WAMMfest is a festival of wine, art, music and microbrews, and it’s happening on Saturday, August 21 at Craig Park in Greenwood.

Russ Dodge, media consultant for WAMMfest, and Nate Johnson, owner of Johnson’s BBQ Shack, joined us today to share what kind of food and fun you can expect at this year’s 12th annual festival.

For more information and for tickets visit, WAMMfest.com.

THIS SEGMENT IS SPONSORED BY WAMM.

Dog owners are coming together this weekend for the 10th Annual family-friendly Labapalooza event. It’s all in celebration of the many lives saved in animal rescue. Megan Montague, president of Love of Labs joined Patty Spitler of Pet Pals TV on Indy Style today to share more about the event and the great cause.

This is happening on Sunday, September 19 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Mallow Run Winery in Bargersville.

How You Can Help

We are in need of corporate sponsors, in honor of / memorial sponsors, and items for our silent auction.  In our efforts to raise funds for the organization, we would appreciate any donations you can give to help make our event a success. We are a 501(c)3 public non-profit charity and rely on donations to provide medical care (such as vaccinations, spay and neuter surgery, heartworm treatments, surgery, and medications) for the animals that we bring into our rescue program.

For more information visit, lolin.org.

You may know Joshua Kaufman, singer-songwriter, from NBC’s “The Voice,” or any of his many other appearances, and now you have the chance to see him live, and in-person at the Locally Made festival this weekend!

Today, Joshua performed “If I Ran the Zoo” from his album NDOXO Vol. 1 along with a single he released last year called “Lie to Me.”

Joshua is an American soul singer and singer-songwriter. A native of the Tampa Bay area in Florida, Kaufman is based out of and resides in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is best known for winning the sixth season of NBC’s The Voice as a member of Usher’s team and previously Adam Levine’s team.

Locally Made is a fantastic new art, music and culinary festival happening on May 15th and May 16th from noon to 6 p.m. It’s produced by and hosted at the Indianapolis Arts Center. This festival replaces the Broad Ripple art fair. Indy Jazz Fest was was asked to partner up on this festival to curate the music.

The new community event is presented by OneAmerica. It will showcase the talents of Indiana creators. Brought to you by the Indianapolis Art Center and Indy Jazz Fest, Locally Made features the creativity and talent in our circle city and surrounding areas in a celebration of art, music, local brews, and food!

Partnering with the Indy Jazz Fest, this festival will feature local musicians who live and breathe the Indy music scene! Guests will be able to enjoy some sweet sounds while taking in the work of a select number of talented Indiana-based artists throughout the Art Center grounds selling unique and one-of-a-kind art. While your there, don’t forget to keep an eye out for artful demonstrations in woodturning, wheelthrowing, weaving, raku, blacksmithing, painting, and more from Art Center Teaching Artists and Students.

With only a limited number of tickets available each day for safety and an exciting Backstage Pass area with musician meet and greets and more, this event will be a new experience for our creative community.

When you go to purchase your tickets, look for add-on merchandise options. We are offering a few select NEW items that you can pre-order and pick up at the event. There will be merchandise tents at the event as well, with t-shirts, koozies, and more, but these new items may sell out fast!

For more information on Locally Made visit, LocallyMadeIndy.com. For more from Joshua, visit his Instagram.