A music trio performs on stage at Memorial Chapel during Mile of Music.
Rainbow Girls perform at Memorial Chapel during the 2024 Mile of Music. The Chapel was one of three performance spaces on the Lawrence campus during the annual festival. (Photos by Danny Damiani)

Lawrence University once again stepped up to the plate in its collaborations with Mile of Music.

The all-original music festival took place in downtown Appleton from Aug. 1 through Aug. 4, featuring 200 artists or bands delivering upwards of 700 performances at venues and outdoors spaces up and down a mile-long stretch of College Avenue.

As it has for all 11 years of the festival, Lawrence was in the middle of it all.

Photos from 2024 Mile of Music

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A performance during Mile of Music.
Adam Korber '18 works with the Music Education Team during the Uke Jam.
Ben Mulwana performs with students from the Lawrence Chamber Music Festival at Copper Rock Coffee Company.
Jean Carlo Urena Gonzalez, assistant professor of music, leads a Brazilian samba drumming workshop at Mile of Music.
Julie Williams performs with musicians from the Lawrence Chamber Music Festival at the Hilton Paper Valley Ballroom during Mile of Music.
Adam Korber '18 works with the Music Education Team during the Uke Jam.
Ben Mulwana performs with musicians from the Lawrence Chamber Music Festival at Copper Rock Coffee Co. in downtown Appleton.
Jean Carlo Ureña González was among the Lawrence faculty taking part in music education workshops. He led a session on Brazilian samba drumming.

Leila Ramagopal Pertl ’87, a music education instructor at Lawrence, once again led the Music Education Team (MET) in presenting more than 40 hands-on music-making events over the course of the festival. The team included Lawrence Conservatory faculty, students, and alumni.

The inaugural Lawrence Chamber Music Festival, designed for advanced instrumentalists ages 18 and over, spent the second of its two weeks in collaboration with Mile of Music artists. That work resulted in Mile of Music performances with four of the festival’s artists.

Lawrence venues, meanwhile, drew thousands of festival-goers to campus for performances—the Lawrence Lawn Main Stage, located on Main Hall Green in front of Ormsby Hall, again served as one of the festival’s marquee outdoor spaces; Memorial Chapel and Harper Hall saw a steady flow of festival performances all four days; and the green space outside of the Music-Drama Center and the nearby Mursell House hosted numerous Music Education workshops.

Lawrence alumni Julia Blair ’11 and Michael Murphy ’23 were among the festival performers.

Photos from Danny Damiani captured all the fun. See a sampling above. See a full photo gallery here.

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