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SUMMER SINGALONGS
2010
Blue Mounds State Park

Bring your family and instruments if you are so inclined. Songbooks provided! FREE!!

Bring your instruments (especially your voice boxes) and watch the sun set from the highest point in southern Wisconsin.
Rise Up Singing books of  lyrics will be provided.

Directions: Take 18-151 to County Highway F, and follow brown signs to the park.  

[Park map]

Songleader
Mac Robertson 

Madisonian banjo picking, guitar- strumming, silver-voiced Mac Robertson will again lead Summer Folk Sing-alongs in Blue Mounds State Park on the third Friday of June, July, and August. The singing begins at 8 p.m., time to sneak a peak at the sun setting in the west from the highest point in southern Wisconsin.

This is a family oriented event, and the audience is invited not only to sing along, but bring and play any instruments they can strum, shake, rattle or blow.

The first of the Summer Sing-alongs, June 18th at 8 p.m., will be held in the Amphitheatre, to the east (left) of the circular drive at the top of the Blue Mound, as others will be using the main shelter to set up for the next day’s Horribly Hilly Hundred Bike Race. The July 16th and August 20th summer Sing-alongs will be held at the main shelter.

Mac Robertson, whose day job is teach- ing computer science at Madison College, has developed a loyal multi-generational following in the past four years of leading the summer sing-alongs. Families camping at the park, and from the area join Madison Folk Music Society members amid the mists that often settle into the park after sundown.

Rise Up Singing books will be available for those who need the words, but Mac is sensitive to his audience, and usually chooses well-loved favorites suggested by young and old.

Blue Mound State Park is just north of the Village of Blue Mounds, about 25 miles west of Madison via US Highway 18/151. From Highway 18/151, go north on County Highway F and turn left on County Highway ID into Blue Mounds. Go west on Highway ID about a half mile to Mounds Road. Turn right (north) and follow Mounds Road north through  town. (Mounds Road becomes Mounds Park Road once you leave the village.) The park entrance is one mile north of the in- tersection of Highway ID and Mounds Road.

You will need a state park sticker to drive into the park, but once there, the sing-alongs are free! By foot or bicycle, you can reach the park by way of the Military Ridge State Trail. The park access trail is about .7 mile west of Mounds Park Road on the Military Ridge Trail.