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Friday, August 9
 

6:00pm EDT

Lanialoha & Aloha Lives! - Hawai'ian Ukulele/Hula
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Lanialoha

Carole Lanialoha “Lani” Lee-Sumberg is a third-generation descendant of the first Polynesians to immigrate to the Midwest. Her grandmother left Hawai’i to live with her family in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, where Lani would grow up. In order to ensure that the knowledge of Hawaiian... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 6:00pm - 6:45pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

6:00pm EDT

Les Poules à Colin - Québécois
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Les Poules à Colin

Les Poules à Colin (Colin's Chickens) is composed of five children of traditional musicians from Québec’s Lanaudière region, which is known worldwide for maintaining its traditions. Les Poules plays a traditional form of Québécois music that is colored by their formal training... Read More →
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Sarah Marchand

Sarah Marchand grew up in the midst of traditional music. Singing since she began to form words, Sarah began to play guitar at the age of 5, and took up piano while at Cégep de Joliette, where she met Marie and Éléonore. While in high school and at university, she learned and performed... Read More →
avatar for Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé was born in Vermont, then moved with her parents to the Lanaudière region of Québec at nine months old. She began taking lessons for classical violin at 9, becoming a member of the Joliette Youth Orchestra. At 10, she began performing with Dentdelion, as well as... Read More →
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Éléonore Pitre

Born in the Québec City region to a traditional Québécois dance caller-stepdancer father and a Belgian lacemaker mother, Éléonore Pitre began playing music at the age of 4, taking violin lessons until she was 11. Her family moved to Joliette in Québec's Lanaudière region at... Read More →
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Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac  received his first mandolin when he was 11, and soon afterwards, added banjo, guitar and foot percussion and began studying with traditional multi-instrumentalist and foot percussionist Michel Bordeleau (La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer), guitarist... Read More →
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Marie Savoie-Levac

With a musician mother, Marie Savoie-Levac, began life listening to traditional Québécois music , and began playing flute in the school band, where she met Éléonore Pitre. It was a friendship that would become the basis for Les Poules. After five years, she changed to piano, and... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 6:00pm - 6:50pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

6:15pm EDT

Johnny Koenig - Polka
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Johnny Koenig

Born and raised in New York City, Johnny grew up with polka music under the influence of his father, a well-known New York-based polka musician in the 1970s and 1980s. Johnny took private accordion lessons at 5 and within two years, he had the honor of singing with America's Polka... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 6:15pm - 7:35pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

7:00pm EDT

Joel Mabus - Old Time Strings
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Joel Mabus

Perhaps known by most as a singer-songwriter, Joel Mabus’s music is rooted in American old-time music. Mabus was born in 1953 in the Southern Illinois town of Belleville to a 1930s old-time fiddle champ and a banjo-pickin' farm girl, herself the daughter of musicians. When Joel’s... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

7:00pm EDT

Kaivama - Finnish-American
Performers
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Kaivama

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →
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Sara Pajunen

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →
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Jonathan Rundman

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

8:00pm EDT

Mike Espy and Yakity Yak - Blues
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Mike Espy

Mike Espy grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, just a few miles from the original Gibson guitar factory (now in Nashville, TN). He took guitar lessons when he was ten years old, and soon became a student of the blues.  In 1989, he moved to Tennessee to attend University of Memphis to... Read More →
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William "Yak" Smith

William "Yak" Smith grew up, as many of the traditional blues players in the south did, picking cotton and listening to the soul and blues AM radio stations of Memphis (WDIA) and Nashville. He taught himself to play harmonica by studying blues that he heard on radio and records. His... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 8:00pm - 8:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

8:00pm EDT

Accordion Traditions
Friday August 9, 2013 8:00pm - 8:45pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  Comparative Music

8:00pm EDT

Top Drawer String Band - Contra Dance Music
Grab a partner and join the fun on the dance floor and friends and neighbors do-di-do, promenade and swing thier partners.  Top Drawer provides the wonderful tunes and veteran call, Bob Stein, will teach and guide you through fun and easy traditional dances.
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Top Drawer String Band

The Top Drawer String Band got its start in the late 1970s, playing the first contra and square dances held in the Lansing area.  New England caller, Dudley Laufman inspired their rather unusual name.  Laufman called the final dance of the first season and during the evening told... Read More →
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Brian Bishop

Brian Bishop is a maker of fine fiddles and also an excellent fiddle player himself.  Brian, together with Joel Mabus and Laura Stein, has been playing great dancing tunes for over 25 years.
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Joel Mabus

Perhaps known by most as a singer-songwriter, Joel Mabus’s music is rooted in American old-time music. Mabus was born in 1953 in the Southern Illinois town of Belleville to a 1930s old-time fiddle champ and a banjo-pickin' farm girl, herself the daughter of musicians. When Joel’s... Read More →
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Chris Reitz

Chris Reitz is a well known musician in the Greater Lansing area.  He will be appearing as part of the Top Drawer String band at the 2013 Folk Festival.  Chris plays several different stringed instruments including guitar, mandolin, charango, and many others.  When not making... Read More →
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Laura Stein

Laura lives in East Lansing, Michigan and has played piano for contra and square dances for over 30 years.  Laura and husband, Bob, helped start contra dancing in Lansing (and Michigan) in the late 1970s. Top Drawer came to be in 1978 when New England caller, Dudley Laufman came... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 8:00pm - 9:10pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

9:00pm EDT

Les Bassettes - Cajun
Performers
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Les Bassettes

The three members of Les Bassettes (a Cajun-French term for petite females, pronounced lay bah-seht) come from different musical backgrounds, and met by way of the vibrant music and dance scene in Lafayette, Louisiana. Megan Brown, Heather Mullin and Kelli Jones were drawn together... Read More →
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Megan Brown

Megan Brown is originally from Tepetate, Louisiana,  and grew up to the sound of Cajun music at her grandparents' Cajun restaurant. It was at the Davis and Elkins' Augusta Heritage week for Cajun and Creole culture, where she taught Cajun dancing with her mother, that she took to... Read More →
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Kelli Jones

Kelli Jones (fiddle, vocals) has been playing fiddle since the age of 15, and began playing old time music in her home state of North Carolina. The daughter of old-time fiddler, Carl Jones, who toured regularly with Norman and Nancy Blake, Kelli moved to Lafayette, Louisiana in 2006... Read More →
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Heather Mullen

Heather Mullen (accordion, fiddle, vocals) learned to play violin through the Suzuki method as a child, and grew up as part of the New England contra dance and folk scene near Boston, where she developed a desire to play fiddle. Her parents were active in local folk dancing, so Heather... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 9:00pm - 9:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

9:00pm EDT

Mai Zong Vue - Hmong Vocal Music
Performers
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Mai Zong Vue

Sung poetry is one of the ways by which the Hmong traditionally pass down their history and culture from generation to generation. These vocal songs have several styles: kwv txhiaj (storytelling songs), zaj tshoob (engagement songs), ntau txhuv (wishing songs), laig dab (Invitation... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 9:00pm - 9:45pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

9:30pm EDT

Tumbao Bravo - Cuban/Caribbean
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Tumbao Bravo

In Afro-Cuban music, tumbao refers to the basic rhythm played on the tumbadoras and the bass. Bravo means excellence. Tumbao Bravo, the band, was formed in 2004 by conga player Alberto Nacif and reedman Paul VornHagen.Alberto Nacif was born in the isthmus state of Oaxaca in Mexico... Read More →
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Alberto Nacif

In Afro-Cuban music, tumbao refers to the basic rhythm played on the tumbadoras and the bass. Bravo means excellence. Tumbao Bravo, the band, was formed in 2004 by conga player Alberto Nacif and reedman Paul VornHagen.Alberto Nacif was born in the isthmus state of Oaxaca in Mexico... Read More →
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Paul VornHagen

