

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BBMA Newsletter: Spring 2025 Issue

It's Big Thaw Time Again! Sugar Bush performs at Unitarian Church North at the Big Thaw in April 2024 It’s our favorite time of year again: The run-up to our annual Big Thaw spring concert. We have yet another splendid lineup of local bands to bring the crowds out to...

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