ONLINE TICKET SALES FOR THIS EVENT HAVE ENDED. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE GATE FOR THE FOLLOWING PRICES MORNING EVENT : Ages 13+ = $8, Ages 3-12 = $5, Ages 2 and under = FREE EVENING EVENT: $25, Ages 21+ Only **Please note that the morning family-friendly carnival and the evening Monsters’ Ball are separately [...]

TART Trails, Recycle A Bicycle, and Porterhouse Productions present The Traverse City Dandy Horse Bike Festival & Bicycle Swap! Friday, June 10: Want to get rid of your gently used bikes and bike gear? Here’s how it works: 1. YOU, the seller, drop off your bike/gear at at the Old Town Parking Garage (125 E [...]

—> WE ARE NOT SOLD OUT! TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE GATE FOR $41! 2012 3rd Annual Paella in the Park presented by Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula Friday, August 3, 2012 4:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. at Clinch Park in Traverse City, Michigan The weather calls for 85º and sunny – with a [...]

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Beijing. A smoke-filled club bustling with people, clanging of bottles, chatter. There is a woman on stage with her banjo. She begins to sing old-time Appalachian music in Chinese. The effect produced is entirely original, a cultural mash-up between two distant yet not so different worlds. The crowd quiets down to listen. Abigail Washburn never [...]

  www.andrewbird.net www.moreaccidentals.com THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT Porterhouse Productions will host award-winning singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and indie rock artist Andrew Bird at the City Opera House on Thursday, April 11. Traverse City’s own Savannah Buist and Katie Larson of THE ACCIDENTALS will be opening the show. Combining folk, rock, pop, classical and blues influences, Andrew [...]

This event took place on August 14, 2010 SOME TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE GATE! 5PM = Gate opens, dinner, drinks (cash bar – cash & checks only), magic and comedy with Billy Harris, introduction of 231 Harvest signature drink with Bridget Albert 8PM = Welcome by Doug Stanton, Interview with Mario Batali by [...]

Ani DiFranco has written hundreds of songs, played thousands of shows, captured the imaginations of legions of followers, and jammed with folkies, orchestras, rappers, rock and roll hall-of-famers, jazz musicians, poets, pop superstars, storytellers and a martial arts legend. She’s “fixed up a few old buildings” and minimized her carbon footprint before it was trendy [...]

It’s been quite a ride for Aphrodesia since their birth in 2003: a pilgrimage to the legendary Shrine nightclub in Lagos, Nigeria in 2006, a cross-country voter-registration tour in a vegetable oil-powered bus in 2004 and accolades everywhere from National Public Radio to USA Today. Through it all the San Francisco-based 11-piece ensemble has won [...]

The Arrogant Worms are a three-man comedy troupe. Using only guitar, bass, great stage presence, super-tight harmonies and the sharpest of wit, The Worms are on a mission to make you laugh. They are Canada’s self-proclaimed Clowned Princes of Humor, Purveyors of the Absurd, and Ambassadors of Fun. One of Canada’s most popular live acts, [...]

The Good Work Collective is proud to partner with the Traverse City Wine & Art Festival to present an evening of community art, live music and craft food and beverages this Friday, April 29! This event is part of the annual Downtown Traverse City Art Walk, a self-guided tour of Traverse City’s downtown galleries. The [...]

Twelve years after becoming the first hip-hop act to put the Twin Cities on the map, Atmosphere has grown into one of the most accomplished MC/producer duos around. Between Slug and Ant, they’ve released seven albums, 13 Sad Clown tour albums and various side-projects like Felt – amounting in well over a million units sold. [...]

TO ALL MY FRIENDS TOUR with special guests Blueprint, Grieves & Budo, DJ Rare Groove Twelve years after becoming the first hip-hop act to put the Twin Cities on the map, Atmosphere has grown into one of the most accomplished MC/producer duos around. Between Slug and Ant, they’ve released seven albums, 13 Sad Clown tour [...]

The B-Side Players make music without borders or boundaries. On Fire In The Youth, their seventh album and first for Concord/Picante, they continue exploring the multifaceted grooves of Latin America and the Caribbean, incorporating the sounds of Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico and Brazil with the funk, rock, jazz and hip-hop rhythms of their homeland. With Latin [...]