In Afro-Cuban music, tumbao refers to the basic rhythm played on the tumbadoras and the bass. Bravo means excellence. Tumbao Bravo, the band, was formed in 2004 by conga player Alberto Nacif and reedman Paul VornHagen.In 2003 Alberto met Paul VornHagen at Ann Arbor’s famed Firefly... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 9:30pm - 10:45pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

10:00pm EDT

Boy = Girl - Bluegrass
Performers
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Paul Kovac

Paul Kovac, founder of the Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet, learned guitar from his sister, played in a family band, and learned banjo from the many West Virginia and Kentucky transplant musicians living in Northeast Ohio. He has recorded and toured extensively, and has performed with... Read More →
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Jen Maurer

Jen Maurer grew up in a household surrounded by live music, fortified by her guitar-playing mother.  By eleven years old, Jennifer was playing guitar, blues & Ragtime piano. A multi-instrumentalist on guitar, banjo, accordion, piano, flute and others, Jen will play string bass with... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 10:00pm - 10:45pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

10:00pm EDT

Dentdelion - Québécois
Performers
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Dentdelion

Two generations of traditional French-Canadian musicians form Dentdelion. From its beginnings in 1994, Dentdelion, which borrows its name from the dandelion has been an blend of personal cultures: those of Claude Méthé (Québec) and Dana Whittle (New England). They’ve since been... Read More →
avatar for Denise Levac

Denise Levac

Denise Levac has been immersed in traditional music for over 25 years. A classically trained flutist, she discovered traditional Lanaudière in the early 1980s alongside bands such as La Bottine Souriante, La Guignolée and Turlure. She was a member of Manigance (Normand Miron, Paul... Read More →
avatar for Claude Méthé

Claude Méthé

Born in Québec City, fiddler-singer-guitarist Claude Méthé has been a part of the traditional music world in Québec for more than thirty years. A self-taught fiddler, his style reflects most particularly the eighteen years he lived in the region of Lotbinière, Québec. His mentor... Read More →
avatar for Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé was born in Vermont, then moved with her parents to the Lanaudière region of Québec at nine months old. She began taking lessons for classical violin at 9, becoming a member of the Joliette Youth Orchestra. At 10, she began performing with Dentdelion, as well as... Read More →
avatar for Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac  received his first mandolin when he was 11, and soon afterwards, added banjo, guitar and foot percussion and began studying with traditional multi-instrumentalist and foot percussionist Michel Bordeleau (La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer), guitarist... Read More →
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Dana Whittle

Music and songs have always been part of Dana Whittle's life, whether in the Sunday car rides or family celebrations. From the age of six, she played guitar and sang in choirs and musicals; her grandmother was a singer in the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Most evenings and weekends... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2013 10:00pm - 10:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance
 
Saturday, August 10
 

12:00pm EDT

Lanialoha & Aloha Lives! - Hawai'ian Ukulele/Hula
Performers
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Lanialoha

Carole Lanialoha “Lani” Lee-Sumberg is a third-generation descendant of the first Polynesians to immigrate to the Midwest. Her grandmother left Hawai’i to live with her family in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, where Lani would grow up. In order to ensure that the knowledge of Hawaiian... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

12:00pm EDT

Fiddle Traditions
4 fiddlers and a presenter gather to share tunes and compare and contrast styles
Performers
avatar for Kelli Jones

Kelli Jones

Kelli Jones (fiddle, vocals) has been playing fiddle since the age of 15, and began playing old time music in her home state of North Carolina. The daughter of old-time fiddler, Carl Jones, who toured regularly with Norman and Nancy Blake, Kelli moved to Lafayette, Louisiana in 2006... Read More →
avatar for Claude Méthé

Claude Méthé

Born in Québec City, fiddler-singer-guitarist Claude Méthé has been a part of the traditional music world in Québec for more than thirty years. A self-taught fiddler, his style reflects most particularly the eighteen years he lived in the region of Lotbinière, Québec. His mentor... Read More →
avatar for Sara Pajunen

Sara Pajunen

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →
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Ray Sponaugle

Ray Sponaugle was born in West Virginia, and began fiddling at 14. Like many young men of his day, Ray moved to Northeast Ohio for work.  For more than twenty-five years he was the fiddler for the West Virginia Travelers, a band fronted by John Douglas, the father of National Heritage... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  Comparative Music

12:00pm EDT

Johnny Koenig - Polka
Performers
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Johnny Koenig

Born and raised in New York City, Johnny grew up with polka music under the influence of his father, a well-known New York-based polka musician in the 1970s and 1980s. Johnny took private accordion lessons at 5 and within two years, he had the honor of singing with America's Polka... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 12:00pm - 1:10pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

1:00pm EDT

Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet
Performers
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Paul Kovac

Paul Kovac, founder of the Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet, learned guitar from his sister, played in a family band, and learned banjo from the many West Virginia and Kentucky transplant musicians living in Northeast Ohio. He has recorded and toured extensively, and has performed with... Read More →
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Jen Maurer

Jen Maurer grew up in a household surrounded by live music, fortified by her guitar-playing mother.  By eleven years old, Jennifer was playing guitar, blues & Ragtime piano. A multi-instrumentalist on guitar, banjo, accordion, piano, flute and others, Jen will play string bass with... Read More →
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Jim Metz

Jim Metz is a multi-instrumentalist (banjo and resonator guitar) and sings tenor in Clear Fork's harmony mix.  As a child growing up in West Virginia, he sang with his mother, an old-time music radio entertainer. Upon moving to Ohio, Jim learned the Bluegrass ropes at the foot of... Read More →
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Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet

Founded in 1984, the Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet has backed up legendary musicians Chubby Wise and Mac Wiseman. Paul Kovac, the band’s founder, learned guitar from his sister, played in a family band, and learned banjo from the many West Virginia and Kentucky transplant musicians... Read More →
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Ray Sponaugle

Ray Sponaugle was born in West Virginia, and began fiddling at 14. Like many young men of his day, Ray moved to Northeast Ohio for work.  For more than twenty-five years he was the fiddler for the West Virginia Travelers, a band fronted by John Douglas, the father of National Heritage... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

1:00pm EDT

Red Tail Ring- Old Time
Performers
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Michael Beauchamp

Michael Beauchamp has a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnomusicology and English Literature from the University of Michigan, where he played in several bands both acoustic and electric. Growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Beauchamp was musically raised on everything from Broadway musicals to... Read More →
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Laurel Premo

Laurel Premo graduated with a BFA from the Performing Arts Technology Dept. of the University of Michigan School of Music, and spent time during her undergraduate attending the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, Finland to study traditional Finnish music and dance. She was raised... Read More →
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Red Tail Ring

Red Tail Ring is a Kalamazoo-based duo formed in 2009 by Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp, which performs a blend of original and traditional old-time American music.Add Sam Cooper to Michael and and Laurel and you get the old time square dance band, Bowhunter.

