Mud Lake City gearing for 10th-annual ‘music fest’

The 10th-annual “Mud Lake City Music Fest” is saddling up to be a good time for all.
The “Biggest Little City in the Rainy River Valley,” located at #1839 on Boxalder Road West just south of Devlin and which is open regularly as an open-air museum of antiques and collectibles, is looking forward to hosting the annual festival this coming Sunday (Aug. 24).

For those who don’t know what this is all about, the music fest is an open mic, plug-and-play, open-air concert for all local and semi-local talent to come together to entertain.
Admission is free, and everyone is welcome to attend.
There will be parking space available, with a shuttle to the “City,” which is owned and operated by Wayne and Betty Salchert.
The music will be ready to go starting at 11 a.m., and lunch will be sold on-site. The menu includes the Salcherts’ famous Bologna Burger.
The bill is pretty much full at this point, and visitors can look forward to hearing the musical stylings of those who have performed at “Mud Lake City” since the beginning as well as some newcomers.
Laurence Bellamy, Rod Newman, Frank Stoyka with his bedpan banjo, and David Badiuk are among the performers, as well as some Celtic music from Cape Breton and a bluegrass band from Vermilion Bay.
And, of course, there will be an appearance by the “The Mud Lake City Boys.”
So everyone should grab their lawn chair and head on down to the music fest that’s sure to be a rollicking, toe-tapping good time.
And don’t worry, the weather seems to be shaping up for a warm—but not too warm—afternoon. “We’ve ordered good weather and it looks like [Mother Nature is] co-operating,” Betty Salchert laughed.