Welcome everybody to the Rapids Report for this May 9th, 2025.
Have your host James J. Mail off here and not going to lie to the audience.
Never will, never do.
I've journalistic integrity out the window.
I love these people and I love talking to them.
It's one of my favorite interviews to do every year.
We want to thank our friends over at VisitRome, Meredith, and the gang
setting this up so we can talk to our good friends at Bluegrass at the lakes.
One of our traditions really around here.
It's a sign of summer to me.
It really is. We've been doing this for so long.
First up, want to introduce Carolyn.
Thank you very much for being here. How are you doing?
I'm doing good. Thank you.
It's a shame I only get to see you once a year.
It really is. We got to hang out more.
We should.
It's great to have you here.
Thank you very much for being here.
And of course, share of Sean Becker.
Sean, I was good to see you.
Great to see you.
I was a pleasure to be here.
Played Hockey Army the other day.
So no, I'm getting out of here.
I don't know what team you want to call.
The ABC, the ABC.
They were great.
I don't know.
It was great.
It was a good interview.
We're here to talk today about Bluegrass at the lakes.
And one of our signature events in this area,
and it's truly become that.
That's not something I'm just stretching or anything.
That's not even coming for me.
That's coming from this community.
And how much they love this event.
And talk about the event.
To the point where I know when the event ends
because people are already asking me
if I know anything about next summer.
Like I have some inside information
or something on bands or anything like that.
I just talk, girl.
I don't got to use that info.
But I'm always happy about that.
It's encouraging to hear.
That's me, though.
Cannot begin to imagine what it might mean for you, Carolyn.
And how much it must mean to you, your family.
And if you don't mind, I want to start there,
especially to people that are new to this event
or just haven't maybe heard of this part of it.
So let's start with the history and where this all started.
Well, my husband got involved in Bluegrass music back
in about 2014.
And we have twins who are, would both
be now going on 36 this year.
But at that time, my daughter had just survived,
basically a 78-day hospital stay down in Madison
and had it altered her life.
She was, she has a form of muscular dystrophy,
and which had always affected her.
But at that year, she had had a traumatic illness
that resulted in a major change for her
requiring 24-hour nursing care and a variety
of other medical procedures.
But it was very difficult for us,
because we had almost lost her during that time frame.
And a friend told my husband that, you know,
you should play your guitar more,
because you can't be unhappy when you're strumming a guitar.
I'm not a musician, I didn't understand that,
but it seemed to work for him.
We started going to a couple of festivals,
and I thought, oh, this is kind of different,
but kind of nice, I kind of like this.
This is cool, and he started playing in a band.
And so, a couple of years after,
we decided that Wisconsin Rapids needed a festival.
So that was in 2018, that was our first fast,
and it was a very small one at Lake Wasicha,
maybe 250 people total for the weekend.
But we made 500 bucks, and we had decided
we were gonna donate it to a cause
that was, you know, important to us,
and Brittany had a form of muscular dystrophy,
so that's where it went.
And we were excited, we're like,
oh, this is fun, we're gonna do this again.
Then in November of 2018, Brittany passed,
and obviously that took the wind completely out of our sales,
and we didn't know which end was up,
but we decided we were gonna make it a memorial festival,
and we're gonna keep doing it.
So, we became a non-not-for-profit event,
and we had our second festival, and this time,
you know, we continued to raise money
for a muscular dystrophy, we made a little more money
than the pandemic hit, and we didn't have a festival,
but we had those last, for second and third year,
we had sponsorship, and we decided we would just donate
the sponsors in camp, and whatever, sponsor money.
And that was great, we came back the next year.
Again, this time we decided we were going to raise money
for another cause that was, you know,
comfortable for Brit, which happened to be Humane Society.
So, we did that for two years, raised money each time,
and that was wonderful, and then we decided, you know,
be nice if we could do something
that would impact a greater area.
You know, muscular dystrophy is important to us,
but unless people know about muscular dystrophy,
people, you know, are for impacts their lives personally,
everybody loves animals, but it's a smaller area.
