The festival got its name from the sugar maple tree, the state tree of WI.
Kids 17 and under get in free.
There is free shuttle service Saturday afternoon for seniors from the Madison Senior Center, Attic Angel Place, and Oakwood Village University Woods. Contact the centers for more information.
The Sugar Maple Fest is participatory! Bring your instruments and play along in the jam tent. The jams are open to all ages and abilities.
The Festival is sponsored by the Four Lakes Traditional Music Collective, a local non-profit dedicated to bringing traditional music and dance to the greater Madison area. Your tax-deductible donation supports the music! See www.sugarmaplefest.org for more info.
Performers this year hail from Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Iowa City, Cincinnati, Memphis, New Orleans, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Austin and Nashville.
Dave Landau is the only artist to play every single year of the festival. And the seven-year-olds dancing to his music year one are now in college and have to pay their own way into the festival!
One FLTMC board member met her future husband at the late night campground bonfire jam. (He proposed around the campfire the following year.)
The idea for a traditional music festival in Madison originated in 2003 at the Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival in Marquette, MI
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Please consider donating to the festival. Our organization is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Our festival wouldn't exist without generous donors like you.
