What's New
-->MSU Museum's 2010 Great Lakes Folk Festival
music, dance, arts and culture from across America and around the world
Photos by: Patrick T. Power, Pearl Yee Wong, Erica Schumann and Lora Helou.
Stay tuned for a GLFF photo exhibition at the MSU Museum!
-->Best of the Fest!
We were delighted to see so many of the GLFF faithful out and about at this weekend's event! Over the coming weeks, we'll be thinking about next year's Great Lakes Folk Festival, which will be our 10th!
In honor of this milestone, MSU Museum festival producers are thinking of presenting an "all-alumni" slate of musicians and groups that really struck a chord when they performed here before.
Over these past nine years, we've been able to to present a staggeringly diverse and impressive group of traditional artists. Thanks to the City of East Lansing for supporting the GLFF music program.
Take a look at this list and let us know your faves! Send a note to pr@museum.msu.edu or post a note on our facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109263789107277#!/group.php?gid=109263789107277&v=info
(Note: Some of our musicians, sadly, have passed on; some of the groups have broken up and the performers are in new groups; some simply won't be available; and others, especially those who have advanced in their careers, will be way out of our price range. We'll do our best to feature the best of the fest!)
*signifies repeat performances
2010
Alberta Adams, Blues*
Chulrua, Irish Celtic
De Temps Antan, Québécois
D.W. Groethe, Cowboy Poetry/Songs
Imamyar Hasanov and Peyman Hadadi, Azerbaijan and Iran
Kimo Hussey, Hawai'ian Ukulele
Klancnik & Friends Band, Slovenian Polka
Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Bluegrass
Sana Ndiaye, Ekonting Master
Mariachi Perla de México, Mariachi
Rumen "Sali" Shopov, Romani/Bulgarian
Siempre Flamenco, Andalucian Flamenco
Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole, Creole/Zydeco*
2009
Alex Meixner Band, Polka
Berntson Family Band, Norwegian-American
Beyond the Pale, Klezmer*
Diunna Greenleaf and Blue Mercy, Blues
Gadelle, Acadian
Jesse McReynold and the Virginia Boys, Bluegrass
Les Ross, Sr. and the Finnish American All-Stars, Finnish American*
Los Bandits de Michigan, Tex-Mex
Lost Bayou Ramblers, Cajun
Shotgun Party, Western Swing
Slide, Irish Celtic
Tumbao Bravo, Cuban/Caribbean
2008
Eddie Bond, Old-Time Banjo
Jeffery Broussard &The Creole Cowboys, Zydeco
Cats and the Fiddler, Bluegrass
Cephas & Wiggins, Piedmont Blues
Crooked Road Revue, Old-Time Revue
Detour, Bluegrass
Mamadou Diabate, Malian Kora*
George Gao, Chinese erhu
Wayne Henderson, Finger-style Guitar
Elizabeth LaPrelle, Old-Time Ballads
New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters, Old Time
Réveillons! Quebecois
Les Ross Sr. and the Finnish-American All-Stars, Finnish American*
John Hanna Sarweh, Middle Eastern Kanoun
The Singletons, Gospel
Sones de México, Mexican regional
Kirk Sutphin, Old-time Fiddle
Tuba Dan's Family Band, Czech polka
April Verch, Ottawa Valley Fiddle
Vishten, Acadian
Wylie & the Wild West, Cowboy/ Western Swing
2007
Asani, Métis a cappella
Back of the Moon, Scottish Celtic
Balfa Toujours, Cajun
Henry Butler, New Orleans Blues
Carolina Chocolate Drops, African-American Old-Time String Band
Michele Choiniere, Franco-American Songs
David Davis & the Warrior River Boys, Bluegrass
Dragon Art Studios, Chinese Rod Puppetry
Dominique DuPuis, Acadian Fiddle
Gipsy Stringz, Tamburitza
Grupo Fantasma, Latin Dance
Elana James, Texas Swing
Eric Noltkamper, Slovenian Polka
Keenan Otchingwanigan, Native Fiddling
Dirk Powell Band, Old-Time String Band
Roots Vibration, Reggae*
Joe Thompson, African-American Old-Time Fiddle
Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band, Steel Drum
