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www.blowout.metrotimes.com If you’re looking for the largest local music festival in all of North America, there’s only one place to go, and that’s Hamtramck, Michigan. The festival is officially known as “Blowout” and is put on by one of the country’s hippest alternative newspapers, the Detroit Metro Times. Blowout is also one of the longest-running music festivals of its kind …
www.redflannelfestival.org Every October in Cedar Springs, Michigan they have The Red Flannel Festival where the entire town shows up sporting their very best red flannel. It can be a hat, shirt, pants, socks, jacket or whatever, as long as it’s red. It really is an amazing sight to see. A sea of red everything flowing up and down Main Street. …
www.cheeseburgerincasevillefest.com In 1999, the Cheeseburger in Caseville Festival started with a handful of people who loved Jimmy Buffett’s tropical tendency to kick back and relax with a great cheeseburger. Now for ten days every August, Caseville becomes “Key North,” and this beautiful little town of eight hundred hosts almost a quarter million people from around the world who love Buffett, …
www.muskegonbiketime.com If you like wind in your hair and bugs in your teeth, this festival is every two-wheeler’s ultimate weekend. It’s called Bike Time. It’s in Muskegon, and even though it’s only a few years old, it’s now the fastest-growing motorcycle festival in the country. Every July, thirty-five thousand bikes from thirty-eight states (and over ninety thousand people total) converge …
www.yalechamber.com/page-bologna.html All my life people have been telling me I’m full of bologna. Finally, I found a place where I totally fit in. It was at the fantastically fun Bologna Festival in Yale, Michigan. For three days every July, this small town of two thousand turns into twenty thousand bologna-loving party-goers. If you’re wondering why they have a bologna festival …
www.michiganbrewersguild.org What would a Michigan festival special be without a good old fashioned beer festival? So we went to the 14th Annual Summer Beer Festival at Riverside Park in beautiful Ypsilanti, Michigan. It’s the oldest and largest beer festival in the state. Thousands of beer lovers converged to taste over three hundred different beers from more than fifty different Michigan …
www.thumbfest.org This is an actual true story. When we put Lexington on our production calendar and called to start scheduling things, we didn’t know Thumbfest was happening or even what it was. But thank goodness we stumbled on it, because it was extremely cool. Thumbfest is a folk music festival that’s been happening in Lexington every summer for over a …
(906) 228-3072 P.O. Box 15, Marquette, MI 49855 www.UP200.org This time we came to Marquette to see something I’d never seen before, a two-hundred mile dogsled race called the U.P. 200. It’s an Iditarod qualifier that brings mushers and their teams in from all over the Midwest. The race actually starts off right in downtown Marquette. The morning of the …
(800) 248-5253 1625 W. Houghton Lake Dr., Houghton Lake, MI 48629 www.houghtonlakechamber.net Even though I’ve known about this event for a long time now, I really thought it was just about ice fishing. Boy, was I wrong. What was totally under my radar is that the vast majority of people who come to this festival don’t fish at all. They …
www.downtownrochestermi.com/events/big-bright-light-show Now for the main reason we went to check out Rochester. It’s called The Big Bright Light Show, and it happens every year between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Back in 2006 the DDA’s Executive Director Kristi Trevarrow had an idea, and that bright idea has helped put Rochester, Michigan on the map across the country. Now get this: they …
