Our local hootenanny

Over on the Panda blog they're talking about their local summer music festival. Our local world famous in Milwaukee music festival kicked off on the Lake Michigan waterfront on Thursday night and yours truly and beau went to check it out.

Actually Summerfest is the largest music festival in the US - 11 days, 11 stages, and over 700 bands with everything from Stevie Wonder, Three Dog Night, to Blondie and Gnarls Barkley.

Tickets cost a whopping $15 per day (but you pay extra for the super big name acts - Stevie Wonder - each night which are held in an amphitheater on site) but everyone else you get for the same one ticket price. It's worth the cost of admission just for the people watching!

More to come as we go to a few more days, but Thursday we caught Three Dog Night and Gnarls. The 3DN boys were looking a tad grey but everyone knew the words to every song and they played all the classics.

The band in the 70's

and in the 00's.

Opening night always features a 30 minute fireworks show...

Last night we went with some of the gang from work to see Blondie...and what a complete highlight. We caught a shuttle bus and overheard one of the guys on-board say "yeah Debbie Harry's like 240lbs now..." so we didn't know what to expect. She was incredible. She's 62 years old (take note Ollie!) and looks, acts, and sounds GREAT!

She came out in a tight knit striped dress (they tour is celebrating 30 years of the album Parallel Lines and she totally looked the part). She was sexy, curvaceous, and funny. They changed up some of the arrangements to several of their hits to freshen them up - but they were still true to form. And we were only 10 rows back - and 8 by the end! Awesome show...