Great Indoor Folk Festival ~ Feb 12, 2012
The 4th Annual Great Indoor Folk Festival takes place this Sunday, February 12 in Building 50 at the Grand Traverse Commons. The festival runs from noon to 5:30, and it is family-friendly and free, though you're encouraged to donate through "busker buckets."
There will be 6 different stages with over 50 musicians on seven different stages.
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Our feature today is an interview from Michigan Magazine TV with the authors of Vintage Views of Leelanau County, one of the neatest books on Leelanau history out there. See information about the book and ordering it below the video!
Authors M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson share images from their collection of 1,400 postcards collected over the past 15 years. Vacation sentiments accompany the cards, imparting an original voice to each respective era, from the 1890s to 1960s. It's a historic travel guide from a traveler's perspective. Visit Glen Arbor, Glen Lake, Leland, Northport, exclusive Northport Point, Omena, Suttons Bay and the Manitou Islands. Each page offers a masterful blend of vintage scenes and contemporaneous comments from newspaper articles, ads, and travel brochures. Includes never-before-seen photographs of the Sleeping Bear Dunes, pictures of what was to be the permanent summer residence for the President of the United States, and golf courses that have since disappeared. A marvelous mix of vintage fun and facts of a time you'll cherish.
This Friday October 28 at 7 PM at Higher Grounds coffee bar in Traverse City Seth Bernard & May Erlewine present "New Flower" in a very special Album Release Concert with Michael Shimmin, Brennan Andes, Joshua Davis and very special guest, Temesgen - an Ehiopian born, East Lansing based musican and teacher who plays traditional Ethiopian instruments, kirar and begena. Doors open at 7PM and Music starts at 8PM. Tickets are $20 in advance at Oryana and Higher Grounds Trading Co. ($25 at the door) with 5 and under free and $5 for 5-12 year olds.
Last January Seth and May took an incredible journey to Ethiopia with On the Ground and the Run Across Ethiopia. As the runners ran, they played in the schools, learned songs and dance moves from the children, learned Ethiopian scales and melodies from incredible ethio-jazz musicians, shared their music along the journey, sang for the runners, played for the people, and wrote an entire album inspired by the experience. They have been working on this album since they returned home to Michigan and they are finally ready to release it!
Get more details on Facebook and learn more about On the Ground and the Run Across Ethiopia at onthegroundglobal.org. Here's a cool video of Seth & May from Ethiopia last winter!
Here's something that I stumbled upon on my way to find something else. This fascinating video produced for the Fishtown Preservation Society takes you on a 3D through, around and uder the shanties in Fishtown and is pretty darned cool! It was produced by Midwestern Consulting using a high-definition laser scanner and you can read all about the process in Scanning a Fishy Business.
Great stuff there including our own Morel Madness article and this great time lapse of a morel getting tasty from Ken Scott. Notice the growth spurts in the middle? Ken wondered what happens if you water a morel!
Interlochen has announced their 2011 Summer Arts Festival Calendar. Some highlights include A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (June 18), Elvis Costello and The Imposters (June 21), Detroit's own Temptations (June 25), folk standout Lucinda Williams and Amos Lee (July 13), one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Leo Kottke (July 16), The Beach Boys (July 26), The Decemberists (July 27) and Steely Dan (August 15) and alternative rockers Guster (September 2). There's also the Interlochen Shakespeare Festival June 30 - July 10.
Get tickets & show information from Interlochen. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 22 at 9 AMT. You can order online, by phone (231.276.7800 or 800.681.5920)Â Â or in-person at the Interlochen Box Office.
The third video we'd like to share comes via the Glen Arbor Sun and it's packed with springtime fun!
Forest Rebecca Olson enjoyed an early spring day the right way in northern Michigan — by tapping a maple tree and enjoying the sap from which we make maple syrup. In succession, the flowers bloomed, the snow began to melt, the chickens came out to play, and her daughter Roen greeted the farm animals.
Sometimes you just want to fly high above what March calls "weather" ... here's another video from Michael Drinian of a quick flight over Leland from Sugar Loaf.
Dwaun Anderson pulled one of the biggest upsets of the high school basketball season when the Suttons Bay guard was named today as the 31st winner of the Hal Schram Mr. Basketball award.
Anderson became the first player from a school north of Saginaw to win the award. The 6-foot-3, 195-pound guard, who led his team to last year's Class C state championship game, has signed to play at Michigan State.
“To be honest, I wasn’t even expecting to get it,’’ Anderson told the Detroit Free Press, which administers the award in conjunction with BCAM. “I just figured that no one from downstate really knows me, so I figured someone from down there would get it.”
You can also read more in the Freep. Anderson averaged 20 points, 10 rebounds and 4.8 assists his senior season and is the third consecutive Mr. Basketball to sign with Michigan State, joining 2010 recipient Keith Appling and 2009 winner Derrick Nix.
The Birmingham Patch reports that in this weekend's Uptown Film Festival held Saturday night in partnership with the Detroit Independent Film Festival the short film Sleeping Bear picked up three Michigan Film awards including Best Experimental Film, Best Editing for director Jack Cronin and Best Michigan Short Film.
Filmmaker Jack Cronin's website says that Sleeping Bear was filmed at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore over the course of three years. It loosely follows the cycle of seasons, and is a study of the landscape and an attempt to represent the unique character of the region. You can view the entire film below - enjoy!
Great Indoor Folk Festival ~ Feb 12, 2012
Click to order Vintage Views of Leelanau County from Huron Press (or one of Leelanau's great bookstores).
