The Leelanau Summer Music Festival opens its seventh season this Saturday, June 11, with Music of the British Isles. The concert will take place at 7 p.m. in the former school of Holy Rosary Church in Isadore (near Cedar) and feature Richard Sherman, MSU Professor of Flute and principal flutist of the Lansing Symphony. Sherman will be joined by virtuoso Russian pianist Genadi Zagor in a musical tour of the British Isles.
The premier vocal ensemble of the region climaxes the fifth season of the Leelanau Summer Music Festival, which presents “World Class Music in America’s Most Beautiful Place.” On Saturday, Aug. 1, at 7:30, the 2015 Festival presents Canticum Novum singing of “Love and Loss,” in historic Holy Rosary Church, Isadore, 6982 S. Schomberg Road, 2 1/2 miles north of Cedar.
During the late 1800s, millions of people fled the Polish districts of Germany, Russia and Austria to come to the United States. Mostly peasants who lacked basic subsistence, they were attracted by ample job opportunities for unskilled labor in the United States. Many settled in cities such as Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee to earn a living in meatpacking, construction, steelwork and heavy industry.