Hi, my name is Ryan Ward and I'm a producer for PBS
Wisconsin. For the Mile of Music production, I am one of the
field producers. So, my job is to sort of keep everyone on
schedule, keep all the people in my group coherent and
knowing what their job is and stuff like that, but it's a huge
festival. We're doing like five or six shows just today. So,
that's a lot of wrangling different venues and stuff like
each venue comes with like a new setting, a new system. So,
it's been, it's chaotic fun - that's how I like to describe it.
As we record Mile of Music, I'm just excited to discover new
music. I love music and honestly, there's a few albums
I'm going to buy from these bands just because they've
blown me away and it's in talking to the bands too, I am
just blown away about how much they care about this festival
specifically what Appleton does for them in terms of
giving them care, like dental care, like health screenings.
I had one band say that one of their members,
they caught like a mole on them that was cancerous. So they
literally saved their life here. Like this festival saved
their life. So that's just awesome. Yeah, so my hope with
what PBS Wisconsin is doing here is that we just showcase
Appleton, and the community, and that it's more than just, you know,
the city outside of Green Bay or that you drive through to
get to Green Bay. Like they have a huge art scene here.
They have a performing art center. It's beautiful. I mean
just everyone is music loving here and stuff like that. So I
just really want to show the community and thank them
for what they're doing.