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Calendar of Events for 2010
June
July
Aug
More fests to be listed
soon.
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Children under 12,
FREE. Camping is FREE. Long term parking is FREE – short term
parking, $5 per vehicle. Food, souvenirs, and crafts are offered on
site. for
more info and line up click here
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Little Bit of
Willow Ranch Event History
The Michigan Peace
Fest originally started as a networking event for local musicians and a
birthday celebration for its founder, Bim Willow. After 16 years, the
event has moved from its bent willow stage serviced by an extension cord
to Willow’s house. Now music is unleashed from a professional stage in
a meadow, surrounded by woods and manned by a skilled sound crew. This
spring, a shower house and flush toilets were added. Last week,
additional parking areas were bulldozed. Even after the improvements,
the venue is still ‘down home’ and ‘non-commercial’ -- and that’s just
the way Willow plans to keep it. Many attendees have been coming back
for the entire 18 years. Successful band members who started playing
here when they were teenagers, now return annually to ‘play’ homage to
the man who encouraged them along the way. The music is ALWAYS
exceptional -- the camping, wooded and rustic -- the 1,000+ crowd, an
extended family. At the end of it all, every last paper and cigarette
butt is cleansed from the land, leaving only the beaten grass and
blackened fire pits to bare witness.
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