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Musical output came from Grafton, Ozaukee County during the 1920s when Paramount Records released a series of blues and jazz recordings by artists from the South.. Waukesha's Les Paul, enjoyed a long career as a blues, country, and jazz guitarist and musical innovator. known as the "Wizard of Waukesha" for his technological tinkering, was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar ...
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Bands, including pop groups, orchestras, opera companies, drum corps and other musical groups, from the US state of Wisconsin. For individual musicians please see Category:Musicians from Wisconsin . Subcategories
A new documentary published by The Emigsville Band follows the history of York County and how a small community thrived through music.
Wisconsin Municipalities map of counties, cities, villages, and towns. Towns in Wisconsin are similar to civil townships in other states. For a more detailed discussion, see Administrative divisions of Wisconsin#Town. Frequently a village or city may have the same name as a town. As of 2006, Wisconsin had 1,260 towns, some with the same name.
Most of Paramount's race music recordings were arranged by black entrepreneur J. Mayo Williams. "Ink" Williams, as he was known, had no official position with Paramount, but he was given wide latitude to bring African American talent to the Paramount recording studios and to market Paramount records to African American consumers.
For musical groups and bands, please see Category:Musical groups from Wisconsin. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. .
James Brian Pekol (born May 4, 1961) is an American musician originally from Wausau, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point with a degree in Bachelor of Music Education with an emphasis in saxophone. He then taught Grade 5-8 instrumental music for 19 years in the Wisconsin public schools.