Saturday August 10, 2013 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

1:00pm EDT

Sculpting with Metal
Timothy Higgins shares metalsmith arts with family audiences.
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Timothy Higgins

Higgins started with an urge to create. Mentored by his ninth grade metal arts and crafts teacher, Higgins developed the skills in foundry sand casting, copper working metal forging, and leatherworking that would serve as a foundation to his art. A job offer to run the local village... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
Kidlore 201 Abbot Road
  Meet the Expert

1:00pm EDT

The Recovery of Michigan Bald Eagles
This campus and community partnership will feature the eagle bio-monitoring and recovery of the population.  The program will feature Dr. James Sikarskie (MSU), Kendall Simon (former MSU student)--and Dennis Laidler,Education Curator at the Potter Park Zoo will bring a live bald eagle that will add an exciting dimension to the program.  They will talk about the use of the bald eagle as a monitor of environmental quality, recovery of eagle numbers in Michigan as well as share information on the causes of eagle mortality that land-grant funded universities have helped document with scientific research and community collaborations.
Saturday August 10, 2013 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
Campus and Community 301 Abbot Road
  MSU Campus and Community

1:30pm EDT

Les Bassettes - Cajun
Performers
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Les Bassettes

The three members of Les Bassettes (a Cajun-French term for petite females, pronounced lay bah-seht) come from different musical backgrounds, and met by way of the vibrant music and dance scene in Lafayette, Louisiana. Megan Brown, Heather Mullin and Kelli Jones were drawn together... Read More →
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Megan Brown

Megan Brown is originally from Tepetate, Louisiana,  and grew up to the sound of Cajun music at her grandparents' Cajun restaurant. It was at the Davis and Elkins' Augusta Heritage week for Cajun and Creole culture, where she taught Cajun dancing with her mother, that she took to... Read More →
avatar for Kelli Jones

Kelli Jones

Kelli Jones (fiddle, vocals) has been playing fiddle since the age of 15, and began playing old time music in her home state of North Carolina. The daughter of old-time fiddler, Carl Jones, who toured regularly with Norman and Nancy Blake, Kelli moved to Lafayette, Louisiana in 2006... Read More →
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Heather Mullen

Heather Mullen (accordion, fiddle, vocals) learned to play violin through the Suzuki method as a child, and grew up as part of the New England contra dance and folk scene near Boston, where she developed a desire to play fiddle. Her parents were active in local folk dancing, so Heather... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 1:30pm - 2:40pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

2:00pm EDT

Dentdelion - Québécois
Performers
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Dentdelion

Two generations of traditional French-Canadian musicians form Dentdelion. From its beginnings in 1994, Dentdelion, which borrows its name from the dandelion has been an blend of personal cultures: those of Claude Méthé (Québec) and Dana Whittle (New England). They’ve since been... Read More →
avatar for Denise Levac

Denise Levac

Denise Levac has been immersed in traditional music for over 25 years. A classically trained flutist, she discovered traditional Lanaudière in the early 1980s alongside bands such as La Bottine Souriante, La Guignolée and Turlure. She was a member of Manigance (Normand Miron, Paul... Read More →
avatar for Claude Méthé

Claude Méthé

Born in Québec City, fiddler-singer-guitarist Claude Méthé has been a part of the traditional music world in Québec for more than thirty years. A self-taught fiddler, his style reflects most particularly the eighteen years he lived in the region of Lotbinière, Québec. His mentor... Read More →
avatar for Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé was born in Vermont, then moved with her parents to the Lanaudière region of Québec at nine months old. She began taking lessons for classical violin at 9, becoming a member of the Joliette Youth Orchestra. At 10, she began performing with Dentdelion, as well as... Read More →
avatar for Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac  received his first mandolin when he was 11, and soon afterwards, added banjo, guitar and foot percussion and began studying with traditional multi-instrumentalist and foot percussionist Michel Bordeleau (La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer), guitarist... Read More →
avatar for Dana Whittle

Dana Whittle

Music and songs have always been part of Dana Whittle's life, whether in the Sunday car rides or family celebrations. From the age of six, she played guitar and sang in choirs and musicals; her grandmother was a singer in the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Most evenings and weekends... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

2:00pm EDT

Mai Zong Vue - Hmong Vocal Music
Performers
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Mai Zong Vue

Sung poetry is one of the ways by which the Hmong traditionally pass down their history and culture from generation to generation. These vocal songs have several styles: kwv txhiaj (storytelling songs), zaj tshoob (engagement songs), ntau txhuv (wishing songs), laig dab (Invitation... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

2:00pm EDT

Native American Birch Bark Cutouts for Kids
Patricia Shackleton teaches family audiences about birch bark cutouts and shares a hands-on activity.
Performers
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Patricia Shackleton

Patricia Shackleton, a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, has held a variety of positions in local and state government to achieve her aim and has been an advocate for Native rights. She is also a highly motivated and committed educator about Ojibwe and Native... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Kidlore 201 Abbot Road
  Meet the Expert

2:00pm EDT

Fair Trade and Sustainability with Dr. Paulette Stenzel
As part of the Campus and Community program, MSU Professor Paulette Strenzel shares stories from artists that have benefited from the Fair Trade movement.  Strenzel will also do a "Show and Tell" of Fair Trade products available locally.
Saturday August 10, 2013 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Campus and Community 301 Abbot Road
  MSU Campus and Community

3:00pm EDT

Kaivama - Finnish-American
Performers
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Kaivama

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →
avatar for Sara Pajunen

Sara Pajunen

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →
avatar for Jonathan Rundman

Jonathan Rundman

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

3:00pm EDT

Native American Stone Carving
James Anderson shares stone carving traditions with a family audience.
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James Anderson

James Anderson is of the Iroquois Confederacy and an Ojibwe descendant with ties to the Cherokees.  He is very active throughout Michigan in making presentations in schools and to the general public about Anishinaabek life and he takes a special interest in mobilizing disenfranchised... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Kidlore 201 Abbot Road
  Meet the Expert

3:00pm EDT

Midwest Folk Festival Artist Panel
As part of the Midwest Folklife Festival program, Hmong weaver Bounxou Baoheuang of Minnesota; Scandinavian Rosemaler Nancy Schmidt of Wisconsin; and Native Hawaiian weaver Lanialoha Lee-Sumberg of Illinois, share the traditions that inspire and inform their artwork.
Saturday August 10, 2013 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Campus and Community 301 Abbot Road
  MSU Campus and Community

3:00pm EDT

Svetla Vladeva and the Eastern European Ensemble -Balkan Music
Performers
avatar for Juan Sebastián Rojas

Juan Sebastián Rojas

Juan Sebastián Rojas is a Colombian percussionist, ethnomusicologist, and producer with over ten years of experience working with Afro-Colombian traditional music, as well as other musical styles, such as Balkan folkloric music, West African percussion, Caribbean popular music rhythms... Read More →
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Dena El Saffar

Dena El Saffar, who plays the viola, violin, joza and oud, is an Iraqi-American, born and raised in Chicago. She began learning the violin at 6, and at 17, began to shift her focus towards music of the Middle East. In 1993, while obtaining a degree in classical music from Indiana... Read More →
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Katrina Topalov

Katarina Topalov sings traditional music from the Balkans performing in Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Vlach, Hungarian, Macedonian, and more recently Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino. She comes from Voivodina, the northern province of Serbia, a melting pot of ethnicities and... Read More →
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Svetla Vladeva

Svetla Vladeva was born in Kazanlak, Bulgaria and was introduced to Balkan folk music at an early age by her aunt and uncle. At 8, she began playing piano accordion and at the start of her university studies, took a self-learning program on the bayan (chromatic button accordion... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 3:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

3:00pm EDT

Community Singing
Experience the joy of raising your voice with your friends, neighbors, and community. Join Cathie Ryan, Michael Beauchamp, Laurel Premo and Lansing's Sally Potter as they host 90 minutes of non-stop community singing. Don't worry - you don't need to have a great singing voice, or the ability to read music to join the fun. You just need to have a love of singing - singing those great songs you probably already know - together. You've listened to other people make music all weekend long. Now, it's your turn!
Performers
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Michael Beauchamp

Michael Beauchamp has a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnomusicology and English Literature from the University of Michigan, where he played in several bands both acoustic and electric. Growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Beauchamp was musically raised on everything from Broadway musicals to... Read More →
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Sally Potter

