We bet you can make a pretty awesome festival poster!
Rhythm on the River is all about celebrating Michigan musicians creating their own original stuff and sharing it live. We work really hard to make it a fun, family-friendly event with local food, local beer and music loving folks.
Send your best design in and if we choose yours you win: $50, a t-shirt, recognition for the poster at the event and on social media!
We are looking for a water themed poster with an emphasis on the color blue in portrait orientation.
Ideally includes (we will accept just art work and add for you if needed):
ROTR logo (see above)
“The 4th annual”
“presented by Foundry Hall”
“July 19 and 20, 2019 5pm-10pm”
“Located Under the Pavilion at Dyckman Park, South Haven, MI”
1/4 of page will be used for 6 band names and multiple sponsors
Family friendly
FREE event
Michigan music
Beer Garden
Food and craft vendors
Can be hand drawn, digital design or other art media so long as final draft is in digital pdf form.
Due date April 30th!
Questions? Send us an email at foundryhall@gmail.com.
Foundry Hall is hosting Ugandan musician and dance instructor Samuel Nalangira as he shares his talents with our community and surrounding area. His residency goals are to share his music, dance and culture through workshops and performances in the area and to work with local musicians and dancers to develop new cross-cultural work. Foundry Hall sees this residency as an amazing opportunity to have Samuel teach and create while connecting our community with a culture on the other side of the world.
“It was such an amazing experience for the students to learn how to play Samuel’s handmade instruments and participate in traditional tribal dances.”
-YDC/PAL mentorship leader KariAnn Johnson.
Samuel is an inspired, hard working musician, supportive and friendly teacher and available for opportunities in schools, after-school programs, youth groups, events and parties. In performance, Samuel uses a looper that allows him to layer multiple instruments and harmonize his voice to create rich, original songs based in the folk traditions of African music.
promotional photos by Marissa Hoard
Check out the album that he recorded while in South Haven! Available now on itunes, Spotify and youtube
Upcoming performance/workshops:
SAT 5/25 “In Harmony for Uganda” St. Matthews Luther Church, Kitchener, ON
SUN 2/3 2pm Community Collage First Baptist Church (315 W. Michigan, Kalamazoo)
MON 2/4 Covert Public Schools dance/music workshops
SAT 2/9 Kalamazoo Family Dance and Drum Workshop @ First Baptist Church (315 W. Michigan, Kalamazoo)
SUN 2/10 Library performance at Parchment Public Library
SUN 2/10 private performance for Colleagues International
FRI 3/1 Community Concert at Epiphany Church in South Haven
TUE 3/5 National Day of Racial Healing – Kalamazoo
TUE 3/5 International Percussion performance – Kalamazoo College
FRI 3/22 Lake Michigan College Masterclass
FRI 4/25 Kalamazoo Public Library
SAT & SUN 4/26 & 4/27 Dance Workshops at Herrick District Library (Holland)
To schedule a class, workshop, performance in your space, school or to meet with Samuel, email samuel@foundryhall.org or foundryhall@gmail.com. Click here for a one sheet about workshops and performances. Feel free to contact us with questions!
Last spring the manager for Asaran Earth Trio reached out to Foundry Hall about performance possibilities here in South Haven. Having just finished up our third program collaborating with the South Haven Public Schools (and other districts as well), we were excited to get planning another project, so we asked if they would be interested in working with our students. They responded enthusiastically and so Foundry Hall proudly presents The Asaran Earth Trio project!
These projects reach so many young people and bring a different perspective of music and creativity to our students. The trio will lead workshops in the middle school and high school choir classes and then perform a free community concert at Listiak Auditorium on Friday, October 12th. Foundry Hall is coordinating the schedule with the schools as well as lodging and food for the women while they are “in residency”. This work feels so rewarding! If you would like to help make it happen please let us know!
Asaran Earth Trio is a group dedicated to singing beautiful music from around the world. Based in New York City, Asaran came together out of the desire to take different traditions in new directions, combining folk elements together with the adventure of group improvisation and each member’s musical ‘history’. Together they sing, clap, play percussion and are known to cause groups of strangers to laugh, cry, sing, dance and shake some groovy shakers. Asaran features Anne Boccato from Brazil, Artemisz Polonyi from Hungary and Chiara Izzi from Italy. They love to share their music and stories all around the Earth – in living rooms, theaters, houses of worship, festivals, on the street and even in actual bars.
The workshops carried out in the schools will cover a variety of topics including:
Voice exploration including breathing technique, vocal flexibility and harmonies.
Rhythm and groove playing various instruments and learn patterns of authentic Brazilian rhythms, as well as styles from around the world.
Storytelling/Repertoire/Performance; focusing on correct pronunciation of sounds, the presentation element of musicianship and encouraging students to make their own artistic choices.
@ Historical Association of South Haven
(355 Hubbard St.)
Viewing and discuss a clip from the classic drama “The Red Shoes”. Participants will work on a performance study and shoot a video.
Traditional big band and contemporary jazz performance for the 2018 Riverfront Concert Series. Concerts take place at Riverfront Park on Water Street (rain out – Huron St. Pavilion).
Our first community paint project took place on March 13th at the South Haven Brewpub. Families and friends spent a couple of hours painting together on individual squares which were put together to create one piece. It was so much fun and did generate some funding for the Sh-amp project! We’ll do it again soon – stay tuned!