Wabanaisee (Snowbirds), Anishnabek singing and hand drumming
2006
Beyond the Pale, Klezmer*
Eddie Bo, Blues
The Cottars, Celtic
Nadim Dlaikan Ensemble, Middle Eastern*
Feufollet, Cajun*
Wayne Hancock, Juke Joint Swing
Peter Hedlund, Swedish Nyckelharpa
Hellenic 5, Greek
Ron Likovic, Slovenian Polka
Lil' Nathan & the Zydeco Big-Timers, Zydeco
Los Texmaniacs, Tejano
Lovell Sisters, Bluegrass
Phava, African- American Gospel
Roots Vibration, Caribbean*
Samite, Ugandan
Aditya Verma, Indian Sarod
Cedric Watson, Creole*
2005
Carey and Lurrie Bell, Chicago Blues
Diouf, Quebegalese percussion
Georgia Sea Island Singers, Gullah music, dance, and stories*
Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble, Japanese taiko drumming
Bob Kravos and the Boys in the Band, Slovenian-American style polka music
Mountain Heart, Bluegrass
Lee Murdock and Joe Grimm, Great Lakes Folk Songs from the Ivan Walton Collection
Gumbi Ortiz and the Latino Projekt, Latin/Afro-Cuban music
Quebe Sisters, Western swing, honky-tonk, and old-style Texas fiddle music
Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Cajun
Roots Vibration, Reggae*
Bob Seeley & "Boogie" Bob Baldori, Boogie-woogie music
Bill Stevens, Athabascan fiddle music
Téada, Irish Celtic
Ana & José Vinagre, Portuguese fado singing
2004
Aziz Herawi, Afghan Lute
Nadim Dlaikan, Arabic Music*
Bobby Hicks, Bluegrass
"Little Sonny" Willis, Blues
Eddie Burns, Blues
Johnny Perona, Bones and Spoons
Universal Xpression, Caribbean
Danú, Irish Celtic
Gao Hong, Chinese Pipa
Karen Clark Sheard, Gospel
The Desert Crew, Hip Hop-Arab American
The Mad Prophets, Hip Hop- Gospel
Shadowyze, Hip Hop- Native American
Don "Red Arrow" Stevens, Native American Story Telling
Karin Løberg Code, Norwegian Harding Fiddle
Springfield Exit, Old-Time Country
Lois Bettesworth, Old-Time Fiddle
Stas Wisniack, Polish Accordion
Pan Franek & Zosia's Polka Towners, Polka
Le Vent du Nord, Québécois
Calvin Cooke, Sacred Steel Guitar
Laura Canales and Cali Carranza y Los Formales, Tejano
Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble, Zydeco
2003
Alberta Adams, Blues *
Barra MacNeils, Cape Breton Celtic
Johnnie Bassett, Blues
Stella Chiweshe, Mbira: Shona ceremonial music
Feufollet, Cajun*
Steven Greenman Klezmer Ensemble, Klezmer: Eastern European Jewish folk music
Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz, Old-time Country/Appalachian
George Kahumoku, Jr., Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar
Gaylor Klancnik Orchestra, Slovenian or Cleveland-Style Polka
Dudley & Jacqueline Laufman, New England Traditional Barn Dance
Cathie Ryan, Irish Traditional Vocal
Skalmusik, Scandinavian
Ralph Stanley, Bluegrass
Tramburitza Rroma Group, Tamburitza: Croatian "Gypsy style" music
Nick Villareal, Conjunto
Joe Weaver, Blues
"Uncle" Jessie White, Blues
2002
Howard Armstrong Trio, African-American old-time string band
Campbell Brothers, African-American sacred steel guitar
Liz Carroll, Irish Fiddler
Karan Casey, Irish Traditional Vocalist
Mamadou Diabate, West African Kora Music*
Nadim Dlaikan, Arab-American*
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Mississippi Delta-style blues
Georgia Sea Island Singers, Gullah music, dance, and stories*
Lawrence "Teddy Boy" Houle, Ojibwe Fiddler
Matapat, Quebecois
Steve Meisner, Cleveland-style polka
Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Cha, Zydeco
One Family, Junkanno
Orquesta La Inspiracion, Salsa and Jazz
The Stevens Sisters, Bluegrass
Tlen-Huicani, Arpa jarocha
-->BE GREAT, VOLUNTEER!
Volunteer sign-up and orientation sessions are set this week at the MSU Museum on West Circle Drive on the MSU campus:
Tuesday, Aug. 3, 5-7 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 7, 10 a.m - 1 p.m.
Volunteers can come get their T-shirt and get an overview of this year's activities.
