Many Arrowhead students and teachers attended Summerfest this last late June and early July. Summerfest is a summer music festival that features food, shopping, games and socializing in Milwaukee annually. Summerfest goes from June 28th until July 6th.

Arrowhead teacher, John Hoch, reports that he attended Summerfest three times this year with friends after a baseball game.

“I drove down with a group of my buddies after we all went to a ball game together. Traffic was horrible,” says Hoch.

Weather this year for Summerfest was in upper eighties during the day and mid seventies at night. Arrowhead Junior, Emily Parr, states that temperatures were warmer in the crowds at the concerts.

“At night by the lake it got chilly but once you were in the crowds and dancing around real compacted with everyone, the weather seemed 15 degrees warmer than it actually was,” says Parr.

Arrowhead Junior, Jaylen McAnany says, “ I go to Summerfest for the bands; I saw Aer and Matt & Kim. They were great live performers and I would see them again if they come back next year.”

Matt & Kim are an Indie/Soft Rock band that are on tour right now around the world. They stopped by this year at Summerfest on one of the free stages.

Blake Martz, Arrowhead junior, says, “I went to Summerfest with a big group of my friends and we met up with other people from school when we went to the MGMT concert, Aer concert, Imagine Dragons concert, and the Atmosphere concert. The only thing I didn’t like about it this year was how many cops were there.”

If you chose not to drive down to Summerfest, there is a shuttle bus could take you from a Waukesha or Delafield Park & Ride and take you to and from Summerfest for ten dollars.

On a record breaking busiest attendance night of Summerfest, Martz attended the “Imagine Dragons” concert at one of the free stages with his friends from school.

Martz says it was a two hour wait line just to buy tickets to get into the festival and Summerfest opened the gates for 15 minutes, letting everyone in for free in hopes of eliminating large crowds by the entrance.

“The lines to get on the bus home after the concert was the worst part about summerfest. I’m already tired from standing and walking all day at Summerfest and the last thing I wanted to do was wait in the bus line for 3 hours. It was terrible,” says McAnany.

“I waited in lines for so long, but in the long run, it was worth it,” says McAnany.