Summerfest announces an end to wifi woes in the Amp - OnMilwaukee.com

Summerfest announces an end to wifi woes in the Amp - OnMilwaukee.com

Summerfest announces an end to wifi woes in the Amp - OnMilwaukee.com

Posted: 10 Dec 2020 06:31 AM PST

In the category of news you just can't wait to use ... someday: Summerfest has announced that free wifi is coming to the American Family Insurance Amphitheater in 2021.

If you're like me, you've struggled for years to get good reception at the lakefront, regardless of cell phone provider, and sitting under the concrete and steel Hoan Bridge only made matters worse.

Now, via a new partnership, SilverIP will install high-speed access points throughout the venue: concourses, seating bowl, bleacher/grass seating, hospitality areas. For you, that means you can post a selfie of you and a headliner (off in the distance) on Insta. For me and my colleagues, it means we can upload reviews on-site for you to either enjoy (or rage about) as soon as the show's over.

"We are excited to offer free WIFI at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater to enhance our fans' experience at this world-class venue," said Summerfest President and CEO Don Smiley in a news release.

"We have partnered with SilverIP at Henry Maier Festival Park for many years, and it made perfect sense for us to provide that same service at the Amphitheater.  Free WIFI will be another new amenity to enjoy when we open this new venue in 2021."

Next year's Summerfest is slated for a trio of long weekends in June and July.

SilverIP has been a longtime Summerfest internet provider.

"We're thrilled to be working with the Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. team to provide free WIFI to the American Family Insurance Amphitheater.  Our experience providing internet service to Summerfest and large festivals in Chicago, makes this partnership a great fit," said Farzad Moeinzadeh, SilverIP Co-Founder and CEO in the news release.

Next year also marks the launch of the new Amphitheater, which was expected to be ready this year, until the pandemic spoiled the Big Gig.

We got a peek at the progress last year.

The reconfigured venue has been upgraded to the tune of $51.3 million with changes everywhere: front of house, back of house, stage, seating, bathrooms, concourses, food and bev options.

It will seat roughly the same number of folks – 23,000 – for concerts.

For more information, visit AmFamAmp.com.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.

He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.

With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.

He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.

In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area.

He can be heard weekly on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories. 

Generac is a new Summerfest stage sponsor, but who the heck are they? - OnMilwaukee.com

Posted: 09 Dec 2020 12:00 AM PST

Last month, OnMilwaukee reported that Generac Power Systems signed on as a long-term sponsor of the Summerfest stage that Harley-Davidson had sponsored for years. But who is this company that's now deeply rooted in Milwaukee's massive festival community and what do they do? 

Generac, founded in 1959 by Robert Kern in Wales, Wis., has a history of making relevant product innovations from portable generators, to inventing the category of home standby generators, to home battery storage systems, and recently, virtual energy management.

Today, Generac is a global leader in energy technology and has emerged as a major industry mover-and-shaker in clean energy. Consequently, Generac products are everywhere, with more than 2 million Generac generators permanently installed in the U.S. Generac portable generators are often found on job sites and in homes where easy, portable power generation can be taken anywhere including tailgates, campsites, temporary backup for appliances when the power goes out and more. 

"Generac is one of Fortune's 100-Fastest Growing Companies for 2020, and we're not letting up," says Ryan Fitzgerald, spokesperson for Generac Power Systems.

So how does Summerfest fit into Generac's mission?

"We identified an opportunity to mirror the type of energy we create with a prominence on Milwaukee's lakefront with Milwaukee World Festival," says Fitzgerald. "The Generac Power Stage will be an outstanding experience for festival-goers for years to come and we're thrilled to see our name in lights with a community that we love. We're looking for great people to join our team and a partnership with Summerfest and Milwaukee World Festival is another step in introducing ourselves to everyone in Wisconsin."

Molly Snyder grew up on Milwaukee's East Side and today, she lives in the Walker's Point neighborhood with her partner and two sons.

As a full time senior writer, editorial manager and self-described experience junkie, Molly has written thousands of articles about Milwaukee (and a few about New Orleans, Detroit, Indianapolis, Boston and various vacation spots in Wisconsin) that range in subject from where to get the best cup of coffee to an in-depth profile on the survivors of the iconic Norman apartment building that burned down in the '90s.

She also once got a colonic just to report on it, but that's enough on that. 

Always told she had a "radio voice," Molly found herself as a regular contributor on FM102, 97WMYX and 1130WISN with her childhood radio favorite, Gene Mueller.

Molly's poetry, essays and articles appeared in many publications including USA Today, The Writer, The Sun Magazine and more. She has a collection of poetry, "Topless," and is slowly writing a memoir.

In 2009, Molly won a Milwaukee Press Club Award. She served as the Narrator / writer-in-residence at the Pfister Hotel from 2013-2014. She is also a story slam-winning storyteller who has performed with The Moth, Ex Fabula and Risk!

When she's not writing, interviewing or mom-ing, Molly teaches tarot card classes, gardens, sits in bars drinking Miller products and dreams of being in a punk band again.

 
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