May 04 Saturday
Music provided by The Johns, calling will be Cynthia Donahey. All dances are taught. No need to come with a partner. Potluck at 6:30. Bring dish to pass and your tableware.
May 05 Sunday
The Grand Traverse Audubon Club is offering bird walks on Sundays, April 7th through June 30th. Locations and meeting times will vary each week. Visit grandtraverseaudubon.org to find the times, locations, and map links. No experience necessary!
Join Grand Traverse County 4-H as we explore the world of birding! Learn how to identify and observe new species – all while enjoying the health benefits that birding can bring! There is no cost to participate, and parents are encouraged to attend with their children. Best suited for youth ages 10-14, but more experienced birders are welcome! Workshop 1 will be held on Sunday, May 7th, at the Grand Traverse Conservation District Community Room from 10:00am-11:30am. The workshop series will be held once a month, on the first Sunday of each month through October at various birding locations around Grand Traverse County.
Registration takes place on 4-H Online website here: https://v2.4honline.com/#/user/sign-inLook to register for the event "4-H Birding Workshop 1: The Basics of Birding."
Please call Emily Kotz, Grand Traverse County 4-H Program Coordinator, at 231-922-4825 or email at kotzemil@msu.edu with questions and event information.
Head to The Village at Grand Traverse Commons and shop our indoor sidewalk sales! Mercato merchants will have discounts and specials throughout the weekend, as well as giveaways and tunnel walks.
May 4th & 5th
Hours: 10am – 6pm, 10am-4pm
Make a beautiful edible chocolate rose for Mother's Day (and one for yourself too!). We'll combine Ecuadorian chocolate and Michigan honey to create a delicious chocolate clay. Then we'll shape them into delicate realistic roses and airbrush them with red, pink or yellow cocoa butter to make them really pop. They taste great eaten petal by petal or place them into some hot milk for the best drinking chocolate ever.A collaboration between GDC staff & chocolate artist Anne Boulley.
Our fun and informative tasting classes are back and we can't wait to host you! We'll taste chocolate in all its forms and share with you the fascinating story of our world's favorite treat.
Classes are limited to 6 people and last about 1 - 1.5 hours. If you have a larger group, please email us for a custom class.
Northwestern Mi Orchid Society is having a membership drive meeting on May 5 2024 at 2pm. Free orchid to the first 5 people who join. Dues are $20. Repotting demonstration and refreshments. Location: Presbyterian Church, 701 Westminster Rd, Traverse City, MI 49686.
Jazz in the Vines is a casual afternoon of great music, wine and cheese tasting, and a table full of sweets. With spectacular views of both Grand Traverse Bay and Old Mission Peninsula, a stunning surrounding provides the background for the music of the Jeff Haas Trio. Haas—a resident of Traverse City—has been a mainstay in the Michigan jazz scene for decades and is currently the host of The New Jazz Archive, an Interlochen Public Radio program devoted to all things jazz.
Jazz in the Vines is a fundraiser hosted by Old Mission Peninsula’s Chateau Chantal to benefit United Way of Northwest Michigan. Aside from indulging your taste for Northern Michigan wine and ear for jazz, that ticket will help impact our community members by providing programs in education, health, and financial stability.
Old Town Playhouse is headed back to the '80s when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up and a wedding singer was the coolest guy in the room! It’s 1985, and rock star wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey's favorite wedding singer. He's the life of the party until his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. As luck would have it, Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and, unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever.
The Northern Michigan Brass Band (NMiBB) will present a concert at 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, May 5, in the Great Lakes Center for the Arts at Bay Harbor in Petoskey. Continuing their long-standing tradition of programming something for everyone, this 30-piece, British-style brass band will perform an eclectic mix of traditional brass band classics, marches, transcriptions, contemporary contest pieces, pop and jazz. The narrator for this program will be Judy Wagley from CMU Public Media.
The concert will begin with "Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic" written in 1924 by Richard Strauss to celebrate the famous orchestra’s 40th anniversary, followed by "Colonial Song" by Percy Grainger, one of his most original pieces. The program will continue with three selections from "Pineapple Poll," a comic ballet by Charles Mackerras based on the music of Gilbert and Sullivan, "Symphonic Concert March" by G. Bonelli and the "March for Archduke Albrecht" by the Austro-Hungarian composer, Karl Komzák. The second half of the program will open with "Farewell to a Slavic Woman," a pre-revolution patriotic Russian march by Vasily Agapkin followed by "Elton John in Concert," a medley of some of his biggest hits including Nikita, Blue Eyes and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. Next, as a tribute to the big band swing era of the 1930’s, NMiBB’s own Bob Bellairs will be featured as the drummer on Louis Prima’s "Sing Sing Sing." Of course, no brass band concert would be complete without at least one traditional American march, and this time the band will close the program with "The Chimes of Liberty" by Edwin Franko Goldman.