Travel Reference
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Milwaukee's modern
Ko-Thi Dance Company
(414/442-6844,
www.ko-thi.org
)
, com-
mittedtothepreservationandperformanceofAfricanandCaribbeanarts,isalsonationally
renowned. Tremendously popular shows are held in spring and fall at the Pabst Theater.
BlessMilwaukeeforalwaysfeaturingfreeevents.Downtown,PereMarquetteParkhasfree
concerts
Wednesday evenings. Cathedral Park Square at Jefferson and Wells features free
live jazz
Thursday evenings. Virtually every county park has free summertime music, too.
Check online for schedules (
www.county.milwaukee.gov
)
.
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Summerfest
Summerfest
is the granddaddy of all Midwestern festivals and the largest music festival in
theworld(saysthe
Guinness Book of World Records
).For11daysinlateJune,topnational
musical acts as well as unknown college-radio mainstays perform on innumerable stages
along the lakefront, drawing millions of music lovers and partiers. Agoraphobics need not
even consider it. Shop around for discount coupons at grocery stores and assorted busi-
nesses, or consider a multiday pass, available at businesses all around town.
There's more to shopping in Milwaukee than the requisite cheddar cheese foam-wedge hat
and cheese-and-bratwurst gift packs. (Though these should, of course, be on your list!)
Virtually everyone starts at the economic (as well as geographic) heart of Milwaukee,
The
Shops of Grand Avenue,
a synthesis of old and new. Originally built in 1915 as the Plank-
inton Arcade, much of its architecture was retained when the four-block area was gentri-
fied into a lower level of shops and an upper level of sidewalk cafés and people-watching
heights.
