Summer Sings - 2018
7:30 pm, Selected Fridays during summer
June 15 * July 27 * August 17
Blue Mounds State Park - Main Shelter
Following a decade-long tradition, Mad Folk will host Summer Sing-alongs at Blue Mounds State Park. The all-ages summer sings will be held at 7:30 pm the third Friday of June and August, and the fourth Friday in July at the main shelter at the top of the hill at the park. Tim Sharpe and Rex Loker will co-lead the first June 15th sing.
The view of the setting sun is usually magnificent from that vantage point, and the company is great. All are welcome to come early (6:30 pm) and join in a potluck picnic at the tables in the shelter.
Copies of the song lyric books Rise Up Singing and Rise Again will be available so that everyone can participate. All are invited to bring their folk instruments, especially their voice boxes!
Although a state park daily or annual sticker is required to enter the park, the Sing-alongs are free, thanks to the Madison Folk Music Society and Friends of Blue Mounds State Park’s sponsorship, and the song leaders’ generous contribution of their time and talent.
So mark your calendars for June 15th, July 27, and August 17.
In case of dangerous weather conditions, the sings will be moved to the indoor Friends of Blue Mounds shelter, to which the gatekeepers can direct you.
To get to Blue Mounds State Park from the Madison area, take 18-151 west from the Beltline. After passing turnoffs for Verona, Mount Horeb, and the Cave of the Mounds, turn right on Highway F, and then left on ID, following brown state park signs right through the village of Blue Mounds and on up the hill.
The Summer Sing-alongs are sponsored by the
Madison Folk Music Society and Friends of Blue Mounds State Park.