Music

Can You Hear It? It Sounds Like Summer

we're ready for more sunny, summery local tunes in Phoenix Park

V1 Staff, photos by Andrea Paulseth |

Wow, 11 years is a long time. 11 summers ago, the Sounds Like Summer Concert Series was born in the heart of Phoenix Park.  What started as a fun way to celebrate our beautiful park and hard-working local musicians has blossomed into a full-scale community mainstay. After 11 years, you’d think it would get a little tiring throwing this thing every week, year after year, but as soon as temps start to heat up and the sun starts shining, we can’t help but feel that spark of excitement for these upcoming Thursday nights.

This year is gonna be a great one. We’ve got loads of amazing (and local!) musical acts lined up including perennial favorites like the Sue Orfield Band, Michael Perry & The Longbeds, Irie Sol, JE Sunde, We Are The Willows, and exciting newcomers like Idle Empress, Waldemar, Sniffle Party, Jerrika Mighelle, D. Janakey. Full schedule here.

This is seriously some of the most fun we have all year, and we’re really lucky so many of you are down to join us week after week.

We want to quickly thank everyone who has come out to the concert series time and time again over the last 11 years and made it one of the coolest things about being in Eau Claire every summer. So thanks! We’ll see you out there.