We also accept registrations there -- so people can come to these to sign up for
shifts!
-->TRADITIONS SHOWCASES SET
An audience favorite in the GLFF music lineup is the Traditions Showcase. Musicians from different groups take the stage to share and compare instruments, influences, techniques and traditions. What results is always insightful and spontaneous storytelling and musicianship.
This year, Traditions Showcases include:
Friday, August 13 | 8 p.m. | City Hall Stage | ACCORDION TRADITIONS
Cedric Watson (Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole)
Pierre-Luc DuPuis (De Temps Antan)
Brian O'Boyle (Klancnik & Friends Band)
Paddy O'Brien (Chulrua)
Saturday, August 14 | 12 Noon | City Hall Stage | FIDDLE TRADITIONS
Patrick Orceau (Chulrua)
Cedric Watson (Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole)
André Brunet (De Temps Antan)
Saturday, August 14 | 3:15 p.m. | City Hall Stage | STRING TRADITIONS
Banjo-Ekonting / Fiddle-Kamança
Banjo: Dale Perry (Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver)
Ekonting: Sana Ndiaye
Fiddle: Jason Barie (Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver)
Kamança: Imamyar Hasanov
Sunday, August 15 | 2 p.m. | City Hall Stage | SINGING TRADITIONS
Doyle Lawson (Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver)
Alberta Adams
Pat Egan (Chulrua)
-->SHALL WE DANCE?
We've just arranged to have a hula dancer to accompany Hawai'ian ukulele player Kimo Hussey.
Angela Dewey, from Ann Arbor, is a first-generation Polynesian-American and hula dancer. She began dancing hula at age five, and performed hula while growing up in Utah. She has taught beginning hula classes in Ann Arbor. Angela apprenticed with master hula dancer Dr. Amy Stillman who is also a hula scholar at University of Michigan through the MSU Museum's Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and through Stillman's Great Lakes Hula Academy. Angela learned Hole Waimea and other hula chanting and dances from Amy and hopes to pass on the tradition to her daughter and others. Learn more: http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mtap/mtaap/awards/2009AS.html
In addition, we have some Balkan dancing in the works to go along with Rumen Shopov, who plays Bulgarian/Romani music.
-->MICHIGAN READS!
The Library of Michigan will announce the annual Michigan Reads! One State, One Children's Book Program at the Great Lakes Folk Festival on Saturday, Aug. 14 at the Talkers & Tellers Stage at 3:15 p.m. Join State Librarian Nancy Robertson as she introduces the 2010 Michigan Reads! book and author. The author will then do a presentation including a book reading and signing. Michigan Reads! is a statewide program highlighting the importance of early childhood literacy by focusing on a picture book by a Michigan author.
This year's selection is The Runaway Garden by Jeffery L. Schatzer, illustrations by Jeffrey Ebbeler; published in Ann Arbor by Mitten Press, c2007. For further information about the Michigan Reads program, go to:
http://michigan.gov/michiganreads
-->RSVP ON FACEBOOK AND INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!
If you are on Facebook, search for Great Lakes Folk Festival 2010 event page. RSVP and invite all your Facebook friends. A quick and easy way to tell 1000's of people about our wonderful festival.
GLFF *TENTATIVE* SCHEDULE IS ONLINE!
Go to Schedule
The weekend includes 55 musical performances, with Irish Celtic group Chulrua opening GLFF on Friday, Aug. 13 at 6 p.m. on the M.A.C Stage. Blues, Québécois, cowboy poetry, Hawaiian ukulule, mariachi, flamenco, creole and Senegalese ekonting are just some of the musical traditions presented at this year's event.
Visitors can also take part in two new programs added this year on Saturday evening: Community Singing, led by Rev. Robert B. Jones, Ray Kamalay and Sally Potter, and a Musicians Jam Session, led by the MSU Community Music School and Residential College in the Arts and Humanities.
LOOK, LISTEN FOR GLFF -- AHEAD OF THE EVENT!
Listen for festival features on the air as the festival approaches: on WDBM-FM's (88.9-FM) Tuesday night "Progressive Torch and Twang," with Doug Neal and Corrina Van Hamlin; Sunday night on WKAR-FM's (90.5-FM) "Folk Tradition," with Bob Blackman, and on WMMQ-FM's (94.9-FM) "Capital City Blues Cruise," with Scotty Allman on Sunday night; as well as on WLNZ-FM (89.7 FM) rich and varied playlist.
