Art Week 2023 Performances
Enjoy all of these FREE and FAMILY FRIENDLY performances during Art Week 2023, June 19-24. All performances will take place outside and in public parks. It is recommended that audience bring their own seating.

Check the MQTcompass.com for rain information and additional details.
Full Schedule of events

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Pine Mountain Music Festival: Upstarts! Pop-Up Concert
Tuesday 2:00pm-2:30pm, Hurley Park (240 Mesnard St.) 

The Pine Mountain Music Festival UPstarts! features young emerging singers and instrumentalists from the Upper Peninsula.
Full Concert at NMU Reynolds Recital Hall at 7:30pm on June 20

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Family Square Dance with The Feltliners & Friends
Tuesday 5:00pm-6:30pm, Hurley Park (240 Mesnard St.),

Bring the family and learn how to square dance while listening to traditional music from historic times, performed by a live 5-piece band featuring local musicians including Janis Peterson and Dave Bett from the Marquette-based Feltliners band, with calling by Jo Foley. No experience necessary! More Info

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Ethan Bott: Bringing It All Back Home
Tuesday 7:00pm-9:00pm, Hurley Park (240 Mesnard St.),

Bring your picnic and lawn chairs for an evening of local tunes by Ethan Bott and other neighborhood musicians and artists!
*Alcohol Allowed in the Park, no glass containers 

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Concert on the Steps: Derrell Syria Project
Wednesday 7:00pm-8:00pm, Peter White Public Library Front Steps, (217 N Front St.)

Popular hometown band the Derrell Syria Project provides a concert for all lovers of music. Attend to find out the winners of the Passport to Home Art Week scavenger hunt.

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Marquette City Band: Home is Where the Music Is
Thursday 7:30pm, Presque Isle Park Band Shell (1 Peter White Dr.)

As part of their 2023 Concert Season, the Marquette City Band presents Home is Where the Music Is, a special Art Week concert at the Presque Isle Bandshell.

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Sailing Home with heART & music
Friday 2:00pm – 7:00pm, Marquette Yacht Club (201 Main St.),

Art activities and live music hosted by The Gallery-MQT and the Marquette Yacht Club.

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Poetry on the Pier
Friday 5:30pm-6:30pm, New Piers (S Lakeshore Blvd.),

Dylan Trost plays a set of original songs and provides a musical background for the poetry of Russell Thorburn, the first UP Poet Laureate. This hour-long performance will be the first of its kind on the newly built south pier next to the Lower Harbor Ore Dock and behind the Hampton Inn, and also feature poetry and the percussive styling of Gary Schils of Petoskey, a former Marquette resident.

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The Way Back Home
Friday 7:00pm-9:00pm, Lions Lakeside/Father Marquette Park (102 E Baraga),

To celebrate their home, the Hiawatha Music Co-op is presenting a concert by three local folk groups with Marquette Harbor as the backdrop. The evening’s show will feature folk-grass stalwarts The Union Suits, the duo of John Gillette and Sarah Mittlefehldt and singer-songwriter Daniel Truckey. Bring a blanket, lawn chairs and a picnic and enjoy the tunes.

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SSA Chamber Players: Nidification
Saturday 11:00am-11:45pm, Presque Isle Park (Near the Ice Cream store),

Superior String Alliance Chamber Players improvise a musical soundtrack to the notion of nest building. A nest is a home that many different animals build for themselves and their young. Birds, insects, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles have a distinctive style of nest building that incorporates using organic materials in their immediate environment, the most common material being plant matter. Nest building reinforces social behavior, allowing for larger populations in small spaces to increase the carrying capacity of an environment.

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MSO Summer Strings: Home Sweet Music
Saturday 7:00pm, Presque Isle Park Bandshell,

The Marquette Symphony Orchestra Summer Strings present a special performance featuring string selections by composers with Marquette connections.