Blissfest Music Festival

Lonn Hartman is being treated for his wounds at a local hospital after he sustained "severe lacerations to the neck area" while attending the Blissfest Music Festival on Sunday, July 12, according to the Emmet County Sheriff's Department.

Mason Via (pronounce it "vye") will be at the Garden Theater in Frankfort on Friday and at Blissfest, north of Harbor Springs, on Saturday.

Hear from Deon Claiborne, also known as DJ Auld, who took up DJing in her fifties and is playing at Blissfest this year.

Taking place in July near Harbor Springs, the three-day festival blends folk and roots music from around the world.

Music festivals across the world and right here in northern Michigan are struggling. Ticket sales are down, some have taken a year off and others have called it quits altogether.

The Blissfest Music Organization has canceled their festival this summer. The ongoing circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic were cited as the reason. The…