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Levitt AMP Music Festival Returns to Galva

Wiley Park in Galva, Ill., site of the Levitt AMP Music Festival each summer
Levitt AMP Music Festival
Wiley Park in Galva, Ill., site of the Levitt AMP Music Festival each summer

Thanks to strong community support, the Levitt AMP Music Festival will be held in Galva again this summer. It opens on Sunday night and will continue through early August.

Dawson Hollow - one of two bands performing on May 29
Levitt AMP Music Festival
Dawson Hollow - one of two bands performing on May 29

Music series President John Taylor says each year the Levitt Foundation awards grants to small communities across the country, to help them put on free, family friendly concerts. And winning the highly competitive grants requires local residents to vote each year to show their support.

"Without the community support, without the voting, just the volunteers and the donations that we get, that make all of this possible. That's really I think what makes it possible, it also makes the Levitt Foundation want to bring the series to Galva."

Taylor says the foundation encourages local organizers to choose a variety of performers and styles of music.

also performing on opening night the Josh Gilbert Band
Levitt AMP Music Festival
also performing on opening night the Josh Gilbert Band

"It's something exciting, it's something fun, and because it's free and in a really beautiful park, it's something almost anyone can enjoy."

The Levitt AMP Festival was first held in Galva in 2018, and except for 2020, has been held each year since - on Sunday nights in Wiley Park. This year's series will be held on each Sunday night through August 7th, except for July 3rd.

He says attendance averages 600 to 700 each week.

For more information go to https://galvamusic.com

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois. While a graduate student in the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield (then known as Sangamon State University), he got his first taste of public radio, covering Illinois state government for WUIS. Here in the Quad Cities, Herb worked for WHBF Radio before coming to WVIK in 1987. Herb also produces the weekly public affairs feature Midwest Week – covering the news behind the news by interviewing reporters about the stories they cover.