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Glen Arbor Art Association holds 2017 Manitou Music Festival poster competition

The Glen Arbor Art Association invites artists to submit original paintings for the annual Manitou Music Festival poster competition. Deadline for the 2017 poster competition is October 1. The limited edition posters are hugely popular and sold through the art association and selected shops and art galleries. Competition is open to anyone who is a current member of the Glen Arbor Art Association. Subject matter must be appropriate to the Manitou Music Festival. That is, work that represents recognizable area scenes. All artwork must be original and previously unpublished. There is no entry fee. Detailed guidelines and a submission form is available at GlenArborArt.org.

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Summer Singers hold Aug. 16 concert

The Manitou Music Festival’s annual choral event highlights the Summer Singers, an all-volunteer group of 50 singers from around Leelanau County. The concert, directed by Empire resident Dana Allen, will perform traditional classics like “Bound for the Promised Land” with four-hand piano and Mark Hayes’ arrangement of “Dry Bones”.

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Manitou Music Festival presents Blue Horizon on Maritime Museum Lawn

What a perfect combination for a concert, a Maritime Folk Band on the lawn of the Sleeping Bear Point Coast Guard Maritime Museum, the original Life Saving Station. Join us for this first concert at this very unique venue on Wednesday, July 20, from 7-9 p.m.

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Manitou Music Festival presents Celtic Fusion ensemble Nessa

The Manitou Music Festival is pleased to welcome Nessa on Sunday, July 17. Nessa, an exciting new Celtic fusion ensemble, led by flutist/vocalist Kelly McDermott, presents a dynamic array of freshly arranged ancient Celtic ballads and folk songs from the U.K. This upbeat band combines classical, jazz, and Irish influences with accents of world music, along with clever, soulful arrangements of classic themes. Nessa is a fun, funky group with depth and color.

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Glen Arbor Art Association holds Manitou Music Festival Dune Climb Concert

The 18th annual Sleeping Bear Dune Climb concert will take place Sunday, July 10, at 7 p.m. Imagine a beautiful summer’s evening at the foot of the Dune Climb in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, hundreds of families enjoying their pre-concert picnics and then a musical program provided by artists of national stature: this is the magical mixture which has filled audiences with warm memories every year since the first Dune Climb concert in 1998. The setting is magnificent and the music is even better. The concert at the Dune Climb is presented annually by the Glen Arbor Art Association and is free to the public. Because of the unique venue and incomparable music it routinely draws a large audience.

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Manitou Music Festival announces 2016 summer concert series

The Manitou Music Festival (MMF) presents exciting and diverse concerts featuring national and regional performers in idyllic outdoor & family friendly locations. The MMF has been a summer tradition in Glen Arbor since the mid 1990s. This year the Glen Arbor Art Association is partnering with the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to offer three additional concerts for a total of 14 concerts, many are free and they are all free to children under 18.

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Manitou Music Fest opens at DH Day Campground

The Glen Arbor Art Association is partnering with the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to offer three additional summer Manitou Music Festival concerts this summer, to be held at the D.H. Day Campground amphitheater. The expanded lineup is part of the National Park Service’s 100th birthday celebration in 2016. The public, park rangers and campers are invited to join in the celebration with a concert in the park this summer and “find your park” through music.

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What’s ahead for the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore?

By Sarah Bearup-Neal Sun contributor In the year leading up to the centennial celebration of the National Park Service’s (NPS) creation, the Glen Arbor Sun has offered stories about the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (SBDNL) and some of the people in the community who have developed a relationship with it. As the NPS’s 100th […]

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2016 Manitou Music Festival poster competition

The Glen Arbor Art Association invites artists to submit original paintings for the annual Manitou Music Festival poster competition. Deadline for the 2016 poster competition is Sept. 20.

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Manitou Music Festival presents Jeff Haas, Moxie Strings, Crane Wives, and Peter Paul & Mary Remembered

Well known to many local jazz enthusiasts, Jeff Haas is heard weekly on Interlochen Public Radio’s “New Jazz Archive” and at other venues that feature his trio, quartet and quintet. The Quintet will perform at the top of Bay Mountain overlooking Sleeping Bear Bay, at The Homestead Resort, on July 22 at 7 p.m. Familiar and new jazz tunes will fill the air as the sun sets over Lake Michigan. Jeff Haas comes from a musical family. His father, pianist Karl Haas, was his first teacher and was well known throughout Michigan.

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