{"id":11981,"date":"2019-01-04T12:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=11981"},"modified":"2019-01-14T15:41:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:41:46","slug":"wisconsin-fests-preview-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wisconsin-fests-preview-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to 2019&#8217;s six Wisconsin Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Woods knows how important it is to diversify musically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never wanted to just play one kind of sound over and over again,\u201d the Direct Hit! frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/shepherdexpress.com\/music\/local-music\/direct-hit-shake-things-up-on-crown-of-nothing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently told<\/a> the <em>Shepherd Express<\/em>. His band headlines the Wisconsin Punk Fest at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday, Jan. 5. Listening to the Milwaukee quartet\u2019s recent album, <em>Crown of Nothing<\/em>, it\u2019s clear Woods isn\u2019t repeating himself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=374897872\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=51bcce\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/directhit.bandcamp.com\/album\/crown-of-nothing\">Crown of Nothing by Direct Hit!<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s punk ethos can\u2019t be ignored, but its core concepts of heaven and hell are depicted almost conversationally, through Beach Boys harmonies and Napalm Death growls, respectively. Woods says this kind of chaotic eclecticism is a necessity. Because Direct Hit! is his only band, he told the <em>Shepherd Express<\/em>, any song idea must become a Direct Hit! song. \u201cThat\u2019s why there are so many different sounds on our records. They don\u2019t have anywhere else to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A punk band at heart, Direct Hit! will only be playing the punk wing of this year\u2019s Wisconsin Fest series. But showcases will also be held for bluegrass (two nights!), hip-hop, funk and metal. From lo-fi rap to NOLA-flavored funk to instrumental metal, some of the best and most diverse music Wisconsin has to offer will appear at the Majestic throughout the month of January. Let\u2019s take a look:<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FwYiU1yxncE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>Wisconsin Bluegrass Fest<\/h2>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/majesticmadison.com\/event\/wisconsin-bluegrass-fest-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday, January 4<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><strong>Armchair Boogie\u00a0<\/strong>(Stevens Point\/Madison)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> The Punch Brothers, laying in the grass, patchouli.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nOriginally from Stevens Point, Armchair Boogie plays a progressive hybrid of bluegrass and jam music (\u201cjamgrass,\u201d if you will). Their old-timey sensibilities are married to driving bass and drums, bringing an undeniably funky undertone to a genre normally not described as \u201cfunky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kind Country\u00a0<\/strong>(Minneapolis)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> Grateful Dead, Carl Sagan, edibles.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nSelf-described as \u201cCosmic American music,\u201d Kind Country is part of a growing tradition of Americana artists \u2014\u00a0Sturgill Simpson and Margo Price, to name a couple big ones \u2014 who are reshaping the genre through a more psychedelic lens. The five-piece last released the spacey EP <em>Mountains <\/em>in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #51bcce;\"><strong>Also playing: <\/strong><\/span>The night will be hosted by Sarah Vos (Dead Horses) and Adam Greuel (Horseshoes and Hand Grenades), who will also perform as <strong>Rucksack Revolution<\/strong>. Other artists include <strong>Black River Revue<\/strong>, which features members from Superior and Duluth, Minn., and Madison\u2019s<strong> Oak Street Ramblers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ti-Z8VBcbDA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>Wisconsin Punk Fest<\/h2>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/majesticmadison.com\/event\/wisconsin-punk-fest-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday, January 5<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><strong>Direct Hit!<\/strong> (Milwaukee)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> NOFX, Hunter S. Thompson, <em>Doomsday Preppers<\/em>.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nThe aforementioned quartet released their fourth LP, <em>Crown of Nothing<\/em>, on the legendary Fat Wreck Chords in 2018. Like much of the band\u2019s previous work, it deals with raucous existentialism \u2014 in this case, the concepts of heaven and hell. And when he\u2019s not doing punk stuff, bandleader Nick Woods is refurbishing the Cudahy venue The Metal Grill, which he bought last year with his wife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hussy<\/strong> (Madison)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> Jay Reatard, controlled burns, the devil\u2019s lettuce.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nPerennial Madison favorites The Hussy are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BsB2_1uHV05\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">back in the studio<\/a> it seems, probably preparing to set forth upon the world another set of blistering garage punk jams. The duo of Bobby Hussy (Cave Curse, Fire Heads) and Heather Hussy (Proud Parents, Heather the Jerk) last released <em>Galore <\/em>in 2015 and recently backed Nobunny at Turkeyfest.