Top 100 Things People Like About The Bluegrass Show

We need your ideas and help for listing strengths, and need for Bluegrass Show improvements. Also, a suggestion box will be kept at the main gate this year.

Please help by sending your responses to the following two items,
and if it’s okay to use your name with your comment:

What I like about the Manitowish Waters Festival is:

Give suggestions for performers, and general improvements you would like to see at the Bluegrass Show:

1. canoing
2. golfing
3. jamming
4. kayaking
5. tubing
6. loon watching
7. fishing,
8. nature hiking,
9. dining,
10. antiquing,
11. swimming,
12. bicycling,
13. sailing,
14. horseback riding,
15. pontooning,
16. waterskiing,
17. go-carting,
18. shopping,
19. trinketing,
20. casinos,
21. arts,
22. theatre,
23. Pow Wows,
24. Lake trout fishing on Lake Superior,
25. relaxing
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I, Jerry, like being part of the group of people who attend the “Midsummer In The Northwoods” Bluegrass Festival. During the course of this year, I also have enjoyed staying in Wisconsin and visiting with you at various events where I am essentially off duty and not in the middle of managing a Bluegrass Show. Nice to chill out! Also, I am enjoying calls from performers and patrons complimenting the spirit of authenticity, playfulness, and cohesiveness of the attendees at the Manitowish Waters Bluegrass Show, although I must admit this spirit has been evident to me from Bluegrassers everywhere as I tour Bluegrass events in the State of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest of North America.

Getting back to discussing special traits of the Manitowish Waters Bluegrass Show, I like the fullness of the festival. This year a weeklong experience is offered, including a Bluegrass Institute, stage performances, workshops, children programs & additional time to enjoy Up North recreational activities.

Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass, enjoyed entertaining within the intimate and woodsy confines of the Manitowish Waters venue, and that is a bragging right that many other huge festivals would like to have, but won’t have. That is not to say the “Midsummer In The Northwoods” Bluegrass Festival is better than other festivals. Statement can be made, however, that coming to the show provides an excellent experience of watching Bluegrass History in the making. Many first and second generations Bluegrass Legends have performed at the “Midsummer” Show. A healthy balance of Standard Bearers of Bluegrass Music’s future are also brought into the mix, making the Manitowish Waters Bluegrass Show as a good place to get to understand the real thing-Bluegrass Music, an original American Art Form.
Very special moments are remembered with Jimmy Martin, James Monroe, Bill Jorgenson, Dave Evans, The Rarely Herd, and others performing inside the pine-paneled walls of the Cozy Cove. I rate Ralph Stanley’s a cappella rendition of “Rank Stranger” as one of the sacred Bluegrass moments inside the tavern. But I also revere the sacred tradition of the “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” dance that closes the main stage each year.