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  • All After Me
    All After Me
    Arts & Culture: Dance, Music;  Education / Instruction
    All After Me offers engaging wellness and dance exercise classes for all ages and all experience levels. Classes are unique, engaging, and exciting; we believe that exercise doesn’t have to be boring or dull, no matter what age you are! Activity for the body begins at birth, and staying active throughout life will keep you vibrant, healthy, and more able to reach your peak of wellness at every age. Engage your mind and let the moves and music speak to your soul; our classes and programs are designed to get you moving and smiling, boosting your energy levels and your endorphin levels, all while increasing your overall health and wellness. Classes: Zumba, Zumba Gold, Zumbini, Zumba Kids and Zumba Kids Jr., Personal Training, Bootcamps, and more!
  • Forest Roberts Theatre
    Forest Roberts Theatre
    Arts & Culture: Performing Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre;  Education / Instruction
    The Forest Roberts Theatre is the university theatre program of Northern Michigan University, but its influence stretches far beyond campus. Known for our dedication to student work and a deep involvement in the community, seeing a show at the FRT is an unique theatre experience unlike any you’ve had before. Featuring work on both the FRT stage and in the Dr. James Panowski Black Box Theatre, the FRT promises a season that is new, innovative, exciting, moving, and celebratory of the rich cultural life of Marquette.
  • Hiawatha Music Co-op
    Hiawatha Music Co-op
    Arts & Culture: History & Heritage, Music;  Education / Instruction;  Festival / Fair;  Nonprofit
    The Hiawatha Music Non-Profit Corporation is organized exclusively to provide and promote traditional music and dance, educate and inform society on traditional American music and encourage the appreciation of such music through the facility of an annual traditional music festival. All operations are exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, and for the promotion of social welfare.
  • Historic Vista Theater/Peninsula Arts Appreciation Council
    Historic Vista Theater/Peninsula Arts Appreciation Council
    Arts & Culture: Performing Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre;  Association/Club/Group;  Nonprofit
    In the early 1910’s, Jafet Rytkonen was a partner in the Star Theater and Liberty Theaters in Negaunee, but he had a desire for a larger, grander theater.  Jafet and his associates traveled to theaters all over the world, taking note of each theater’s best features. He then hired architect David E. Anderson to design “the grandest vaudeville and movie theater north of Milwaukee and east of Minneapolis.”  Ground for the theater was broken in 1925.  A naming contest was held, and Negaunee resident Mae Duchane provided the winning name.  She was awarded $25 in gold. The fifth, and final standing theater to be built in Negaunee, the Vista Theater opened on September 20, 1926. Jafet Rytkonen ran the Vista until his retirement in 1950, after which his son, William, and son-in-law, Peter Ghiardi took over operations.  Rytkonnen & Sons eventually expanded their operations to include not only the Vista, but both the Ishpeming Theater and Butler Theater in Ishpeming.  The Vista Theater remained open until 1972, when William Rytkonen died. In 1973, a group of local citizens formed the Peninsula Arts Appreciation Council (PAAC). They took over the running of the Vista, updated some features and in 1975 began using it as a venue for multiple artistic forms, including amateur theater productions, musical programs, concerts, films, puppet shows, art exhibits, and arts workshops.  On July 22, 2005, the structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. PAAC continues to operate the theater and in 2014, thanks to a grant from the Cliffs/Eagle Foundation, installed a new digital projector and screen, making it one of the few facilities left in the United States that acts as both a playhouse and movie theater. Ninety years later, our legacy remains the same; to enrich those in the Upper Peninsula through means of story telling and performance arts of all kinds.  The Historic Vista Theater takes great pride in continuing to be involved in the Marquette County community and we hope to continue to play our part in the sustainability of our region for decades to come.  As we look to ensure the future of our theater, we welcome everyone to come and experience the Historic Vista Theater, one of the remaining historical theaters the U.P. has to offer.
  • Kaufman Auditorium
    Kaufman Auditorium
    Arts & Culture: Performing Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre, Film / Video;  Education / Instruction;  Festival / Fair;  Nonprofit
    Kaufman Auditorium is Marquette’s Premiere Venue for the Performing Arts. Mission: “To provide something for everyone in the arts, entertainment and educational sector”
  • Marquette Area Blues Society
    Marquette Area Blues Society
    Arts & Culture: Music;  Association/Club/Group;  Festival / Fair;  Nonprofit
    The Marquette Area Blues Society (MABS) was born July 4, 2003 during the annual fireworks display in Marquette at the Lower Harbor Park. Founding members Terry Klavitter, April Lindala and Walt Lindala always enjoyed the sights and sounds of what Marquette had to offer, but they continually asked – “Why doesn’t this town have a blues festival?” Marquette’s residents love music and they love a good time – it just made sense.
