The non-profit organization Seven Pillars held their annual Interactive Flute Retreat in South Haven in August with a new opportunity for young musicians. Continue reading “Youth Day – Interactive Flute Retreat”
Youth Day – Interactive Flute Retreat
August 2018 Community Picnic
Foundry Hall helped Ward 1 CAC, PUSH, Epiphany Church and YDC create an end of summer community picnic at Elkenburg Park. Continue reading “August 2018 Community Picnic”
Spring Break 2nd Floor Studio THU 4/4 3-5pm
@South Haven Center for the Arts (SHCA) (600 Phoenix St)
Come and make your art in the open studio!
$5 supply fee (one time fee covers future 2nd floor studio)
Breakdancing Workshop! FRI 4/5
2-3:30pm @ Epiphany Church (410 Erie St)
All levels ages/welcome!
Suggested donation $5
Instrument Petting Zoo! WED 4/3 2-4pm
@South Haven Memorial Library
All ages, free and fun!
SUN 8/26 Community Picnic!
Foundry Hall is participating in a community picnic at Elkenburg park (200 Elkenburg St)! Yolanda Lavender of Kalamazoo will perform at 6:30pm. The picnic starts at 6pm, is pot-luck and family friendly!
Community Christmas Concert SAT 12/22 7PM
@United Methodist Church (429 Michigan Ave)
Join us for a free concert celebrating the season with our local musical talent!
Donations collected go to support WeCare, a local non-profit connecting people in need with area resources.
Family NYE party 12/31 6-8pm
Join us at South Haven Center for the Arts (SHCA) for a family friendly New Year’s Eve Party! We’ll count down the end of the year a few hours early, make some stuff and party!
suggested donation $10 per family
About Sh-amp
South Haven Area Mural Project
South Haven Area Mural Project (Sh-amp) is an artist collective creating large scale art inspiring and beautifying our community. As a subsidiary of Foundry Hall, we are working to build community through the presentation of public art as well as creating opportunities to participate in the creation of art.
Working with local businesses, residents and the city, Sh-amp is creating large scale murals in the often overlooked areas – parking lots and side streets. The murals catch the eye of visitors, offer locals a more pleasing environment, and encourage public interaction with art.
Freely accessible public art expresses the uniqueness of our town and celebrates the local art community. Inspiring our school age children with art is beneficial in cognitive, social and emotional development. Public art ensures that everyone has access, everyone has a chance to benefit.
This project will promote South Haven and the surrounding area as being at the heart of Michigan’s “art coast” and generate more interest in visiting our
community while supporting the local art community. Please support this on-going program by making a tax deductible contribution today.
Thank you Lake Shore Paint for your ongoing support of these projects!
Thank you to the Albermarle Foundation for sponsorship of the Broadway Street murals!
Thank you to Gino’s East for the opportunity to create murals inside your restaurant!
Thank you to Beyer Construction for an early donation that helped jump start the whole project!
And thank you to all of the donations from our supportive community members! We love being artists in South Haven!
Sh-amp projects
Rhythm on the River Music Festival
Foundry Hall’s free two-day music festival featuring MI musicians, family-friendly atmosphere and activities, beer/wine/spirits garden, local food and craft vendors.
Rhythm on the River 2019
July 19th and 20th 4-10PM
at Huron Street Pavilion
We did it! Thanks to all of the dedicated volunteers we made it through another tough weather weekend to bring a great lineup of music, activities and vendors! Scroll down for pictures from the 2019 Rhythm on the River!
FRI 7/19
MIGHTY BIG RIG
MOSS JAW
JETBEATS
JAKE KERSHAW
SAT 7/20
DEDE and the DREAMERS
AUGUST
ROOSEVELT DIGGS
Thank you to our sponsors Final Gravity beer, Cogdal Vineyards wine and Green Door Distillery spirits! Thanks also to Props for the Home, Mike Dermoda and deBest.
