Contractors put the huge lighting system in place Wednesday that will brighten the Fuddfest stage starting a bit later today. |
Fuddfest is ready for five-day run Aug. 5, 2009 The lights are up, speakers wired, the guys and gals from Swine and Dine are stocked with food and the thirsty public is assured that the beer is cold for the opening of the 10th anniversary of Fuddfest, a country music festival and fascinating theater experience in the town of Vilas, northwest of Antigo.
“We welcome everyone,” Molly Held and Del Nicholson said Wednesday afternoon as the company that sets the lighting and amplification was finishing its work on the stage area.
There are hundreds and hundreds of campers at the site on Highway H just north of Highway C about 15 miles northeast of Antigo.
Held and Nicholson said the show starts tonight with Mel McDaniel at 6 p.m. and Whiskey Falls at 8 p.m. and then Jackie Lawson & Her Hillbilly Rockstars at 10.m. Nicholson there have been plenty of people at the site since the gates opened days ago.
“They are really having fun,” Nicholson and Held said, and there were plenty on hand for the first of the musical experience on Saturday. The chair line formed at 4 p.m. Wednesday — just as those lights and speakers were being lined up and wired.
Held and Nicholson said that there will be a big crowd on the grounds, but they do keep an eye on as many people as they can.
“There is no drinking here if you are under 21,” they stressed, and said it like they meant it.
After tonight, the show gets started Thursday with Lovin’ Country at 1 p.m., then the Jeff Heinz Music Connection Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. and Restless Heart takes the stage at 6 p.m. Luke Bryan follows and at 10 p.m. the Scott Dubose 101 Ranch Band will perform.
At noon Friday there will be plenty of fun with the “Fuddfest Star” Karaoke contest and Earl Thomas Conley will be on the stage at 6 p.m. Lonestar climbs the steps to the stage at 8 p.m. followed by Southern Gypsy at 10 p.m.
Saturday with be a huge day on the Fuddfest grounds.
It starts with “Happy Days,” the annual theatrical production that is a hallmark of the festival.
Certainly it is a little silly, the actors are not world-class like the musical entertainment, but it certainly is fun.
Following the play Doug Stone takes the stage at 4 p.m. and then the Bellamy Brothers at 6 p.m. and Little Texas at 8 p.m.
The entertainment continues into the night with Tuscan Road at 10 p.m.
On Sunday morning it might be a good idea to start the day with the non-demoninational church service and gospel hour at the Old Town Hall building and at 2 p.m. Ashton Shepperd takes the stage, at 5 p.m., Jason Michael Carroll and the Marshall Star Band at 7 p.m.
Here is a list of some of the hits by the performers that will be on the Fuddfest stage: Mel McDaniel: Stand Up, Big Ole Brew and Little Ole You, Louisiana Saturday Night, Babys Got Her Blue Jeans On.
Doug Stone: Better Off in a Pine Box, In A Different Light, A Jukebox With A Country Song, Too Busy Being In Love, Why Didn't I think Of That, and Warning Labels.
Ashton Shepperd: Takin Off This Pain and Sound So Good.
Jason Michael Carroll: Alyssa Lies, I Can Sleep When I'm Dead, Where I'm From, and Living Our Love Song.
Luke Bryan: All My Friends Say, We Rode In Trucks, and Country Man.
Whiskey Falls: Last Train Running, and Falling In To You.
Lonestar: Tequila Talkin, No News, Amazed, My Front Porch Lookin In, Mr. Mom, I'm Already There, Let's Be Us Again, Come Crying To Me, and many more!
Restless Heart: The Bluest Eyes In Texas, When She Cries, Wheels, Till I Loved You, Why Does It Have to Be Right or Wrong, I'll Still Be Loving You, and many more!
The Bellamy Brothers: Let Your Love Flow, If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body, Lovers Live Longer, For All The Wrong Reasons, I Love Her Mind, I Need More of You, Old Hippie, Crazy from the Heart and many more!
Earl Thomas Conley: Fire and Smoke, Heavenly Bodies, I Have Loved You Girl, Don't Make It Easy For Me, That Was A Close One, Once In a Blue Moon, Love Out Loud, What I'd Say, and many more!
Little Texas: First Time For Everything, Kick A Little, Some Guys Have All the Love, What Might Have Been, God Bless Texas and What Might Have Been.
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