The festival is held at the Mondeaux Dam Lodge in the scenic Chequamegon National Forest. This year’s band lineup includes Archie, Jim & friends, Big Daddy and the Feather Pickers, The Lang Bothers, Staff Infection, Mountain Sky & Friends, Prairie Smoke, Northern Comfort, the Mad City Jug Band, and Dick, Goldie & Mark.

Admission is free (no carry ins allowed) Food and beverages will be available on site. Bring your lawn chairs.

Mondeaux Dam Lodge is located in North Central Wisconsin in the Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest just 20 miles north west of Medford. The lodge offers a full lunch and dinner menu, boat, canoe, paddleboat & pontoon rentals, a shower area for campers and a small camp store.

Patti Graham (dobro), Tony Hozeny (mandolin), and Mark Peterson (guitar) have spent many years playing and singing bluegrass and traditional country music. Their sound comes straight from the heart and features high lonesome vocals and harmonies, a driving beat, and tight instrumental passages. For more on Northern Comfort’s schedule see their MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/northerncomfrt

Bring your own lawn chairs and spend a day at the lake listening to some good ol’ bluegrass music. The bands appearing are:  SWBMAI’s own Northern Comfort; The Lang Brothers; Big Daddy Choppers & the Feather Pickers; Forest Ridge; The New North String Band; Prairie Smoke; and Staff Infection. But that’s just the start because the jamming goes on all day and well into the night. Most jammers stay at the Picnic Point campground located within the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest on the lake shore of the Mondeaux Flowage and they just keep on pickin’ under the stars. If camping isn’t for you, Medford offers a number of hotels, cabins and lodges, too.

No carry ins are allowed but there is a full lunch and dinner menu at the Lodge where you will also find boat, canoe, paddleboat and pontoon rentals. There is a canoe and kayak fishing contest in the morning, too. Or, you can go explore the miles and miles of hiking trails. Contact: Mondeaux Dam Lodge at 715-427-5746 or www.mondeauxdamlodge.com for more information.

The Hillbilly Hearts have been together about a year. Among the artists they cover are Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, Hank Williams, Hazel Dickens, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard and the Louvin Brothers. They play in bars and clubs in southern Wisconsin.

Editor’s Note: One of the band’s first “numbers” at the Frequency was to announce that they had changed their name! The band is now Northern Comfort, and that’s the way they are now listed on this site.

The band’s MySpace site is at www.myspace.com/northerncomfrt