Site updated February 3, 2010
Please mark your calendars for the
32nd Annual Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival
July 16-18, 2010, at the Marquette, Mich., Tourist Park
in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Dixie Bee-Liners added to 2010 line-up
The Dixie Bee-Liners are the latest addition to our 2010 mainstage line-up. They join Bryan Bowers on that list (please scroll down for his photo and link). We expect to announce our complete list of mainstage acts by early February. Please check back!
Bryan Bowers to play at Hiawatha 2010
We are delighted to announce that autoharp master, singer/songwriter and storyteller Bryan Bowers has been contracted to play at the 2010 Hiawatha Festival.
We expect to announce the rest of our mainstage line-up in late January or early February, so please check back.
Logo Contest Deadline 6 p.m., February 1
Thanks to all who entered our 2010 Festival logo contest. Our board of directors will select the winning entry in early February, and we'll notify all entrants of the outcome. To learn how you might enter next year's contest, please select Logo Contest from the main menu
Hiawatha board officers elected
The Hiawatha Music Co-op board of directors has elected its officers for the coming year. They are Karen Bacula of Marquette, president; Chuck Howe of Gwinn, vice president; Phil Watts of Marquette, treasurer; and Heidi Stevenson of Marquette, secretary.
Other Hiawatha Music Co-op board members are Jim Jajich, Sue Bertram, J. Pearl Taylor, Bill Hart and Jesse Luttenton of Marquette; and Ron Larson of Gwinn.
Thanks!
Thanks to all the volunteers, performers and Festival-goers who made our 31st Hiawatha Festival a success! Please scroll down for links to this year's mainstage artists.
Special thanks to the Marquette-area restaurants and food retailers who helped with our Musicians' Food.
2009 Performers
To learn more about our 2009 artists and to order their recordings, please visit their websites (links below). For previous years' Hiawatha performers, and other traditional-music information, please visit our Links page.
Tangled Roots
The Stairwell Sisters
Josh White Jr.
Pat Donohue
Lucy Kaplansky
Rhythm In Shoes (photo above right)
Cafe Accordion
Feufollet
Mamadou Diabate
The Derrell Syria Project
White Water (Friday dance only)
Rootstand (Teen Scene)
The Flatbellys (Teen Scene)
Festival Schedule
Please click here for our 2009 schedule.
Office hours
Our regular office hours are noon to 6 p.m., Tuesdays and Wednesdays, at 129 W. Baraga, Suite C, in Marquette. We check our messages throughout the week.
