Steel Bridge SongFest

The Steel Bridge Songfest is an annual volunteer community historic outreach event produced by Citizens for Our Bridge and is now the largest Americana songwriter showcase in the Midwest.
The 4 day celebration is designed to promote community activism and historic preservation and to also increase local economic impact through the use of artistic expression to an audience not normally drawn to such a dry subject.
The festival mixes major speakers with songwriters of national and regional prominence who display a strong affinity for social responsibility and historic preservation.



The purpose of the Steel Bridge SongFest
is to also raise local, state and national awareness of the Michigan Street Bridge through original songs written, based on a "Bridge" metaphor and volunteer public performances.
The Songfest and CD compilations, aim to promote, build and maintain the first of its kind public/private, long-term historic preservation "Michigan Street Bridge Fund", which is held by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington DC . The fund is designated to be used in the future, to promote and protect the Michigan Street Bridge as a one-of-a-kind attraction within the State of Wisconsin.
The proceeds through outreach and sales, will be used to promote the preservation of the bridge and supply the GAP financing needed for preservation efforts, and address some of the ongoing PREVENTATIVE yearly maintenance costs, which are not currently covered by Federal or State financing and which the lack of, got it into the disrepair today.



I want to thank all of you for what you've given, especially those of you who have, on your own initiative, stayed involved as active, unpaid volunteers throughout this long cold winter.
One I should mention here is melaniejane, known to most Construction Zoners for her cello contributions. You may not know that she's continued to donate countless hours helping with promotion and organizing behind the scenes.
If you have any ideas or questions, or just want to touch base, please feel free to contact me via myspace or by email: pmAcd333@gmail. com. If you'd rather talk on the phone, email me your phone number and I'll give you a call.



xo,p



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Buy the Steel Bridge Vol. 1 CD on iTunes."THIS EVENT STARTED ABOUT SONGS," pat mAcdonald said. "I thought it would be interesting to see what would come out of an event with this sort of a centered theme. I wanted to see what comes out of using a bridge as a metaphor; a very loose jumping off point."
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