From Ukraine to Australia to right here in Wisconsin, here are the acts playing the free 2024 Levitt AMP Green Bay Music Series
GREEN BAY - Another diverse slate of artists from different genres, cultures and countries are headed to Leicht Memorial Park this summer for the second year of the Levitt AMP Green Bay Music Series.
On Broadway Inc. has announced the headliners and opening acts who will play 10 consecutive Sunday afternoons of free music at the downtown park along the Fox River. Concerts will be held from 4 to 6:30 p.m. beginning June 2 and running through Aug. 4.
The acts were revealed Tuesday during a launch party at Titletown Brewing Co., complete with a tabletop drum roll from attendees before each headliner was named.
This is the second of three years On Broadway Inc. will host the concert series after being awarded a $90,000 Levitt AMP Grant Award in 2022. The three-year matching grant provides $30,000 per year to host the series in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
The purpose of the series is to bring free, original music to people of all ages and backgrounds in an underused public space. Artists, which were booked by How To Concerts, were chosen with a focus on equity and inclusion.
2024 Levitt AMP Green Bay Music Series lineup
June 2: LowDown Brass Band, with opener Charlie Urick. The all-horn band from Chicago puts a modern spin on soul, hip-hop, funk and jazz.
June 9: Kings & Associates, with Amelia Ford. The neo blues soul group from Australia played its first U.S. tour in 2019.
June 16: Big Richard, with Lena Marie Schiffer + Ani Casabonne. The Colorado-based, all-female acoustic group draws from traditional and modern bluegrass, country and pop.
June 23: Kelly Jackson, with Shylah Ray Sunshine. Native Americana music from a Wisconsin artist who uses her voice to bring awareness to the disappearances and murders of Native American women.
June 30: Kat and the Hurricane, with Allison Mahal. The Madison group bills itself as a “queer synth-rock/indie pop band.”
July 7: Esso!, with Grupo KN ZAVOR. Latin roots music fused with modern Americana from the Chicago group.
July 14: Nikki Hill, with Pegasis. The Star Tribune in Minneapolis described her like this: “If Tina Turner and Little Richard had a daughter and raised her with the help of uncles James Brown and Chuck Berry, she’d be like Nikki Hill.”
July 21: Kommuna Lux, with Alley Cat and the Purrfection. The group from Odessa, Ukraine, calls its style of music “Odessa gangsta folk,” a combination of klezmer music and common gangster folk songs from its hometown.
July 28: Dolly Ave, with leedong. The Vietnamese-American artist incorporates elements of pop, rock, soul, R&B and electronic into her music and has been written about by Rolling Stone, Billboard and other publications.
Aug. 4: Sones De Mexico, with Banda Los Locales. The Latinx ensemble takes listeners on a journey through regional styles of Mexican folk music with more than 40 instruments.
Kendra Meinert is an entertainment and feature writer at the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Contact her at 920-431-8347 or kmeinert@greenbay.gannett.com. Follow her on X @KendraMeinert.
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