Hiawatha Music Festival
Site updated May 6, 2008
We hope you'll join us for the
30th Annual Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival
July 18-20, 2008 - Tourist Park, Marquette Michigan
Please scroll down to see our 2008 Festival logo and news of other Hiawatha activities.
Please remember that our Festival is always - and still - the next-to-last FULL weekend in July.
We have verbal commitments and contracts pending with these mainstage acts:
The Dixie Hummingbirds
The Duhks(top left photo)
Guy Davis
Zydecology
Les Ross Sr.
Seth Bernard and Daisy May
Connie Kaldor
Joel Mabus
Steppin' In It
Santa Cruz River Band(lower left photo)
The ReShuffled Creek Dancers
"Songs of the Carter Family" workshop
The Watts Family will hold a second "Songs of the Carter Family" workshop on May 10, at Grace United Methodist Church in Marquette. To learn more about the workshop, or to register, please click here or select Songs of the Carter Family Workshop from the menu at right.
As with the 2007 workshop, the event will be a fund-raiser for a Hiawatha Youth Scholarship to the Augusta Heritage Festival in Elkins, W. Va. For more information about the Scholarship, please click Scholarship to Augusta from the main menu at right.
The Carter Family workshop will present history of the Carter Family and will focus on listening to and practicing the singing and harmony styles they used. Last year's workshop had 12 participants, so we hope we have not exhausted the pool of Carter Family wannabees in the area!
2008 Festival Logo selected
Melissa Miron, a student at Northern Michigan University, has designed our 2008 Festival Logo. We had a wonderful group of entries, and our Board selected Melissa's artwork from among 45 designs.
The winning design will appear in some form on all promotional materials for the Festival, including posters, mugs, programs and worker T-shirts.
Melissa will receive $100, a T-shirt with the winning design, two weekend Festival passes and a Festival mug.
For all the rules and guidelines, as well as a link to past Festival logos, please check Logo Contest from the menu at right.
An opportunity to learn traditional, old-time tunes
Hiawatha sponsors a monthly Acoustic, Old-Time Jam in Marquette: a traditional-music jam with an emphasis on learning old-timey tunes. All ability levels are welcome, and tunes are played at slow-to-moderate speeds to make them easier to learn. The next Acoustic, Old-Time Jam will be held April 5. The sessions are from 3 to 4:30 p.m., on the first Saturday of each month, in the Parlor at Grace United Methodist Church in Marquette (corner of West Fair and Norway; one block east of Lincoln Ave; enter from the lower level parking lot; watch for signs).
For more details and links, please click here. That page includes a YouTube link where you may listen to some of the tunes the group has worked on.
Congratulations, Globe!
Congratulations to our friends Kurt Gronvall and Stacey Willey at Globe Printing. They were named Business Persons of the Year as part of the Marquette County Ambassadors' 20th Annual Community Excellent and Progress Awards. Globe prints Hiawatha's newsletter and Festival program.
Update on Lake Whoa!-Be-Gone
The Marquette City Commission voted on December 17, to accept financial agreements that should clear the way to rebuild the dam and restore the lake at the Tourist Park. The Marquette Board of Light and Power voted earlier to go forward with the restoration if the City took that step. For the latest details, please see the December 18, 2007, Marquette Mining Journal. article
For additional information, please see these previous MJ articles:
December 12, 2007.
December 4, 2007
December 4, 2007, overview of public opinion
November 13, 2007.
November 13, 2007, letter to the editor from former mayor Jerry Irby.
Photos
We're gradually posting some of volunteer Sue Dohrman's always-wonderful photos on our website. Please see Photo Album on the main menu. You may also visit the Marquette Mining Journal's online photo gallery of the Festival. Thanks to the Mining Journal for the great Hiawatha articles and photos published during our event!
Office hours
Our regular office hours are 12 noon to 6 p.m., Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We check our email and voicemail throughout the week. Our office is in the Non Profit Commons, 129 W. Baraga, Suite C, in Marquette.
Website, email information
Welcome to our website, and special thanks to the U.P. Web Maestro for making it possible. Please note our email address: info@hiawathamusic.org.
