Summerfest is an annual music festival held in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. First held in 1968, Summerfest is located at Henry Maier Festival Park, adjacent to Lake Michigan and Milwaukee's Third Ward business district. Summerfest is known as "The World's Largest Music Festival", a title certified by Guinness World Records in 1999, [1] [2].

Jun 29, 2017 · While Milwaukee had summer festivals before — notably the Carnival around the Court of Honor on Wisconsin Avenue at the turn of the 20th century, and the Midsummer Festival that ran nearly a decade...

Jun 26, 2018 · The first Summerfest, held in scores of Milwaukee-area venues from July 20-28, 1968, had everything from polka music to Mexican ballet to psychedelic pop music to a classical orchestra to...

Launched in 1968, Summerfest is a multi-day event held in June and July featuring music, food, shopping, and family activities that bring more than 800,000 people to the Henry W. Maier Festival Park on the Milwaukee lakefront.

Summerfest is an annual music festival held in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was first held in 1968. Summerfest is located at Henry Maier Festival Park. Summerfest has about 800,000 people come each year. It calls itself "The World's Largest Music Festival". The title was verified by the Guinness World Records in 1999. [1] [2]

Jul 5, 2009 · In 1968, Feller was a 16-year-old girl from Antigo visiting Milwaukee when she and a cousin stumbled into the very first Summerfest. Feller grabbed a program that day -- July 27 -- and kept it....

Jun 19, 2024 · On Sept. 1, 1969, the Army shut down the 15-acre Nike site (it had long been considered obsolete) and turned it over to Milwaukee's Harbor Commission. Within days, city officials were...

Jun 26, 2019 · The Summerfest grounds were initially a rail yard along the lakefront. That changed when the aviation era began in the 1920s. The area evolved into Milwaukee’s first airport, called Maitland Field after a Milwaukeean who …

May 13, 2019 · 1968 The first Summerfest is held at 35 separate locations around the downtown area, including the lakefront, Milwaukee County Stadium, Pere Marquette Park and Washington Park. Bob Hope was the...

Jun 22, 2015 · On July 20, 1968, a morning of clear skies and a cool lake breeze, the first of Summerfest’s eight days officially opened as a group of 200 sang along to a polka band playing “Roll out the Barrel” in front of the County Courthouse .