
Femmes Rock Milwaukee

On July 22 & 23, Femmes of Rock performed for the first time in Milwaukee, WI at Festa Italiana on the Summerfest grounds. It’s pretty astonishing that the opening night (Saturday) went as well as it did. The Femmes headlined at the legendary Arcada Theater in Chicago the night before. Once that show wrapped, a car arrived at 11:15PM to drive the band through a thunderstorm 3 hours to Milwaukee. We arrived around 2:30AM and immediately went to bed. The alarm went off at 7AM for a 7:30AM pick-up for an 8AM sound check. Because it was an outdoor festival, the park doors opened at noon so we (as well as Gin Blossoms and a very cool Heart tribute band called Dog & Butterfly) had to have sound check completed by noon.