BRODHEAD - Brodhead's Covered Bridge Days is back August 7-9.
This year, the event will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the national award-winning Clarence Covered Bridge replica, constructed by the Brodhead Jaycees.
The original bridge, which spanned the Sugar River on Wisconsin 11/81, collapsed in 1931, after a 30-ton trailer truck crashed through the floor.
Also this year, the event will feature four continuous hours of musical and an antique tractor drive through the county; horse shows also return this year.
Attendees enjoyed a jazz band, which played last year so much that the Brodhead Chamber of Commerce has put four bands back-to-back this year, for an entire afternoon of entertainment. Each band provides 45 minutes of a unique musical genre.
The Jazz Fest starts at noon Saturday with Ken Stein and the Dixieland Jazz, followed by Dan Voll playing blues and blues rock, Ron Rawhoof playing folk music, and Kickin' Brass rounds out the program with big band and horn-oriented dance music.
Chamber spokesperson, Nancy Southerland, said the bands are from around the area, including Rockford, Ill., and elsewhere in northern Illinois.
Owners of antique tractors can spend a couple hours driving on the back roads through the Brodhead country side.
Jim Huffmann, who organized the event, said the tractor tour last year pulled in over 30 participants. Tractor drivers can simply "show up and go," he said. Tractors will be in two groups, one at five to six miles per hours and the other at 10-12 miles per hour, at 4 p.m., after the thresheree on the south end of town. Spouses and children of drivers can come along for the ride in spectator wagons.
The horse shows were put on the schedule again this year, after event goers last year said they were missed, Southerland said.
Horse shows run 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, with horse games also on Sunday. Both shows are held on the south end of town.
The weekend-long event ends with a Twilight In The Park Concert by the Stateline Playboys starting at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, in Veteran's Park.
This year, the event will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the national award-winning Clarence Covered Bridge replica, constructed by the Brodhead Jaycees.
The original bridge, which spanned the Sugar River on Wisconsin 11/81, collapsed in 1931, after a 30-ton trailer truck crashed through the floor.
Also this year, the event will feature four continuous hours of musical and an antique tractor drive through the county; horse shows also return this year.
Attendees enjoyed a jazz band, which played last year so much that the Brodhead Chamber of Commerce has put four bands back-to-back this year, for an entire afternoon of entertainment. Each band provides 45 minutes of a unique musical genre.
The Jazz Fest starts at noon Saturday with Ken Stein and the Dixieland Jazz, followed by Dan Voll playing blues and blues rock, Ron Rawhoof playing folk music, and Kickin' Brass rounds out the program with big band and horn-oriented dance music.
Chamber spokesperson, Nancy Southerland, said the bands are from around the area, including Rockford, Ill., and elsewhere in northern Illinois.
Owners of antique tractors can spend a couple hours driving on the back roads through the Brodhead country side.
Jim Huffmann, who organized the event, said the tractor tour last year pulled in over 30 participants. Tractor drivers can simply "show up and go," he said. Tractors will be in two groups, one at five to six miles per hours and the other at 10-12 miles per hour, at 4 p.m., after the thresheree on the south end of town. Spouses and children of drivers can come along for the ride in spectator wagons.
The horse shows were put on the schedule again this year, after event goers last year said they were missed, Southerland said.
Horse shows run 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, with horse games also on Sunday. Both shows are held on the south end of town.
The weekend-long event ends with a Twilight In The Park Concert by the Stateline Playboys starting at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, in Veteran's Park.