Take a trip down Rhythm on the River’s memory lane (listen here)
ROTR 2018
Andy Baker
Olivia Mainville & the Aquatic Troupe
Cold Mountain Child
LVRS
Jack Adams Band
Midwestern Lull
Static Apparatus
Delilah DeWylde
The 2018 festival was sponsored by:
Whiteford Wealth Management, Inc.
Meijer
South Haven/Van Buren County Visitors Bureau and Convention Center
Huizenga Construction
Fleming Bros. Oil/Value Market Convenience Stores
Rod’s Printing
South Haven Brewpub
Farren Metal Works
Sponsorship funds are used to pay the artists and sound production. We have a pretty cool list of sponsorship levels… Follow this link to check it out: RHYTHM ON THE RIVER SPONSORSHIP FORM.
Andy Baker
Olivia Mainville & the Aquatic Troupe
Cold Mountain Child
LVRS
Jack Adams Band
Midwestern Lull
Static Apparatus
Delilah DeWylde
ROTR 2017
Foundry Hall’s free all day music festival featuring original music home grown in Michigan at Riverfront Park in South Haven.
2017 lineup
Isabel and Daniel Noguera
Erica Huizenga and Brian Whittemore
Turbulence
Megan Dooley
The Accidentals
Last Gasp Collective
We did it! It was a huge effort pulled off by a great group of volunteers this year – thank you to all of you! We did manage to pay for it all through generous sponsorships (listed below) and donations and on beer t-shirt and ice cream sales. If you were there and would like to help support this year and hopefully next year’s effort, it is never too late to send something in!
2017 Rhythm on the River Sponsors:
Clementine’s
Whiteford Wealth Management
Albemarle Foundation
Black River Tavern
South Haven Visitor’s Bureau
Cogdal Vineyards
Apple Insurance
Pro Powder, Inc.
Fleming Bros. Oil
Taste
Captain Nemo’s
Wolverine Hardware
Sherman’s Ice Cream
*special thanks to Dan Greve for generous support
**special dedication in memory of Brain Eugene Moody, Sr.
ROTR 2016
We did it! It was hot, it was so, so hot, but we made it through the day enjoying great music from local and regional musicians, including a debut of South Haven’s premier high school band, BorderLyne, playing their original funk/rock! and having fun with sidewalk chalk, corn hole, painting the piano and playing music in the tent. Isabel and Daniel Noguera kicked it all off with their original set – at 13 and 11 these kids are already creating some cool music of their own. Tom Rasely, Brennan Quinn and Andru Bemis kept us going in the crazy heat and Cold Mountain Child jammed for us into the midday haze (it was really hot!) Nate Holley held his own on his stage creating full sound with his talented loop pedaling and Jake Simmons and the Little Ghosts shook everyone up as the heat started to break.
Then it cooled off for a rockin’ set from Slim Gyspy Baggage and everyone settled in for the grand finale from the Crane Wives, BUT the cruel, cruel weather turned and an electrical storm cut their set way too short and we all scrambled to gather “trash and treasures” under cover.
So, it was not as we hoped, but we did it! Little, ol’ all volunteer Foundry Hall managed to pull off an all day event that took a year to plan and hours and hours of hard labor organization.
We would like to thank all of our sponsors without whom this would not have been possible!
Lake Michigan College (Stage Sponsor)
Clementine’s (Headline Sponsor)
Whiteford Wealth Management (Headline Sponsor)
Black River Tavern
Phoenix Records
Sturgis Bank – South Haven Banking Center
Taste
Black River Books
Adventure Water Sports
Julia’s Cafe
Phoenix Street Cafe
Bumbleberry Farms
Vanderzee Motorplex
Wolverine Hardware!! For their awesome engineering skills to get and keep the beer tent up!
The City of South Haven for believing that our festival would be a welcome addition to an already busy summer season for our little town.
And, of course, to the many volunteers who came out and did what it took to get the job done! We truly appreciate the help of everyone that worked Friday night to Sunday morning! A one day festival is not a one day affair for sure! You are GOLDEN!
Gratefully yours,
Foundry Hall, Rhythm on the River committee
Send us your pics! Here’s a few we got…
