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winnetkacurrent.com life & Arts<br />
the winnetka current | June 21, 2018 | 33<br />
Second annual Winnetka<br />
Music Festival wows thousands<br />
Hilary Anderson<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Walker Country, the Nashville country sister duo of<br />
Sophie Dawn (left) and Ivy Dean, on Saturday.<br />
Sixteen-year-old Glenbrook North High School student<br />
Carly Meyer gave an operatic performance at the<br />
Winnetka Community House. She was recently named<br />
best actress by Broadway in Chicago at an Illinois<br />
musical theater awards competition.<br />
Despite an intense heatwave,<br />
more than 16,000<br />
people flooded the streets<br />
of downtown Winnetka as<br />
music filled the air at the<br />
Winnetka Music Festival<br />
Friday-Saturday, June 15-<br />
16.<br />
The free, boutique festival<br />
featured 40 of the<br />
nation’s top emerging musicians,<br />
representing 28<br />
touring bands which performed<br />
on five stages.<br />
Winnetka’s Val Haller,<br />
popularly known for her<br />
Valslist music program,<br />
organized the festival,<br />
collaborating with the<br />
Village of Winnetka,<br />
the Winnetka-Northfield<br />
Chamber of Commerce<br />
and the Winnetka Park<br />
District.<br />
From sets from local<br />
musicians to bands which<br />
have performed at national<br />
festivals from coast to<br />
coast, the Winnetka Music<br />
Festival had it all —<br />
an eclectic blend of rock,<br />
pop, country, electronic<br />
dance and throwback<br />
sounds.<br />
A Thousand Horses,<br />
which has opened for Jason<br />
Aldean and Kid Rock,<br />
performed their contemporary<br />
country mix on<br />
Friday night. And, this<br />
year’s big Saturday performance<br />
was ZZ Ward,<br />
a “fedora-rocking, guitar<br />
shredding” woman who<br />
has shared the stage with<br />
performers from Kendrick<br />
Lamar to Eric Clapton,<br />
been featured on “The Tonight<br />
Show” and “Jimmy<br />
Kimmel Live” and performed<br />
at Coachella and<br />
Bonnaroo.<br />
Performer James Lanman,<br />
from the San Francisco<br />
Bay area, performed<br />
his “neo soul” sounds for<br />
a Saturday evening set.<br />
He said his style is rooted<br />
in Motown.<br />
“I write my own songs;<br />
70 percent are original<br />
and the others are a redo<br />
like a classic,” said Lanman,<br />
who sings and plays<br />
the acoustic guitar.<br />
Lanman is so serious<br />
about his music, he sold<br />
everything he owned and<br />
put the money into buying<br />
a van so he could tour the<br />
U.S. and Canada.<br />
“Val Haller saw me perform<br />
in Michigan and told<br />
me about this festival,” he<br />
said. “She is the patron<br />
saint of emerging musicians.”<br />
Additionally, some<br />
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