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A to Z Music, Accidentals play LivelyLands

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LivelyLands, the farm and music venue on M-72 west of Empire, features a night of powerful young women who will take over the world someday. A to Z Music join The Accidentals tonight, July 14, for LivelyLands Summer Sun Sets. It’s their first appearance on the LivelyLands stage, but won’t be their last. A to Z Music are Zinnia Dungjen and Audrey Mason, multi-faceted instrumentalists and vocalists. They are currently attending Interlochen Arts Academy and majoring in Singer-Songwriting. Dungjen and Mason both live in Leelanau County and perform music all throughout the County.

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Verterra hosts fundraisers with acclaimed musicians

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You never know when a good idea will come to fruition. That’s Paul Hamelin’s take on the upcoming July 27 performance by students from Interlochen Arts Camp and the Aug. 13 performance by Livingston Taylor at the Ridge at Verterra. A longtime supporter of various charitable organizations, Hamelin and his wife Marty pondered what else they could do. The classical music enthusiasts considered the idea of music at their Verterra Winery, but not the typical singer/songwriter performers popular at many such locales. “I’m a fan of symphonic music,” Paul says, noting shows he’s seen at Ravinia and Meadowbrook, the summer homes of the Chicago Symphony and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, respectively.

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Leelanau students perform at Interlochen Arts Academy

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At the end of every school year, Interlochen Arts Academy hosts a festival commemorating the hard work and talent demonstrated by their student body. This celebration includes Morp, the palindrome that the students and faculty affectionately call their prom, multiple performances around campus, all of which are open to the public, and to wrap up the year, commencement. The festival, which runs May 24-27, is the long-awaited crescendo of a successful school year, and it features several Leelanau County students currently attending the academy.

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Glen Arbor Arts Center and Interlochen put classical music in unique places

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Interlochen Arts Academy’s “Sound Garden Quintet” plans to “take over” Glen Arbor this June and bring free classical music pop-up performances to various public spaces and businesses. The goal of Sound Garden, which launched in the Grand Traverse area last summer, is to “plant music in unexpected places.”

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Meet the poet/bard/waiter at Little Traverse Inn

How many waiters can recite an Emily Dickinson poem to you while serving you haggis? Paul Baumbusch at the Little Traverse Inn can. Originally from Washington, D.C., Paul graduated from the creative writing program at Interlochen Arts Academy in 2004, then attended Northwestern University and graduated in 2008. His teacher at Interlochen was Michigan’s local “Notable Writer” Anne-Marie Oomen, from Empire.

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Musicians from New York Met play Leelanau Youth Music recital

The public is invited to a casual evening of music on Friday, Aug. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at 308 Adams St. in Suttons Bay (the Martinson home). Two musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra of New York City, Patricia Rogers (bassoon) and Michael Ouzounian (viola) will play selected pieces. They will be joined by the Prevailing Winds of Leelanau and the Leelanau Flute Ensemble.

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Fibershed, Leelanau’s clothing locavore movement

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A studio artist (that would be me) walks into a Traverse City Goodwill store looking for used clothing to repurpose (I cut up T-shirts into a knittable yarn). And as I stand there, rifling through the 25-foot long floor rack full of T-shirts, I think, and not for the first time, “There are enough T-shirts in this one store that no one needs to make or buy a new T-shirt ever again.” It seemed as though there were thousands.

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How Sleeping Bear was voted America’s most beautiful place

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Ever since Wednesday, August 17, Northern Michiganders have both embraced and grappled with the news that the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and surrounding region are considered the “most beautiful place in America” — at least according to 22 percent of 100,000 voters who participated in the ABC show Good Morning America’s online competition the second week of August.

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Glen Arbor Sun writers remember 9/11

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On the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks, Glen Arbor Sun writers Anne-Marie Oomen, Mike Buhler, Mary Sharry, Pat Stinson, Waleed Al-Shamma and Jacob Wheeler reflect on September 11, 2001.

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Creative writing in National Lakeshore

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Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear offers the inspiration for creative writing in their Path to the Page Writing and Hiking workshop on Thursday, July 28 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. with instructor Anne-Marie Oomen of Interlochen Arts Academy. Participants will learn about the history of select farmsteads during their three-mile walk on the Bayview Trail through the Port Oneida Rural Historic District.

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