2023 Winter Roots Festival

The Winter Roots Festival returns to Marquette on March 17-18, 2023!

This Festival – coordinated in partnership between the NMU Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center, Hiawatha Music Co-op, and Peter White Public Library – is an annual celebration of folk music and dance, featuring a variety of performances, workshops, and more.

Festivities kick off on St. Paddy’s Day at Ore Dock Brewing Company with Irish dance lessons and a performance by Milwaukee-based Irish folk powerhouse Tallymoore, and continue on Saturday with film showings at Peter White Public Library, workshops in the afternoon at the Hiawatha Fold, and a headlining concert at Forest Roberts Theatre by traditional duo Newberry & Verch.

Be sure to join us as we melt away the winter blues!

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FRIDAY, MARCH 17:

Irish Dance Lessons with Carolyn Provencher, 6:00pm-7:00pm
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Tallymoore in concert, 7:00pm-9:00pm
@ Ore Dock Brewing Company
$5 for Hiawatha Music Co-op Members / $10 for non-members

SATURDAY, MARCH 18:

Winter Roots Film Festival
– “In Seach of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey,” 10:00am
– “Greenwich Village: Music that Defined a Generation,” 11:30am
– “Charlie Chaplin & Troy Graham,” 1:30pm
@ Peter White Public Library Shiras Room
Free Admission

Ottawa Valley Fiddle Workshop with April Verch, 2:30pm
@ The Hiawatha Fold
$5 Suggested Donation

Harmony Singing Workshop with April Verch and Joe Newberry, 3:30pm
@ The Hiawatha Fold
$5 Suggested Donation

Newberry & Verch in concert, 7:30pm
@ Forest Roberts Theatre, Northern Michigan University
General Public – $15 advance/$17 door; Students – $10 advance/$12 door
Tickets available at NMU ticket outlets or through nmu.universitytickets.com