Let's look for something bigger to get more people involved,
and we decided that we wanted to do something
along the lines of mental health, trauma, et cetera,
and we have worked closely.
United ambulance has been big supporters of ours
from the day one, and talking with them,
we were thinking at first, you know,
medical equipment, and then this came up,
and we'd gone in, talked to some other groups,
and critical incidents, dress management came up,
and we're like, that sounds good.
That sounds like something that we could support,
that our family trauma was difficult to get through,
but it's not like professional trauma
that you get in day after day after day after day,
and there's similarities for sure,
but also vast differences, but yet it was enough
of a commonality that we're like, yeah, let's do this,
and then we talked to Sheriff Becker,
and that's how the partnership was formed, you know,
two years ago, this'll be our third year.
Oh yeah, this is a porting system, yeah.
So we're pretty excited, and I know that, you know,
we are living up to our goal of creating a legacy
in our daughter's name, that's what we want to do,
and it's fun, it's a great event, you know,
from babies to 90 year olds, and it's like,
I tell people it's like going to a family reunion,
a classroom reunion, a church picnic,
all rolled up in one, and you're bound to know somebody there.
Yeah, I mean, I don't care, you're gonna know,
especially if you're a local person,
you're gonna know somebody there.
So it's just fun, so we're excited, this is our eighth year,
and we're looking forward to a great time.
Well you and I have been fortunate to be doing this
for eight years, doing this interview,
and it just hits me every time we talk about this,
and gets me in my eyes, water, and everything.
That's me, again, I can't imagine for you
how many times you've told this story,
and how many times, and I just thank you for that.
Thank you for doing that, and I appreciate it.
I appreciate you, I think one of the most beautiful things
in all of humanity is taking something tragic
and turning into something beautiful,
taking something negative and turning it into a positive.
It's something that I maintain,
there is nothing stronger in the universe
than the human spirit, and events like this
are proof of that, while also, like you said,
just being a lot of fun, a great event.
And I appreciate what you were saying
about running into people you know and everything.
One of the other things that I think is noteworthy
about this is as adults, the older and older
we get the less opportunity we have to make new friends.
We have to meet new people at all that and everything.
There's another part of this too that's so great.
You're probably gonna run into some people
that make new friends with something like this.
And what I've said to other groups
when I've spoken to them is that they'll say,
well, did Brittany like Blueras music?
No, she didn't.
She listened to her dad play.
Like most kids, they're like, oh yeah.
And I tell people, yeah, chips in a Blueras music.
And it kind of like I was embarrassed.
And then the younger kids were like,
oh, that's really cool, we love it.
And I'm like, you do?
I thought it was like old people music.
And so we'd start with that.
So that first festival, Brittany did not want to come.
She didn't come on Friday.
She thought, I don't know, but she came on Saturday.
And she had so much fun.
She was the last person to leave that way.
And it, that made an impression on me.
Because I know there's a lot of people in town
that think, oh, Blueras, I don't think I'd like that.
And it's like, give it a chance.
Oh, yeah.
I didn't really like my first Blueras festival.
I went to either.
I thought, I'm not so sure.
But let me tell you, and I found this out,
when you're hurting or you're not sure where life is,
you know, what life is handed to you.
Try something different.
And you'll be surprised.
I mean, we go to festivals all around the state.
We've been to some in Kentucky.
And let me tell you, it's an interesting genre of people
because it's all walks of life, all ages, all whatever.
But they are all friendly.
And we have what we call a Blueras family.
And, you know, we travel from festival to festival.
And those folks come here and they love our festival.
They love our part.
It's beautiful.
They think it's one of the best campsites ever.
And they just love the venue.
So it's, if you're going through something,
give us a try because it's really, it's impressive.
There's a relatability that Blueras and Blues,
that the certain type of music just have that most don't.
And I think that that's something that, regardless
of what you enjoy sound-wise or anything,
you're going to feel, you know, it's music you feel
and you enjoy.
