Sunday, August 2, 2009

Music at the Park

As I have mentioned before, we live in the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan. (Michigan has two parts. One is shaped like a mitten. We live in the other part of Michigan, above the mitten. The U.P. sits nestled between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan). We live on an inland lake called Lake Michigamme.

It is a tiny town along the shoreline.

Every Wednesday night from June through July we have "Music in the Park". For free, you can stroll down by a little park on a bay (about a block from my house) and sit and listen to a different singer every Wednesday night while looking at the beauty of the lake.

The last Wed. night Music in the Park featured our favorite singer: Cathy Bolton. She has made 5 albums/CD's of her folk singing and we look forward to her coming here and singing for us every year.

So, I am taking you for a tour of the experience (minus the singing, sorry, I did not load her music on the blog post, but you can Google her and hear her awesome singing).


Right beside the park, an enthusiastic townsperson, put this sign on their garage!:



This is the scene at the park as you listen to some great music:
A shot of the crowd, enjoying Cathy's singing:





Here is one of the Organizers of Music in the Park, introducing Cathy at the beginning of the concert:




Some crowd participation!:





The beautiful Cathy Bolton singing with her angelic voice. I could listen to her all day. When she sings "Oh Danny Boy", I get the chills and tears in my eyes. Her voice is crystal clear. What a gift!:





The entertainers sing for one hour, we have an intermission, where you can get a scrumptous dessert for a donation of your choosing and then the singer returns and gifts us with another hour of singing. By then, it is dusk and you can stroll by the lake on your way home:







Our last glimpse of the lake for the night, and then we headed home....our heads filled with the tunes she sang so beautifully. And of course, her new CD tucked under my arm. I had to get it!


What a perfect Wednesday summer night.
Lake views, wonderful music, a yummy dessert and a visit with our neighbors
all at the same time.
I wish you could have all been there with us.






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