August 5, 2025

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Authentic Chicago Blues with John Primer & The Real Deal Blues Band

Saturday, June 21
7PM
The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay
Music
$25 advance; $30 door

Primer was a sideman to Willie Dixon, Junior Wells & Muddy Waters (for whom he was also music director). After that he spent many years with Magic Slim and the Teardrops before leading his own band - The Real Deal - & has earned multiple Lifetime Achievement Awards & Grammy nominations.

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June 21 - June 21

Saturday 21

Charlevoix Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K & 5K
6:00 a.m.
Draw Bridge, downtown Charlevoix

2 Mile Championship Run
8:00 a.m.
River Park, Ellsworth

Betsie River Clean Sweep
9:00 a.m.
Homestead Dam, Benzonia

Musicians-In-Residence: Kodak Quartet
9:00 a.m.
Inn and Trail Gourmet, Glen Arbor

Rainbow Run
9:00 a.m.
Hull Park, TC

Random Exhibition
9:00 a.m.
Glen Arbor Arts Center, Lobby Gallery

The Friends of Interlochen Public Library Used Book Sale
9:00 a.m.
Interlochen Public Library

"Small Works: Community Collage" Project, Honoring Legacy of Joe Muer
10:00 a.m.
Oliver Art Center, Frankfort

44th Annual Ellsworth/Atwood Pig Roast
10:00 a.m.
Community Park, Ellsworth

8th Annual Paint Grand Traverse
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC

Bay Harbor Classic Car & Boat Festival
10:00 a.m.
Bay Harbor

Downtown Petoskey Flower Festival
10:00 a.m.
Downtown Petoskey

East Jordan Freedom Festival
10:00 a.m.
East Jordan

Frankfort Craft Fair
10:00 a.m.
Downtown Main Street, Frankfort

Gaylord Art & Craft Show
10:00 a.m.
Court St., downtown Gaylord

Great Lakes Pastel Society's 2025 Members Small Works Exhibition
10:00 a.m.
Oliver Art Center, Fisher Room Gallery, Frankfort

IMMERSED
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey

Legacy & Light: 150 Years of Bay View
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Atrium Gallery, Petoskey

Traverse City Shop & Sip at Traverse City Horse Show
10:00 a.m.
Flintfields Horse Park, Williamsburg

A Style All Our Own: Canadian Woodland Artists
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

Beryl Days
11:00 a.m.
Empire Public Beach Lighthouse

Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

Joan Fitzsimmons: Into What World?
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

Matt Shlian: Every Line is a Circle if You Make it Long Enough
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

PFLAG/MARJDI: "Art Speaks Pride"
11:00 a.m.
The Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Hardy Hall, Manistee

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

6th Annual Cherry Whiskey Fest
12:00 p.m.
TC Whiskey Stillhouse, 201 E. 14th St.

Members Art Exhibit
12:00 p.m.
Northport Arts Association

Members Create
12:00 p.m.
Glen Arbor Arts Center, Main Gallery

Greg Rappleye Book Signing
1:00 p.m.
Horizon Books, TC

Workshop with Marvel-Comics Artist
1:00 p.m.
Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room & front lawn, TC

Fernwood Summer Block Party
1:30 p.m.
Sixteenth St. & Arnold Court, TC

"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
2:00 p.m.
Cadillac Community Auditorium, Cadillac High School

Ladies of the Lighthouse Presentation
4:00 p.m.
Suttons Bay Bingham District Library, upstairs Reading Nook

Pizza & Pipes
6:00 p.m.
The Music House Museum, Williamsburg

Rock-the-Dock with Knee Deep
6:00 p.m.
East Park Odmark Performance Pavilion, Charlevoix

"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
7:00 p.m.
Cadillac Community Auditorium, Cadillac High School

An Evening with Wade Rouse (Viola Shipman)
7:00 p.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey

Authentic Chicago Blues with John Primer & The Real Deal Blues Band
7:00 p.m.
The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay

Everclear wsg Sister Hazel
7:00 p.m.
Little River Casino Resort, Manistee

Northland Players: Summer Youth Theater - "The Lion King Jr."
7:00 p.m.
The Cheboygan Opera House

Saturdays in the Park with Planet D Nonet
7:00 p.m.
GT County Civic Center Amphitheater, TC

Summer Solstice Party
7:00 p.m.
House of Bear, 4242 Co. Rd. 633, Grawn

Viridian Strings
7:00 p.m.
Pines of Arcadia

TC Pit Spitters vs. Royal Oak Leprechauns
7:05 p.m.
Turtle Creek Stadium, TC

Live at The Garden
7:30 p.m.
The Garden Theater, Frankfort

Infinity
8:00 p.m.
Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor

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