Because, you know, you go to other concerts or things.
And sometimes people, they're just with their own click.
Their own little group or themselves.
But this is a genre that I swear anybody will talk to you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So right.
And, you know, it's, it's, it's fun.
Mm-hmm.
Just fun.
Sean, Carolyn brought up about how we got
the Sheriff's Department involved with this and everything.
Can we get a little bit more into what it was like
that early conversation, those early conversations
about doing this and why it's so, you feel
it's so important to be a part of this?
You know, it's humbling, you know, first and foremost.
Thank you to, you know, Carolyn to you and your family.
And we were talking before we came out, you know,
it's going through that tough moment in life.
And then turning it around and you just set it a legacy
and doing something within your community
and how you built it from what it is.
It's very humbling that you would and your team, you know,
would come and look at, you know, SISM, you know,
and hey, let's learn more about that, you know,
and James and I, we've talked a lot about mental health
and mental health in the community.
And then, you know, the wellness perspective
in our mental health is first responders.
And then I know that, you know, that first conversation
I think was with Jason Jolene from the Wisconsin App
is Fire Department.
And then, you know, a ton of credit to you and your team
to like, let's figure out some more about that, you know,
because as we've talked over and over about our wellness
and, you know, the unfortunate history of what's gone on
between not just law enforcement, all of our first responders,
the people that respond to tragedies within the communities
that we serve, we're not being taken care of bottom line.
And that's why you see that longevity
of a career gets cut short so often, you know,
so there's ways that we had to look at how we can, you know,
prevent that, you know, prevent the tragedies
that happen amongst all of our first responders.
And that's how SISM became, you know, a part of, you know,
our team.
And then, you know, evolving that, I believe, is around 2019,
2018 is when Wood County put together their SISM team.
And it's like I said, extremely humbling that, you know,
the team from Bluegrass said, yes, we want to support that.
And since they started supporting it, we've grown, you know,
and I think that's a huge part of this goal, right?
We're Wood County, right?
But now, wait a minute, what about surrounding counties?
And I'm very proud to say with the support
that has started from Bluegrass, you know,
we're in the Porge County, you know,
and this is going to continue to grow
because the need is there.
And I said enough, it's extremely humbling
when you have your family go through a tragedy.
And then to take that and bring it back
and then do something to support your community is,
it's really, it's hard words to really say
without getting emotional that, all right,
this is what we want to support you.
And we want to make sure you're okay.
When you deal with, you know, the hard situations
that are out that we respond to
and how we get through those, because before,
you know, starting the career,
not just as a law enforcement officer,
but we're first responders.
It was like, we talked about toughin' up, you know,
you're gonna see a tragedy, all right,
go on to the next call, back in a way, don't worry about it.
And that's not gonna work, you know,
we've found that out and lost so many good people
that were public servants doing it for how they felt.
They're hard.
And we didn't take care of them, you know, and you are.
Well, many throw in, you know,
then you're not only seeing it professionally,
but then if you have a trauma in your own life,
you know, a death or a divorce or whatever it might be,
it's hard to function.
It is hard to function without a support team.
And it's in so much of what we're referring to
is certainly in the moment or in the moments
after or anything like that,
but there's nothing that isn't, can't be triggering
and bring, come back, something that happened years ago
or months ago or something like that
and something else happens in it triggers that.
That's why it's so important that we stay on top of this topic
and we keep going and putting time and effort
and resources into it and making it more common
to talk about, more and more and more common
to talk about, that's another reason why
it's so great to have these two things attached to each other
because it's an opportunity to kind of get into these things
where we normally wouldn't.
You know, if this wasn't a part of this,
you and I will be talking to the event,
we'd probably end it a line up by now,
but here we are, we're able to bring some attention
to this topic and make Sean work a little bit,
which is always fun.
It's good. No, no, it's good.
He explains it well.
Yeah, he does.
This great job, this great job is always.
