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Jazz Festival</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10004
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Great</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10008 size=3
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Berigan</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10012 size=3
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10017 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Small town Fox
Lake, Wisconsin, honors Bunny Berigan with a three day Dixieland Jazz Festival
on the third weekend in May every year.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10021 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In 2017 it will be held May 19 – 21.<SPAN
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</SPAN>Bands that will be featured are: The Bob Schulz Mid-West All Stars, The
St. Louis Stompers led by Steve Lilley, The Kaye Berigan 5 Tet, the Matt Miller
Jazz Trio, A Big Band playing “Bunny’s” music and special Guest Trumpet Player,
Duke Heitger from New Orleans.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The 2017 event
will be held (one at a time) in the Fox Lake Community Center, the American
Legion Hall and Mullin’s Drive-In.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10028
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There will be a Dixieland Graveside
Service at the grave of Bunny on Saturday morning and two Sunday morning Church
Services by the St. Louis Stompers at First Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. <SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10029
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Triangle Jazz Store will be on site,
<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10030
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>along with Great Food prepared and served
by Chef Anthony of Milwaukee, WI.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10031
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please visit the web site at
</FONT></FONT><A id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10032
href="http://www.bunnyberiganjazzjubilee/"><FONT
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face="Times New Roman">www.bunnyberiganjazzjubilee</FONT></A><FONT
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10034 face="Times New Roman"> or find us on
Facebook under Bunny Berigan Jazz Jubilee.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10035 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For more information on this great jazz event please call Julie Flemming
at 920-928-6094.</FONT></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman">R<FONT
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10038><SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10039 style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Who was
Bunny?</SPAN><SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10040
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10043 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Roland “Bunny”
Bernard Berigan was born on November 2, 1908, the second son of William P. and
Mary (Schlitzberg) Berigan in Hilbert, Calumet County, Wisconsin, at 5:30 AM,
with Dr. H. E. Luehrs M.D. in attendance.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10047 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>He died in New York City on June 2, 1942 at the age of
33.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10048 size=3
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10049 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His father
worked for the railroad and was the Station Agent in Hilbert, but due to
“Bunny’s health and encouragement from his mother-in-law, Bill Berigan moved his
little family back to Fox Lake and continued to work in Hilbert for a time. All
of “Bunny’s” extended family on both his mother’s side and his Dad’s side either
lived in Fox Lake or on farms in the area.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10053 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>“Bunny’s” family moved to Fox Lake in July of 1909 and lived at 524 State
Street. When the eight month old “Bunny” moved he was a very sick baby with
whooping cough, but under his Grandma Schlitzberg’s good care and in the
spacious house and shady yard, he began to improve.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10054 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It took a number of months to restore him to good
health.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10055 size=3
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10056 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
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</SPAN>“Bunny” was a great trumpet player as well as a fine violinist.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10060 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>He<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10061
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>played in his Grandpa Schlitzberg’s Band
as a kid and took lessons from the finest musicians in the Fox Lake/Beaver Dam,
Wisconsin area.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10062
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He moved to Madison as a teenager and
from there he made the leap to New York. In New York he had all the breaks that
any musician could have had: featured spots with name bands, on the networks,
his own band, recording contracts galore and movie work.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10063 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>He actually led a fast-paced life, often playing in recording studios in
the morning, playing live radio in the afternoon and perhaps playing with a
popular orchestra in the evening.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10064
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His great love was popular
music.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10065 size=3
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10066 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
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</SPAN>“Bunny” first began to attract popular and critical attention in the Hal
Kemp orchestra of 1930.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10070
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a brief twelve years he recorded with
more than 50 orchestras including those of Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallee, Freddie
Rich, the Dorsey Brothers, Frankie Trumbauer, Glenn Miller, Chick Bullock, Gene
Kardos, and Red Norvo.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10071
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He really began to shine brightly in
1935 when he joined the Benny Goodman band. At that time he was a pretty solid,
serious-looking fellow, a characteristic not at all reflected in his
playing.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10072
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Red McKenzie once made a very pertinent
remark about “Bunny’s” playing “If that man wasn’t such a gambler, everybody’d
say he was the greatest that ever blew.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10073 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But the man’s got such nerve and likes his horn so much that he’ll go
ahead and try stuff that nobody else’d ever think of trying.”<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10074 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>While with the Benny Goodman band “Bunny” recorded such pieces as <I
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">King Porter Stomp, Blue Skies, Jingle Bells,
Goodbye </I>and<I id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10076
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Between the Devil and the Deep Blue
Sea.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10077
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></I>Later as a member of the Tommy
Dorsey band he recorded such memorable sides as <I
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10078
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Marie, Song of India, Melody in F </I>and <I
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10079
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Spring Song</I>. His superb trumpet was a
dynamic factor in the rise to fame of both the Goodman and Dorsey bands.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10080 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>He was a giant of the swing era and perhaps could even be credited with
the introduction of that music to the world.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10082 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
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</SPAN>In 1936 “Bunny” set out on his own, his band making its debut at New
York’s Pennsylvania Hotel in April.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10086 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The Berigan star burst into full brilliance with the release of the
monumental RCA Victor recording of <I id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10087
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">I Can’t Get Started,</I> an instantaneous
hit and one that remains a classic today .</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT
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</SPAN>“Bunny” struggled with alcoholism, as did many of the musicians of the
era.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10093
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The pace was grueling with the strain of
one-nighters.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10094
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Band members often ended a gig, traveled
many miles all night in a car, ate<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10095
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>breakfast (or whatever meal they called
it) at 2:00 AM, and continued to travel through the night to another town where
they got ready to play another engagement for the evening.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10096 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It was not uncommon for “Bunny’s” band to play for days in a row with
never a break. In the last few months of his life “Bunny” was really
struggling.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10097
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He returned to the bandstand of his own
band just days after a siege of pneumonia, but the pace and the strain and the
alcohol were all too much.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10098
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By June of 1942 the last note had
sounded and the music world was shedding tears.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everyone is
welcome at this 3-Day Jazz Festival honoring “Bunny” Berigan.<SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10104 style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It has been said that there are other Jazz Festivals in Wisconsin but
“Fox Lake throws the best party”.<SPAN id=yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479084378397_10105
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Come and find out!!<SPAN
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</SPAN>You will go home saying “It’s True”.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT
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