Migiziikwe Eagle Spirit Dancer
Vibrant, exciting, and extravagant dancing is the experience you can expect to get at a Indigenous gathering also known as Pow Wows. Be moved by the vivid and inspiring performance that Migiziikwe Eagle Spirit Dancer gives you as she shares unique and exhilarating singing and dance styles passed down from generation to generation by her ancestors. She aims to cultivate and captivate all audiences worldwide about the magnificence, the craft, and the nobility of the Indigenous way of life. She has performed in a variety of settings from classrooms, art galleries, museums, festivals, and universities promoting awareness on cultural diversity and unity.
Grand Rapids-based traditional folk musician and member of the Earthwork Music Collective. Ben plays a variety of traditional styles including old-time, bluegrass, Celtic, and sea shanties, all with a focus on the history and culture that fostered it.
Big Bill Broonzy and Pete Seeger played together at Circle Pines Center in July of 1957. Adam Gottlieb, Victor McManemy, and Bluesdad will share these influential songwriters and musicians stories and songs.
Music has been a lifelong passion of J Hobbs. In 2006, he joined his brother’s band and began dedicating more time to music, as a percussion player, rapper, and hype man. From 2009 to 2013, he played in Funktion, a 7pc Funk Soul Groove Band from Kalamazoo, and played over 600 shows through 26 states. In late 2013, he moved to Austin, Texas, and started playing shows under his long-time stage name brotha James.
Peter Madcat Ruth is a Grammy Award-winning virtuoso harmonica player based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has established an international reputation through his exhilarating, riveting virtuosity on the harmonica. His expertise on this instrument has amazed audiences world-wide.
Inspired by New Orleans, born of the Great Lakes: Great Lakes Brass draws from New Orleans traditions, where brass bands express the pulse of communities; celebrating life, mourning loss, and looking ahead. Reverence for history is intertwined with ongoing creative adaptation, and our pledge to play it forward.
As a singer/songwriter and an award-winning musician, Bruce Ling is a student and keeper of the history of the timeless musical genre of time-savored traditional folk music, and paints musical portraits celebrating the colorful history of the music through an extraordinary repertoire of tunes, songs, and stories. He performs with equal flair and skill on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, cello, and slide guitar. He is backed by his wife, world class old-time rhythm guitarist Becca. Be prepared to take an enjoyable ride through a river of music and stories as presented by this band of skilled musicians.
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