Friday, April 26, 2024

Music

MICHIGAN

Mid-Winter Singing Festival brings music, history to city

As snowflakes fell and a frigid wind blew Saturday outside the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, the city of East Lansing’s Children’s Concert Series and Mid-Winter Singing Festival brought a little bit of light to residents of East Lansing with music, laughter and dancing. The Children’s Concert Series was held earlier in the day in the banquet hall and featured music by folk singers Kim and Reggie Harris. They performed songs ranging from “Day-O” to “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and told historical stories through songs of famed Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige and folk hero John Henry.

FEATURES

Poet visits RCAH as part of Fall Series

Elizabeth LaPrelle remembers the first time she heard Appalachian ballad music. She said was sitting at a music camp on the first night and a woman came out and belted out the most beautiful song she had ever heard.