Her day job is teaching high school students history and economics, but Sally is best known throughout the Lansing area as the creator of the Mid Winter Singing Festival.  In addition, Sally Potter is known as an excellent song leader, a dynamic performer, a music producer and a... Read More →
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Laurel Premo

Laurel Premo graduated with a BFA from the Performing Arts Technology Dept. of the University of Michigan School of Music, and spent time during her undergraduate attending the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, Finland to study traditional Finnish music and dance. She was raised... Read More →
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Cathie Ryan

Born in Detroit to immigrants from Kerry and Tipperary, Ireland, Cathie Ryan was raised in a musical home. Her father was a tenor and very much in demand as a singer. From the age of seven, Cathie joined in sessions and performed at the local Gaelic League and Irish-American Club... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 3:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  Special Event

4:00pm EDT

Tumbao Bravo - Cuban/Caribbean
Performers
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Tumbao Bravo

In Afro-Cuban music, tumbao refers to the basic rhythm played on the tumbadoras and the bass. Bravo means excellence. Tumbao Bravo, the band, was formed in 2004 by conga player Alberto Nacif and reedman Paul VornHagen.Alberto Nacif was born in the isthmus state of Oaxaca in Mexico... Read More →
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Alberto Nacif

In Afro-Cuban music, tumbao refers to the basic rhythm played on the tumbadoras and the bass. Bravo means excellence. Tumbao Bravo, the band, was formed in 2004 by conga player Alberto Nacif and reedman Paul VornHagen.Alberto Nacif was born in the isthmus state of Oaxaca in Mexico... Read More →
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Paul VornHagen

In Afro-Cuban music, tumbao refers to the basic rhythm played on the tumbadoras and the bass. Bravo means excellence. Tumbao Bravo, the band, was formed in 2004 by conga player Alberto Nacif and reedman Paul VornHagen.In 2003 Alberto met Paul VornHagen at Ann Arbor’s famed Firefly... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

4:00pm EDT

(Cancelled) Wiba Anung- Native American activities for pre-schoolers
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED  -as of Aug 6
The Kidlore area will be open, with lots of fun, drop-in activities and crafts.
Performers
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Wiba Anung

The Wiba Anung (Ojibwe for Early Star) project is a partnership between researchers at Michigan State University, educators from Bay Mills Community College, and program directors, teachers, and parents of Michigan’s American Indian Head Start programs. Since 2006, Wiba Anung has... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Kidlore 201 Abbot Road
  Meet the Expert

4:00pm EDT

MSU Student Organic Farm- raw food demo
GO Green Raw Foods!  As part of the campus and community program. Kate Heflick, an instructor at the MSU Student Organic Farm, and alum of the program, will create delicious summer dishes- including massaged kale, a green smoothie and a cucumber onion salad  - using produce from our own organic farm.
Saturday August 10, 2013 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Campus and Community 301 Abbot Road
  MSU Campus and Community

4:30pm EDT

Swing Dance/ Lindy Hop Demo
Michigan Heritage Award Winner, Paulette Brockington and students from the MSU Swing Society will demonstate both swing dance and lindy hop on the Festival's big dance floor.
Performers
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Paulette Brockington

Born and raised in Detroit, Paulette studied at Detroit City Dance Company in the 1980s and later studied art and dance at University of Michigan. Paulette learned the Lindy Hop from its chief orchestrator, Frankie Manning, a National Heritage Fellow, in 1992 and 1993, in private... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 4:30pm - 4:45pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Special Event

4:45pm EDT

Mike Espy and Yakity Yak - Blues
Performers
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Mike Espy

Mike Espy grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, just a few miles from the original Gibson guitar factory (now in Nashville, TN). He took guitar lessons when he was ten years old, and soon became a student of the blues.  In 1989, he moved to Tennessee to attend University of Memphis to... Read More →
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William "Yak" Smith

William "Yak" Smith grew up, as many of the traditional blues players in the south did, picking cotton and listening to the soul and blues AM radio stations of Memphis (WDIA) and Nashville. He taught himself to play harmonica by studying blues that he heard on radio and records. His... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 4:45pm - 5:30pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

4:45pm EDT

Swing Dance workshop
Learn the basics of Swing Dance and Lindy Hop from Paulette Brockington and her talented demo team.
Then grab a partner and enjoy swing dancing at the Great Lakes Folk Festival
Performers
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Paulette Brockington

Born and raised in Detroit, Paulette studied at Detroit City Dance Company in the 1980s and later studied art and dance at University of Michigan. Paulette learned the Lindy Hop from its chief orchestrator, Frankie Manning, a National Heritage Fellow, in 1992 and 1993, in private... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 4:45pm - 5:30pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

5:00pm EDT

Les Poules à Colin - Québécois
Performers
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Les Poules à Colin

Les Poules à Colin (Colin's Chickens) is composed of five children of traditional musicians from Québec’s Lanaudière region, which is known worldwide for maintaining its traditions. Les Poules plays a traditional form of Québécois music that is colored by their formal training... Read More →
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Sarah Marchand

Sarah Marchand grew up in the midst of traditional music. Singing since she began to form words, Sarah began to play guitar at the age of 5, and took up piano while at Cégep de Joliette, where she met Marie and Éléonore. While in high school and at university, she learned and performed... Read More →
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Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé was born in Vermont, then moved with her parents to the Lanaudière region of Québec at nine months old. She began taking lessons for classical violin at 9, becoming a member of the Joliette Youth Orchestra. At 10, she began performing with Dentdelion, as well as... Read More →
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Éléonore Pitre

Born in the Québec City region to a traditional Québécois dance caller-stepdancer father and a Belgian lacemaker mother, Éléonore Pitre began playing music at the age of 4, taking violin lessons until she was 11. Her family moved to Joliette in Québec's Lanaudière region at... Read More →
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Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac  received his first mandolin when he was 11, and soon afterwards, added banjo, guitar and foot percussion and began studying with traditional multi-instrumentalist and foot percussionist Michel Bordeleau (La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer), guitarist... Read More →
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Marie Savoie-Levac

With a musician mother, Marie Savoie-Levac, began life listening to traditional Québécois music , and began playing flute in the school band, where she met Éléonore Pitre. It was a friendship that would become the basis for Les Poules. After five years, she changed to piano, and... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 5:00pm - 5:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

5:00pm EDT

Old Time Jam
Join string band musicians from the Greater Lansing area in an Old time music Jam.  Events of this type have been happening in East Lansing for many years, and lately, students from the Residential College of Arts and Humanities have started up there own weekly Jam.  Obeservers are welcome or bring along that old guitar and strum along with the group.
Saturday August 10, 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Campus and Community 301 Abbot Road
  Special Event

5:30pm EDT

Swing Dance
Get out on the floor and Swing dance (or Lindy) til you drop - Daddy-oh!
Performers
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Paulette Brockington

Born and raised in Detroit, Paulette studied at Detroit City Dance Company in the 1980s and later studied art and dance at University of Michigan. Paulette learned the Lindy Hop from its chief orchestrator, Frankie Manning, a National Heritage Fellow, in 1992 and 1993, in private... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

5:45pm EDT

Mai Zong Vue - Hmong Vocal Music
Performers
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Mai Zong Vue

Sung poetry is one of the ways by which the Hmong traditionally pass down their history and culture from generation to generation. These vocal songs have several styles: kwv txhiaj (storytelling songs), zaj tshoob (engagement songs), ntau txhuv (wishing songs), laig dab (Invitation... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 5:45pm - 6:30pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

6:00pm EDT

Les Bassettes - Cajun
Performers
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Les Bassettes

