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The Military Vehicle Preservation Association (MVPA), will be hosting their 49th Annual International Convention in Oshkosh at the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) grounds.  This military vehicle show, vintage warbird fly-in, vendor trade show, and educational seminars will be open to the public from September 12th to September 14th, 2024.

A wide assortment of vehicles will be on display from horse drawn wagons, bicycles, scooters, and motorcycles, to jeeps, trucks, and tracked armored vehicles.  These workhorse vehicles support local parades, veteran organization events, school programs, and public displays.  In addition to the vintage vehicles we are expecting some vintage warbirds, modern military vehicles, military displays, and local service organizations.

Parking is available at the EAA grounds for $10.00 and there is an entrance fee.  Veterans and families get a reduced rate.

For more information go to www.mvpa.org/convention  or email oshkosh24info@mmva.us

Experience Melissa Carper at Thrasher Opera House

Green Lake, Wis. (August 12, 2024) – Melissa Carper – will perform a 506 Session at Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake, Wisconsin, on Saturday, September 14, at 7:30 p.m. A Thrasher 506 Session features cocktail table style seating and seating for just 80 guests.

“I don’t think you can get this sound unless it’s borned in ya,” said bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley, when asked about what he called “old-time mountain music.” When Melissa Carper heard those words, something jumped inside her. While staying in the country with a friend, she found an old DVD of Down From the Mountain, the documentary and concert film of the “O, Brother Where Art Thou” soundtrack that featured this particular Stanley interview. She immediately jotted down “borned in ya” on a piece of paper. “I knew I had to write that song,” she recalls. In the Spring of 2023, Carper went back to East Nashville’s Bomb Shelter — the same “analog wonderland” where she’d recorded Ramblin’ Soul and its predecessor, Daddy’s Country Gold, and enlisted the help of her trusted co-producers — Dennis Crouch and Andrija Tokic. “Borned In Ya” would become the title track of the new album, out July 19th via Mae Music/Thirty Tigers. Like much of her writing, the song applies a homespun sensibility — and a bit of humor — to questions about life’s journeys. “I was turning over in my mind what it means to have something ‘borned in ya,’” she said. “The song evolved as I was writing it to be more about having your soul ‘borned it ya,’ and the more life experience you have, you hopefully grow to embody the highest version of yourself that you can be.” “Borned In Ya” could certainly stand as a reflection on Carper’s life in music. “Authentic” might be an overused word to describe an artist’s appeal, but there’s something so natural and true about Carper’s musicality that she must have been born with it: An easy sway to her singing, a precise, but laid-back sense of timing. A feel. And, lyrically, she has an instinctive sense for storytelling, both observant and intuitive.

Melissa Carper’s performance is sponsored by Horicon Bank, Heidel House, Goose Blind, and Sturgeon Spirits. This event is supported in part by a grant from the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tickets for Melissa Carper’s performance on September 14 at 7:30 p.m. are $35 and available at www.thrasheroperahouse.com or by calling 920.294.4279

Thrasher Opera House’s mission is to promote the arts and the power of live performance, provide a community gathering place, and preserve the historic Thrasher Opera House. Built in 1910, restored in 1997, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is a charming, intimate, and friendly venue with excellent acoustics, seating 200. For more information, please visit www.thrasheroperahouse.com or find us @thrasheroperahouse on Facebook and Instagram.