The Traverse City Wine & Art Festival is excited to announce a fantastic lineup that features some of Michigan’s finest musicians and all kinds of performance art – here’s the schedule!
Northern Michigan jazz/folk great Claudia Schmidt will kick things off with her “Funtet” composed of some of the region’s finest players. Garrison Keillor once said “when Claudia sings a song, it stays sung.” Click for a cool video from Claudia!
Claudia will make sure that the songs stay singing by joining Michigan’s own Shout Sister Shout, who feature rising star Rachel Davis and deliver the smoky, sophisticated sound of 30s and 40s jazz reminiscent or Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan and others. It will be the first time Claudia and Shout Sister Shout have taken the stage together, an event that promises to be one of those “better not miss it” nights.
You’ll be able to dance into the night with Steppin’ In It, a Lansing based folk-rockin’, jazz playin’, bluegrass pickin’, old-time swingin’ quartet. The Telluride Bluegrass Festival says this versatile and literate band is “knee deep in the future of bluegrass” – we know you’ll agree.
Here’s Morris & Ella by Steppin’ In It – stay tuned for more features on our music & entertainment!
