Detroit and Michigan
Folk and Acoustic Links

Links verified July 14, 2007

Venues

• The Ark in Ann Arbor, one of the nation's premier folk and acoustic venues.
• The Ten Pound Fiddle, a folk music and dance series in East Lansing, Michigan.
• Mama's Coffeehouse at the Birmingham Unitarian Church in Bloomfield Hills
• Live! From the Living Room at the Blue Note Cafe in Pontiac
• Off-the-Wall Acoustic Coffee House in Walled Lake, Michigan.
• Trinity House Theater in Livonia
• Who's At First Concert Series at First United Methodist Church in Royal Oak

Festivals

• Noreast'r Music and Art Festival in Mio, early June
• Spirit of the Woods Folk Festival in Brethren, mid-June
• Blissfest Traditional Music Festival near Harbor Springs, mid-July
• Original Dulcimer Players Club Funfest (aka "Evart"), Evart, third weekend in July
• Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival in Marquette, mid-July
• Flint Folk Music Festival in Flint, late July
• Dunegrass in Empire, early August.
• Riverfolk Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, early August
• Farmfest in Johannesburg, mid-August
• Great Lakes Folk Festival in East Lansing, mid-August
• Porcupine Mountains Music Festival near Ontanagon, late August
• Wheatland Music Festival in Remus, mid-September

Organizations

• AACTMAD Home Page -- the Ann Arbor Council for Traditionall Music and Dance
• AuSable Valley Nor-East'r Association of Folk
• East River Folk Society -- bringing folk music to the southern/ddowwnriver Detroit suburbs
• Flint Folk Music Society -- located in, oddly enough, Flint.
• Paint Creek Folklore Society -- centered in the Rochester, Mich. area
• Blue Water Folk Society in Lexington, Mich.
• There's also the Detroit Folklore Society, which meets in Detroit. (When I find a web site for them, it'll have a link here.)

Resources, Etc.

• Michigan Folk Live -- folk concerts and events all across the state.
• Folks Like Us -- WDET's fine folk music radio program is now on the web!
• DetroitIrish.org -- Music and non-music information for the Detroit Irish community
• Dulcimers.com - Lots of info on hammered dulcimers, including events, musicians, and music files
• electric CURRENT home -- Ann Arbor's Current magazine onlline; includes their extensive music calendar listings
• Metro Times Online including their extensive entertainment calendar listings
• WDET-FM, Detroit's public radio station, where the Folks Like Us show brightens up Saturday afternoons. Look for host Matt Watroba on WDET's site.
• Krystal's Motor Town Cafe, "A cable TV show featuring some of Michigan's finest musicians & poets and an assortment of weird characters performing in a comfortable cafe setting with a living audience."

Businesses

• Elderly Instruments in Lansing, one of the most famous music instrument and record stores in the U.S.
• Nightwatch Recording Homepage, the record label for the New World Renaissance Band and other musicians recreating the sounds of the past.

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