Fort Atkinson Wednesday Night Band Concert

William and I went to visit my Mom tonight and while we were in the area, I wanted to head over to Fort Atkinson to check out the Band Concert that they hold on Wednesday nights. I kind of thought it would be cool, but it was REALLY something to see! I convinced William to go with me if I would buy him a malt from the Moo Mobile, so off we went. As we pulled up to the town it really didn’t look like there was too many people there, but I parked the car anyway and walked down the street. As I turned the corner, Holy Smokes! There were people in lawn chairs on one side of the street and others  just hanging out listening to the music. Now you have to remember that this is a little town of about 350 people and all the people there pretty much knew each other. As I was standing in line to get a Raspberry and a Chocolate malt, I found out that they have been having guests come and play on Wednesday nights since 1898. That’s 115 years! I kind of felt bad that I hadn’t come to this before. I also learned while I was in the ice cream line, that people from all over come to play with the band. Some of the people drive for over an hour just to get a chair on the portable band platform. And tonight, they even ran out of room, so they had to add extra seating for the musicians. When I asked where they get their music from, I was told that they play a little bit of everything from Patriotic music to Polka’s. They even had a Music Composer that liked to play with them write specific music only for this community band. Now just how cool is that?  And to top off the night, when I finally made it up to the malt window and ordered our two malts, I found out that they were 50 cents each.This was the last concert of the year, but I definitely want to come back again next year!