Sound clips are also available on the GLFF web site to preview:
Go to sound clips
MSU MUSEUM'S GREAT LAKES FOLK FESTIVAL
IS AUG. 13-15
The roots, the rhythms and the richness of music, dance, arts and culture from across America and around the world come to downtown East Lansing for the Michigan State University Museum's annual Great Lakes Folk Festival, Aug. 13-15.
The music and dance program features performances ranging from blues to bluegrass, mariachi, flamenco, polka, Cajun, Celtic and more diverse cultural expressions and traditions. Musical artists perform two to four times throughout the weekend, so visitors have a chance to see the bands they like and discover new genres and favorites. An audience favorite at this event is the Traditions Showcases, which brings together musicians from different groups - fiddlers, banjo players, guitarists, accordionists, percussionists -- who share and compare techniques, traditions and influences for spontaneous and masterful storytelling and performance.
Supported by the City of East Lansing, the music line-up includes:
-Alberta Adams | Blues | Detroit-2010 Michigan Heritage Awardee
-Chulrua | Irish Celtic | St. Paul, Minnesota; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Baltimore, Maryland
-De Temps Antan | Québécois | Tradition French Canadian Music | Montréal, Quebec, Canada
-D.W. Groethe | Cowboy Poetry/Songs | Bainville, Montana
*just added* -Imamyar Hasanov and Pejman Hadadi | music from Azerbaijan and Iran | Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California
*just added* -Kimo Hussey | Hawai'ian Ukulele | Honolulu, Hawaii
-Klancnik & Friends Band | Slovenian Polka | Nashville, Tennessee
-Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Bluegrass | Bristol, Tennessee - National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Awardee
-El Mariachi Perla De México | Mariachi | Chicago, Illinois
-Sana Ndiaye | Ekonting Master | Northampton, Massachusetts and Dakar, Senegal
*just added* -Rumen "Sali" Shopov | Romani/Bulgarian | San Francisco, California
-Siempre Flamenco | Andalucian Flamenco | Miami, Florida
-Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole | Creole/Zydeco | Lafayette, Louisiana
The music schedule is underconstruction and will be ready in mid-July.
Beyond the music
*NEW* "Grassroots Green" - As part of the summer of 2010 Great Lakes Folk Festival, the Michigan State University Museum will host tradition-bearers who carry on traditions that help restore, conserve and revitalize the planet. GLFF will feature traditions of grassroots citizens groups and individuals who engage in green occupations, environmental activism, organic gardening, local foodways, recycled arts and folk wisdom for taking care of the planet. See this link for a partial list of Green Artists participating this year. http://www.greatlakesfolkfest.net/Programs%26Activities/GreenArtsMarketplace/
Green kids activities, such as planting salad crops, making crafts from recycled materials, making yard art from recycled plant pots, making "produce" magnets, and learning about worm composting.
-->Volunteers: please save your plastic milk jug caps for a recycled crafts project for kids. Bring them to your packet pick-up meeting (at the MSU Museum on July 28, Aug. 3 and Aug. 7). Thanks!
*RETURNING AND EXPANDED* MSU Press Bookfest -- will feature a number of award-winning publications and authors from several Michigan and Great Lakes area publishers and booksellers, including many who write about environmental topics. Visit the MSU Press
2010 MICHIGAN HERITAGE AWARD honorees, recognizing the state's top tradition-bearers: Alberta Adams, blues singer from Detroit; Renee "Wasson" Dillard of Harbor Springs and John Pigeon of Hopkins for black ash basketmaking; and the Swedish-American Community of Brevort for Swedish midsummer pole making and celebration.
The Michigan Heritage Awards program is set for Saturday, Aug. 14, at 2 p.m. at the Talkers & Tellers stage.
WELCOME, SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS FROM LCC: alumni and professional studies students from Lansing Community College's Sign Language/Interpreter Program are providing sign language interpretation at a number of stages and venues throughout the weekend.
BE GREAT, VOLUNTEER: the festival could not be staged without the tremendous contributions of time and energy provided by the more than 300 volunteers involved each year. For information on volunteering call (517) 432-GLFF, email glffvolunteer@museum.msu.edu, or click on the link below for the volunteer registration form.
http://www.greatlakesfolkfest.net/Volunteers/Registration/2010/index.asp
ABOUT GLFF: The Great Lakes Folk Festival is an audience and community supported event.
