Tuesday Blogdome: Baseball, music fans to flock to Madison for super-concert

Apr 19, 2011, 4:49 PM EDT

The Madison Mallards (summer collegiate; Northwoods League) scored a nice coup by bringing in The Baseball Project, a musical supergroup featuring R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, for a June 10 match where the band will play live music throughout the ballgame, as the team brings a slew of live music to the renovated Duck Pond.

The Baseball Project focuses on original songs about America’s pastime, topics include Satchel Paige, Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson and more. Gates will open an hour earlier than normally scheduled, at 4:30 p.m., for a special pregame concert, which will run from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The band will also perform during the game between innings from a stage located behind home plate in the new Duck Pond seating bowl. [Ballpark Digest]

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