The three members of Les Bassettes (a Cajun-French term for petite females, pronounced lay bah-seht) come from different musical backgrounds, and met by way of the vibrant music and dance scene in Lafayette, Louisiana. Megan Brown, Heather Mullin and Kelli Jones were drawn together... Read More →
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Megan Brown

Megan Brown is originally from Tepetate, Louisiana,  and grew up to the sound of Cajun music at her grandparents' Cajun restaurant. It was at the Davis and Elkins' Augusta Heritage week for Cajun and Creole culture, where she taught Cajun dancing with her mother, that she took to... Read More →
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Kelli Jones

Kelli Jones (fiddle, vocals) has been playing fiddle since the age of 15, and began playing old time music in her home state of North Carolina. The daughter of old-time fiddler, Carl Jones, who toured regularly with Norman and Nancy Blake, Kelli moved to Lafayette, Louisiana in 2006... Read More →
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Heather Mullen

Heather Mullen (accordion, fiddle, vocals) learned to play violin through the Suzuki method as a child, and grew up as part of the New England contra dance and folk scene near Boston, where she developed a desire to play fiddle. Her parents were active in local folk dancing, so Heather... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 6:00pm - 6:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

6:45pm EDT

Cathie Ryan - Irish-American Celtic
Performers
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Cathie Ryan

Born in Detroit to immigrants from Kerry and Tipperary, Ireland, Cathie Ryan was raised in a musical home. Her father was a tenor and very much in demand as a singer. From the age of seven, Cathie joined in sessions and performed at the local Gaelic League and Irish-American Club... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 6:45pm - 7:30pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

6:45pm EDT

Johnny Koenig - Polka
Performers
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Johnny Koenig

Born and raised in New York City, Johnny grew up with polka music under the influence of his father, a well-known New York-based polka musician in the 1970s and 1980s. Johnny took private accordion lessons at 5 and within two years, he had the honor of singing with America's Polka... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 6:45pm - 7:45pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

7:00pm EDT

Svetla Vladeva and the Eastern European Ensemble -Balkan Music
Performers
avatar for Juan Sebastián Rojas

Juan Sebastián Rojas

Juan Sebastián Rojas is a Colombian percussionist, ethnomusicologist, and producer with over ten years of experience working with Afro-Colombian traditional music, as well as other musical styles, such as Balkan folkloric music, West African percussion, Caribbean popular music rhythms... Read More →
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Dena El Saffar

Dena El Saffar, who plays the viola, violin, joza and oud, is an Iraqi-American, born and raised in Chicago. She began learning the violin at 6, and at 17, began to shift her focus towards music of the Middle East. In 1993, while obtaining a degree in classical music from Indiana... Read More →
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Katrina Topalov

Katarina Topalov sings traditional music from the Balkans performing in Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Vlach, Hungarian, Macedonian, and more recently Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino. She comes from Voivodina, the northern province of Serbia, a melting pot of ethnicities and... Read More →
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Svetla Vladeva

Svetla Vladeva was born in Kazanlak, Bulgaria and was introduced to Balkan folk music at an early age by her aunt and uncle. At 8, she began playing piano accordion and at the start of her university studies, took a self-learning program on the bayan (chromatic button accordion... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

7:45pm EDT

Kaivama - Finnish-American
Performers
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Kaivama

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →
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Sara Pajunen

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →
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Jonathan Rundman

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 7:45pm - 8:30pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

8:00pm EDT

Dentdelion - Québécois
Performers
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Dentdelion

Two generations of traditional French-Canadian musicians form Dentdelion. From its beginnings in 1994, Dentdelion, which borrows its name from the dandelion has been an blend of personal cultures: those of Claude Méthé (Québec) and Dana Whittle (New England). They’ve since been... Read More →
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Denise Levac

Denise Levac has been immersed in traditional music for over 25 years. A classically trained flutist, she discovered traditional Lanaudière in the early 1980s alongside bands such as La Bottine Souriante, La Guignolée and Turlure. She was a member of Manigance (Normand Miron, Paul... Read More →
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Claude Méthé

Born in Québec City, fiddler-singer-guitarist Claude Méthé has been a part of the traditional music world in Québec for more than thirty years. A self-taught fiddler, his style reflects most particularly the eighteen years he lived in the region of Lotbinière, Québec. His mentor... Read More →
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Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé was born in Vermont, then moved with her parents to the Lanaudière region of Québec at nine months old. She began taking lessons for classical violin at 9, becoming a member of the Joliette Youth Orchestra. At 10, she began performing with Dentdelion, as well as... Read More →
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Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac  received his first mandolin when he was 11, and soon afterwards, added banjo, guitar and foot percussion and began studying with traditional multi-instrumentalist and foot percussionist Michel Bordeleau (La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer), guitarist... Read More →
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Dana Whittle

Music and songs have always been part of Dana Whittle's life, whether in the Sunday car rides or family celebrations. From the age of six, she played guitar and sang in choirs and musicals; her grandmother was a singer in the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Most evenings and weekends... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 8:00pm - 8:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

8:00pm EDT

Bowhunter - Old Time Dance Music
find a partner, form up squares and get ready to do-si-do and swing your partner.  Bowhunter plays great dancing tunes, Calling and teaching by Paul Tyler
Performers
avatar for Michael Beauchamp

Michael Beauchamp

Michael Beauchamp has a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnomusicology and English Literature from the University of Michigan, where he played in several bands both acoustic and electric. Growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Beauchamp was musically raised on everything from Broadway musicals to... Read More →
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Sam Cooper

Samantha Cooper will join Red Tail Ring at the Great Lakes Folk Festival to form Bowhunter. Samantha grew up hearing her father play at jazz festivals , and playing violin and fiddle with her family. Samantha is a member of the Earthwork Music Collective, and is co-founder of Square... Read More →
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Laurel Premo

Laurel Premo graduated with a BFA from the Performing Arts Technology Dept. of the University of Michigan School of Music, and spent time during her undergraduate attending the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, Finland to study traditional Finnish music and dance. She was raised... Read More →
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Red Tail Ring

Red Tail Ring is a Kalamazoo-based duo formed in 2009 by Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp, which performs a blend of original and traditional old-time American music.Add Sam Cooper to Michael and and Laurel and you get the old time square dance band, Bowhunter.

Saturday August 10, 2013 8:00pm - 9:10pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

8:45pm EDT

Showcase- TBA
Saturday August 10, 2013 8:45pm - 9:30pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  Comparative Music

9:00pm EDT

Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet
Performers
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Paul Kovac

Paul Kovac, founder of the Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet, learned guitar from his sister, played in a family band, and learned banjo from the many West Virginia and Kentucky transplant musicians living in Northeast Ohio. He has recorded and toured extensively, and has performed with... Read More →
JM

Jen Maurer

Jen Maurer grew up in a household surrounded by live music, fortified by her guitar-playing mother.  By eleven years old, Jennifer was playing guitar, blues & Ragtime piano. A multi-instrumentalist on guitar, banjo, accordion, piano, flute and others, Jen will play string bass with... Read More →
JM

Jim Metz

Jim Metz is a multi-instrumentalist (banjo and resonator guitar) and sings tenor in Clear Fork's harmony mix.  As a child growing up in West Virginia, he sang with his mother, an old-time music radio entertainer. Upon moving to Ohio, Jim learned the Bluegrass ropes at the foot of... Read More →
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Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet

Founded in 1984, the Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet has backed up legendary musicians Chubby Wise and Mac Wiseman. Paul Kovac, the band’s founder, learned guitar from his sister, played in a family band, and learned banjo from the many West Virginia and Kentucky transplant musicians... Read More →
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Ray Sponaugle

Ray Sponaugle was born in West Virginia, and began fiddling at 14. Like many young men of his day, Ray moved to Northeast Ohio for work.  For more than twenty-five years he was the fiddler for the West Virginia Travelers, a band fronted by John Douglas, the father of National Heritage... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 9:00pm - 9:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

