Community mourns local musician Ernie Kara
| 29 Dec 2020 | 09:44
Ernie Kara at a 2018 Music in the Park concert with his sidekick (Music in the Park Facebook photo)
These are just a few of the many tributes paid to Music in the Park favorite Ernie Kara, who died on Sunday, Dec. 20:
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Music in the Park: Ernest Kara passed away this week. Ernie was an integral member of Music in the Park and Milford’s music community for many years. He performed and volunteered his technical expertise and musical talent in so many ways it’s difficult to think of any music event in Milford that Ernie wasn’t part of at some point in time. The photo is Ernie at a 2018 Music in the Park concert with his sidekick. Ernie brought him to Ann Street Park to meet everyone. He’d often stop by the park the day of a concert to remind folks to come see him perform afterwards at Milford’s Dairy Bar. Ernie performed solo and was always refining his gear to make it ultra-efficient to transport, unpack, set-up, perform, and re-pack. If you ever had a chance to have Ernie show you the portable rig created to do this, you were thoroughly impressed. Ernie loved to entertain and he loved to listen to other musicians perform. He was an icon of the Milford music scene and his physical absence will be painfully obvious when folks begin to gather again to hear live music.