This is New Wisco Weekend. I'm Lisa Hale. You know, we'd love musicians and
sharing their unique sounds with you. Recently, the Stapletons were on the
Mino and the Mayor's show. Here's a little bit of their interview and the music.
All right, so I'm Kate Stapleton. I'm traveling with my husband, Casey Stapleton.
We're driving a long lake eerie in Ohio. So along the snow belt, the lake
affects snow belt part of Ohio where they get dumped on from that shallow great lake. So
we're headed up to the coast of Lake Michigan to Door County for a stone festival where our film
inspired by the Great Lakes is going to be premiering so excited to come to Green Bay
and play music. We have a harp and a 12 string guitar packed in our van. But we got stranded.
Well, you guys, but we're on our way. You got a ways to go.
We sure enjoyed when you were here last time, but tell me about this short film or this
film festival that you're you you entered that. Yeah, we entered this film festival.
Um, ours is a 52 minute short film. It's called The Intersee. It was inspired by the Great Lakes,
and by our story. We play music together. We travel together in the summer. We travel in a
40 foot long bright blue school bus, which is Max is out at about 55 mile per hour. So
it feels like flying comparatively. Kate, you travel not just with your husband in that school bus.
You bring the kids, don't you? Yes, we have we have six kids and we bring the kids with us.
We're going to drive no stress there. It's the right vehicle to have all the kids in the harp
and the guitar. Oh, sorry. How do you get the harp on and off through the emergency exit doors?
No, so we can I mean, it's pretty the school bus door is pretty big, so we can just carry it on
and off. It's about five and a half feet tall. So it weighs about 50 pounds. So not too bad.
So you can carry it up and down the steps. Two questions. Are the kids part of your act?
Do they sing Patrick family on traps? So they don't they have not been in the show,
but that is kind of I think it's a great question about the Von Trapp. One of the aspects of the
movie that I made that's premiering this weekend is I call it kind of a deconstructed sound
of music because we have six kids together. The movie is also about my daughter that I placed
for adoption. So there are actually seven children and she is an amazing musician in her own right.
So the movie is a music documentary that features our music and her music and we have played
shows with her band. That's kind of what what happens in the movie is we're traveling and then we
come together and play this show. So like I say, it's kind of a deconstructed modern sound of music
for sure. She grew up in California, but she came to college near where we live. We live in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. And so once she came to college, she was really involved with playing music at college
and we were already touring and playing music. So we had already connected, but music really brought
us together and is a big part of the story that we tell in the movie. Okay, could you introduce
this first? So this is a feeling song of the great lake. We love this song because it was
traditionally it's one of the only songs that was written specifically about sailing out on the
lakes. And what's really cool about this song is it's about the time when the ships were
sailing out on the lakes with big sails and they would race all the time and they would race to
get into port. This particular ship was a really heavy ship because it was transporting
lumber, this big timber pieces. So it would wallow in the water and it was really slow.
And they finally wrote a song about how fast they were. So what's kind of fun about that is that
all the ships that won all of the races have been forgotten, but this ship, the Bigler is still
remembered because they wrote a song about themselves. Thank you very much.
To see how there's the winds of Lord Three, all the way above the love from the Lord Three.
Can't have the shield as wide as the boys and push it through.
You're hot to see us how there's the winds of Lord Three, all the way above the love from the Lord Three.
Sweet steaks took it in tow, when all of us bore an aft. She told us down to lakes and
clear and stuck us on the flats. She bowed at us till our immense rind to give relief,
and stood in stone with the Bigler to the make-believe.
Oh watch her catch her, jump up on a tumultune, give her the shield and slide the boys and push it through.
You're hot to see us how there's no winds of Lord Three, all the way above the love from the Lord Three.
And now we safely landed in Buffalo Creek last, and under exalurbator,
the Bigler shoes made fast, and even some log of bees saloon were left at the final pass.
And we're all jolly shit mates, with rays of social blast.
Oh watch her catch her, jump up on a tumultune, give her the shield and slide the boys and push it through.
You're hot to see us how there's no winds of Lord Three.
Oh watch her catch her, jump up on a tumultune, give her the shield and slide the boys and push it through.
You're hot to see us how there's no winds of Lord Three, all the way above the love from the Lord Three.
Oh watch her catch her, jump up on a tumultune, give her the shield and slide the boys and push it through.
You're hot to see us how there's no winds of Lord Three, all the way above the love from the Lord Three.
Thank you for being a part of New Wisco Weekend, our look at St. Patrick's Day and all things Irish.
New Wisco Weekend is produced and written by Terry Barr and Lisa Hale.
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I'm civic media Northeast Wisconsin Bureau Chief Lisa Hale for WISS and WGBW News.
Leaving you with my favorite Irish toast, may you be in heaven a half an hour for the devil knows your dead.