9:30pm EDT

Tumbao Bravo - Cuban/Caribbean
Dance to Hot, Latin sounds.  You'll find it hard to just sit and watch.
Performers
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Tumbao Bravo

In Afro-Cuban music, tumbao refers to the basic rhythm played on the tumbadoras and the bass. Bravo means excellence. Tumbao Bravo, the band, was formed in 2004 by conga player Alberto Nacif and reedman Paul VornHagen.Alberto Nacif was born in the isthmus state of Oaxaca in Mexico... Read More →
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Alberto Nacif

In Afro-Cuban music, tumbao refers to the basic rhythm played on the tumbadoras and the bass. Bravo means excellence. Tumbao Bravo, the band, was formed in 2004 by conga player Alberto Nacif and reedman Paul VornHagen.Alberto Nacif was born in the isthmus state of Oaxaca in Mexico... Read More →
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Paul VornHagen

In Afro-Cuban music, tumbao refers to the basic rhythm played on the tumbadoras and the bass. Bravo means excellence. Tumbao Bravo, the band, was formed in 2004 by conga player Alberto Nacif and reedman Paul VornHagen.In 2003 Alberto met Paul VornHagen at Ann Arbor’s famed Firefly... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 9:30pm - 10:45pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

9:45pm EDT

Lanialoha & Aloha Lives! - Hawai'ian Ukulele/Hula
Performers
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Lanialoha

Carole Lanialoha “Lani” Lee-Sumberg is a third-generation descendant of the first Polynesians to immigrate to the Midwest. Her grandmother left Hawai’i to live with her family in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, where Lani would grow up. In order to ensure that the knowledge of Hawaiian... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 9:45pm - 10:30pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

10:00pm EDT

Cathie Ryan - Irish-American Celtic
Performers
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Cathie Ryan

Born in Detroit to immigrants from Kerry and Tipperary, Ireland, Cathie Ryan was raised in a musical home. Her father was a tenor and very much in demand as a singer. From the age of seven, Cathie joined in sessions and performed at the local Gaelic League and Irish-American Club... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2013 10:00pm - 10:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance
 
Sunday, August 11
 

12:00pm EDT

Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet
Best of the Midwest bluegrass band from Ohio
Performers
PK

Paul Kovac

Paul Kovac, founder of the Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet, learned guitar from his sister, played in a family band, and learned banjo from the many West Virginia and Kentucky transplant musicians living in Northeast Ohio. He has recorded and toured extensively, and has performed with... Read More →
JM

Jen Maurer

Jen Maurer grew up in a household surrounded by live music, fortified by her guitar-playing mother.  By eleven years old, Jennifer was playing guitar, blues & Ragtime piano. A multi-instrumentalist on guitar, banjo, accordion, piano, flute and others, Jen will play string bass with... Read More →
JM

Jim Metz

Jim Metz is a multi-instrumentalist (banjo and resonator guitar) and sings tenor in Clear Fork's harmony mix.  As a child growing up in West Virginia, he sang with his mother, an old-time music radio entertainer. Upon moving to Ohio, Jim learned the Bluegrass ropes at the foot of... Read More →
avatar for Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet

Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet

Founded in 1984, the Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet has backed up legendary musicians Chubby Wise and Mac Wiseman. Paul Kovac, the band’s founder, learned guitar from his sister, played in a family band, and learned banjo from the many West Virginia and Kentucky transplant musicians... Read More →
RS

Ray Sponaugle

Ray Sponaugle was born in West Virginia, and began fiddling at 14. Like many young men of his day, Ray moved to Northeast Ohio for work.  For more than twenty-five years he was the fiddler for the West Virginia Travelers, a band fronted by John Douglas, the father of National Heritage... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

12:00pm EDT

Les Poules à Colin - Québécois
Performers
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Les Poules à Colin

Les Poules à Colin (Colin's Chickens) is composed of five children of traditional musicians from Québec’s Lanaudière region, which is known worldwide for maintaining its traditions. Les Poules plays a traditional form of Québécois music that is colored by their formal training... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Marchand

Sarah Marchand

Sarah Marchand grew up in the midst of traditional music. Singing since she began to form words, Sarah began to play guitar at the age of 5, and took up piano while at Cégep de Joliette, where she met Marie and Éléonore. While in high school and at university, she learned and performed... Read More →
avatar for Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé was born in Vermont, then moved with her parents to the Lanaudière region of Québec at nine months old. She began taking lessons for classical violin at 9, becoming a member of the Joliette Youth Orchestra. At 10, she began performing with Dentdelion, as well as... Read More →
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Éléonore Pitre

Born in the Québec City region to a traditional Québécois dance caller-stepdancer father and a Belgian lacemaker mother, Éléonore Pitre began playing music at the age of 4, taking violin lessons until she was 11. Her family moved to Joliette in Québec's Lanaudière region at... Read More →
avatar for Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac  received his first mandolin when he was 11, and soon afterwards, added banjo, guitar and foot percussion and began studying with traditional multi-instrumentalist and foot percussionist Michel Bordeleau (La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer), guitarist... Read More →
avatar for Marie Savoie-Levac

Marie Savoie-Levac

With a musician mother, Marie Savoie-Levac, began life listening to traditional Québécois music , and began playing flute in the school band, where she met Éléonore Pitre. It was a friendship that would become the basis for Les Poules. After five years, she changed to piano, and... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

12:00pm EDT

Ukulele Jam
Join Ben Hassinger, Lanialoha and other Lansing area Uke enthusiasts for a uke jam on Sunday.  Music will be provided or just play along by ear.
Performers
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Lanialoha

Carole Lanialoha “Lani” Lee-Sumberg is a third-generation descendant of the first Polynesians to immigrate to the Midwest. Her grandmother left Hawai’i to live with her family in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, where Lani would grow up. In order to ensure that the knowledge of Hawaiian... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Campus and Community 301 Abbot Road
  MSU Campus and Community

12:00pm EDT

Svetla Vladeva and the Eastern European Ensemble -Balkan Music
Performers
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Juan Sebastián Rojas

Juan Sebastián Rojas is a Colombian percussionist, ethnomusicologist, and producer with over ten years of experience working with Afro-Colombian traditional music, as well as other musical styles, such as Balkan folkloric music, West African percussion, Caribbean popular music rhythms... Read More →
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Dena El Saffar

Dena El Saffar, who plays the viola, violin, joza and oud, is an Iraqi-American, born and raised in Chicago. She began learning the violin at 6, and at 17, began to shift her focus towards music of the Middle East. In 1993, while obtaining a degree in classical music from Indiana... Read More →
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Katrina Topalov

Katarina Topalov sings traditional music from the Balkans performing in Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Vlach, Hungarian, Macedonian, and more recently Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino. She comes from Voivodina, the northern province of Serbia, a melting pot of ethnicities and... Read More →
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Svetla Vladeva

Svetla Vladeva was born in Kazanlak, Bulgaria and was introduced to Balkan folk music at an early age by her aunt and uncle. At 8, she began playing piano accordion and at the start of her university studies, took a self-learning program on the bayan (chromatic button accordion... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 12:00pm - 1:10pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

1:00pm EDT

Lee Murdock
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Lee Murdock

Lee Murdock has uncovered a boundless body of music and stories in the Great Lakes. There is an amazing timelessness to this music, which is grounded in the work song tradition, from the rugged days of lumberjacks and wooden sailing schooners. Murdock draws heavily on archives of... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

1:00pm EDT

Red Tail Ring- Old Time
Performers
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Michael Beauchamp

Michael Beauchamp has a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnomusicology and English Literature from the University of Michigan, where he played in several bands both acoustic and electric. Growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Beauchamp was musically raised on everything from Broadway musicals to... Read More →
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Laurel Premo

Laurel Premo graduated with a BFA from the Performing Arts Technology Dept. of the University of Michigan School of Music, and spent time during her undergraduate attending the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, Finland to study traditional Finnish music and dance. She was raised... Read More →
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Red Tail Ring

Red Tail Ring is a Kalamazoo-based duo formed in 2009 by Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp, which performs a blend of original and traditional old-time American music.Add Sam Cooper to Michael and and Laurel and you get the old time square dance band, Bowhunter.

