{"id":26240,"date":"2025-06-03T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/?p=26240"},"modified":"2025-06-03T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:59:57","slug":"true-north-music-food-festival-announced-on-madisons-northside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2025\/06\/03\/true-north-music-food-festival-announced-on-madisons-northside\/","title":{"rendered":"True North Music + Food Festival Announced on Madison&#8217;s Northside"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1655.68px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 3, 2025<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>TRUE NORTH MUSIC + FOOD FESTIVAL ANNOUNCED ON MADISON\u2019S NORTHSIDE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MADISON, WISCONSIN \u2013 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Madison Mallards and Lola\u2019s Hi\/Lo Lounge have announced a new music and food festival to take place on Saturday, September 27<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the Warner Park Duck Pond, the True North Music + Food Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Participating restaurants include Heritage Tavern, Ahan, Seven Acre Dairy, Cinn City Smash, Banzo, Salvatore\u2019s, Lola\u2019s, Beef Butter BBQ, Cadre, It\u2019s Good For You Pizza, Jalisco, and Ancora.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Live music will begin at 4:00 with national touring artist Pokey LaFarge headlining the event along with music from Madison favorites People Brothers Band, Mama Digdown\u2019s Brass Band, Mr. Chair &amp; Spectaculous, Darren Sterud\u2019s New Orleans Tribute, and DJ Phil Money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019re celebrating our 25<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> year on the Northside and given all of the new activity on this side of town it seemed like the perfect time to give this side of town something new to cheer about.\u201d said Mallards President Vern Stenman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The festival will feature an impressive roster of Madison restaurants, and a slew of great bands. In collaboration with the Mallards, the food has been curated by Lola\u2019s co-owner Evan Dannells with music programmed by his Lola\u2019s partner Matt Gerding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSince opening Lola\u2019s we\u2019ve fallen in love with the Northside and see so much great food and music happening all over the city\u201d said Gerding. \u201cThe food and music communities in this city are so incredible and we just felt like throwing a great party to celebrate that on our side of town.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere\u2019s no better place than a baseball field to capture the timeless and authentic intersection of homegrown music, food and community\u201d says Gerding. \u201cOur hope is to turn this into an annual tradition and we\u2019re thrilled with how it\u2019s all coming together in year one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tickets are $15 and go on-sale Friday, May 16<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at 10am at <a href=\"http:\/\/TrueNorthFest.com\">TrueNorthFest.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mad City Windows &amp; Baths True North Festival is presented by Greenwoods State Bank, American Family Insurance with support from Dancing Goat Distillery, RA! THC Beverage, Dane County Regional Airport, and Untitled Art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">True North is proud to be donating $2 for every ticket sold to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danecountyfoodcollective.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dane County Food Collective<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abuseintervention.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DAIS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For questions and further information please contact Matt Gerding at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:matt@lolasmadison.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">matt@lolasmadison.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":26242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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