This South Carolina-based indie-rock band’s swirling, dreampop-like musical backing, ragged Neil Young influences and tenor vocals initially drew comparisons to fellow Southern-based indie rockers My Morning Jacket. Multi-instrumentalists Ben Bridwell and Mat Brooke formed the group in Seattle in 2004 after their slow-core band Carissa’s Wierd broke up due to mounting financial problems. After releasing [...]

Barrage – A high-octane fiddle-fest that features an international, multi-talented cast performing an eclectic mix of music, song and dance. “Barrage is too Wow for Words !” – Denver Post Barrage has entertained millions of people around the globe .  Fans in Europe, Asia and North America have enjoyed Barrage at International Festivals, Concert Performances, [...]

Ben Klein is a dynamic musician whose high intensity performances have led him to regional renown in the Pacific Northwest. His unique style of extreme flute, which he calls Ben Flutism, consistently ignites audiences and gains the respect of fellow musicians. In all of his music, you can hear the multi-cultural influences from his wide [...]

Blue October will play at the Leelanau Sands Showroom on Friday, October 8, 2010, as part of their national Pick Up the Phone Tour. GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY! The alternative rock band behind such smash hits as “Hate Me,” “Calling You” and “Into the Ocean” will begin a 30+-stop tour in July, wrapping up in [...]

An Evening with Blues Traveler at the City Opera House FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012 7:30 p.m. doors | 8:30 p.m. show The City Opera House Cash bar available Reserved Seats | Seated Show : $29 | $35 | $45 TICKETS: CLICK HERE to buy your tickets online, or purchase by phone at 231-941-8082. Porterhouse Productions [...]

Five years ago, Brett Dennen was a camp counselor who played guitar, wrote songs and performed fireside. With a self-made album, he began playing coffee shops along the West Coast and a devoted following formed. A modest independent record deal led first to his 2006 break-through album, So Much More, then to the attention of [...]

The Broad Comedy Broads: they’re savvy, irreverent, and they’re probably being followed by Karl Rove in a big black Hummer. These are the women who skewer the Bush White House with crowd-pleasing favorites like “The United States Extreme Right Wing Cheerleading Squad” and they gleefully lampoon the Teen Abstinence Movement with “I’m Saving My Hymen [...]

Alligator Records has set a May 5, 2009 release date for “LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN”, the stunning label debut from American musical legend, Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr. and his band, Buckwheat Zydeco. The New York Times says, “Stanley ‘Buckwheat’ Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and [...]

Three and a half years in the making, the efforts of writing and recording THERE IS NO ENEMY led Built to Spill founder Doug Martsch to wonder whether this would be the last album he ever makes. As his wife, I watched him work, pouring hour after hour , day after day into writing. Song [...]

Camper Van Beethoven introduced an eclectic, often humorous blend of hippie psychedelia, avant-garde improvisation, country-western shadings, pseudo-ethnic sounds, and a hardcore punch to the mid-’80s postpunk scene. What saved the group from novelty status was its genuine talent for making interesting, adventurous music. After its breakup, Lowery went on to greater commercial success in his [...]

Downtown Traverse City will once again be hosting the Annual Celebration for Young Children this Saturday, April 30! Enjoy laughter and the pitter-patter of little feet as hundreds of children and families gather to celebrate with a variety of fun activities across downtown and Old Town. At The Good Work Collective, we will be offering [...]

Celtic Crossroads Short Trailer Just when you think that you have seen the best that Irish music has to offer, a fresh new show from Ireland is taking the art form to an entirely new level. Celtic Crossroads presents Irish music like never before, they are doing to Irish music what Riverdance has done to [...]

Bassist, composer and Montana native, Chad Langford teaches privately, and is adjunct professor of double bass at Montana State University, Bozeman. He has appeared in major festivals throughout North America, including NxNW, MusicfestNW, the Yellowstone Jazz Festival, and JazzFest International in Victoria B.C. He currently performs and records with Jeni and Jake Fleming in the [...]

Come on down to The Good Work Collective – a think/do all-arts gallery space where community ideas, grass roots projects, brainstorm sessions, and creative concepts have an opportunity to come to life – and enjoy an evening of music, art, and community. For those 21+, craft ales will be offered. Visit The GWC at http://www.facebook.com/goodworkcollective. [...]

