HOUGHTON — The Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts welcomed jazz multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Braxton Cook backstage last weekend for the Don Keranen Jazz Festival. He played with Michigan Technological University student jazz groups including R&D Jazz Band and Jazz Lab Band. ...

This article is reprinted from The Conversation an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. LOS ANGELES — When Michael Jackson died in 2009, he left everything he owned to a family trust – an estate planning technique for giving away ...

HOUGHTON – The 2026 Don Keranen Jazz Festival is back with three tomorrow and Saturday. Paying tribute to the founder of the Michigan Tech Jazz Studies Program, Don Keranen, this festival features performances by the Video Game Jazz Ensemble, R&D Jazz Band, Jazztech, and Jazz Lab Band. ...

ORLANDO —The Calumet High School Copper Kings Band, known as the “Pride of the Keweenaw” performed at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom on Monday. The band under the direction of Ryan Watt proudly marched down Main Street USA. The visit came about after the Copper Kings submitted an ...

HANCOCK – Art, artifacts, and oral histories come together to tell stories of Finnish migration to the United States in the new exhibit “Me Siirtolaiset / We Immigrants,” at the Finlandia Art Gallery in Hancock through April 16.   The artwork in the exhibit is from the ...

ESCANABA – The Bay Film Series at Bay College in Escanaba announced its Winter 2026 schedule. For more than 30 years, the Film Series has celebrated the art of filmmaking. With an art-house sensibility, we highlight experimental and character-driven movies, focusing on independent, foreign, ...