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #51bcce;\">Also playing:<\/span> <\/strong>The blue collar <strong>Avenues<\/strong> from Milwaukee, as well as a pair of Madison acts: the emo-tinged <strong>Coasting<\/strong> and the queer punk duo <strong>Gender Confetti<\/strong>, which features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/clean-room-make-america-skate-again\/\">Clean Room<\/a>\u2019s Elyse Clouthier.<\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4lcQkPu21IQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>Wisconsin Funk Fest<\/h2>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/majesticmadison.com\/event\/wisconsin-funk-fest-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday, January 11<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><strong>Mama Digdown\u2019s Brass Band<\/strong> (Madison)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> Trombone Shorty, jazz funerals, making white people dance.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nDespite hailing from Madison, Mama Digdown\u2019s Brass Band sounds very much New Orleans. The 10-member group plays a jazzy funk hybrid that it\u2019s impossible to not, at the very least, tap your foot to. No matter how rhythmically challenged you are, these funky white boys will make you want to get up and dance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nooky Jones<\/strong> (Minneapolis)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> D\u2019Angelo, The Roots pre-Jimmy Fallon, <em>Dave Chappelle\u2019s Block Party<\/em>.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nIf their name worried you, have no fear: Nooky Jones has <em>nothing<\/em> to do with Limp Bizkit. In fact, this Minnesotan soul band is quite the opposite of those homunculus rap rockers, playing a virtuosic mesh of hip-hop, R&amp;B and soul music. Nooky Jones will have you believing that the unquiet spirit of Prince has found itself to six guys from the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #51bcce;\">Also playing:<\/span> <\/strong>The Mama Digdown-adjacent <strong>Rare Element<\/strong>, Madison funk-fusion outfit <strong>Wurk<\/strong>, and Merchant\u2019s resident <strong>DJ Phil Money<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VN0THyk7uQg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>Wisconsin Hip-Hop Fest<\/h2>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/majesticmadison.com\/event\/wisconsin-hip-hop-fest-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday, January 12<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><strong>Trapo<\/strong> (Madison)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> Joey Bada$$, NASCAR jackets, <em>Illmatic<\/em> without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/therecord\/2018\/04\/26\/606080885\/kelis-nas-ex-wife-accuses-rapper-of-physical-and-mental-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nas\u2019 baggage<\/a>.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nSome in this city still have a <a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/ct\/news\/local\/city-life\/bad-rap-madison-has-a-complicated-relationship-with-hip-hop\/article_960817a2-4a4d-5e6a-b009-4949459f1d34.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">generally antagonistic<\/a> relationship with rap music. That\u2019s a shame, because there are some amazing rappers in Madison, and chief among them is Trapo. On his 2018 EP <em>Oil Change<\/em>, Trapo\u2019s wizened rhymes bring an east coast swagger to the midwest. At times, his voice is a dead ringer for Joey Bada$$.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bird\u2019s Eye<\/strong> (Madison)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> Kids These Days, extended jam sessions, effects pedals.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nDoing rap-rock <em>well<\/em> is no easy feat, but Bird\u2019s Eye seem to found the formula. With the cutting rhymes of Ra Fury married to crying guitars and harmonized vocals, Bird\u2019s Eye doesn\u2019t sound like it\u2019s trying to play two genres of music. It\u2019s sounds like it\u2019s playing something completely new.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #51bcce;\">Also playing:<\/span> <\/strong>Rising Madison-via-Minneapolis rapper\/singer <strong>Lucien Parker<\/strong>, legendary Madison polymath <strong>CRASHprez<\/strong>, Chicago natives <strong>Sincere Life <\/strong>and <strong>Broadway Muse<\/strong>, the Sun Prairie-born <strong>Chris Jewson<\/strong>, and platinum producer and Madison native <strong>DJ Pain 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8s4GNTGz4b8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>Wisconsin Metal Fest<\/h2>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/majesticmadison.com\/event\/wisconsin-metal-fest-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday, January 18<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><strong>Sarah Longfield<\/strong> (Madison)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> Animals as Leaders, <em>Guitar Hero<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YcR9k8o4I0w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this scene<\/a> from <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em>.