City Opera House is a Performing Arts venue, all concert-type shows are “seated.”  Reserved seats are sold on the  main floor and to maintain a safe and secure environment for everyone, patrons are encouraged to sit and enjoy a great show. Thank you! For more information about Traverse City’s City Opera House, please visit their [...]

Porterhouse Statement on Wharton Center/City Opera House Contract Throughout Porterhouse Productions’ relationship with the City Opera House and Wharton Center, our purpose has been to stay positive and open to the collaborative opportunities presented by an entity like Wharton, while still asking the necessary questions to protect our right and the community’s right to access [...]

Are You Lookin’ at Me? is Colin Hay’s first studio album of new material in over five years. A tuneful, insightful meditation on life, love, sobriety, maturity and perseverance, the album finds Hay at the absolute peak of his craft. As a writer and vocalist, he has never been more masterful: finding intriguing new angles [...]

What happens when you combine trained musicians from the world-renowned Berklee School of Music in Boston, with an articulate emcee and breathtaking beat-wizard both born and raised in sunny, southern California? Crown City Rockers, that’s what – a genre-blending hip-hop sollective whose music is original, powerful and provocative all in the same breath and follows [...]

David Grisman’s bands in their various quartet and quintet configurations, have showcased acoustic music ever since he started the first DGQ in the fall of 1975. That band featured David on mandolin, Todd Phillips on mandolin, Joe Carroll on bass, Tony Rice on guitar, and Darol Anger on fiddle. Ever since then, the DGQ has [...]

Nathaniel Taylor, aka DJ DomiNate, was born and still resides in his hometown of Traverse City, Michigan. Music has been a gift and came naturally since grade school for him as the strings were his first instrumental practices. DomiNate started when he was 5 years old with the introduction of the Violin and soon followed [...]

Thanks to all those who came out to the Girl Talk show in Missoula, Montana, on March 14, 2011! Here’s a quick clip from the stage. January 2011 – Celebrating 10-plus years of sample-obsessed production and relentless touring, Gregg Gillis returns with All Day, his fifth album as Girl Talk, and his most epic, densely [...]

[Logo designed by www.hitchdesignstudio.com] GREAT WAKES FESTIVAL in partnership with Bay Area Recycling for Charities Friday & Saturday, June 1 & 2 at The Open Space in Downtown Traverse City where Union Street & Grandview Parkway meet RAIN OR SHINE! A rockin’ celebration of water with a mission to raise funds and awareness for water-focused [...]

  The One Man Entertainment System, otherwise known as Heatbox, has been emerging in the Minneapolis music scene for the better part of a decade. From rocking crowds in his humble beginnings with the Root City Band to selling out shows across the country, Heatbox’s unparalleled crossover between Motown, a cappella, R&B, Hip Hop, soul [...]

“Sacramento’s Jackie Greene has more old-soul in him than most musicians twice his age. He’s been tagged as a blues phenom, but his album reveals an effortless flair for Texas-and-Greenwich Village-style folk, hillbilly stomp, bar-band boogie woogie, or just about any roots-related genre he cares to try on for size. He’s a songwriter, plain and [...]

When you think of “grassroots” and “down to Earth,” you don’t normally think of a movie star. You especially don’t think of a movie star the caliber of Jeff Daniels. Yet that is exactly what Jeff has accomplished with his second CD Grandfather’s Hat. With the follow-up album to Live and Unplugged, Daniels has proven [...]

Joe Craven wears many hats and plays many things.  He’s a madman with anything that has strings attached, including hospital bed pans, gas cans, cookie tins, roasting pots, fiddles, mandolins, tenor guitars, saz, cuatro and a world of percussion instruments including animal bones, latex squeeze toys, cake pans, waste cans, umbrella stands, martini shakers and…Himself. [...]

The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter catches the Idaho musician in the midst of a radical transformation. While last year’s The Animal Years had Ritter thinking about the state of the nation, his latest offering finds him pining for Joan of Arc, Calamity Jane and Florence Nightingale, all of whom seem to be stuck together [...]

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW! FIND THIS EVENT ON FACEBOOK! THE COURAGE to open the show! “…he sets out to carry a world of ideas on a few basic chords….there is no limit to the depth and ambition of his songs.” – The New York Times “How refreshing and inspiring it is to encounter a young [...]