MSU and the City of East Lansing contribute toward the cost of the festival but the festival can't happen without the free-will contributions from the festival audience. We hope that each festival attendee will give what they can through contributions deposited in the buckets at the festival or through making donations online. Thanks for supporting YOUR folk festival!
Festival hours are: Friday, Aug. 13, 6 - 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 14, noon - 10:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Aug. 15, noon - 6 p.m.
For more information, call the MSU Museum at (517) 432-GLFF (4533)
Festival Alliance Video features GLFF and others
Check out this new video that profiles the Great Lakes Folk Festival, along with other area festivals!
MSU MUSEUM PLANS 'GRASSROOTS GREEN' 2010 GREAT LAKES FOLK FESTIVAL
Plans are taking shape for the Michigan State University's 2010 Great Lakes Folk Festival, set for Aug. 13-15 in downtown East Lansing.
Grassroots Green
For the 2010 event, the MSU Museum will host tradition-bearers who carry on traditions that help restore, conserve and revitalize the planet. The 2010 Great Lakes Folk Festival will feature traditions of grassroots citizens groups and individuals who engage in green occupations, environmental activism, organic gardening, local foodways, recycled arts in the Folk Arts Marketplace, and folk wisdom for taking care of the planet. Program curators Lynne Swanson and LuAnne Kozma note going green is not just a new trend. For many people a return to sustainable lifestyles, technologies and traditions means relying on time-tested folk wisdom and environmentally sound cultural practices.
"The festival will give visitors an opportunity to see how individuals have been skillfully and knowledgeably working for years on family and community-based activities to reduce, recycle, and reuse resources in their homes, workplaces, and communities," says Swanson.
The 2010 preliminary music line-up
Alberta Adams | Blues |Detroit, Michgan
Chulrua | Irish Celtic | St. Paul, Minnesota; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Baltimore, Maryland
De Temps Antan | Québécois | Tradition French Canadian Music | Montréal, Quebec, Canada
D.W. Groethe | Cowboy Poetry/Songs | Bainville, Montana
Imamyar Hasanov and Pejman Hadadi | Music from Azerbaijan and Iran | Washington D. C. and Los Angeles, CA
Kimo Hussey | Hawai'ian Ukelele| Honolulu, Hawaii
Klancnik & Friends Band | Slovenian Polka | Nashville, Tennessee
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Bluegrass | Bristol, Tennessee - National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow Awardee
Sana Ndiaye | Ekonting Master -- ancient musical instrument from the southern region of Senegal | Northampton, Massachusetts and Dakar, Senega
Mariachi Perla de México | Mariachi | Chicago, Illinois
Rumen "Sali" Shopov | Romani/Bulgarian| San Fancisco, California
Siempre Flamenco | Andalucian Flamenco | Miami, Florida
Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole | Creole/Zydeco | Lafayette, Louisiana
Access to artistic excellence grant from NEA
The MSU Museum also received a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts that promotes access to artistic excellence.
"I am thrilled that we are able to help art work in this country through more than 1,200 projects across this country. We are supporting projects that have great works of art at the heart of them; that work to inspire and transport audiences and visitors; and that create and retain opportunities for artists and arts workers to be a part of this country's real economy," said NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman. "It is our job at the NEA to support excellence in the arts, and to connect more Americans with more art, more often. This round of grants certainly furthers that mission.”
Learn more about the NEA grant program here: http://www.arts.gov/news/news09/Announce12-09.html
The MSU Museum's Great Lakes Folk Festival is one of the few events nationwide that presents National Endowment for the Arts heritage fellows and tradition-bearers who share distinctive cultural expressions.
Bookfest is back!
Also on tap for the 2010 GLFF is an expanded MSU Press Youngfolk Bookfest, anchored at the Abbot Road Stage, featuring meet-the-artist sessions. Discussion sessions throughout each day of the festival will feature authors reading from their books, and authors will also be available for signings. Graphic novelists, cartoonists and illustrators display their skills of storytelling through the use of visual art, and literacy experts and educators adding to the rich and enriching experience.
Call for sponsorships
While Michigan State University, the City of East Lansing and National Endowment for the Arts provide a base of support for the event, these resources are limited, and it is only the sponsorships that community colleagues so generously share that make the festival possible. The economic challenges facing so many families make it all the more critical that festival activities be available to everyone in our community.
