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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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Seth Bernard headlines new-look LivelyLands

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What do you call someone who combines activism with health, wellness and mindfulness? Who founded a recording label and an all-things-to-all-people festival, both named for his family farm? Don’t forget to throw in gifts as a singer, songwriter and musician known for collaborating with others from across the musical spectrum, and plying those gifts for the benefit of others. The answer is Seth Bernard. One of Michigan’s favorite musical sons, he is returning to LivelyLands with cellist and good friend Jordan Hamilton in tow. They will open the festival’s new season June 16, a.k.a. Father’s Day. Groove-based world music jam band SoSoHiFi will close the show.

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LivelyLands Festival returns August 19-21

LivelyLands is a family-friendly boutique music festival featuring three days of carefully curated live music from favorite national and regional artists, camping, local food, beer, wine, late-night song circles, and community campfires. The three-day festival returns August 19-21 to “Backyard Burdickville” on M-72, east of Empire.

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“Music brings people together, breaks down barriers”

The fields at Backyard Burdickville in Empire Township will come to life once again with the sound of music. The LivelyLands Music Festival returns, Aug. 20-22, to the former Empire Eagles’ campground on M-72, which the Lively family purchased in 2019. LivelyLands was canceled last year during the COVID-19 shutdown. With guitar picking and beautiful maladies crooning through the fields and forests, this intimate, “backyard” festival carries the legacy of Leelanau County summer music festivals.

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Livelys expand farm, launch Backyard Burdickville campground

The scent of cinnamon suffuses the air. Is this a spice shop? A tea emporium? Nope, it’s Jane Lively’s hoop house shed for sprouting seedlings at the Lively Farm off Bow Road above Burdickville. Dozens of plastic pots line the shelves, all sprinkled with the red spice that kills any bacteria in the soil, thus enhancing germination. It’s just one more sign of the phenomenal growth occurring within the Lively family’s many new business ventures that include the Lively Farm, the Backyard Burdickville Campground, and the next LivelyLands weekend music festival coming in August.

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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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LivelyLands music festival launches in Leelanau, with Austin pulse

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The first annual LivelyLands is about to kick off, Aug. 25-27, at the 5-acre Lively farm off Bow Road, just one mile south of Big Glen Lake. Headlining acts include Austin favorite The Deer and northern Michigan songster Seth Bernard.

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