Joshua James has been writing and singing songs for only six short years, but the 25-year-old heartland poet has the perspective of a wise, old soul. On his second album, Build Me This, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed The Sun is Always Brighter, produced by industry veteran Shannon Edgar, James expands his musical palette [...]

Keller Williams has built a career on his uncanny ability to captivate a packed house—all by himself. He’s been called a “one-man band.” A “solo cult-hero.” “Music’s mad-scientist.” All of which are clever labels for what seems to be an essential truth: On stage, Keller Williams works alone. For over 100 shows a year, Williams [...]

Hailing from Cadilac Michigan, Luke Winslow-King is a singer, songsmith, and composer inspired by New Orleans jazz, rock, ragtime, impressionism, delta and country blues, poetry, folk, and classical music. Beginning his studies at Interlochen Arts Academy, King studied music theory and composition at the University of New Orleans where he was awarded an ambassador scholarship [...]

LUKE WINSLOW-KING, a musician originally from Cadillac, Michigan, who now resides in New Orleans, sounds as if he’s a learned young man in all of the antiquated, but most soulful and vibrant principles of songwriting, winding us through the blues, R&B, dirty, rotten garage rock, swampy rock, ghostly structures of Spanish guitar and graveyard shifts [...]

1st Annual M-22 Challenge – 9am Saturday June 20, 2009 – Glen Arbor, MI The M-22 Challenge is a multi-discipline event based in beautiful Leelanau County in Northern Michigan. The event is designed to challenge athletes against the natural terrain and environmental elements of the area : 1) Bike around Big and Little Glen Lakes, [...]

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A native of Syracuse, New York, Martin Sexton grew up in the 80′s, uninterested in the sounds of the day, and fueled his dreams on the timeless sounds of classic rock and roll. Sexton eventually migrated to Boston, where he began to build his following singing on the streets of Harvard Square and gradually working [...]

Born into a family of musicians, May Erlewine has been playing music all her life. She learned to sing and play piano at an early age, and her acoustic guitar is seldom far from her side. Erlewine, who was home schooled, paid her singer-songwriter dues in her late teens with several years of hitchhiking back [...]

May Erlewine A Concert to Benefit Women’s Leadership in Michigan Featuring Special guest Darlene At The Good Work Collective 417 South Union Street, Traverse City, MI Friday, April 19 | 7:00 p.m. Doors | 8:00 p.m. Show $25 : BUY TICKETS NOW May Erlewine has been playing music in Michigan for most of her life [...]

Michael Franti is a very big man who has always dared to say very big things through his joyous and passionate music during an unusually diverse and highly impressive career. Yet for all the wide-ranging, yet consistent excellence of his body of work, what’s most impressive about Michael Franti as a recording artist and live [...]

One of the more unexpected mainstream success stories of the 2000s was Modest Mouse. More than a decade after the arty Pacific Northwest indie-rock band formed, its sixth album, Good News for People Who Love Bad News, reached Number 18 on the Billboard 200, thanks in part to its Number One Modern Rock single “Float [...]

rooted in the lowlands of europe, conceived in paris, born and raised in the cornfield flatlands of midwestern america, myshkin is a chameleonic wanderer who writes songs with a wealth of experience, an arresting helping of raw honesty, and a painter’s eye. at twenty, a theater school dropout, she took a year off to live [...]

October Festival at the Commons with Greensky Bluegrass Presented by Porterhouse Productions & Hoxeyville A Celebration of Local Foods • Microbrews, Wine and Ciders • and Music Made in Michigan On the Historic Front Lawn of The Village at Grand Traverse Commons Friday, October 12, 2012 5:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. $20 in ADV, $25 [...]

May 31, 2011 Our exciting news is finally out! Porterhouse Productions is thrilled to announce plans for a new performance venue in Old Town Traverse City, in partnership with Jon Carlson and Greg Lobdell, proprietors of The Blue Tractor, The Shed, North Peak, Mission Table, Jolly Pumpkin, and Kilkenny’s. We’d love to hear from you. [...]

