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Trillium Groove, local young artists find their voice

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The local music scene in Leelanau County not only highlights the dedicated and seasoned professionals we see playing at venues through the year, but is unique in the way it welcomes and enriches the lives of young artists on the rise. From young performers like The Accidentals and Billy Strings who grew up singing and playing next to our shore of Lake Michigan, to the rising Trillium Groove, Leelanau is the perfect place for young artists and musicians to find their voice and place their roots. Trillium Groove’s upcoming Leelanau County schedule include performances at Leelanau UnCaged in Northport on Saturday, Sept. 28, and Thursday, Oct. 3, at Jacob’s Farm on M-72.

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Hugh Pool’s Cabin Fever Tour returns to Michigan

Got cabin fever? You’re not alone. Fortunately, help is on the way. Guitarist and vocalist Hugh Pool’s Cabin Fever tour will touch down at the home of James Walker in Suttons Bay on Tuesday, Feb. 20. “WNMC has sponsored (concerts) and Mulebone played at (his) house. We’ve become friends,” says Pool. Mulebone is the bluesy duo with Pool and wind player John Ragusa, which has performed in northern Michigan numerous times. He and Ragusa still work together, and Pool is also part of an electric trio that plays in the New York area. This is simply a chance to play some dates that showcase a different side of his musicality. Pool also performed at Common Good Bakery in Traverse City and Peninsula Township Library.

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Happy Hour at Fischer’s Tavern

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Fischer’s Happy Hour Tavern, the popular destination on M-22 south of Northport, reopened this past November after closing in December 2022 following 51 years in business. Tonight, Fischer’s will host “Live From the Happy Hour”—a private (now sold-out) concert featuring Elizabeth Landry, Joe Wilson and Caul Bluhm. Landry shared what Fischer’s has meant to her over the years, as a community destination and as a music venue.

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Left-handed gigging throughout Leelanau

Leelanau County has a vivacious music scene all summer, that continues into the spring and fall months. Whether they are buskers in Glen Arbor, performers at restaurants in Northport, or concerts at The Old Art Building in Leland, the county is filled with talented musicians who love to share their art with the public. Blake Elliott is a local musician who plays a variety of music spanning from jazz and blues to old fashioned country and folk in Leelanau County. She makes her living by playing gigs all around northern Michigan, and entertains audiences nearly every single day in the summer. In the winter, Elliott is an instructor in the songwriting department at Interlochen Arts Academy, and continues to play music professionally full time. 

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LivelyLands Music Festival amplifies northern Michigan music

The upcoming LivelyLands Music Festival will provide a musical adventure like nothing else in northern Michigan, featuring genre-diverse artists from Austin to Leelanau County and points in between. The festival is set for Aug. 24-26.

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Jonah Powell’s love of music

His hair. Even as a child, Jonah Powell, who was in my youngest daughter’s class at Leland, had this nimbus of curls that one could see from a long ways away and, of course, admire.

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