  • Marquette Choral Society
    Marquette Choral Society
    Arts & Culture: Music
    The Marquette Choral Society is a mixed chorus formed by community members from Marquette, Michigan, its surrounding area, and students at Northern Michigan University. It was founded in 1971. The musical director is Dr. Erin Colwitz, Director of Choral Activities in the Department of Music at NMU. The group rehearses Monday nights during the academic year on the campus of Northern Michigan University. New members are always welcome – no audition is necessary. The Marquette Choral Society performs two major concerts per year – one in December and the other in April. Over the years, it has focused much of its attention on the large works of the choral repertoire, including oratorios by Handel, Bach, and Haydn, and masses by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, among many others. Marquette Choral Society takes pride in the fact that it has commissioned and given world premieres to many new and important contributions to the choral literature. Works premiered by the following composers: Thomas LaVoy, Paul Ayres, Griffin Candey, Dave Brubeck, Jackson Berkey, and Atso Almila.
  • Marquette Choral Society
    Marquette Choral Society
    Arts & Culture: Music;  Association/Club/Group;  Nonprofit
    The Marquette Choral Society, established in 1971, is a community choir associated with the Department of Music of Northern Michigan University. Singers include both university students and members of the wider community who participate for the love of singing. The Marquette Choral Society has focused on the masterworks of the Western tradition—Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Mozart—while also performing more contemporary pieces by such composers as Bernstein, Honegger, and Hovhaness. In 1992, the group commissioned Dave Brubeck to compose Earth is Our Mother to celebrate the choir’s twentieth anniversary. Other commissioned works have included those by Jackson Berkey (2002) and Paul Ayres (2015). In July 2017, the group was honored to celebrate Finland’s centennial with its first international tour.
  • Marquette City Band
    Marquette City Band
    Arts & Culture: Music;  Municipal / Civic;  Nonprofit
    From the 1860’s to 1900 immigrant bands made up of Cornish (e.g., the English Oak Band), Finnish, Swedish, German, and Italian musicians marched in parades and presented concerts in and around Marquette, Negaunee and Ishpeming. In the fall of 1887, the first official Marquette City Band was established when the entire Calumet Eureka Band, consisting of 14 members, was invited to move permanently from Calumet to Marquette. In 1929, John Longyear, Jr. circulated a petition and presented a plan to the city council for municipal funding to reestablish the band after a period of dormancy. The voters approved the measure, and Martin Johnson directed their first performance in 1929. The band has had an unbroken record of performance since then.
  • Marquette Male Chorus
    Marquette Male Chorus
    Arts & Culture: Music
    In its almost three decades of performing, The Marquette Male Chorus has tackled almost every genre of music, from opera to show tunes to rock and roll. We’ve even sung in foreign languages, including French, German and, Italian. Our chorus has experienced many highlights since it was first formed in 1981. We have hosted the Associated Male Choruses of America Big SIng in 1983 and we joined the Marquette County Chamber Chorale to perform the Faure Requiem at Carnegie Hall in March of 2007. Our chorus performs two concerts in Marquette each year, in the spring and fall, and also participates in the Christmas Tapestry each December. We also perform at local churches, nursing homes and start the UP 200 sled dog races each January in Marquette by singing the National Anthems of both the US and Canada. Over the years we have had members that range in the age of 15 to 85! Any man who enjoys singing is welcome in the Marquette Male Chorus. Please visit our website or call our director Wayne Hanmer for scheduling info and practice locations.
  • Marquette Music Scene
    Marquette Music Scene
    Arts & Culture: Music
    Local music hub
  • Marquette Rockestra
    Marquette Rockestra
    Arts & Culture: Music;  Association/Club/Group
    The Marquette Rockestra is a musical group that puts on benefits and awesome concerts.
  • Marquette Symphony Orchestra
    Marquette Symphony Orchestra
    Arts & Culture: Music;  Nonprofit
    The Marquette Symphony Orchestra’s mission is to create, provide, and promote professional performances of orchestral music through collaboration with residents and music educators of the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Five times a year, we offer exciting concerts—classical, pops, newly-commissioned works, old favorites, concerti and symphonies and tone poems and everything in between—to Upper Peninsula residents who come from as far as a hundred miles away to enjoy quality music in Marquette. We also offer outreach concerts through the Besse Center in Escanaba.
