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Blue Water Ramblers

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Blue Water Ramblers

After a combined 37 years as touring folk musicians, Blue Water Ramblers continues to delight both young and old audiences with their brand of “extraordinary folk music!” The repertoire comes right out of Michigan life experiences and the history of the Great Lakes region. It includes lake shanties, lumbermen ballads, union rallying cries, farmers’ paeans, love songs, gospel music, and children’s ditties. “I think my hero, Woody Guthrie, would approve,” opined Banjo-Jim. “We’re singing the people’s songs, about the people’s lives, and they can join right in and sing along.”

Availability
Year-round

Fees
Performance $550–950;
workshop $550–950;
residency $750/day

Contact
R. H. “Bear” Berends
644 Hawthorne N.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49503-3412
616/458-4642
bear@clcnetwork.org
bluewaterramblers.com

 

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