Bright colors, glow in the dark accessories and smiling face were added to the electric feel on day five of the Lansing Common Ground music festival. MGMT attracted the largest crowd of the night but with three stages, festival-goers had the option to see ten other bands such as Awolnatiom, Twenty One Pilots, and Foxy Shazam.
The fourth night of the Common Ground Music Festival boasted the biggest crowd yet, in addition to a genre-redefining act. Prepared for a rock-oriented night, the crowd, dressed consistently in cowboy hats and boots, jean shorts and camouflage caps, bounced beach balls, threw their hands up and filled Adado-Riverfront Park. “You see different people every night, and there’s a different feel,” Williamston resident Erica Pincumbe said.
Old or young, the third day of the Common Ground Music Festival attracted music lovers of all ages with a lineup featuring legendary guitarist Slash and local up-and-coming metal bands.
Amidst the Common Ground Music Festival excitement this week, MSU Community Music School Rock Camp has assembled eight talented teenaged bands that will be “rocking out” among the big names in music at Adado Riverfront Park in Lansing on Saturday.
No matter if you’re a Sheepdog or a Mummy, rain wasn’t going to stop the performances Tuesday night. After a couple of thundershowers in the early evening, the clouds lightened up — allowing the bands to put on a show for everyone who was brave enough to stick out unpleasant weather at Common Ground Music Festival’s second day.
The pleasant sounds of well-tuned guitars and melodic vocals echoed through Adado Riverfront Park on Monday, signaling the opening of the Common Ground Music Festival and the return of top tier music talent to the Lansing area.
Here is a guide to how hotly anticipated the acts of Common Ground are, based on the combined Facebook likes of each artist, for each day.
Local talent will share the stage at the Common Ground Music Festival this week, proving Lansing has a up-and-coming music scene.
Every year the city of Lansing has a July 4th celebration including a parade, live music and fireworks.
A combination of hot wheels, dominos and marbles which create massive chain reactions landed MSU mechanical engineering sophomore Steve Price on NBC’s 2013 season of “America’s Got Talent.” “I don’t really have an explanation of how I got started,” Price said.
Residents from Greater Lansing pedaled their way through modernistic architecture of the 1940s and ‘50s with the East Lansing Modern Bicycle Tour on June 29. The tour was sponsored by Tri-County Bicycle Association (TCBA), the MSU Museum and the Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council. The tour highlighted buildings like the East Lansing Public Library and residential homes built after World War II, which tour guide Adrianna Jordan said were influenced by modern architecture giants such as Mies van der Rohe, Adolf Loos and Walter Gropius.
The 35th Golf Association of Michigan, or GAM, Girls Junior State Amateur Tournament was held at West Forest Akers Golf Course and Steve Ruthenburg, general manager and director of golf, said he was happy to have hosted the tournament.
MSU Community Music School’s, or CMS, “Rock Camp” will be giving teens, ages 11-18, the ultimate gig: a chance to perform among the big names at the Common Ground Music Festival on July 13. Rock Camp is a weeklong summer camp, held from July 8-13, that will provide students with training from a band that has toured nationally: The Outer Vibe.
Downtown East Lansing was filled with the sounds of saxophones, bass and vocals last weekend at the 17th annual Summer Solstice Jazz Festival.
When morning breaks over the ball field of Kircher-Municipal Park, one man stands armed with an arsenal of equipment, ready to prepare the nearly endlessly used field for another day’s punishment.
Whether they’re strapping JATO rockets to a 1967 Chevy or using 800 pounds of ANFO to blow up a cement truck, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have been approaching science in a not so conventional way for a decade on the Emmy-nominated Discovery series “MythBusters.” On June 22, the inquisitive co-hosts will be blazing mind-twisting experiments live with their “Behind the Myths” tour at Wharton Center. For the past 20 years, Savage and Hyneman have worked alongside one another doing special effects for big-time blockbusters such as “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” and “Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones” and “The Matrix” trilogy.
50 Shades! The Musical is coming to Wharton Center June 22-23 and it’s bringing more than just unworldly sexuality. The witty musical provides a twist to the erotic romance trilogy “Fifty Shades” by E.L.
To celebrate 150 years of freedom, Lansing kicked off the 20th annual Juneteenth Freedom Festival in Lansing’s St. Joseph Park this past Friday and Saturday.
Diane Grettenberger, the founder of Music in the Park, was inspired to create the concert after taking banjo lessons for nine years at the age of 50. “I don’t think anybody ever expected me to stick with it,” Grettenberger said.
With plays ranging from dark thrillers to light-hearted musicals, the MSU Summer Circle Theatre has been entertaining the Lansing area for more than 50 years with free summer plays.