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 gallery’s permanent collection and includes the work of nine Finnish-American and Finnish artists — Ariadna Donner, Gerald Immonen, Aura Jylha-Vuorio, Gladys Koski Holmes, Desiree Koslin, Jan Manniko, Mabel Mustonen, Onni Nordman and Tatu Vuorio. Joanna Chopp, and Phyllis Fredendall. ...
IRONWOOD — Local student writers were among the winners in the 2025 Samsons Writing Contest held by Gogebic Community College with campuses in Ironwood and Houghton. The competition, which features cash prizes, consisted of three categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry. The contest was ...
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, ...
ESCANABA – Bay College announces an exhibition of the art of Dave Berg, artist and printmaker in the Hartwig Gallery. A reception and artist talk held at 2 p.m. (EST) Feb. 5. Berg is a self-taught printmaker who has been refining his craft since 2018. An Upper Peninsula native Berg draws ...