Museum planners are working vigorously to ensure that the 2010 GLFF will serve the local and greater community this summer by providing a rich experience and an opportunity for celebration that is much needed! With your help, the 2010 Great Lakes Folk Festival will allow this singular weekend of celebration and learning to continue strongly.
Please consider making a donation in support of the festival, online here: https://secure.museum.msu.edu/webCredit/GLFFContributions/form.html .
About GLFF
This award-winning event is of the region's premier arts programs and a summer-time high note -- and is expected to draw more than 90,000 visitors throughout the weekend to celebrate culture, tradition and community. GLFF was named the state's top public humanities program by the Michigan Humanities Council.
MSU Museum staffers work year-round planning the event. The music program, sponsored by the City of East Lansing, includes blues, bluegrass, Cajun, polka, Tex-Mex and more musical traditions from across America and around the world. Watch for music program announcements in early 2010.
The Great Lakes Folk Festival is presented by the Michigan State University Museum, Michigan's first Smithsonian affiliate. The MSU Museum's Michigan Traditional Arts Program researches, documents, preserves, and presents our shared heritage and cultural expressions. Primary financial support for GLFF comes from the City of East Lansing, Michigan State University Office of the Provost and University Outreach and Engagement, nearly 100 corporations, foundations and organizations also support GLFF annually, as well as individual donors, "Great Friends."
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GREAT FESTIVAL, GREAT THANKS!
The Michigan State University Museum would like to take a moment to send a hearty thanks to all the artists, volunteers, sponsors and friends who helped make the Great Lakes Folk Festival a memorable celebration of culture, tradition and community. Sales of both rain ponchos and sunscreen were surely at record highs!
CHECK OUT THESE LINKS:
- Lansing State Journal:
- (Saturday) http://tinyurl.com/n4joxn
- (Sunday) http://tinyurl.com/mr52x5
- State News:
- http://bit.ly/prrgH
- YouTube:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_q7ObiyEgA
- Flickr (by Patrick Kerwin):
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdkerwin
- MIEntertainent.biz (see Mid-Michigan / MI Photos):
- http://www.MIentertainment.biz
Share yours! Send us your photos, online galleries and links and we'll add them to our GLFF web page and MSU Museum Facebook page. Contact: pr@museum.msu.edu
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR GLFF 2010!
The festival continues to be widely recognized as one of the state's premiere arts and culture events. Be sure to save the date for the 2010 festival, the second weekend in August -- Aug. 13-15, 2010 -- and tell your friends, family and coworkers too!
MSU Museum curators and planners will begin work soon for next year's event.
Check the GLFF web site for updates: http://www.greatlakesfolkfest.net . You can also follow the festival on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/glff .
Of course, you can always make a donation and help support the MSU Museum's efforts in producing the folk festival. Click: http://www.greatlakesfolkfest.net/FriendsoftheFestival/ .
VISIT THE MSU MUSEUM!
Before the next folk festival, make the MSU Museum a destination, in the historic heart of north campus, just steps off Grand River Avenue in East Lansing.
The MSU Museum is Michigan's natural history and culture museum and the state's first Smithsonian Institution affiliate. If you liked some of the Taste of Traditions foodways at the festival, check out the special exhibit, "Michigan Eats: Regional Culture Through Food," here through mid-November. Learn more at http://museum.msu.edu .
Interdisciplinary research, programs and activities are in partnership with the College of Arts & Letters, College of Natural Science, College of Social Science, MSU Extension, and University Outreach and Engagement. The MSU Museum features three floors of special collections and changing exhibits and is open seven days a week free of charge (donations are encouraged). The museum is located on West Circle Drive next to Beaumont Tower on the MSU campus in East Lansing and is accessible to persons with disabilities. Hours are Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. For more information, call (517) 355-2370 .
A WORLD OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MSU
If you like what you experienced at GLFF, there's a world of arts and culture at MSU too. Explore your world through the vibrant cultural community that is Michigan State University. Discover the hundreds of performances, exhibitions, and special programs that enrich lives on campus, in the community, and throughout the world.
Arts and culture at MSU play a critical role in nurturing the human spirit while contributing to a richer quality of life. Museums, galleries, and gardens along with libraries, historic sites, and performance spaces provide a catalyst for cultural exchange of diverse ideas and inspirations. At the same time, audiences on campus and around the world take advantage of academic and research outreach programs such as public broadcasting, online resources, and publications.
Join us in exploring a world of arts and culture at Michigan State University. Learn more at http://artsandculture.msu.edu.