No, it's a, it's, like I said,
very humbling that people in our community
will come back and look at us and make sure that we're okay
because if we're not okay,
how can we expect to serve the community that we work for?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And this is a big, a big thing that, you know,
Katie says, you know, it helps start
and, you know, all the other, you know,
people that are involved and has grown so much
and, you know, just a little bit of history on SISM,
what will happen is if there is a tragedy
that we respond to afterwards,
after we deal with it and investigate it, you know,
work, whatever it might be, a car crash or anything,
there's things that are automatically in place, you know,
that are, once everything's done,
we're gonna have that debriefing.
Anybody that was involved, here's the date,
here's the time, I'll come and we'll go through a debrief
and it doesn't stop there.
You know, then it goes into the peer support, you know,
you have your debrief with, you know,
many people that were part of this,
you talk about what happened and then you kind of move forward
from there and then there's some one-on-one help
with peer support that are part of SISM
and then it doesn't even stop there, you know,
if somebody is looking for, you know, I want more,
you know, I need some more help.
Then you go into therapy, you know,
and that's all connected to SISM
and that is so important for all of our first responders.
And Sean, when you talk about first responders, you know,
part of what we got into this for too
was to help educate the public
and so many people do not know what first responder refers to.
They're thinking it's only X, Y, or Z,
but you're talking, you know, ambulance people,
you're talking firefighters, police department,
sheriffs, dispatch, you're talking anybody
who's involved in that call for that scene
and shows up and when you say it's peer counseling,
I'm, isn't it the fact that if it's an accident, car accident,
that paramedics will meet with other paramedics
to talk about it.
They're not going to meet with a firefighter per se.
You're going to meet with your job here.
That's a good point to this.
You know, and I think that's really important to know.
And the other thing that I've been impressed upon
and thought was really cool is that it's all confidential.
Yep, yeah.
I mean, I think that's something that needs to let people,
you know, people need to understand that.
I mean, whatever happens on a scene has to be private.
I mean, you can't talk to the public,
can't talk to neighbors, you can't talk to whoever.
We know that, but the fact that they can have this
and it stays confidential, I think that's a real difference
maker in why racism is so important.
You know, you're spot on, and then you add your chaplains to.
Oh, yes.
They're a big, big part of it.
But, you know, and I'm not saying we have to push religion,
but they have a huge part of it and if the person
that is struggling through what they went through,
if that's the path they want to go,
then you go that path.
If it's not, and there's another path
that's going to be provided for you.
That's awesome.
It is.
And it's really something too that we're,
another, I think, exciting thing about this program
and things like it is, it's really in its infancy.
It's really just starting to get going and everything,
especially with more and more resources
and attention and data being put into it.
So, we'll be talking more and more about this,
not only with you Sean, but just as a topic
in general going forward.
I did want to get to the lineup in some of the details
because we got three great days of events to talk about here.
Let's dive right into Thursday.
So, we're out at Red Sand Beach.
Okay, Lake Westicha, Southwood County Park.
Thursday on June 12th.
We're starting music at 6.30.
Last few years, we've been fortunate enough
to have self-bound play for us.
And that's a $5 cover charge at the gate.
And the reason we do that is because we want to highlight
a local band favorite.
And there are also big supporters on our committee.
Yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, it works out well for everybody.
And when they take their break,
we've introduced a taste of bluegrass in the middle.
For those folks who don't think they like bluegrass,
this year, the band that's coming to us for taste of bluegrass
and will be there on Friday and Saturday
is the Silas Powell Band.
They're from West Virginia.
They're a grandfather, father, and son trio
of kind of traditional bluegrass music,
but they write a lot of their own as well.
And they are fantastic.
We did have them here last year for a day.
But yeah, they're great.
So they'll do our taste of bluegrass.
I'm a sucker for harmonies and almond brothers,
things like that.
These guys have that with their instruments,
like the chemistry they have.
It's really noteworthy.
It's really good.
And they're so excited.
Last year was the first time they'd ever played in Wisconsin.
So they were really happy to come back here.
So yeah, we're really thrilled to have them.
Then on Friday, we're starting about 4.30.