  • NMU Music Department
    NMU Music Department
    Arts & Culture: Performing Arts, Music;  Education / Instruction
    The Department of Music is Northern Michigan University’s resource for those seeking a comprehensive music education and for all who wish to enrich their lives through involvement in, and enjoyment of, music. Its academic purpose is to advance the university mission by providing undergraduate programs for professional training in music, studies in music as a liberal art, and opportunities for the general university student in applied study, music courses, and ensemble performance. On a broader level it exists to enrich the present culture, preserve artistic heritage, and facilitate the emergence of new creative expressions for the future. The Department pursues these purposes through the following goals: • Provide undergraduate programs and curricula of the highest quality for students aspiring to careers in music and music education. • Provide non-majors with opportunities to explore musical interests and develop musical skills and knowledge • Contribute to the cultural enrichment of the university, community, and region through concerts, recitals, guest artists, and educational offerings as well as through faculty scholarship in teaching and performing, and conducting. • Support public school music education through outreach to schools, advocacy for the arts, and campus events, including festivals, teacher in-service, summer music camps, and other offerings. • Maintain a positive teaching, learning, and artistic environment that attracts and retains a high quality and diverse student body and faculty. • Enhance the life of the university community through service performances at commencement ceremonies, athletic events, and other university occasions.
  • Northern Michigan University - Department of Music
    Northern Michigan University - Department of Music
    Arts & Culture: Performing Arts, Music;  Education / Instruction
    The NMU Department of Music prepares music majors for professional careers in music. The department also provides instruction in music for minors and non-majors, and musical performances by students and faculty. By these means, the department provides artistic and cultural enrichment for the university and the surrounding community (2009, NMU Board of Trustees). The Department of Music is NMU’s resource for those seeking a comprehensive music education and for all who wish to enrich their lives through involvement in, and enjoyment of, music. Its academic purpose is to advance the university mission by providing undergraduate programs for professional training in music, studies in music as a liberal art, and opportunities for the general university student in applied study, music courses, and ensemble performance. On a broader level it exists to enrich the present culture, preserve artistic heritage, and facilitate the emergence of new creative expressions.
  • Ore Dock Brewing Company
    Ore Dock Brewing Company
    Arts & Culture: Performing Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts;  Business / Retail;  Food & Drink
    Our love of craft beer started many years ago, but the story of Ore Dock Brewing Company started in the summer of 2009 during a 4,000 mile road trip across the western U.S. Up to this point, whenever we found ourselves traveling to a new place, we had formed a habit of visiting the local brewery. Local breweries always seemed to exude native culture and never failed to provide an eclectic mix of friendly people, not to mention the fact that each region had its own unique beer styles and local favorites. We especially enjoyed those breweries that exhibited a clear link to their community, utilized locally produced ingredients and products, and fostered local art and music. The trip out West was no exception; in fact we planned our route based on the breweries we wanted to try. Somewhere between the stunning western landscape and the amazing breweries that we visited, we were surprised to find ourselves homesick for the Upper Peninsula. It was then that we realized we wanted to take the atmosphere at these breweries and infuse it with all the things we love about Marquette, and the dream to start a microbrewery was born. We began working on a business plan and found that we were truly passionate about our idea; passionate enough to get through more than two years of working, planning, and saving. We are so very grateful to the many wonderful friends and family who have been supportive and helpful in so many ways along our journey. We strive to make Ore Dock Brewing Company a true reflection of all the things we love about Marquette and the Upper Peninsula. Cheers!
  • Upper Peninsula Masonic Center
    Upper Peninsula Masonic Center
    Arts & Culture: Performing Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre, Film / Video, Gallery / Studio;  Association/Club/Group;  Business / Retail;  Education / Instruction;  Festival / Fair;  Food & Drink;  Nonprofit
    The Upper Peninsula Masonic Center is a 65,000 sq ft facility centered in downtown Marquette. The Lower Level and the Washington Street level are full of retail shops and businesses of all kinds. the Third floor is home to many of the the UP’s Masonic bodies as well as a 3500 sq banquet hall, commercial kitchen and a 300 seat theater that can be used for any event from weddings to plays.
  • Upper Yoopers' Barbershop+ Chorus
    Upper Yoopers' Barbershop+ Chorus
    Arts & Culture: Music;  Nonprofit
    Open to everyone at any ability level. We are an a cappella group whose mission is to increase harmony in communities. Come join us in our mission. Mission: increase harmony in communities. Purpose: raise funds to support local school kids’ singing. Vision: be THE visible, vital, vigorous, vibrant, vocal, virtuosic presence in Marquette County and beyond.
  • WNMU-FM, Public Radio 90
    WNMU-FM, Public Radio 90
    Arts & Culture: Music;  Nonprofit
    Public Radio for the upper Great Lakes region featuring NPR news, classical, jazz, Blues, show tune, swing, and traditional music, plus entertainment programs too.  Non-profit organization that depends on listener contributions to operate.  Licensed to Northern Michigan University
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