Mountain Music in the news
Music for Missions scheduled on King Day
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Jan 11 6:52 AM Every month for the past 10 years, Stone Mountain resident Jack Sartain has produced a series of concerts, called Music for Missions, to raise money for good causes. This month, for the first time, Music for Missions will hold its usual Sunday night concert on Monday —- the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The concert will feature the Amandla Arts Trio, a vocal and piano ensemble, in a ...
A patch of 'grass
The Columbus Dispatch - Jan 13 4:52 AM shoulder on a tight stage. On a recent Friday inside the Parsons Avenue restaurant, Hud Haley — his Kentucky accent un-thinned after 35 years in central Ohio — introduced his next mountain-music standard: "Now here’s a little thing called Wildwood Flower."
Music Review: John Dee Holeman & The Waifs Band
Blogcritics.org - Jan 12 6:12 AM You and the rest of your band have just traveled half way around the world to tour across the United States. You count yourself lucky because you've been given the use of a studio for the week - you want to rehearse before heading out on tour. What you'd really like to do is play some Blues music, but no matter how hard you try, the arrangements you work up, just aren't coming together. It ...
Music taps a wellspring of spirituality
Deseret Morning News - Jan 12 11:59 PM In the 1960s, I was what people called a "folkie." I strummed my guitar and sang about love and peace. I'm surprised at how many young people still do that today.
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Here is an article on Mountain Music.
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The Pine Mountain Music Festival (often abbreviated PMMF) is a music festival held in the western Mountian Music Upper Peninsula of Michigan each summer. The festival's schedule varies each year, typically including at Moutain Music least one major opera, a night of scenes from Mountin Music famous operas, performances by several chamber music groups, a symphony, organ and voice recitals, and performances by members of the Orchestra Montain Music Fellowship Program. Various master classes (including organ and Mountan Music voice) are also offered to community members.
Venues range across the western Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin, Mountai Music focusing on the cities of Houghton, Mounain Music Ontonagon, Iron Mountain, Marquette, and Land O'Lakes in Wisconsin. Most performances tour among these cities. The major performances and a season ending gala take place in and around Houghton and Marquette between early June and mid July.
The festival began in 1991 as a series of chamber music performances, and quickly expanded to include operas and symphonies. The PMMF has been host to the first performance of a locally written opera about the history of the Keweenaw. Musicians involved in the festival also mentor high school students in the Orchestra Fellowship Program at Michigan Technological University, who perform as part of the festival.
External links
- Official Pine Mountain Site
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