Site updated May 15, 2012
We hope you'll join us for the
34th Annual Hiawatha Festival
July 20-22, 2012
At the Marquette, Michigan, Tourist Park
We have verbal commitments and contracts pending with the following mainstage acts:
Ray Bonneville
Dan Crary and Thunderation
(left)
Pert Near Sandstone
Pat Donohue and the Prairie All-Stars
Lumber Jakki
Ruth Moody
Cedric Watson and Bijou Creole
The Wild Goose Chase Cloggers
Josh Davis and his Band
Jim and Ray
Other Festival updates
Tickets and camping: Advance sales for tickets and camping will begin at 12 noon, Tuesday, May 29. Advance sales will end at 6 p.m., Tuesday, July 17. All tickets after that time will be at the Gate and at the Gate prices. We expect to have an online order form on this website when advance sales start.
Ticket prices: Prices will be the same as 2011. Please click here or select Festival from the main menu for a list.
Performance Schedules: Our Mainstage and Children's Area schedules are now available. Please select Festival Schedule from the main menu.
Tourist Park: On March 26, the Marquette City Commission unanimously approved a five-year contract (2012-2016) for our use of the Tourist Park for the Festival. Thanks to everyone who wrote a letter of support, and thanks to the City Commission and Staff for continuing to host our Festival!
Thursday-night camping lottery: The drawing for pre-Festival Thursday-night campsites is complete. Reservation confirmations and regrets notices were mailed May 11.
If you receive a reservation form, it will refer to an enclosed ticket order form. If there is no order form with your reservation, please click here for a printable version. Or you may just use the online order or printable order form that will be on our website May 29. Or, of course, you may use the form in the Spring 2012 newsletter.
People who did not win a Thursday site will receive their checks back. (In the very few cases where people did not include a stamped, self-addressed envelope, entries and checks were confetti-shredded). For more information about camping at our event, please select Festival Camping from the main menu. Please read carefully. There are changes since 2011. Thank you!
Logo Contest
Congratulations to Katie Webber of Marquette, who designed this year's winning Festival logo. Katie grew up in Houghton, Mich., attended Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Mich., and now owns a freelance design business in Marquette.
To learn more about entering next year's Festival Logo contest, please click here or select Logo Contest from the main menu.
Job opening
The Hiawatha Music Co-op is now accepting applications for the job of director/Festival coordinator. This is a part-time, hourly-paid, non-exempt seasonal job, with no benefits. Please click here for a complete job description. If you're interested, please reply by papermail to PO Box 414, Marquette, MI 49855, or by email to info@hiawathamusic.org
Econo "We Share" program
Please bring Hiawatha your receipts from Econo Foods. We now participate in the store's We Share program and can receive 1% of the total of receipts we turn in. You may leave your receipts at our office (129 W. Baraga, Suite C, in the Children's Museum block, across from Garden Bouquet and Design). We are also able to turn in receipts from Econo stores outside of Marquette. If the office is closed, just slide receipts under the door. You may also bring receipts to any Hiawatha event or mail them to PO Box 414, Marquette, MI 49855. Thanks for your help!
Office hours
Regular office hours are noon to 6 p.m. Eastern, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, at 129 W. Baraga, Suite C, in Marquette. We check our messages throughout the week.
