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[email protected] Free Entertainment Returns to the Marcus Center’s Peck Pavilion on June 26-September 5 Shakespeare in the Park, Milwaukee Ballet’s Ballet Beat, True Skool and Milwaukee Fringe Festival continue this summer! MILWAUKEE, WI (Wednesday, June 12, 2019) - Live @ Peck Pavilion returns to the Marcus Performing Arts Center grounds this summer. The season will run from June 26 through September 5 with each day of the series featuring a different program focus. Optimist Theatre: Shakespeare in the Park returns to Peck Pavilion from June 26-July 13 with their presentation of The Comedy of Errors. Community Partners, Milwaukee Ballet’s Ballet Beat, True Skool Block Party and Milwaukee Fringe Festival, also return this summer. All events in Peck Pavilion are free and open to the public. Live @ Peck Pavilion will feature the following: TRIBUTE BAND THURSDAYS | 7 PM July 25 – Mixtape MKE Mixtape: A Tribute to the 80’s is a high energy dance band playing your favorite UK and Euro-Pop, New Wave, and classic American hit songs from the height of the MTV era. Righteously fun, energetic, and tubular to the max, this band features experienced Milwaukee musicians who lived it, loved it, and look forward to bringing back the memories and creating new ones. Mixtape will take you back to the 80’s and on to the dance floor – like, for sure! August 1 – Milwaukee Smooth Jazz Tribute Led by pianist/band leader JL Russell, this evening will be a very special night of smooth jazz.