Creative Kids

We will for the first time in years of the festival have a young artist craft booth. Anyone 16 and under is eligible to participate. The space will be shared among the artists. Only handcrafted items will be accepted. There is no booth fee but admission to the festival will be required. Also those artist’s [...]

Western Herald Press

Article by: Analiese Grohalsk of Western Herald

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Big Sam’s Funky Nation

In New Orleans, a city indisputably overflowing with funk, the high honor for Best Funk Group of 2008 was awarded to Big Sam’s Funky Nation at the 2009 Big Easy Music Awards. For the past few years, Big Sam’s Funky Nation has been a driving force of urban funk. The band is led by trombone [...]

Greensky Bluegrass

GREENSKY BLUEGRASS is one of the most exciting bands in today’s music scene. Like a breath of fresh air, this five piece band plays traditional bluegrass instruments and uses them to create original songs and soundscapes that are unique and new, yet somehow feel comfortable and familiar. Though they have been likened to ‘70s era [...]

Jessica Lea Mayfield

Pop Matters
By: Caroline Shadood
Everything about singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield is both incredibly practiced yet incredibly sincere—a binary that becomes only more compelling in consideration of her 1989 birthday. view article

Babel Music
By: Joe Puglisi
In a dreary sea of songwriters, her writing encapsulates that special certain emotive quality that is tough to find and even tougher [...]

Steppin’ In It

Rare indeed when a collection of songs creates an entire world. Yet that’s exactly what transpires with Steppin’ In It’s “Simple Tunes for Troubled Times.” Sonically painting with a pleasant array of old time country swing and blues, this Lansing, Michigan, quartet brilliantly updates a re-surging American musical genre. Populating this 11-track collection is an [...]

The Macpodz

“Ann Arbor’s jazz rock outfit, The Macpodz, throw some of the coolest parties around. With a little bit of everything in its musical grab bag, The Macpodz easily please music lovers, from fans of far out jazz to those rootsy jam band-style grooves. The inventor and namesake of its own brand of funky dance music, [...]

Rootstand

Greetings from the Rootstand Family. The trials, tribulations, and grassroot determination of our team has exposed us as one of the most upcoming and notorious roots bands on the scene. Few other bands dig as deep in to the God-given mojo and animusical magnetism afforded to Michigan’s favorite acoustic ghetto rebel sons. Rootstand successfully marries [...]

Jen Sygit

Jen Sygit has been writing songs since she was knee high to a grasshopper. Her parents report that as a child she gravitated toward the musical instruments in the room and within minutes was able to play melodies on them. As early as Elementary school Jen could be found writing love songs on her parents [...]

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