Group Pleasure: Desmond Jones shall be again to pump up the Shagbark Music & Arts Pageant. (Photograph/Derek Ketchum)
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For Nathan Buy, who booked bands for this summer season’s re-branded music pageant, it’s about highlighting “strictly Michigan based mostly artists in a family-friendly and enjoyable atmosphere” with no overlapping units.
For drummer John Nowak of one of many headliners, Desmond Jones, it’s gratitude for being invited again to a farm the place the band has carried out many occasions earlier than, leaving the musicians “excited and honored” to play the inaugural version of a regional pageant with a brand new title.
And for Shagbark Farm proprietor “Farmer” John Crissman, the objective of the primary “Shagbark Music and Arts Pageant” this August is to “honor my mother and father and Shagbark Farm by holding stay music singing over the hills of the farm.”
Honoring His Dad and mom and Shagbark: ‘Farmer’ John Crissman (Photograph/Anna Sink)
“I additionally wish to step again and let the festivalgoers benefit from the group and expertise the enjoyment that’s the communal residing of pageant tenting,” Crissman added. “Full performances by each band shall be loved by all.”
Welcome to the Shagbark Music and Arts Pageant, the brand new title of the revamped Cowpie Music Pageant staged for a few years on a working farm in Alaska, in southern Kent County.
Organizers right now introduced the 2023 lineup, with Americana’s Myron Elkins (winner of this 12 months’s Native Spins Rising Artist Award), jam band Desmond Jones and Telluride bluegrass contest winner Full Wire headlining the weekend pageant set for Aug. 3-5.
Additionally on the invoice: Max Lockwood, Chirp, Earth Radio, Nathan Walton & The Treatment, Flexadecibel, Pajamas, Kyle Brown & The Human Situation, Dani Darling, Spherical Creek String Band, Lacy Galloway and Tyler Gitchel.
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Not like Cowpie, Buy mentioned, Buy Productions has booked fewer acts and moved from three levels to 2 for the Shagbark fest.
“The objective of this mannequin is to have the ability to have zero overlapping music to make sure that our attendees will be capable of catch each single performer that they want to see,” he mentioned.
“We additionally shall be beginning music later within the afternoon. Our objective with that is to permit folks to hang around and benefit from the land of Shagbark Farm, play a spherical of disc golf on the farms course and be capable of go to the close by river for a swim to chill off.”
The Shagbark Ambiance: Final 12 months’s Cowpie pageant. (Photograph/Derek Ketchum)
One Cowpie custom will proceed, Buy mentioned: “Our Friday night time ‘Fireplace Efficiency’ set that includes Desmond Jones, hearth performers and pyrotechnics.”
Basic admission tickets — $90 — are on sale now, on-line right here. Attendees should use the code SHAGBARK to get a $15 early-bird low cost till midday April 20.
Nowak known as Cowpie “a spotlight for our band and followers the previous few years and we’re desirous to create extra music and recollections on that stunning land. Nathan Buy of Buy Productions is an extremely necessary particular person to Desmond Jones and it’s an exquisite factor when he organizes and produces occasions.
“Farmer John and his household have welcomed us 12 months after 12 months and we’re grateful to them for internet hosting the most effective music festivals within the state this summer season. The tenting house, lack of lengthy traces, proximity to Grand Rapids and the local people makes this pageant one in every of our favorites.”
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