Going Backstage at Summerfest Day 2.
July 2, 2011Music Notes

Going Backstage at Summerfest Day 2.

Throughout the course of the 11 wondrous days of Summerfest, Inside Milwaukee is teaming up with the video geniuses over at Mindpool Live to go backstage with some pretty nifty acts playing the festival. On day two, we caught up with Better Than Ezra and Blackberry Smoke. I had the pleasure of chatting with the men of Better than Ezra, who were pleasantly down to earth, articulate and damn funny. Other Mindpool staffers sat down with Blackberry Smoke, while I ducked away to Kanye. They also seem like great guys with pretty rad facial hair. Enjoy. For more videos, check…

BY Cristina Daglas

Throughout the course of the 11 wondrous days of Summerfest,
Inside Milwaukee is teaming up with the video geniuses over at Mindpool Live to go backstage with some pretty nifty acts playing the festival. On day two, we caught up with Better Than Ezra and Blackberry Smoke.

I had the pleasure of chatting with the men of Better than Ezra, who were pleasantly down to earth, articulate and damn funny.

Other Mindpool staffers sat down with Blackberry Smoke, while I ducked away to Kanye. They also seem like great guys with pretty rad facial hair. Enjoy.

For more videos, check out Summerfest Live 365.

Cristina Daglas
Cristina Daglas is a former editor of Milwaukee Magazine. A Chicago-area native, Daglas has toiled in journalism in various locales - Chicago, Madison, Missouri, Washington, D.C., New York City. In 2009, she joined Milwaukee Magazine's staff as an assistant editor, taking on the role of managing editor in 2011 and editor in February 2012. Prior to Milwaukee, Daglas logged time at The Capital Times, Isthmus and Washingtonian magazine in Washington, D.C. She also edited Vox in Columbia, Mo., and was a contributing editor for The Business Times Company. Daglas holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri, where she was awarded the Thurgood Marshall Fellowship.

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