FPSF: Summing up Saturday
Day one of the Free Press Summer Fest(ival) is a wrap. But we’re still feeling the sweat. If there’s any overriding theme here, it’s that the performers, local and beyond, put fury and frenzy into...
View ArticleFPSF: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis throw a serious party
Whatever the reason — stroke of genius, random luck, amazing foresight — Summerfest had the fortune of hosting Macklemore and Ryan Lewis as their anthemic single “Can’t Hold Us” was spending a fourth...
View ArticleFPSF: Grace Potter rocks, rolls and wails
Grace Potter out-rocks, out-twangs and simply outdoes any number of safer, more straightforward female singers. It’s also probably why she isn’t a bigger star. Her Sunday set was all bluesy rasps and...
View ArticleFPSF: Summing it all up
Festivals are sweaty. Festivals are loud. Festivals are smelly and crowded and, as Sunday proved, potentially muddy. But ultimately, the fifth annual Free Press Summer Festival was a celebration: of...
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