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Happenings in the Keweenaw Peninsula April 27, 2002 © 2002 Kenneth Thiemann for Keweenaw Now

Houghton to host first Spring Art & Music Festival May 4

By Kenneth Thiemann, festival organizer

HOUGHTON -- Houghton welcomes the first annual Spring Art and Music Festival from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 4. The event will be held outdoors along the waterfront and in the parking area near the UPPCo building. In case of inclement weather, activities will be moved to the Dee Ice Arena.

The festival will offer entertainment for the whole family with a variety of music by local bands Finn Street, Shade, carp, Milk, Momentum Jazz, and Algoma with out of town guests Frostbitten Grass and The Muldoons. Local artists and organizations will have booths set up. It promises to be a day of fun, hopefully in the sun, to celebrate Keweenaw spring. 

Booth space reservations for visual artists are still being accepted. Payment for booths -- all within eye and earshot of the stage -- will go towards the music and a donation to the Community Arts Center.

Contact me at kathiema@mtu.edu or 482-4818 for more details. Interested artists may also receive information from the Community Arts Center in Hancock.

Thank you Cynthia and Karen of the Community Arts Center in Hancock for your hard work so far and especially for your help in the recruitment of some fine artists!

Special thanks also go to to Mayor Tom Merz, City Manager Scott MacInnes for their support. Thanks also to Chris Pinnow for helping to get the technical end of the music ironed out and to Adam Johnson for his involvement with the flyers. Thank you to WOLV, the Mining Gazette and Keweenaw Now for publicizing this festival.

Read more about the author of this article and organizer of the festival, Kenneth Thiemann.

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