Organic Valley, a farmer owned organic dairy cooperative.
1687 Owners Strong
Main Stage
Canon Ball
10:00 am to 11:00 am and 12:45 pm to 1:15 pm and 2:45 pm to 3:15 pm
From Central Wisconsin comes this multi-talented genre-crossing variety show. Canon Ball plays good-timey gypsy music, sea songs & shanties, bluegrass, rock, children's music, Broadway-style musicals, and even a few jingles. Some call it experimental Americana, others call it maritime gypsygrass. Whatever you want to call it, one thing is for certain...this highly versatile and dynamic group is doggone entertaining! Their puppet show, Seafaring Puppeto, features mermaids, sea hags, vikings, pirates, and whales with unicorn horns exploring an underwater world set to music. Discovered at last year's Midwest Renewable Energy Fair, Canon Ball will keep the day flowing in between speakers at this years KCF.
Will Allen
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Will Allen, son of a sharecropper, former professional basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader and now farmer, is one of the preeminent thinkers of our time on agriculture and food policy. The founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., a farm and community food center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Will is a leading authority in the expanding field of urban agriculture. At Growing Power and in community food projects across the nation and around the world, Will promotes the belief that all people, regardless of their economic circumstances, should have access to fresh, safe, affordable and nutritious foods at all times.
In 2008, Will was awarded prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," only the second farmer ever to be so honored. He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and in February 2010, he was invited to the White House to join First Lady Michelle Obama in launching "Let's Move!" her signature leadership program to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity in America. In May 2010, Time magazine named Will to the Time 100 World's Most Influential People.
Experiencing Food, Sharing Culture — Andrew Zimmern
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Andrew Zimmern is a James Beard Award-winning (2010) TV personality, chef, food writer, teacher and is regarded as one of the most versatile and knowledgeable personalities in the food world. He is the co-creator, host and consulting producer of Travel Channel's hit series, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern and Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World. Bizarre Foods took home two CableFax awards in 2009. His online series, Toyota's Appetite for Life,received an Effie in 2010. one for "Best Television Program: Food," another for "Best Online Extras" for Andrew's other web series, Bizarre Foods in the Kitchen.
Zimmern is a contributing editor and award-winning monthly columnist at Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine and a senior editor at Delta Sky Magazine. As a freelance journalist, his work has appeared in numerous national and international publications including Food and Wine and Saveur. Andrew is the author of The Bizarre Truth, published by Broadway Books/Random House and has several books slated for release in the coming year.
George Siemon; C-E-I-E-I-O Organic Valley
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Squeezettes
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
"We started playing together in 2006 with a dream, a pint of beer, and some potlucks.
Then POWER Polka Happened." Milwaukee's only female accordion group features Sarah (aka Ms. Bubbles Galore), Linda (aka Ms. Tiny Bubbles), and Pamela (aka Ms. Big Surprise) on the squeezebox. Sarah is the lead vocal while the gals do some swinging background — Meoooooowww, Meoooooowww" etc. Tuba player Mike C. is a brewmaster at heart but he knows how to belch out a note or two hundred when the gals say "pretty please." Mike E. is the group's drummer/percussionist extraordinaire and sometimes lead vocalist. The band is often joined by local legend Tom Schwark who adds his crooning "30s radio voice" and mandolin to the mix. Expect a mix of power polka, pop, and rock from this high energy group.
http://squeezettes.com/fr_home.cfm
Bad Axe Blues Band
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
The Driftless Region's very own powerhouse electric blues band plays a wide variety of styles with a focus on horn driven "Chicago-style" blues, but will also mix in a little delta blues, country blues, funk, and R&B. This is not a band for sitting...plan to get up and shake it to all the blues you can use.
The Bad Axe Blues Band is led by Ted Parrish on guitar and vocals. A well-know and respected musician in Chicago's burgeoning roots music scene, Ted relocated to Viroqua in 2007. He and his wife own Parrish Music.
Joe Pedretti on bass, John Danforth on drums, and Steve Hall on keys form the backbone of the band. This rhythm section has been playing together for 11 years in a variety of area bands.
The horn section is made up of Jeff Miller on sax and Micah Robinson on trombone. Jeff is one of the hardest working musicians in the local scene. Micah is the pro in the band, playing regularly with reggae pioneer Burning Spear and with several local projects.
Kentucky Head Hunters
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
In 1968, Richard and Fred Young and their cousins, Anthony Kenney and Greg Martin, loaded a pickup-truck with amps, drums, and guitars and set out to conquer the world by creating their own brand of rock and roll. 
All these years and changes in the band's composition, not to mention many, many recordings later, they are a band of many styles—rock, blues, country, jazz, bluegrass, rockabilly, and other roots music.
To date The Kentucky Headhunters have released seven studio albums, two compilations, and twenty singles. In addition the group has won three Country Music Association awards including Album of the Year and Vocal Group of the Year, an Academy of Country Music award for Best New Vocal Group, and a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
