MILWAUKEE STREET FESTIVAL

[ralphgar]

Seeking 2 street performers for 3 day festival in downtown Milwaukee, WI
May 30 - June 1, 2008
Over 100,000 attendees.
$250 Stipend paid plus motel furnished.

https://www.riversplash.com

please email questions - ralphgar@aol.com

[pablo]

Welcome to Dodge City

From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal:

"Unless there are radical changes made in the way RiverSplash operates, RiverSplash is as good as finished as far as I'm concerned," said Bauman, who spoke during a news conference at City Hall alongside Mayor Tom Barrett and Police Chief Edward Flynn.

The news conference was held to address problems that arose during the weekend festival, including a non-fatal shooting that occurred about 11:40 p.m. Saturday near N. Old World 3rd St. and W. Highland Ave., a few minutes after the festival closed for the night.

Multiple arguments broke out among crowds near the intersection, a number of gunshots were fired, and an 18-year-old man was shot in the foot, police said.

It was not clear whether the man had been involved in any of the arguments, and police were investigating whether the man had been shot by someone else or had accidentally shot himself.

A RiverSplash spokeswoman said too many people had too much to drink at the festival Saturday but said she hoped the event would not be canceled because of "an isolated incident."

"We will decide what we can do to make it safer and better for next year," Marsha Sehler said. "But it doesn't seem that the response to a single incident in 19 years of this event should be canceling it. It just seems to me that we would be giving it over to the punks, the young kids who came with a gun."

About 20 minutes after the shooting, people began throwing beer bottles at police near the 1000 block of N. Water St.
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Gee, that $250 "stipend" was so hard to resist. Glad I did.