Midwest mix fest 2023

Midwest Mix Fest 2023

July 29th & 30th, 2023

Saturday 3p - 10p

Sunday 2p - 10p

Music, Art & Food Festival

Midwest DJ Productions presents: Midwest Mix Fest 2023

The Kemper Center (Faulkner Building outdoor grounds)

6501 3rd Ave Kenosha, WI 53140

Tickets: $10 per day

Kids under 18 free

*Door proceeds to benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, a pediatric cancer research foundation. 

Hosted by Koerri Elijah

Featuring: 

20+ DJ's Live Mixing

Food & Art Vendors

House of RAD Mobile Art Stage

Turkey Leg Eating Competition Sat @6pm

Taco Eating Competition Sun @6pm

Brain Freeze Challenge Sat @5pm

Coloring Contest Sun @5pm

**Saturday DJ Line-up:

DJ Razor 3p 

DJ Pro Lion 3:30p 

Loboz 4p 

DJ Angel Tearitup 4:30p 

Xcavata 5:15p 

DJ Solo 6p 

Angel Eyes 6:45p  

DJ Diego Lobo 7:30p 

Patrick Wayne b2b DJ ThreeJay/ Dubbstar 8:15p  

Tim 'Spinnin' Schommer 9p 

**Sunday DJ Line-up:

Alex 2p

L.O. Kitty 2:30p   

Phantomize 3p

DJ Big Ron 3:30p  

Carbonella 4p       

Otto 4:30p  

J Morgan 5:15p  

DJ Rick Jules 6p        

Gorgonzilla 6:45p  

Quick Mix Mike 7:30p  

Corey Love 8:15p   

DJ Slugo 9pm 

**Food Vendors:

It’s Life BBQ

Pop Smoke BBQ

Don Arepas Cafe 

AJ's Ice Cream Truck

Taste Buds Chicken & BBQ (Saturday only)

Rock it Tacos (Sunday only)

Cornstars (Sunday only)

Bar & Refreshments Provided by The Kemper Center

**Art & Entertainment Vendors:

Anna's Art

Crystal Conundrum

L.Marie's Creations & More 

Flip This Flip That Resale & Collectables 

The Little Big Top Fun Company

Mobile Entertainment & Photo Booth Expo

Midwest DJs Live

Andromeda Records & Gifts ft Midwest Mix Fest 2023 t-shirts by Bright Sol Creations

Eye Make Canvases

Tarot by Toria

Cole Stout Jewelry

Jays Relics

Moor Jewelz

I Design Pg

The Hub Collective

Chalita's Creations

Tiendita Mexa

Elements of the Sol

Shadow Dragon Chainmaille (Saturday only)

Artesanía Minga (Sunday only)

HOW IT ALL BEGAN...

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation all started with one front yard lemonade stand. When she was just four years old, Alex Scott held her first childhood cancer fundraiser in her front yard and raised over $2,000. By the time of her death in 2004, Alex raised $1 million and inspired a legacy of hope and cures for childhood cancer. When the Salinas-Villalobos family discovered the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation in 2010, they fell in love with Alex and her important lemonade stand mission.  

Midwest DJ Production is a DJ entertainment company owned and operated by dynamic husband and wife duo, Diego and Dianna Villalobos. MDJP specializes in weddings, corporate, special events and music festival production. Kenosha, WI located in the middle of the Chicago-Milwaukee corridor is where they call home but you can find them performing shows across the Midwest and beyond. Voted "Best DJ of Kenosha County" 5 years running, they boast 5 years as full time business owners and over 30 years of freelancing experience. 

With donations from businesses such as Twin Disc, Cricket Wireless, Tenuta's Liquor and Oliver's Bakery, the Salinas-Villalobos family has been able to hold Alex's Lemonade Stands annually for 14 years, continuing their fundraising efforts longer than they ever imagined. Dianna's sister Christina, (Better known as Cookie) the lemonade stand founder, reports an amazing fundraising total of $$6,396!  

Over the years, Kenosha, WI has been the hometown of a number of famous names such as actor, writer, director and producer Orson Wells, actor Mark Ruffalo and actor Don Ameche. In the summer of 2020, nationwide attention was placed on Kenosha, WI amid protests over police shooting of unarmed black man, Jacob Blake. As a result, Kenosha was partially burned down and two people were killed in an attack carried out by white vigilante gunman. In the months following, the Kenosha community felt more divided than ever. Although the City of Kenosha has worked hard to repair all of the physical damage done, we thought to ourselves, how do we begin to repair the racial division in our community? 

As Midwest DJ Productions grew, the family felt it was important to use their platform to unify the Kenosha community. Kenosha needed a diverse event that would bring a "mix" of people together regardless of race, creed, gender, sexual preference and/or political views. This led to the creation of Midwest Mix Fest in 2021.

With a goal to maximize fundraising efforts, Midwest DJ Productions partnered with Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation in 2022. In just 2 days time, Midwest DJ Productions'- Midwest Mix Fest managed to raise a whopping total of $1240 for the childhood cancer research foundation! 

Which is why this summer, Midwest DJ Productions and Alex's Lemonade Stand are teaming up once again to bring you the 3rd annual Midwest Mix Fest 2023! Featuring a diverse lineup of over 20 live DJs, 20+ food vendors, live graffiti artists, a dance contest, a kids’ corner activity area and much more family-friendly fun. Also featuring a charity turkey leg and taco eating competition featuring local activists, police personnel, city officials and local social media influencers.

Music adds vibrancy to communities, engages the brain and strengthens your mental and physical health. There is a need to continue to spread a message of unity and togetherness in the Kenosha community. When we all work together with a common goal in mind, it makes all of our differences fall by the wayside. Raising funds to help find a cure for childhood cancer all while enjoying great music on beautiful Lake Michigan is something we can all agree on!

Be a part of this awesome event by sponsoring, performing or volunteering on July 29th and/ or 30th, 2023. Midwest Mix Fest unites a wonderful community of music lovers, DJs, artists and foodies for a 2-day, outdoor, high-energy DJ music festival unlike anything you've ever experienced before!

“When life hands you lemons, make lemonade!”

-Alex Scott

Meet Alex Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM9GbaSsUaE

Follow our ALSF event page here: https://www.alexslemonade.org/mypage/2895108