And we're going to go to about 11.30 that night.
That's a $25 cover charge at the gate.
The 4.30 band is a new band.
They're out of Kansas.
They're new to us, I should say.
They're called the Neal Show River Boys.
Oh, sorry.
I was going to have you say it first.
I was going to say it first.
I say it a little tongue in cheek,
because when we spoke with them,
one of them owned some land over in the Nassita area.
So that's why they were up here.
But they're a trio as well.
But boys is a bit of a long shot.
I think the youngest is in his 60s.
So that should be fun.
Then we have Art Stevenson in Highwater.
They're absolutely a local and state
and even a bluegrass general legend.
I mean, Art and his group, they are about as professional,
traditional bluegrass band as you can possibly hope for.
So they are top notch.
Then the Silas Paul band will be playing again.
And then we are finishing up that night
with a band out of the Madison area
called Sorting the Mail.
It's a great name.
And they're a lot of fun, too.
We've played with them in Chips Band,
has played with them in a few other festivals.
So they're a great group.
Then on Saturday, that's kind of the big day.
That day, I'll let you talk maybe a smidge about that.
But we do have a touch of truck event from 10 until 2.
And then at noon, though, we're starting the music.
And we're going to start with hand-picked bluegrass.
They're a band from the Tomahawk area,
Rhinelader area.
And they've been here numerous times.
They're traditional good music.
Silas Paul will be back.
Then we've got a new band coming from the Madison, Milwaukee
area.
They're called Big Tooth Bluegrass.
So they're first to us.
So we haven't heard them before.
Anna Wisconsin band, that's awesome.
That's great.
Then we have Chain Station coming back from Colorado.
They were here a few years ago.
And let me tell you, you don't want to miss these guys.
They were fantastic.
One of the highly requested bands to come back.
I want to say it was weeks after people were asking me if I'd
heard them or seen them or anything.
Yeah, you're so right.
I remember them.
They're wonderful.
So we're excited to have them.
And then one of my personal favorite bands
is going to be our closer for us.
And that is Chicken Wear Empire.
And I love those guys.
Absolutely love them.
So we're thrilled to have them back.
And I think it's a great lineup this year.
Oh, by the way, Saturday Music is, the gate is 30 bucks.
And it's 12 to noon, or noon till about 10 at night.
Maybe a little later, if we get a group jam going
with some of those bands, we'll be open for.
But yeah, it's going to be a great lineup.
And we're really thrilled to have them.
It's an incredible lineup.
You guys really outdid yourselves with those ones.
I think so.
I shot it to all these bands.
Local in and from beyond coming by.
I just want to say a special shout out
to the Silas Pal Band playing back to back to back days.
That's pretty cool.
That's great of them.
And they're so excited.
They're so excited to be here.
So it'll be good.
You mentioned the touch of truck event.
And you also mentioned that Sean is Saturday.
You guys are going to be down there with this.
Yeah.
We're going to have several of our vehicles down there.
It sounds like a helicopter.
We're going to be coming.
So we started that, what?
Three years?
Well, this is our third year.
Third year.
Just to at least get the opportunity to showcase
the connection to the first responders.
So having stuff of some of our equipment
and then fire department, ambulances, things like that
that seemed to go over really well with the public.
And we'll try to get our therapy dog
all of the way there.
She's probably the most popular person from our department.
So plug out there for her.
She can do some paw prints for autographs,
if you guys would like.
Oh, that'd be that.
That's cool.
Yeah, that'd be cool.
Yeah.
Well, last year when the helicopter came,
I had to laugh because one of our dear friends, family friends,
he was like right in the helicopter with.
And it's like, you know, this is not just a little kids.
The big kids like this just as much.
And in all seriousness, aside, I mean, or goofiness aside,
I know that what's really important about that
is it lets the public see the equipment and the kids
see it in a non-emergency situation, which is huge.
That is huge.
We especially touch on this when it comes to the family
center event, but you're absolutely right.