Sunday August 11, 2013 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

1:00pm EDT

Rosemaling - Scandinavian Decorative Painting
Nancy Schmidt teaches family audiences about rosemalling, a traditional Scandinavian painting technique used on furniture and decorative arts.
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Nancy Schmidt

Nancy Schmidt is a Scandinavian, (mostly Swedish) rosemaler from Waukesha, Wisconsin. Nancy has been rosemaling since 1977 when she took a class in Hallingdahl style at the urging of her mother. She has now studied the art with a number of master Norwegian rosemalers in Wisconsin... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
Kidlore 201 Abbot Road
  Meet the Expert

1:00pm EDT

Clogging Demo and workshop
Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship team, Shelia Graziano (Master) and Meredith Brown (student) will show the clogging they've been working on during their apprenticeship year.  They'll be a chance for the audience to try out a few step too.
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Meredith Brown

Meredith Brown is a tap dancer and fiddle player who views clogging as a perfect “bride” to her dance and musical worlds. Meredith is currently participating in the Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program with Master Artist Sheila Ruby Graziano. A goal of Brown’s apprenticeship... Read More →
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Sheila Graziano

Sheila Ruby Graziano began dancing at the Shirley St. Mary School of Dance in Detroit where she was introduced to many different aspects of tap. She made her TV debut on a local talent show, Starlit Stairway, in the mid-1960s. At Cass Technical High School, she enrolled in the performing... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
Campus and Community 301 Abbot Road
  MSU Campus and Community

1:30pm EDT

Dentdelion - Québécois
Performers
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Dentdelion

Two generations of traditional French-Canadian musicians form Dentdelion. From its beginnings in 1994, Dentdelion, which borrows its name from the dandelion has been an blend of personal cultures: those of Claude Méthé (Québec) and Dana Whittle (New England). They’ve since been... Read More →
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Denise Levac

Denise Levac has been immersed in traditional music for over 25 years. A classically trained flutist, she discovered traditional Lanaudière in the early 1980s alongside bands such as La Bottine Souriante, La Guignolée and Turlure. She was a member of Manigance (Normand Miron, Paul... Read More →
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Claude Méthé

Born in Québec City, fiddler-singer-guitarist Claude Méthé has been a part of the traditional music world in Québec for more than thirty years. A self-taught fiddler, his style reflects most particularly the eighteen years he lived in the region of Lotbinière, Québec. His mentor... Read More →
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Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé was born in Vermont, then moved with her parents to the Lanaudière region of Québec at nine months old. She began taking lessons for classical violin at 9, becoming a member of the Joliette Youth Orchestra. At 10, she began performing with Dentdelion, as well as... Read More →
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Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac  received his first mandolin when he was 11, and soon afterwards, added banjo, guitar and foot percussion and began studying with traditional multi-instrumentalist and foot percussionist Michel Bordeleau (La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer), guitarist... Read More →
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Dana Whittle

Music and songs have always been part of Dana Whittle's life, whether in the Sunday car rides or family celebrations. From the age of six, she played guitar and sang in choirs and musicals; her grandmother was a singer in the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Most evenings and weekends... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 1:30pm - 2:40pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

2:00pm EDT

Lanialoha & Aloha Lives! - Hawai'ian Ukulele/Hula
Performers
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Lanialoha

Carole Lanialoha “Lani” Lee-Sumberg is a third-generation descendant of the first Polynesians to immigrate to the Midwest. Her grandmother left Hawai’i to live with her family in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, where Lani would grow up. In order to ensure that the knowledge of Hawaiian... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

2:00pm EDT

Mike Espy and Yakity Yak - Blues
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Mike Espy

Mike Espy grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, just a few miles from the original Gibson guitar factory (now in Nashville, TN). He took guitar lessons when he was ten years old, and soon became a student of the blues.  In 1989, he moved to Tennessee to attend University of Memphis to... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

2:00pm EDT

Clogging for Kids
Sheila Graziano and apprentice, Meredith Brown, teaches clogging and traditional step dancing to a family audience.
Performers
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Meredith Brown

Meredith Brown is a tap dancer and fiddle player who views clogging as a perfect “bride” to her dance and musical worlds. Meredith is currently participating in the Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program with Master Artist Sheila Ruby Graziano. A goal of Brown’s apprenticeship... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Kidlore 201 Abbot Road
  Meet the Expert

2:00pm EDT

Lee Murdock- Alan Lomax in Mich.
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Lee Murdock

Lee Murdock has uncovered a boundless body of music and stories in the Great Lakes. There is an amazing timelessness to this music, which is grounded in the work song tradition, from the rugged days of lumberjacks and wooden sailing schooners. Murdock draws heavily on archives of... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Campus and Community 301 Abbot Road
  Special Event

3:00pm EDT

Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet
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Paul Kovac

Paul Kovac, founder of the Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet, learned guitar from his sister, played in a family band, and learned banjo from the many West Virginia and Kentucky transplant musicians living in Northeast Ohio. He has recorded and toured extensively, and has performed with... Read More →
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Jen Maurer

Jen Maurer grew up in a household surrounded by live music, fortified by her guitar-playing mother.  By eleven years old, Jennifer was playing guitar, blues & Ragtime piano. A multi-instrumentalist on guitar, banjo, accordion, piano, flute and others, Jen will play string bass with... Read More →
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Jim Metz

Jim Metz is a multi-instrumentalist (banjo and resonator guitar) and sings tenor in Clear Fork's harmony mix.  As a child growing up in West Virginia, he sang with his mother, an old-time music radio entertainer. Upon moving to Ohio, Jim learned the Bluegrass ropes at the foot of... Read More →
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Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet

Founded in 1984, the Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet has backed up legendary musicians Chubby Wise and Mac Wiseman. Paul Kovac, the band’s founder, learned guitar from his sister, played in a family band, and learned banjo from the many West Virginia and Kentucky transplant musicians... Read More →
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Ray Sponaugle

Ray Sponaugle was born in West Virginia, and began fiddling at 14. Like many young men of his day, Ray moved to Northeast Ohio for work.  For more than twenty-five years he was the fiddler for the West Virginia Travelers, a band fronted by John Douglas, the father of National Heritage... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

3:00pm EDT

Finnish American Wood Carving
Pete “Pekka” Olson shares Finnish American woodcarving and basketry traditions with family audiences.
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Pete Olson

Peter “Pekka” Olson began his “love for wood” through his father who was of Finnish and Swedish descent. Together they made many of their own tools, such as hay rakes, handles, door latches, and hazelnut brooms as well as toys, such as wooden whistles, rifles, and slingshots... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Kidlore 201 Abbot Road
  Meet the Expert

3:00pm EDT

Bowhunter - Old Time Dance Music
Come dance to the cool old-time sounds of this hot band!  Grab and partner and form a square.  Folklorist and Dance Caller, Paul Tyler will teach the dances and call with the music.
Performers
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Michael Beauchamp

Michael Beauchamp has a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnomusicology and English Literature from the University of Michigan, where he played in several bands both acoustic and electric. Growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Beauchamp was musically raised on everything from Broadway musicals to... Read More →
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Sam Cooper

Samantha Cooper will join Red Tail Ring at the Great Lakes Folk Festival to form Bowhunter. Samantha grew up hearing her father play at jazz festivals , and playing violin and fiddle with her family. Samantha is a member of the Earthwork Music Collective, and is co-founder of Square... Read More →
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Laurel Premo

Laurel Premo graduated with a BFA from the Performing Arts Technology Dept. of the University of Michigan School of Music, and spent time during her undergraduate attending the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, Finland to study traditional Finnish music and dance. She was raised... Read More →
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Red Tail Ring

Red Tail Ring is a Kalamazoo-based duo formed in 2009 by Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp, which performs a blend of original and traditional old-time American music.Add Sam Cooper to Michael and and Laurel and you get the old time square dance band, Bowhunter.

