Autumn Acoustics Music Festival
Saturday, October 4 2025 12 pm – 6 pm

Maximiano’s debut album The Real Truth explores the way that experience flows through periods of growth and change. The songs shimmer, echo, and glide through tales of memory and identity that Piet Levy of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel called “one of the most piercing and emotionally resonant collections of songs from a Milwaukee artist of the year… a towering achievement.” With this ringing endorsement, Journal Sentinel ranked the record as one of the Best Milwaukee Albums of 2024. Maximiano’s eclectic sound, with influences from Americana to folk to indie rock, kicks off the festival at the Main Yard Stage.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Terry King is no stranger to Riveredge, and his sound feels right at home among the trees. Accompanying his warm, inviting vocals on guitar, harmonica, and footdrum, Terry is a classic American busker with an impressive catalogue of songbook covers as well as original material. Performing since the early 1980’s, Terry brings his richness of long experience and a natural entertainer’s talent to open the Sugarbush stage.

Milwaukee-based Valley Fox is a northern folk power trio delivering bold, haunting harmonies mixed with gritty string music. Valley Fox combines the sound of mandolin, upright bass, guitar, and vocals.  Their debut album Bear Dance is fresh out of the studio, released this past April, a collection that Milwaukee Record calls “as timeless as it is pretty.” Come vibe to a sound blending folk, bluegrass, and country with Valley Fox at the Main Yard Stage!

A highway-kind traveler combining a touch of the high and lonesome hollers of the Appalachian hill people with the low-down, dusty grooves of the cosmic cowboys, Dandy Freling offers a unique songwriter banquet sure to satisfy the hunger of any weary passerby. Some of her biggest influences are Bob Dylan, Mickey Newbury, and Gordon Lightfoot. Dandy has been performing actively in Wisconsin since moving from Colorado. Be one of the first to hear her new songs at the Sugarbush House stage!

Called a “blues dynamo” by Blues Blast Magazine, The Stephen Hull Experience “brings the blues to the people.” Frontman Stephen Hull has garnered national acclaim and is the winner of the Jus’ Blues Music “King Of The Blues” Award. Stephen completed a massively successful world tour in 2024, performing for over 50,000 people all over the globe. We’ve been lucky and honored to have him play at Autumn Acoustics in the past and are overjoyed to welcome him back. Head to the Main Yard to watch The Stephen Hull Experience set the stage ablaze with the blues.

Milwaukee-based poet and musician Nzinga’s set closes the Sugarbush House with music that is cozy and warm among the falling leaves. Her voice is agile and gorgeous, accompanied by sensitive and skillful acoustic guitar. Don’t miss Nzinga: discover a sound perfectly suited to fall at sunset.

Mortgage Freeman might have the most amazing self-described band bio of all time. Here it is, word for word: “a four cheese blend of heavy-hitting western rock, worldly and interstellar influence, Asiago, and that of an art punk-faux funk ilk.”

What does that mean?

Some may say it’s progressive or psychedelic, others might focus more on the cheese, but there’s only one way to find out. Expand your horizons and experience Mortgage Freeman’s mind-blowing rock as they close the festival on a high note.

As for most of our large events, ample parking will be available at Firemen’s Park in Newburg. A shuttle will then take you to the festival fun and back throughout the day!

There will be limited parking available in the Visitor Center lots for VIPs, those with accessibility needs, and those with young children. Parking attendants will be able to direct you to a space if you need to park at the Visitor Center.

If you’re interested in reserving one of the Access Ability Wisconsin outdoor wheelchairs that we host on site for the event, please click here.

A chair or blanket in case provided seating is full.

Cash for some of the food trucks who may not be able to take a card.

Outdoor clothing suitable for the (fingers crossed for beautiful!) weather.

Not at all! We encourage you to enjoy the short, beautiful woodland hike between our two stages. The start times for all acts are staggered so that you can catch a portion of every single set if you so choose!

All that information can be found by clicking here!

We’d love to get in touch! Please contact our Event Coordinator, Hannah Sedgwick, at hsedgwick@riveredge.us