Declared "the World's Largest music festival" by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1999, Summerfest is an 11-day music festival that has taken place in Milwaukee for over40years.
Criolo also is an example of how the second annual Brasil Summerfest, which takes place in venues across the city through July 28, is skewing towards the emerging and the young.
On August 4, Louis Armstrong's birthday is celebrated with jazz and food (natch) at Satchmo SummerFest, while the Southern Decadence party on Labor Day weekend (preceding the first Monday in September), also known as "Gay Mardi Gras", keeps the entire city partying into the wee hours.