The Gibson raffle guitar, tee shirts and beer tickets for sale.
A rather short conga line.
Encouragement from the band.
...and the crowd responds.
Friday Night Country Western
John Holk and the Sequins
Sequins steel guitar
Rythmn for the Sequins
Terrie Lea and the Mustangs
Close country harmony.
Lead guitar for the Mustangs
Saturday Fiddler's Fling and Rock Night
The School for Strings Fiddle Club
The Fiddle Club can dance and sing too.
Dr. Rebekah Brown gives spirited leadership.
The Saline Fiddlers
The Saline Fiddlers play one or more instruments, sing very well and do constant choreographed stage movement and dance too.
Clog dancers rouse the audience.
The Adam Allen Band
The band revs it up.
The Paper Street Saints
Charlie Grover keeps them moving.
Classical Sunday
One of over a hundred stunning quilts in this exhibit.
Jimmy DeHeno played classical and original pieces as the program opener.
Some lucky kid ....
Jimmy DeHeno and Rebekah Brown played Baroque guitar and violin duets.
The Detroit Concert Choir captivated the audience.
The choir made their own rhythmic sounds effects.
The Motor City Brass Band put on a terrific show from Sousa to Broadway, Tinpan Ally to Classical.
L to R: City Commissioner Jim Turner, Mayor Bob Lepley, MC James LaLonde, and guitar donors Sarah and Bob Klingler pull the winning raffle ticket. The winner: Georgia Phelan.
Motor City Brass Band played a patreiotic medley tyhat featured asking vets of each branch of the armed service to stand in turn. There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
The 2009 Music and Arts Festival in Pictures
The Beach Party
Char Faucher of the Little Bar, late in the evening, and still going strong.
Gary "Obie" Oberliesen of Lighthouse Books N Brew.
On the left, John and Kathee Rouleau of the Oak Room Grille and employee John Smith.
Melissa Ikera of the Marine City Fish Company and employee Ashley O'Brien.
Dijana Tetrovski and Samantha Zdravkovski of Louie's Corner Restaurant.
Dominic Lucarelli of Anita's Place.
The Southpaw Isle Steel Band.
Part of our wonderfully attentive and large audience.
Early evening at the beach party.
The crowd in the shady north end of the park.
The band sets off in search of conga lovers.....
.....and finds them.
Celtic Night
Karen Johns on harp and Mary Smith on recorder.
Alan Cayn
The Flint Scottish Pipe Band takes the field.
Plenty pipers piping.
The Ardan Dancers
Finvarra's Wren Irish Band
Blues Night
Mike Merrill and the Wonder Dogz.
Broadway John and the Groove Riders.
Be Be and the Blues Masters
Mark shouts "Give it up for the Howling Diablos!"
Diablos rev the crowd .... howling mandatory.
The Howling Diablos put on a great show.
Sunday Sampler
One of the keyboard students from the Patti Raica student recital.
The Blueswater Band
The Stone Soul Panic Band
The Bigg Daddy Band
The Marine City Music Festival Board of Directors and General Membership wish to thank all the talented men and women who performed at the festival. You were terrific!