Sunday August 11, 2013 3:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

3:15pm EDT

Traditions Showcase - Airport Jam
Three or four musicians meet in an airport-  each on the way from here to there.  Someone pulls out their guitar and soon music echos through the terminal.  Come listen to musicans for several different bands play together - spontaneously!
Sunday August 11, 2013 3:15pm - 4:00pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  Comparative Music

3:30pm EDT

Michigan Heritage Awards
Join with the MSU Museum to celebrate and honor tradition bearers from our great state! 
Sunday August 11, 2013 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
Campus and Community 301 Abbot Road
  Special Event

4:00pm EDT

Cathie Ryan - Irish-American Celtic
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Cathie Ryan

Born in Detroit to immigrants from Kerry and Tipperary, Ireland, Cathie Ryan was raised in a musical home. Her father was a tenor and very much in demand as a singer. From the age of seven, Cathie joined in sessions and performed at the local Gaelic League and Irish-American Club... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

4:00pm EDT

(Cancelled) Wiba Anung- Native American activities for pre-schoolers
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED  -as of Aug 6
The Kidlore area will be open, with lots of fun, drop-in activities and crafts.
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Wiba Anung

The Wiba Anung (Ojibwe for Early Star) project is a partnership between researchers at Michigan State University, educators from Bay Mills Community College, and program directors, teachers, and parents of Michigan’s American Indian Head Start programs. Since 2006, Wiba Anung has... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Kidlore 201 Abbot Road
  Meet the Expert

4:00pm EDT

Bamboo Fly Rod Making Demo
A life-long passion for fishing led Wes Cooper to make his own bamboo fishing rods. At the festival this year he Wes will be honored with a Michigan Heritage Award.  As part of the ceremony, he will demonstate some of the tricks and techniques he uses to make his sought after fly rods.
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Wes Cooper

Wesley Cooper was born in 1927 in Akron, Ohio, and settled in Fremont, Michigan where he worked as a high school teacher and raised a family of three boys.  He grew up fishing for bass in the lakes of Ohio, but became interested in trout fishing in Michigan’s Au Sable River and... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Campus and Community 301 Abbot Road
  MSU Campus and Community

4:15pm EDT

Kaivama - Finnish-American
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Kaivama

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →
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Sara Pajunen

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →
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Jonathan Rundman

Kaivama is a Finnish word that stems from the verb kaivaa: to delve or dig. Sara Pajunen and Jonathan Rundman both grew up in Finnish-American epicenters not far from the shores of Lake Superior, both towns famous for vast open-pit iron mines--Sara in Hibbing, Minnesota and Jonathan... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
City Hall Stage 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing 48823
  A Music Performance

4:30pm EDT

Les Bassettes - Cajun
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Les Bassettes

The three members of Les Bassettes (a Cajun-French term for petite females, pronounced lay bah-seht) come from different musical backgrounds, and met by way of the vibrant music and dance scene in Lafayette, Louisiana. Megan Brown, Heather Mullin and Kelli Jones were drawn together... Read More →
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Megan Brown

Megan Brown is originally from Tepetate, Louisiana,  and grew up to the sound of Cajun music at her grandparents' Cajun restaurant. It was at the Davis and Elkins' Augusta Heritage week for Cajun and Creole culture, where she taught Cajun dancing with her mother, that she took to... Read More →
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Kelli Jones

Kelli Jones (fiddle, vocals) has been playing fiddle since the age of 15, and began playing old time music in her home state of North Carolina. The daughter of old-time fiddler, Carl Jones, who toured regularly with Norman and Nancy Blake, Kelli moved to Lafayette, Louisiana in 2006... Read More →
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Heather Mullen

Heather Mullen (accordion, fiddle, vocals) learned to play violin through the Suzuki method as a child, and grew up as part of the New England contra dance and folk scene near Boston, where she developed a desire to play fiddle. Her parents were active in local folk dancing, so Heather... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 4:30pm - 5:45pm EDT
Dance Stage 131 Albert Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823
  Dance Participatory

5:00pm EDT

Dentdelion - Québécois
Performers
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Dentdelion

Two generations of traditional French-Canadian musicians form Dentdelion. From its beginnings in 1994, Dentdelion, which borrows its name from the dandelion has been an blend of personal cultures: those of Claude Méthé (Québec) and Dana Whittle (New England). They’ve since been... Read More →
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Denise Levac

Denise Levac has been immersed in traditional music for over 25 years. A classically trained flutist, she discovered traditional Lanaudière in the early 1980s alongside bands such as La Bottine Souriante, La Guignolée and Turlure. She was a member of Manigance (Normand Miron, Paul... Read More →
avatar for Claude Méthé

Claude Méthé

Born in Québec City, fiddler-singer-guitarist Claude Méthé has been a part of the traditional music world in Québec for more than thirty years. A self-taught fiddler, his style reflects most particularly the eighteen years he lived in the region of Lotbinière, Québec. His mentor... Read More →
avatar for Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé

Béatrix Méthé was born in Vermont, then moved with her parents to the Lanaudière region of Québec at nine months old. She began taking lessons for classical violin at 9, becoming a member of the Joliette Youth Orchestra. At 10, she began performing with Dentdelion, as well as... Read More →
avatar for Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac

Colin Savoie-Levac  received his first mandolin when he was 11, and soon afterwards, added banjo, guitar and foot percussion and began studying with traditional multi-instrumentalist and foot percussionist Michel Bordeleau (La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer), guitarist... Read More →
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Dana Whittle

Music and songs have always been part of Dana Whittle's life, whether in the Sunday car rides or family celebrations. From the age of six, she played guitar and sang in choirs and musicals; her grandmother was a singer in the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Most evenings and weekends... Read More →

Sunday August 11, 2013 5:00pm - 5:45pm EDT
M.A.C. Stage 300 MAC, East Lansing, MI 48823
  A Music Performance

5:00pm EDT

Thai Student Dancers
We are students who receive scholarships from the Royal Thai Government to complete our bachelor’s degrees at MSU. In Thailand, we have to learn Thai traditional dance in schools to keep conserving Thai culture and to be able to introduce foreigners to our Thai culture. We hope that you enjoy our performances.

Rum-See-Nuam in a traditional dance. The postures and lyrics try to capture and convey the characteristics of a traditional Thai teenage girl, who has sweet and gentle personality. It is usually performed in various ceremonies in both single and group performances.

Tarikipas is a traditional performance in the southern part of Thailand and it is famous among Thai Muslims. The name of the dance comes from Malayan language. Tari means to dance and ‘Kipas’ means hand fan which refers to a pair of ornate hand fans used by the each performer. It is usually performed in pairs and groups in various ceremonies.

The performers are:

Atchareeya Prasitwongsa

Nitiya Aryusom

Amphai Phaphim

Wichayaporn Patadee

Sunday August 11, 2013 5:00pm - 5:45pm EDT
Campus and Community 301 Abbot Road
  MSU Campus and Community
 
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