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By Tanaisha Shaw – Channel 3000.com – MADISON, Wis. — 2024 marks 20 years of the Fall Gospel Fest in Dane County. Organizers host the event at different churches and venues across the county. “The thing that we wanted to do, we wanted to close that gap.” “In terms of having artists actually stop in Madison as opposed to going to the larger surrounding cities so people don’t have to travel to see those artists, and they can actually see those artists right here in Madison and Dane County.” said the director the festival, Clyde Gaines. Read more of this…
May 26, the Sunday before Memorial Day, will once again see the annual community-wide worship service that has been a Brat Fest tradition for the past decade. The service will again this year feature pastor Jon McNary of Heartland Church, Sun Prairie, and the Heartland worship band. Following the 9am service, the Faith Based Brat Fest stage will feature: 11:00am – Linelle Muse 11:50 am – Erin Oakley 12:55 – Project Brave 1:55 – Nicky Gracious 2:55 – RIP 3:55 – Trophy Husbands 4:55 – Kelly Roose 5:55 – Seventh Day Slumber 7:00 – Sidewalk Prophets Following the 9am service…
Madison’s Brat Fest started 40 years ago with a table, three chairs and a grill. So selling over 100,000 brats over a holiday weekend is impressive. So was what looked like the largest crowd ever at the annual Brat Fest community worship service. For the second year in a row, the 2023 worship service was hosted by Sun Prairie’s Heartland Church. A show of hands revealed about two-thirds of the crowd at the Main Stage Sunday morning were from Heartland. One count put attendees at 950. Looking out over the sun-soaked crowd, Heartland pastor Jon McNary said, “I think this…