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Special Thanks to Our Major Music Sponsor, City
of East Lansing
The Michigan State University Museum
presents the annual event celebrating culture, tradition and community. Music
and dance stages -- sponsored by the City
of East Lansing -- feature rhythm, sound and spectacular musicianship
and combine for nearly 50 performances over the free three day festival.
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Vishten- Acadian
Fiddle from Prince Edward Island |
Preliminary Performer list for 2008
Names in rusty red are
links to performers web sites
Eddie
Bond -- Old-time Banjo -- Fries, Virginia
Jeffery
Broussard & The Creole Cowboys -- Zydeco -- Lawtell, Louisiana
Cats and the Fiddler --
Bluegrass -- Milford, Michigan
Cephas &
Wiggins -- Piedmont Blues -- Washington, D.C.
Crooked Road Revue -- Old-time
Revue, featuring Bond, LaPrelle, Henderson and Sutphin -- Crooked Road Region,
Virginia
Detour
- Bluegrass -- Michigan and Nashville, Tennessee
Mamadou Diabate
- Malian Kora -- Durham, North Carolina
George Gao
-- Chinese erhu -- Toronto, Ontario
Wayne Henderson
-- Finger-style Guitar -- Galax, Virginia
Elizabeth
LaPrelle -- Old-time Ballads -- Rural Retreat, Virginia
New Ballard's
Branch Bogtrotters -- Old Time -- Galax, Virginia
Réveillons!
- Quebecois -- Montréal, Québec, Canada
Les Ross Sr. and the Finnish-American All-Stars
- Finnish-American - Marquette, Michigan
John
Hanna Sarweh - Middle Eastern Kanoun - Fraser, Michigan
The Singletons
-- Gospel -- Lansing, Michigan
Sones de México
-- Mexican regional -- Chicago, Illinois
Kirk Sutphin
-- Old-time Fiddle -- Walkertown, North Carolina
Tuba Dan's Family Band -- Czech
polka -- Oshkosh, Wisconsin
April Verch
-- Ottawa Valley Fiddle -- Pembroke, Ontario
Vishten
- Acadian -- Prince Edward Island, Canada
Wylie & The Wild
West -- Cowboy/Western Swing -- Lacrosse, Washington
DOWNLOAD MUSIC CLIPS FROM FESTIVAL ARTISTS
Click the file type to play, or right-click and save to download!
| Artist | Song Title | Download |
| Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys | Off Time Zydeco | MP3 / WMA |
| Cephas & Wiggins | Ain't Seen My Baby | MP3 / WMA |
| April Verch | Grand Slaque La Valse à Georgett | MP3 / WMA |
| Tuba Dan's Family Band | Round And Round Polka | MP3 / WMA |
| The Singletons | Created To Worship You | MP3 / WMA |
| Kirk Sutphin | Don't Drink Nothin' But Corn | MP3 / WMA |
| Wayne Henderson | Buckaroo | MP3 / WMA |
| Elizabeth LaPrelle | East Virginia | MP3 / WMA |
| Eddie Bond | Banjo Pickin' Girl | MP3 / WMA |
| Wylie & The Wild West | Where Horses Are Heroes | MP3 / WMA |
| Mamadou Diabate | Behni Diayemoko | MP3 / WMA |
| Vishten | Hermine | MP3 / WMA |
| Cats & The Fiddler | If Wishes Were Horses | MP3 / WMA |
| Sones de México | Jarabe Planeco | MP3 / WMA |
| George Gao | Galloping Horses | MP3 / WMA |
| Réveillons! | Lisette | MP3 / WMA |
| New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters | Sally Ann Johnson | MP3 / WMA |
| Detour | Radio Hill | MP3 / WMA |
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| The Singletons- a Gospel group from Lansing |
The Great Lakes Folk Festival celebrates the rich traditional folk, ethnic
and tribal music and dances of the people of Michigan, the Great Lakes region,
and the United States. The nation’s earliest immigrants and settlers
brought the performing arts of their countries of origin with them to their
new homeland, where they encountered the land’s First Nations. Each of
these peoples worked to maintain their unique traditions while at the same
time adapting to new conditions and a rich confluence of cultures. Those musical
traditions which we think of as quintessentially “American”—
jazz, blues, gospel, bluegrass, old-time, Tex-Mex, Cajun, zydeco, cowboy and
others—spring from the interaction and intertwining of these varied cultural
roots. Today, renewed emigration from a wide range of nations brings new sounds
and performance traditions to enrich our American cultural landscape.
*The Great Lakes Folk Festival celebrates this musical legacy through performances
by masters who learned their skills within distinct communities and who remain
rooted in their communities.
* Their
exposure to their performance skills is usually at an early age, learned firsthand
(often within their own families), and what they perform is an integral part
of their particular culture.
Traditions Showcases
The Great Lakes Folk Festival features "Traditions Showcases", comparative sessions featuring specific instruments like the fiddle or accordion and explorations of cultural and geographical differences and similarities in musical traditions.
More information
about the 2008 Showcases will be available by Mid-July.
