Summer music festivals in western Michigan are as varied
While music is what draws people to music festivals, it’s the hundreds of dedicated volunteers that make the events happen.
When Sharon Hoogstraten went on her second Trail of Death Commemorative Caravan in 2018 — a six-day pilgrimage following the trail of the
Renae Baumgart owes her art career in part to a pesky bird: her son’s blue-crowned conure named Bella.
They may sound beautiful and crystalline, but when handbells ring this month, the music will be bittersweet for members of the Kalamazoo
It all started with a son’s simple questions: “Have you ever heard of Johnny Appleseed? Was he real, Mom?”
Melody Allen, head art teacher for the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts’ ArtLab, never tires of one thing: watching children’s eyes light up w
When singer-songwriter Ashley Daneman speaks, she laughs easily and melodically.
On just about any summer Saturday morning at the Kalamazoo Farmers Market, there’s someone strumming a guitar and singing while shoppers
One day back in 1988, local musician Bob Rowe opened his mailbox to find a yellowed envelope addressed from India with type that was obvi
Summer music festivals in western Michigan are as varied
Seasoned sightseers say that to really experience and enj
The sale of husbands, the #MeToo movement and “the powerf
Dancer Samantha Soltis rehearses Loïe Fuller’s Fire Dance.
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