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Come celebrate music, life, music, community, music, food, music and family with East Lansing's favorite outdoor music festival.This year's festival artists span Lansing to Austin, TX via Nashville, TN and Minneapolis. Details below!
Bring chairs, blankets, your family, your friends, and your dogs.
Outdoors at the renovated, rebuilt and totally awesome Bailey Park, 300 Bailey St, East Lansing.
Our financial model this year includes a smaller than usual Kickstarter, thanks to a VERY generous donation from Lois Mumma and Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge Records) and a VERY generous grant from the City of East Lansing's Arts Commission.
If you might attend this year's festival, if you love what we do for Mid Michigan, if you support independent arts presentation, please DONATE NOW via Kickstarter to enable this year's festival.
We are asking you to make your donation ahead of the festival to help make Pumpstock a sustainable event and eliminate donation collection on the day of the festival.
Check out the details here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pumpstock2024/pumpstock-music-festival-2024
This will be our Fourteenth year. Five great bands on the main stage, 4 great acts on the local stage.
Music, food, art and fun for the entire family!
An instrument petting zoo sponsored by Music Is The Foundation.
Children's Art Making activities.
Krystal's Kitchen will serve BBQ and yummy snacks all day.
https://krystals-kitchen.square.site/about
Dave's Ukes (https://davesukes.com/) will be with us again. The best custom made Ukes.
Cold Plunge Records and Shaklee Producucts are again generous Pumptock Sponsors!
https://www.coldplungerecords.com/
Rogo the Clown providing glitter tattoos.
Professional sound provided by Jon Herrmann and Real Deal Audio, plus Steve Simonson and All Around Audio.
Pumpstock's Main Stage, hosted by DJ, musician, and man about town Jim Hall, features (long bios will be added at the end of this event description, and set times are all tbd):
Flagship Romance
https://www.flagshipromance.com/
Your Fav Duo!
Ray Bonneville
https://raybonneville.com/home
Raconteur playing bluesy Americana steeped in the humid grooves of the South,
Adrian and Meredith
Fearless, blistering, and Balkan-tinged Americana
adrianandmeredith
Kashimana Ahua
https://www.kashimana.com/
The name Kashimana means 'that's their heart. She is a mother, musician, vocalist, composer, producer and teaching artist with a soaring, rich soulful blues voice.
Kashimana will be teaching a children’s workshop at the East Lansing Public Library Friday, May 31st at 3pm.
Details and registration at https://elpl.bibliocommons.com/events/661451fab7ed963d0092f2cb
Deacon Earl and the Congregation
https://www.facebook.com/deaconearlcongregation/
Down-home, Icy Waters Blues and more from the Mitten.
MUSIC, FOOD, MUSIC, FUN, CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES, MUSIC, FAMILY FUN, MUSIC.....
ON THE LOCAL STAGE:
2:40 pm: Jack Schueler
3:45 pm: Dan Shangraw
5:00 pm: Mars McCartney
6:15 pm: Brandon McCoy
2:40 pm: Jack Schueler (Jack Straw)
3:45: Dan Shangraw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH_NXo0R6EUyCLsaTR9GC2A
Dan is a Michigan native, living in the Greater Lansing area for the last quarter century. His songwriting career began when he inherited his grandpa's Kalamazoo-made Gibson guitar while attending Western Michigan University, studying Mechanical Engineering. Dan pens heart-felt lyrics over driving guitar riffs paired with his honest and clear voice.
His inspirations span wide genres and decades, Blind Melon to Townes Van Zandt, Tool to the Pixies with a healthy dose of Neil Young for extra measure. He now makes his home in East Lansing with his lovely wife and two kids, who are growing up at an alarming pace.
5:00 : Mars McCartney:
https://www.youtube.com/@MarsMcCartneyMusic/videos
https://www.facebook.com/kevinmccartneysongs/about
Mars McCartney, a singer-songwriter hailing from East Lansing MI whose music balances the sounds of folk and pop. From slow ballads to upbeat anthems, his sound is sure to leave a lasting impression.
6:15 pm: Brandon McCoy
MAIN STAGE BAND FULL BIOS:
Flagship Romance
Your Fav Duo!
Flagship Romance is an unforgettable alternative folk duo known for their breathtaking vocal harmonies, inspired songwriting, dynamic live show, and a remarkable on and off-stage chemistry that will leave you with the feeling that you made two new best friends. Married singers-songwriters Shawn Fisher and Jordyn Jackson effortlessly fuse technical precision in their impeccably tight vocal blend with an invigorating sense of emotional abandon in their energetic live persona. Performing each show as if it could be their last, this duo will have you questioning how their larger-than-life sound can come from just two voices and an acoustic guitar.
Traveling over 200,000 miles since their musical inception, the duo has amassed an engaged grassroots following. A testament to Fisher and Jackson’s close relationship with their supporters, Flagship Romance has released four critically acclaimed full-length albums, 100% funded by their enthusiastic fanbase. To date, their multiple crowdfunding efforts, including the duo’s most recent campaign for their forthcoming self-titled double album, have raised a combined total of over $175,000. Currently based in Louisville, KY, Flagship Romance has begun releasing a consistent string of singles from the double album, produced by GRAMMY award winning producer Lee Miles.