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nWho\u2019d have thought that metal\u2019s latest prodigious shredder would be a Madisonian? Sarah Longfield makes music that\u2019s hauntingly uplifting, which is dope, but what really stands out is her guitar work. A master of two-hand tapping, Longfield makes music that challenges its listener to follow along with every winding note and not, like, melt their brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing<\/strong> (Madison)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> The Devil Wears Prada, radical pitch changes, Taste of Chaos.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nThanks to bands like Bring Me the Horizon and The Color Morale, metalcore is one of the most popular offshoots of headbanging. Growing are Madison\u2019s masters of that, pummeling the listener with shrieks before lulling them back in with clean vocals that are downright angelic in contrast.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #51bcce;\"><strong>Also playing:<\/strong><\/span> Heavier than hell Madisonians <strong>Casket Robbery<\/strong> and <strong>Archers<\/strong>, plus Milwaukee thrashers <strong>Conniption<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOjUw3NO70Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>Wisconsin Bluegrass Fest, round 2<\/h2>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/majesticmadison.com\/event\/wisconsin-bluegrass-fest-round-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday, January 19<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><strong>Them Coulee Boys<\/strong> (Eau Claire)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> Pabst Blue Ribbon, <em>Mermaid Avenue, <\/em>bands of brothers.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nThem Coulee Boys take their name from the region the hail from:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mapcarta.com\/Coulee_Region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Coulee<\/a>, or Wisconsin&#8217;s gateway to the west. Featuring brothers Soren and Jens Staff, plus Beau Janke and Neil Krause, the Eau Claire group combines folk with indie and punk rock in a way that brings out its sneering edge. In fact, it\u2019s not totally unlike Wilco and Billy Bragg\u2019s update of Woody Guthrie on <em>Mermaid Avenue<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WheelHouse<\/strong> (Madison)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For fans of:<\/em><\/span> Cross Canadian Ragweed, whiskey, more whiskey.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\nUbiquitous in Madison, WheelHouse is the area\u2019s premier red dirt country purveyors. It\u2019s that whiskey-soaked take on the genre that will transport the listener from the Majestic to the back roads of Oklahoma. And presumably they\u2019re doing this with a designated driver, because WheelHouse also makes their own whiskey.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #51bcce;\">Also playing:<\/span> <\/strong>Appleton jamgrass unit <strong>Feed the Dog<\/strong>, the wonderfully-named Milwaukeeans <strong>Chicken Wire Empire<\/strong>, and Kaukauna\u2019s traditionalist <strong>Monsters of Grass<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Woods knows how important it is to diversify musically. \u201cI never wanted to just play one kind of sound over and over again,\u201d the Direct Hit! frontman recently told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page-templates\/featured-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5151],"tags":[8316,8322,8318,8324,8317,112,8319,54,8320,8323,6119,8325,8321,8326],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.3 (Yoast SEO v18.5.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A guide to 2019&#039;s six Wisconsin Fests - The Bozho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some of the best and most diverse music Wisconsin has to offer will appear at the Majestic Theatre in Madison throughout the month of January.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wisconsin-fests-preview-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A guide to 2019\u2019s six Wisconsin Fests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Existential punk (pic: Direct Hit!), banjo funk and more.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wisconsin-fests-preview-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Bozho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebozho\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-04T18:37:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-01-14T21:41:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DirectHit-fb.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"A guide to 2019\u2019s six Wisconsin Fests\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Existential punk (pic: Direct Hit!), banjo funk and more.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DirectHit-tw.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@thebozho\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@thebozho\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tom Whitcomb\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Bozho\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebozho\/\",\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/thebozho\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebozho\"],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#logo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/logo.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":280,\"caption\":\"The Bozho\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#logo\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Bozho\",\"description\":\"Seeing things. 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