Wheatland Music Scholarship Applications Due

Attention: Michigan adults, youth, and families:  Now is the time to get your Wheatland Music scholarship applications submitted to attend traditional arts, music or dance lessons or camps in Michigan or beyond this summer!  Download the application package from:  https://www.wheatlandmusic. org/giving-and-receiving/scholarships/.   Email completed packages (preferably scanned as a pdf with application plus two reference letters) to scholarship@wheatlandmusic.org or mail to […]
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WHEATSCOUTS – February 8, 2014 11-1

Michigan Critter Tales with Tails! Take a trip along the shores of our Great Lake State! With Michigan Humanities Touring Artist and Award-Winning Storyteller, Jenifer Strauss. Join Jen for an enriching story experience that will find you telling, dancing and singing along about… How Black Bear Lost His Tail How Chipmunk Got Stripes and… What […]
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Grants Help Meet Goals

Wheatland Music Organization is grateful for recent awarded grants that will help support some identified goals. In June, an award valued at $1,000 from Arts Midwest was awarded to support attendance at the 2012 Midwest Arts Conference that took place in Grans Rapids, Michigan, September 12th -15 of 2012.  Two representatives from Wheatland Music attended. […]
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Acoustic Performance Venue

A PLACE FOR DRUM, DANCE AND ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE The North American Rhythmaculture is alive and well. It has been part of our artistic landscape since the Native Americans ran the show, and even through colonization (definitely dipped there) and the slave trade, to the blues and jazz. Rock and roll, hip hop and whatever it […]
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40th Anniversary, “Carry It On” Project

40th Anniversary – Join Us in Carrying It On! Because 2013 is the 40th anniversary of the Wheatland Music festival and the 25th year of Traditional Arts Weekend, multiple ways to commemorate the year are being planned.  A new production called CARRY IT ON! involving more than 50 Michigan youth and adults as well as many artists from past years, […]
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38th Annual Wheatland Music Festival

The festival this year will be held September 9, 10 & 11 2011.  Tickets will go on sale May 15th.   You can read more about the performers and the festival throughout the site. Performers to include Lafayette Rhythm Devils ~ The Freight Hoppers Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band ~ Ray Bonneville The Laws ~ Grey Larsen & Cindy Kallet […]
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