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Troy Graham

Actor; Author/Writer; Composer; Musician; Performance Art; Performer and Writer; Poet; Producer; Teacher/Instructor; Vocalist/Singer

Troy Graham, otherwise known as Great Lakes Graham, is a folk singer-songwriter, poet, and children’s entertainer from Marquette, MI. Musically, Troy is most recognized for his original foot-stomping Irish and folk music and as a storytelling songwriter with a flare of bluegrass, old-time and gospel roots. Troy is always creating and has independently recorded over a dozen plus different music albums and has published poetry in four books. Most recently his book, “Freshwater Mermaids,” can be previewed on Amazon. His passion is encouraging youth and leading interactive poetry workshops along with musical performances for all ages. You will find him playing at libraries, schools, festivals and other concert series.

Miles Mykkanen

Actor; Musician; Vocalist/Singer; Opera Singer

A winner of the 2019 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Miles Mykkanen has garnered recognition on the world’s concert and operatic stages for his “focused, full-voiced tenor” (The New York Times). Of his performance in the title role of Candide at Tanglewood, it was reported in Opera, “Mykkanen sang and spoke feelingly and superbly, with crystalline diction, a powerful lyric sound seemingly capable of infinite dynamic gradations.” Mykkanen’s schedule includes return engagements at The Metropolitan Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Staatsoper Hamburg, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, and the Opéra de Lausanne. The Bessemer native has sung under the batons of Sir Antonio Pappano, Marek Janowski, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sebastian Weigle, Leonardo García Alarcón, Franz Welser-Möst, Manfred Honeck, Leonard Slatkin, and Nic McGegan in performances at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Carnegie Hall, The Cleveland Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival, New York Philharmonic, The Kennedy Center and the symphonies of Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, New Jersey, Oregon, and Pittsburgh. He can be seen on PBS Great Performances “Renée Fleming’s American Voices” and the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcasts of Boris Godunov, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Wozzeck. Miles Mykkanen is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and The Juilliard School. He is the Artistic Director of the Emberlight Festival in Ironwood, MI.