Ray Bonneville
https://raybonneville.com/home
Raconteur playing bluesy Americana steeped in the humid grooves of the South,
Acclaimed raconteur Ray Bonneville strips his bluesy Americana down to its essentials and steeps it in the humid grooves of the South, creating a compelling poetry of hard living and deep feeling.
Jim Withers (Montreal Gazette) describes his sound as “folk-roots gumbo… a languid Mississippi Delta groove, seasoned with smooth, weathered vocals and a propulsive harmonica wheeze.” Whether performing solo or fronting a band, playing electric or acoustic guitar, Bonneville allows space between notes that adds potency to every chord, lick, and lyric. Thom Jurek (Allmusic.com) remarks, “With darkness and light fighting for dominance… he’s stripped away every musical excess to let the songs speak for themselves.”
Often called a “song and groove man,” Bonneville has lived the life of the itinerant artist. From his native Quebec, he moved to Boston at age twelve, where he learned English and picked up piano and guitar. Later, he served in Vietnam and earned a pilot’s license in Colorado before living in Alaska, Seattle, and Paris. Six years in New Orleans infused his musical sensibilities with the region's culture and rhythms. And then, a close call while piloting a seaplane proved pivotal: After two decades working as a studio musician, playing rowdy rooms with blues bands, and living hard, Bonneville’s lifetime of hard-won experience coalesced into an urge to write his own music.
Adrian and Meredith
Adrianandmeredith dot com
fearless, blistering, and Balkan-tinged Americana
Rogue-folk music duo and band “Adrian and Meredith” have always marched to the beat of their own drum, unapologetic in the art they create. Since joining forces in 2015, they have put their own spin on Americana music, embodying the spirit of the human story through influences of punk, folk, polka, and swing. Their lively concerts inspire audiences to dance, clap, and stomp along.
In 2023/2024, Adrian and Meredith toured over 100 shows across the USA, Canada, and Europe. They supported acts such as Steve'n'Seagulls, Shawn James, Scott H Biram, Jimbo Mathus, and Th'Legendary Shackshakers. They also performed at festivals like Blissfest, Wheatland Festival, Mile of Music Festival, and 30A Songwriters Fest. Additionally, they played prestigious venues including Performing Art Centers and Levitt Shell Pavilions nationwide. Now, six years after their debut, Adrian and Meredith are taking their fearless, blistering, Balkan-tinged Americana sound to new heights - a raucous yet intimate variety show. The new record draws in listeners with the duo's warmth, intensity and candidness - imparting an easy sense of joy and kinship in turbulent times.
Their band has been described as “elements of klezmer, power pop, ska, New Orleans swing and a touch of blues rock just for good measure...with enthusiasm and oodles of charm...includes romantic joys and dramas, the vagaries of getting old and the theft of a keishka. Have fun with this one! (Paste Magazine)"
Come see what No Depression aptly calls “A barn-burner of Roots Rock Perfection!”
Kashimana Ahua
https://www.kashimana.com/
The name Kashimana means 'that's their heart. She is a mother, musician, vocalist, composer, producer and teaching artist with a soaring, rich soulful blues voice.
Kashimana will be teaching a children’s workshop at the East Lansing Public Library Friday, May 31st at 3pm.
Kashimana is a mother, musician, vocalist, composer, producer and teaching artist with a rich soulful blues voice that soars through their original compositions. The name Kashimana means 'that's their heart' and you can hear Kashimana’s heart beating in the compelling sound of their music which is an exploration of Soul, R&B, Folk, Afro-funk and more. Kashimana often draws from their Nigerian heritage and experiences growing up in Nigeria and Kenya and living in the United States.
Kashimana is a 2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a 2019 In Common Composer in Residence, a Cedar Commissioned Artist ‘Phantom Cries’ and a Northern Spark Festival Artist in 2018 and 2019 ‘Applause Posse’ and ‘Soundscape of Stories’. Kashimana is also the co-creator of a MN Opera MNiature Opera ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ with Khary Jackson, a contributing artist and composer to The Art of The Revolution Twin Cities Community Album ‘Mama’ and a composer on a Sprig of That trio latest album ‘Eight Threads - The Only One’. Kashimana released the single ‘Oh Yes Flow’ on Bandcamp in 2021. 2022 began with the release of a three song EP called ‘Prosperity Sounds’ and 2023 saw the release of the studio recorded album 'Phantom Cries'.
Deacon Earl and the Congregation
https://www.facebook.com/deaconearlcongregation/
Down-home, Icy Waters Blues and more from the Mitten.
The band consists of Lansing, MI natives Jordan Kimmey (drums) and Deacon Earl (guitar, uke, bass and vocals), Ohio native Roger “Kidd Cincinnati” Gentry (harmonica and vocals) and Albion, Michigan's Ronnie "Coach" Parker on the bass. The band gets their sound from miscellaneous genres, resulting in a nice blend of traditional folk, gospel and other roots/Americana music as well as the sounds of the Mississippi Delta and Mississippi Hills regions. You can also hear reggae and traces of honky-tonk and rock & roll in their music. Aside from their duties in The Congregation, all members participate in other bands, spanning multiple instruments and genres.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
300 Bailey St, East Lansing, MI 48823-4444, United States
