The Grand River Folk Arts Society presents
Acoustic Saturday Nights
held in the Wealthy Theatre Annex.
The address is 1110 Wealthy SE just west of Fuller Avenue. Concerts start at 8:00 pm unless otherwise marked.
Ticket Prices: $12 General, $10 Seniors & Students with student ID's two admissions for $10, $9 Members, $3 2-12 year olds.
For other information, please call (616) 246-6468 or (616) 361-9219.
 

January-April CONCERTS 2012

Here is what Tom Paxton says about Anne Hills. “Anne Hills is such an exquisite singer that it’s understandable that people might be swept up in the pure beauty of her voice and thereby overlook her writing. That would be a mistake. For me, Anne’s writing, in songs like ‘Follow That Road’ and many others, is as direct, melodic and deep as any work being done today. She is quite simply one of my absolute favorite songwriters.”
The Anne Hills pages.

Thirty plus years may not seem like such a long time in the life of a human being, a tree, or a folk song. But in the fickle world of modern music, where pop stars shy of their 21st birthdays often see their careers dumped into oldies bins, thirty years is a very long time.
So as David Tamulevich and Michael Hough celebrate their 35th Anniversary as Mustard's Retreat, the same question seemed to burn among aspiring young performers and road-weary old folkies - why you guys? In searching for the answer, one word comes up again and again, the simple word, audience.
Everything Mustard's Retreat does on a stage is aimed at pleasing, moving and engaging their audience. Whether singing their own gentle love songs and vivid ballads, telling tall tales or offering treasures from America's vast traditional song bag, a Mustard's Retreat show always feels like it's designed for the people who have come to see them that day, in that coffeehouse, school, concert hall or festival. Audiences sense this from the moment David and Michael hit the stage, are drawn to it like hungry kids to Sunday supper and reward it the best way they know how. They come to see Mustard's Retreat again and again. And again.
David and Michael are on the internet.

We love Bill Staines with his tuneful, fresh melodies carrying stories and emotions that you've never heard but still find familiar. Bill's musical genius sometimes hides the fact that he is a very keen and sympathetic observer of the human condition. Please join Bill and the rest of us in a celebration of music, beauty and life.
P.S. Bill picks great guitar and sings like an angel!
Keep up with his travels.

Seth Barnard and May Erliwine write beautiful songs, funny songs, serious songs and, above all, entertining songs that you and I need to hear. In addition to giving all of us wonderful musical experiences they take environmental awareness and action very seriously and are making the world a better place - and a more musical one!
Their very hip website.

Those talented ladies are coming back. Nobody's Darlin' has generously stepped up to the plate to perfrom a benefit concert for our Grand River Folk Arts Society. For an evening of hot bluegrass, beautiful women and the satisfaction of supporting GRFAS, be there!

On the web: Nobodysdarlin.tripod.com

Subject to change