Midland Folk Music Festival

Name: Midland Folk Music Festival
Start: 2025-08-18T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-25T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Midland County Fairgrounds

Schedule

Mon, 18 Aug, 2025 at 09:00 am to Mon, 25 Aug, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Midland County Fairgrounds | Midland, MI

NASA might say that it's "T-minus a week-and-change" away, so block out August 21-24, and plan to come to the Midland Folk Music Festival, to be held at the Midland County Fairgrounds, 6905 Eastman Ave. in Midland.
You can even come Monday, August 18th after 9am and get your RV hooked up. After years of asking campers to not come until Monday morning (after the county fair), the Fairgrounds has implemented a $100 charge (payable to the Fairgrounds) for coming early on Sunday and disturbing the County Fair people who need to pack up and leave.
Admission ribbons for the whole week (what a bargain!) are available for $20 to all who are NOT YET members of the Folk Music Society of Midland, and for $10 to FMSM members. There is a GREAT NEED FOR VOLUNTEERS, especially in the areas of the admissions tent, the information table in the Fair Center (Gerstacker Building), and the stage set-up and tear-down.
There will be workshops for all sorts of genres, instruments, and experience levels on Friday from 9am-5pm and Saturday from 9am-5pm. If you still wish to present a workshop, please contact Ruth ASAP at [email protected] for directions.
There will be workshops for many different instruments, genres, and various music-related topics as well as childrens' activities during the day on Friday and Saturday (possibly Thursday, too), and a tent gospel jam/sing on Wednesday evening at dusk.
Fifteen vendors (yes, FIFTEEN) will be exhibiting their wares this year both in the Fair Center and outdoors as well, and there are both musical and non-musical things to check out. You just might get all your Christmas shopping done during the festival!
Then in the Fair Center (Gerstacker Building), there will be a Peter, Paul, and Mary sing-along on Thursday evening, traditional dancing on Friday evening, and a tremendous stage show on Saturday evening, with the festival winding up with a gospel sing-along on Sunday morning.
You can learn more about FMSM at their website, www.folkmusicsociety.org, as well as information regarding the Jolly Hammers and Strings, the SUGAR ukulele group, and the Midland Traditional Dancers.