We hope you’ll join us for the
35th Annual Hiawatha Festival
Festival Tickets will go on sale May 28th!
July 19-21, 2013 at the Marquette, Michigan, Tourist Park
ANNOUNCING THE LINE-UP FOR THE 2013 MAINSTAGE – note addition of the Cobb Brothers!
Craver, Hicks, Watson, Newberry
Cobb Brothers
Door Cats
Los Gauchos de Roldan - Cancelled – not able to travel from South America this summer
Announcing the addition of the first
Young Artist Corner!!!
Calling all artisans ages 7-17! If you would like to apply to sell your artwork and wares at the 2013 Festival, please click here for a printable application. The registration deadline is June 15, 2013. Limited space requires us to limit the number of participants. A committee will select artists from the applicant pool to display and sell their wares on Saturday of the Festival. Consideration will be given to include a range of ages and artwork. If this years’ Young Artist tent is successful, we will consider extended hours for the 2013 Festival. Artists and parents/guardians must be ticket holders for the 2013 Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival in order to participate and be on Festival grounds.
Announcing the 2013 Logo Contest Winner! 
Congratulations to Rick Crowley of Marquette for his winning design for our 2103 Logo! Thanks to everyone who sent in an entry this year – 41 total to choose from and it was not easy! Congrats again to Rick. Stay tuned for the revealing of this years’ design…….
The winning design will appear in some form on all promotional materials for the Festival. This includes posters, mugs, programs and the coveted worker T-shirts. Each year’s logo winner receives $100, a T-shirt with the winning design, weekend passes for two and a Festival mug.
To learn more about entering next year’s Festival Logo contest, select Logo Contest from the main menu.
Other Festival updates
Tickets and camping: Advance sales for tickets and camping will begin at 12 noon, Tuesday, May 28. Advance sales will end at 6 p.m., Tuesday, July 16. All tickets after that time will be at the Gate and at the Gate prices. We expect to have an online order form on this website when advance sales start.
Ticket prices: After keeping Ticket prices constant for the past 3 Festivals, it has come the time to re-evaluate our economics and we have determined that we need to raise our prices slightly. Advanced tickets will be raised $5.00 from last year and gate tickets will be raised $10.00. Camping tag and parking pass prices will remain the same.
Performance Schedules: Our Mainstage, Teen Scene and Children’s Area schedules will be announced next spring. Please select Festival Schedule from the main menu to see what we offered in 2012.
Tourist Park: On March 26, 2012, the Marquette City Commission unanimously approved a five-year contract (2012-2016) for our use of the Tourist Park for the Festival. Thanks to everyone who wrote a letter of support, and thanks to the City Commission and Staff for continuing to host our Festival!
Thursday-night camping lottery: The deadline for applications is May 8th. Reservation confirmations and regrets notices will mailed the week of May 13. Check this site later in the spring for a printable application.
People who did not win a Thursday site will receive their checks back. (In the very few cases where people did not include a stamped, self-addressed envelope, entries and checks will be confetti-shredded). For more information about camping at our event, please select [Festival Camping](http://www.hiawathamusic.org/camping.php) from the main menu. Please read carefully. There are changes since 2011. Thank you!
Thanks to these great 2012 Festival performers.
Econo “We Share” program
Please bring Hiawatha your receipts from Econo Foods. We now participate in the store’s We Share program and can receive 1% of the total of receipts we turn in. You may leave your receipts at our office (129 W. Baraga, Suite B, in the Children’s Museum block, across from Garden Bouquet and Design). We are also able to turn in receipts from Econo stores outside of Marquette. If the office is closed, just slide receipts under the door. You may also bring receipts to any Hiawatha event or mail them to PO Box 414, Marquette, MI 49855. Thanks for your help!
**** EXPANDED**** Office hours beginning May 28th, 2013
Regular office hours are noon to 6 p.m. Eastern, Mondays,Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
at 129 W. Baraga, Suite B, in Marquette. We check our messages throughout the week.
Site updated May 1, 2013