Same thing with this one, where it's always cool to me
to give kids, you just never know what spark might happen.
If I hadn't seen rabble lambs and mork and Mindy,
I wouldn't be here, right?
I'd be a firefighter.
I was a kid.
My first field trip, we went to the Chicago Fire Department.
And I still did this day, get like a little kid
when I'm around a fire truck or something.
You just don't know what could be sparked in a kid.
And even beyond that, the empathy that is created there,
the idea of these kids understanding that much more.
It's such a great note to mention of not seeing this,
but not in a drama situation,
in a situation emergency situation.
I think that's a really strong note about this.
I hadn't really even thought of myself,
getting the experience of that.
And certainly there's something that we've talked about
a lot, Sean, is to build in that bridge more and more
between these departments, these fields, and our public.
That's always it, so this win, win, win,
kind of a situation with this event,
along with just having fun.
And like you said, the adults of us,
the kid being brought out of us
so some of these things too for adults.
And I know last year, for the first time,
we had Marshfield show up with something.
And so, and Byron, I think, was the first time
they came last year.
I'm hoping we might get some Portage County this year.
Hopefully.
There was some talk about that.
I can't know, see what I can do on that.
Yeah.
Pull a few strings, but yeah,
just to get some variety of stuff.
And it's just really neat.
And we do that in the field that's right up there
for overflow parking.
So there's plenty of room.
People can come and have a good time.
Oh, and don't forget.
We also have the St. John's Episcopalian Church folks.
Church ladies, excuse me, they're
going to be selling their pie again
in the Red Sand Beach Pavilion area.
And this year, you might want to take note of this, Sean.
We're going to have a pie eating contest.
And if you want to do it, I think that, you know,
you should find someone in the department.
You're close.
I mean, if you just don't have to be careful of allergies,
though, because it is very walnut pie.
But, let me tell you, those ladies
will be selling whole pies and pies
by the slice with coffee.
And let me tell you, you're not going to want to miss it.
And you can also stock up and take a pie home,
put it in your freezer for Thanksgiving.
There you go.
So, wonderful thing that is going to be out there.
So, yeah, see if you can drum up a few
possible things.
OK, a pie eating contest.
There you go.
I don't know that there's much of a payoff
other than huge bragging rights.
No big wrap, but, you know, that means some.
That does stand for some.
Sure.
We are so excited about this as wrapping up.
Oh, we have something else.
Oh, go ahead, please.
We do have something else, because this year,
we're going to donate a portion of our proceeds.
Not only to SISM, but we're also
wanting to donate in honor of Andrew Mueller.
He is the young man, 20-year-old young man who passed away.
I want to say like in November this past year.
And the reason we chose to do this is because his girlfriend
was the granddaughter of our longtime bluegrass supporters.
And so, it has totally impacted our bluegrass family.
And we wanted to, we talked long and hard about this
and what we wanted to do and sensitive and whatnot.
But in the end, we decided that Grand Rapids,
over the last few years, has lost many, many people.
But these two young people, meaning
Brittany and Andrew, we want to honor the legacy
that Andrew's family is trying to create in his name.
As well as the impact that it had in our bluegrass family.
And we're honored to be able to talk about building bridge
and being able to pull that component into this as well.
And I'm going to let Sean talk a little bit more
about what that entails.
But that's going to be new for us this year.
And what another partnership, again, humbling,
that thoughts and prayers are all with the Mueller family,
because this only happened just a few months ago.
And they're still grieving.
But they're still taking that, you know,
what I think the grief and pushing the passion
to make a change in Andrew's legacy.
And the partnership with bluegrass,
it's just such a wonderful fit, because it will have an impact.
And what parallel proceeds will be going for.
And I already started that way, because the Mueller's
been raising money in the community with Brandon Abbott,
the new police chief in Port Edwards.
Basically, getting all of our first responders,
including law enforcement, the chance
or if they need to carry epipans, you know,
we carry Narcan.
And that's a big thing when I testify down at the Capitol.
I mean, we've been carrying Narcan for so long.