This Friday! August 5, 2011, 5 PM – 10 PM at Clinch Park in Downtown Traverse City Featuring 7 Old Mission Peninsula Wineries, 7 Chefs, 4 Bands (Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Hoots & Hellmouth, Grupo Aye, and Johnny Rodgers), professional swing and salsa dancers and dance floors, and a beautiful evening on the shores of West [...]

PATTY LARKIN has always prided herself in her creative approach to music. With WATCH THE SKY, Larkin has created a one of a kind release that she wrote, produced, engineered and edited. Larkin wrote and recorded much of the material as it came to her, assembling tracks and sounds as she went. The result is [...]

In an effort to share great music with fellow music lovers, we’ll be adding new “PHP Picks” on a regular basis. Enjoy! The Weepies “Red Red Rose” John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light “Love Is A Shark” Ingrid Michaelson “Maybe” Michael Franti & Spearhead “Say Hey (I Love You)” Heatbox “I Need A Jack [...]

The interplay between Allison Russell, Awna Teixeira, Benny Sidelinger, and JJ Jones is truly something to behold. They are distinct voices with incredible harmonies; multiple instrumentalists who bring the perfect sound to each song and songwriters who pen poetic tunes you’ll find yourself humming. Po’Girl showcases a wide array of instruments-from gutbucket bass, accordion, clarinet, [...]

December 16, 2011 – 7:00 p.m. at The Good Work Collective in Old Town Traverse City 417 South Union Street, Traverse City with special guest Steve Cousins, TCAPS Superintendent Read a recent TC Ticker article about the “educator-slash-guitar-hero” here. RATONE Ratone “The Band” formed in late 2010. It was started by Billy, Sean, and Peter, [...]

Compare her to other eccentric, female, piano-playing crooners, but New York singer-songwriter Regina Spektor is an oddball unto herself. Less miserable than Fiona Apple, less wacky than Nellie McKay and less hippieish than Tori Amos, Spektor shows off her gorgeous, fluttery voice, her burgeoning writer chops and her God-given quirks on her second disc, Begin [...]

Porterhouse Productions seeking donated instruments for ROCK THE FUTURE Campaign will provide donated instruments FREE to aspiring rockers in need – the first of which will be given away at the December Good Work Collective concerts with local high school bands Ratone & Seldomtone on December 16 and Seth Bernard & May Erlewine on December [...]

My father gave me a guitar for Christmas when I was in the third grade. Little black Fender Squier and a Squier amp. Pretty sick little set up for a 9-year-old, actually. I tried to play a few things, some blues my uncle taught me, as I recall. Even took some lessons from an older [...]

Bernard was born and raised on Earthwork Farm in Northern Michigan, surrounded by gardens, goats, hippies, rednecks and stringed instruments, smack dab in the middle of a tightly woven circle of friends and family throughout the Regan Era. Just outside Lake City. A fine small hometown. No shortage of churches, bars or lakes around. The [...]

The first song Shawn Colvin completed for These Four Walls, her Nonesuch debut, was the wistful “Summer Dress,” which opens with Colvin singing over the austere strum of a lone acoustic guitar, then builds into a lilting folk-rock arrangement. Colvin maintains a delicate balance between confidence and vulnerability as she describes a dream-like venture out [...]

Near the turn of the 21st century, rebel forces attacked Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, forcing a panicked mass exodus to neighboring countries. Among the thousands who fled were musicians and future band mates Reuben Koroma and Francis Lamgba (Franco) who connected in a refugee camp in Guinea, West Africa. Along with Reuben’s [...]

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

Check out Storyhill on Mountain Stage, featured on NPR in January of 2009 : http://bit.ly/6EyyFR Popular acoustic folk-pop duo Storyhill comprises John Hermanson (The Hopefuls) with long-time buddy Chris Cunningham, and features insightful, introspective songs with sweet harmonies and highly complementary guitar work, all in the tradition of Simon and Garfunkel, Loggins and Messina, and [...]

THE FIRST SUNDAY SOUP WILL TAKE PLACE ON SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011, 5-8 PM, AT THE GOOD WORK COLLECTIVE IN OLD TOWN, TC. View the calendar page for more info. ——————————————- EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Sunday Soup is presented in Northwest Lower Michigan by Porterhouse Productions, the Institute for Sustainable Living, Art & Natural Design (ISLAND), [...]

