The Ground Floor Stage

04/17/2026

BOOM! We’ve got a heck of a lineup this year and can’t wait to see you all! Be sure to come by and say hi when you’re at Summerfest this year!

04/03/2026

Just a friendly reminder that today is the last day for submissions! Any submissions received after 11:59pm tonight will be disregarded! To reiterate, we are only accepting submissions for solos, duos, and trios. All submissions must include act name, size, what instruments are being played, and at least one link to your material. After tonight, we will begin going through all of our submissions. All submissions that contain the necessary information will be considered, and those that don’t will be disregarded. If you have already submitted please be patient, you will receive a response within a few days. Thank you! For instructions on submitting, please refer to our previous post.

03/30/2026

Greetings, everyone! Submissions are now OPEN! The email address will be provided at the end of this post! All submissions MUST include your act name, how many people are in it, what instruments they play, and of course a link or links to your online materials (preferably live performance footage). Any submissions that don’t contain all of this information will be disregarded. All submissions that do contain this information will be considered. The deadline to submit is Friday, April 3rd at 11:59pm. Due to some logistical changes in our operation, we will only be accepting submissions from solos, duos, and trios. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Please send submissions to:

[email protected]

03/26/2026

Hello, friends and followers! Thank you for bearing with us! We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to get things going for this year’s run! There have been some big changes in our logistics so we appreciate your patience as we’ve been putting everything into place. That being said, we are excited to announce that our preliminary schedule is almost complete and we will be opening public submissions very soon! Please keep an eye out for official submission info and prepare your materials! Thank you so much!

02/23/2026

Greetings, fans and followers! We hope you all have been doing great and are excited about this year’s upcoming Summerfest! Their official lineup has been released and it’s looking like it’s going to be an amazing year! We are so excited to announce that we will be returning again for our 11th year of operation! That being said, there will be some slight changes to our operation this year. For logistical reasons we will be sticking to our roots this time around and will primarily be booking soloists and duos, with an exception for a few full bands that have played our stage in the past. We look forward to hosting some of our favorite talent and as always, we will be opening submissions at a later date to bring in some new-to-us acts! Please follow our page for updates on the submission process! If we have already had a previous conversation about booking, please standby as we sort out some details! We are so excited to see you all and will keep you posted about further updates! Thank you!

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07/20/2025

Now that we’ve had some time to let the dust settle (and some time to let our ears stop ringing…), we’d like to sincerely thank all of our musical acts, our festival friends, all our fellow side stages, and everyone that was either involved with or entertained by us this Summerfest! It was an absolute honor to celebrate 10 years of The Ground Floor Stage. Also, an extra shoutout to our staff for all their hard work, and to our house photographer, Andii, for all the excellent shots of the action! Cheers, friends. See you next year 🙂

06/28/2025

Today's Schedule!

noon - The Pontooners
1:15pm - The Roy Rogers Disco
2:30pm - Tarrah Kathleen
3:45pm - Aaron Williams
5:00pm - Matt Waters
6:15pm -
7:30pm - Brendan Demet

06/27/2025

Today's Schedule

noon - Brett Gaertner
1:15pm - Noah James Hittner
2:30pm - Jake Williams Music Page
3:45pm - Tim O'Grady Jr Music
5:00pm - Steve's "Overpopulated" One-Man Band
6:15pm - Oh Geeez, Not Again
7:30pm - TBA

06/26/2025

Today's Schedule
noon - Adam Howarth
1:15pm - Eugene Gruber Live
2:30pm - Audio is Rehab
3:45pm - SQUID INC
5:00pm - Van Jaeger
6:15pm - Mathew Haeffel
7:30pm - Secret Menu

06/20/2025

This is how you can find all the Independent Stages at Summerfest!

06/20/2025

Today's schedule!

Today's schedule!

12:00... Derek Remnarace
1:15... Patrick Van Bibber
2:30... Nate Herlache
3:45... OUTDrejas
5:00... Mike Suvaka
6:15... The Panoptics
7:30... Undercover Organism