And why aren't we carrying epipans?
You know, and it's unfortunately a funding thing.
All right, and that's something that I'm very confident
that we're going to work through.
And you know, the Grand Rapids Police Department,
all their first responders are now carrying it.
And that's going to grow.
You know, I can promise you one way, shape or another,
the sheriff's department will be carrying them.
You know, and through these opportunities,
and again, again, humbling, you're
circling around and thinking of us again.
That's some, you know, our wellness
and now here, make us better.
Yeah.
Now this is going to do that.
And like our tagline, since we've gotten involved
with, with Sism has been help us to help them.
So they can help you.
I mean, to me, that's really good.
I like associations.
I like connections, I like relationships.
And when it all kind of comes together,
it makes me feel good and it feels like there's a sign
that we're doing the right thing.
Yes.
And I just feel like this is right.
Couldn't agree with you more.
Same voice.
I just feel it's right.
It is right.
You know, and it makes a difference in our community.
Save lives.
Appreciate that, you guys.
Appreciate all of this and everything
that's being done by both of your teams
and all of the people out there.
And we certainly want to think the volunteers
and want to encourage more volunteers
as we're kind of wrapping up here.
Carolyn, if people are interested,
they would like to volunteer.
They would like to be a part of things.
Should we just send them to the website?
Is that the best way to get it over?
Yes, go to www.bluegrassatthelake.com.
And there's a tab up at the top that's volunteers.
And you can go there and there's an email address.
I do know, I also forgot to mention this,
but because we're a fundraising festival,
the Wisconsin Rapids Lines Club provides the beverages
and the food, OK?
And they're also looking for some volunteers,
particularly in the food service area.
So feel free.
My name and number is on the website or you can find me.
I may be a part of this.
I don't know.
I'm happy to connect you with the people.
But we say if you can donate your time for a couple
hours a day, you get a free pass for the day for yourself.
That's a win right there.
And remember that kids are free with paying adult under 18.
So that's pretty cool.
It's just it's a good event.
And because we are on Father's Day weekend,
it's still free for dads to do their deal on Sunday,
because we're just cleaning up to nothing going on that day.
But it's a great present for our Mother's Day this weekend.
If you guys want to get out and buy those mom something
or get those dads something or the father and mother
figures in your life, it's great.
Right now in our website, we still have a sale on tickets
for the three day pass.
So get those tickets and come on out.
You know, even if you only come out for one band a day,
buy the pass, then you got freedom of flexibility
to do what you want.
You buy the pass for the three days.
You know, you're going to use it.
Oh my god.
We know how this works.
So you're going to get a good use of it.
Yes, you can feel that that's the thing no matter what
you're experiencing, whether it's a touch of truck
or the pie contest or just sitting there jamming out
to some of this music, there's going to be moments where
you're enjoying yourself and you're thinking
about it and looking around you and realizing,
oh, all of this and I put into my community and I did good.
Exactly.
It's the definition of a win win.
And if you still want to do something else,
I mean, we're looking for raffle baskets.
So give us a raffle basket, give us a shout out.
We pride ourselves on that.
We have a nice variety of good things.
We have merchandise for sale.
There's food for sale.
All you have to come with is your chair or a blanket to sit on.
You can bring cash.
You can bring this credit card.
We take both.
Come on in and have a great time.
Bluegrass at the Lake going on June 12th through the 14th
over a beautiful lake.
Was each of right here in Rapids find out more?
Bluegrass at the Lake.com.
I'll fix that in post.
I won't leave that now.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding, there's no fixing it.
Bluegrass at the Lake.com is where you want to go everybody.
Keep in mind there's a great Facebook page as well.
You can reach out.
That might be another way to contact you guys as well.
Absolutely.
To both of you, thank you again for everything.
Thanks a lot for the time.
I appreciate it.
We'll see you over at Lake Vizietra coming up.
Sounds great.
Thank you.
And we'll have more Rapids Report coming up for you right here at WFHR.com.
Maybe miss up the call letters again.
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