ACMA Songwriters at Koreshan State Park.

Name: ACMA Songwriters at Koreshan State Park.
Start: 2026-02-10T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Koreshan State Park

Schedule

Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Koreshan State Park | Bonita Springs, FL

ACMA Songwriters at Koreshan State Park.
The Friends of Koreshan State Park have partnered with the ACMA (Americana Community Music Association) to present monthly concerts featuring all-original music by talented local artists.
Bring a chair or blanket and settle in for an evening under the stars.
The ACMA, a Fort Myers–based nonprofit, is dedicated to promoting original music by local singer-songwriters. Each showcase features artists sharing their songs, the stories behind them, and a lifetime of experiences— Prepare for an evening of professional-quality acoustic Americana music, which blends blues, roots, folk, bluegrass, and country. Details:
Tickets: $10 (includes parking) Children under 12 free
Advance Tickets, Guarantee entrance additional tickets at the gate if space allows.
TICKET LINK TO FOLLOW
Schedule: Gates open at 6:30. Show runs from 7-8:30
Mike McMillan, Diwakar (Bon) Mokadam, Carlene Thissen.
Mike McMillan is a songwriter whose music is deeply influenced by the blues. Though he’ll tell you he’s still a student of the genre, his songwriting and guitar work have inspired many local musicians to start writing their own blues songs. But Mike’s talents don’t stop there — his writing draws from folk, Americana, and roots traditions, creating songs that are honest, soulful, and full of heart.
Diwakar (Bon) Mokadam is a singer songwriter who has been writing songs since he was a teenager. His musical influences continue to evolve from rock to jazz to pop to progressive. He has released three CD's "Modern Prog," "Post Modern Prog" and "The Jon Banders Experiment," with a band of friends called, "The Elders." His last ACMA opening concert can be seen on YouTube. His music is on digital platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, Instagram, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Pandora, and Sound Cloud.
Carlene Thissen is an American singer-songwriter and author, born on June 28, 1950, in Andover, northwest New Jersey.
She now shares her time between her permanent home in Naples, Florida, and Saugerties, NY, where she dedicates herself to performing, speaking and songwriting, singing and playing piano and guitar at house concerts, clubs, restaurants, festivals and charity events.� �Carlene started performing in the 1960s and 70s as a young guitar-playing folk singer, doing songs by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell and Melanie. She says the best three days of her life were spent at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969 and she presents a multi-media program today about that experience.
In 2024, she donated the guitar she had with her in 1969 to the Bethel Woods Woodstock Museum, where it is included in a display just outside the entrance. Along with the guitar is a photo of Carlene and the chorus lyrics to her song, “Back There Again” that include the line “the guitar she named Alice.”
As she explains in her autobiographical song, “Back There Again,” this Woodstock hippie girl, “…cut her hair and got a career, and lost herself for 30 odd years.” Forgetting her dreams of being a doctor working in ghettos, she became a successful business woman, well known for speeches, articles and books about marketing technology. She ended her corporate career as Vice President for a large market research company in Chicago, started her own independent international consulting company and then moved to Naples, Florida.
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