On Sunday, August 2 you can enjoy the sounds of live jazz along the lakefront at Visions on the Lake at Henry Maier Festival Park! This FREE event is created in partnership between Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. and Milwaukee Jazz Vision, and sponsored by the Summerfest Foundation, Inc.
the doldrums. 1  a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator between the northern and southern trade winds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 2  the weather prevailing in this area.
More. To most people the doldrums refers to a state or period of stagnation or depression, but to sailors it is an equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean with calms, sudden storms, and light unpredictable winds.For sailing ships, being becalmed in the doldrums was a serious occupational hazard. On the equator there is little wind, mariners called this region the doldrums (after an old English word meaning dull) because they feared being stranded there. 2  The trade winds from both hemispheres converge towards the doldrums and a zone of low pressure, the equatorial trough, that girdles the earth.