What has happened or may happen in the local music scene
The first official broadcast of the WOAS radio station started at 8:00 AM on Friday, December 15, 1978. The station installed in two study rooms of the Ontonagon Area Schools library and the first manager was OAHS librarian, Thomas Graham Lee. At the time, the station featured two reel-to-reel players and two vinyl record […]
(With my apologies to Bryan Adam’s Summer of ’69) – The WOAS-FM Summer Rambles: We will be off air save an occasional test broadcast from Saturday June 11 until August 22 when we will start our week long run up to the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival. While we won’t be broadcasting music or video during this period, […]
News travels slowly to the north end of US 45. Several weeks ago, I was looking at the doings of the Rusty Wright Band and noticed that our old friend Dennis Bellinger was not with the band any more. “Humph, I will have to check this out,” I said to myself. YouTube to the rescue […]
In my Junior High / Senior High years, the frats and sororities at Northern Michigan University would have an annual spring bash called Greek Week. I can’t say how long this went on or if it continues to this day, but I remember it mostly for the festival like finale that was held at Hedgecock […]
There was a twenty year window that opened around 1965 when a lot of great, nationally known bands made their way to Marquette. Living as I did across the street from the Northern Michigan University campus and within sight of Hedgecock Fieldhouse (where most concerts were held before Lakeview Arena was built), all I had […]
The Fitzgerald went down my first year in Ontonagon – November 10, 1975 – I was in Marquette when the storm blew up and we went to the Presque Isle Harbor to watch the waves crash over the breakwall. Driving back to Ontonagon the weather didn’t seem as bad away from the lake, but it […]
The more I think about the longevity of some bands, the list of those who would fit in this article gets longer and longer. The original idea was to talk about bands still playing after their early careers came and went. I put a band on my list if they carried on with at least […]
We started a discussion of bands that kept playing after their original line ups broke apart. The caveat here is that at least one original band member has to still be involved for them to enter the discussion. I am not sure if there is any significance in that all the bands in Part 2 […]
Here are some photos taken from the Singing Hills stage (located up hill and to the west of the main stage in front of the chalet – the Peace Hill stage) taken on Friday August 28 and Saturday August 29, 2015.
What has 7 good legs and still rocks? Rusty may have bunged his knee up, but even sitting on a stool to ease the pain couldn’t keep Rusty and the whole Rusty Wright Band from rocking the Ontonagon Theater of Performing Arts on Sunday night July 26, 2015. Coming at the end of a busy […]