Site updated July 3, 2009
Please mark your calendars for the
31st Annual Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival
July 17-19, 2009, at the Marquette, Mich., Tourist Park
in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Advance ticket sales started May 26, and will continue until 6 p.m., Tuesday, July 14. For order information, please click here or select Order Festival Tickets from the main menu.
2009 Performers
We have contracts with these 2009 acts:
Tangled Roots
The Stairwell Sisters
Josh White Jr.
Pat Donohue
Lucy Kaplansky
Rhythm In Shoes
Cafe Accordion
Feufollet
Mamadou Diabate
The Derrell Syria Project
White Water (Friday dance only)
Rootstand (Teen Scene)
The Flatbellys (Teen Scene)
Festival Schedule
Please click here for our 2009 schedule.
Happy Fourth of July!
Photo by traveling Hiawathan Phil Watts, who spread the Festival
word in The Big Apple and other points east.
Congratulations logo designer Mary Beil
Congratulations to Mary Beil of Fort Shaw, Mont., who designed the winning 2009 Festival logo above. Mary has a BA in graphic design. She grew up in New Jersey and moved to Montana about 12 years ago. She works designing magazines and recently started a freelance business, M.E. Designs. She loves music and the great outdoors, and says. "I came across the Hiawatha logo contest by accident, just searching online. I can't wait to make the trip to Marquette this summer to enjoy your music festival first hand. It will be my first trip to the state of Michigan. I can't wait to enjoy great music and beautiful scenery, which I will be photographing, as this is my other passion." You can see more of Mary's work at M.E. Designs and her photography website
To learn how you might design the 2010 Festival logo, please select Logo Contestfrom the main menu.
Office hours
Expanded, pre-Festival office hours: noon to 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday, through July 14. Our regular office hours are noon to 6 p.m., Tuesdays and Wednesdays, at 129 W. Baraga in Marquette. We check our messages throughout the week. Thanks to all for their patience during our two-month office closing due to the office drudge's Medical Mishap. Special thanks to our board members and other volunteers who kept everything going!