2011 Smart Commute Week Schedule of Events (subject to change): Monday, June 6: Smart Commute Week Kick-off! Smart Commute Challenge begins Commuter Breakfasts 7-9 AM Pangea’s Pizza Higher Grounds Coffee Tuesday, June 7: Travel Safe Tuesday Smart Commute Challenge Central Grade School Smart Commute with the Mayor! Walking school buses & Bike Trains- volunteers wanted! Commuter Breakfasts [...]

Traverse City Festival of Birds City Opera House | Traverse City, MI Doors @ 6:30 PM | Show @ 7:30 PM $5 Youth / $15 GA • Tickets available at Oryana and City Opera House FEATURING LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM BREATHE OWL BREATHE AND MIKE MORAN! Local nature lovers, artists and musicians are the collaborative force [...]

We’re pleased to announce that the 2012 Third Annual Traverse City Winter Microbrew & Music Festival will be held at The Village at Grand Traverse Commons on February 11, 2012. In light of recent scheduling conflicts with the Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival, Porterhouse has determined the best compromise for all involved parties is to [...]

Ten Foot Tall & 80 Proof is a four-piece ensemble covering a wide variety of musical flavors including bluegrass, old-time country, honky tonk, blues and rock. Our performance arsenal is comprised of acoustic and electric guitar, piano, mandolin, upright and electric bass, harmonica, drums and percussion and tight vocal harmonies. Our energetic twist of twang [...]

“Funky Bean,” “Buttmachine,” Mustaches and Laser beams. It reads like a page out of a Dr. Seuss book, but for Mike Silverman, better known as That 1 Guy, it is just the reality he was searching for. At 150-200 live shows each year people gather to see his mad scientist at work, curiously watching as [...]

The Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Duhks have always gravitated towards traditional roots-based song structures, but they’ve never stopped evolving since their inception five years ago. Due in part to a collective musical worldview that knows no boundaries, that evolution led the band to their latest offering Fast-Paced World, the first Duhks record to feature wunderkinds Sarah and [...]

The Good Work Collective is located at 417 South Union Street in Old Town, Traverse City, Michigan. For more information, please feel free to contact Sam Porter at 231-499-4968 or sam@porterhouseproductions.com. The Good Work Collective is a think/do all-arts gallery space where community ideas, grass roots projects, brainstorm sessions, and creative concepts have an opportunity [...]

The Hold Steady was born out of some loose talk in my Boreum Hill apartment in 2002. I had moved to Brooklyn about two years earlier. I was thirty-one years old, and the other dudes were about my same age. Our concept was to start a straight rock band, with low aspirations. Just local shows, [...]

With seven gold and six platinum recordings and over three million albums sold, this four- member vocal group is one of Canada’s top international success stories – they have become a global institution and a legend in the world of vocal music. The group has performed over 1000 concerts in dozens of tours worldwide including [...]

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW! Sliding Scale : $15 – $40 TONY FURTADO: A PLAYER FOR EVERY TASTE by Rick Coates for Northern Express Multi-instrumentalist Tony Furtado is looking for three things when he comes to Traverse City this week: a full house, smelt for dinner, and a couple of good glasses of wine. Furtado should [...]

Those eager to partake of Umphrey’s McGee’s fruitful outpouring during the recording sessions that resulted in 2006′s Safety In Numbers can rejoice. On April 3, 2007 the sextet released The Bottom Half, a double-disc of unreleased songs, bonus material and odds and sods that will essentially tell the whole story of those extraordinary sessions. Upon [...]

UP NORTH FOURTH Saturday, July 7, 2012 East Park in Charlevoix, Michigan Presented by Charlevoix Ace Hardware & Weber Grill ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE ENDED. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR! 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. – FREE ENTRY, FAMILY-FRIENDLY Live Music from Michi-Guinea featuring Facinet Bangoura, Silent Disco DJ Dance Tent with DJ [...]

Saturday, October 31, 2009 Z-MASH featuring LYRICS BORN The Terminal | Traverse City, MI FIRST SHOW (All Ages) : Doors @ 6:30 PM | Show @ 7:00 PM SECOND SHOW (18+) : Doors @ 9:30 PM | Show @ 10 PM All Ages / Non-Alcoholic Show : Doors 6:30 PM, Show 7-9 PM | Advance [...]