Community Calendar

Marquette Choral Society will begin its Fall 2025 season with its first rehearsal and membership sign-up at 7 p.m., Monday, August 25, in the Choral Room in the Thomas Fine Arts Building on the NMU campus.
No audition is required. Members may join August 25, September 8, and September 15. (No rehearsal on Labor Day) Registration starts at 6 p.m., before rehearsal from 7 to 9 p.m. Fees and music costs are $65, cash or check only, please. Some scholarships are available. Choral Society is also available for NMU credit.
This semester’s concerts will be December 6 and 7, in the NMU Reynolds Recital Hall and will include featured soloists along with MCS. The concert theme will be “Holiday Classics.” Musicians will perform works by Morten Lauridson, Dobrinka Tabakova, Elaine Hagenberg and Marques L.A. Garrett, as well as the “Hallelujah” chorus and other selections from Part I of Handel’s Messiah.
Marquette Choral Society is a mixed-voice, non-auditioned, adult choir of approximately 100 singers from a four-county region in the Upper Peninsula. MCS strives to engage, enrich, and inspire this region through the art of choral music. The ensemble was founded in 1971 by Dr. William Dehning and is currently led by musical director Dr. Erin Colwitz.
For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/MarquetteChoralSociety, www.marquettechoralsociety.org, or email choralsociety906@gmail.com.

The Marquette city Band will be presenting a Fundraising Concert at Blackrocks Brewery (weather permitting). Along with selections played by the city band, there will be special performances by other Marquette area musical artists. Donations for the bandshell will be accepted throughout the show. You'll have the opportunity to "vote via donation" for your favorite pieces that you would like to hear at the concert, and there will also be an auction for the opportunity to conduct the band!

From ‘Thunderstruck’ to ‘Free Bird’ — an unforgettable night of strings and light. “Rock and roll meets classical music in a gorgeously crafted hour of music.”

Step into a world lit by over 1,000 flickering candles — where legendary rock anthems are reimagined by one violin, played with the intensity of a full band. This is not just a tribute show. This is Blue Violin — a genre-defying, conservatory-trained virtuoso who has lit up stages from Carnegie Hall to Singapore, and now brings his world tour to Australia, Europe, Asia, and across the U.S.

In this electrifying solo candlelight concert, Blue Violin transforms classic rock into cinematic soundscapes using live looping, searing violin solos, and explosive arrangements. The result: a visceral, immersive performance that shatters expectations and stirs the soul.

Critics call him “the best rock and roll violinist of a generation” and “electrifying” — and audiences from sold out shows around the globe agree. With a sound as bold as the flames surrounding him, Blue Violin invites you to experience a night where rock meets ritual, and violin meets firelight.

From ‘Thunderstruck’ to ‘Free Bird’ — an unforgettable night of strings and light. “Rock and roll meets classical music in a gorgeously crafted hour of music.”

Step into a world lit by over 1,000 flickering candles — where legendary rock anthems are reimagined by one violin, played with the intensity of a full band. This is not just a tribute show. This is Blue Violin — a genre-defying, conservatory-trained virtuoso who has lit up stages from Carnegie Hall to Singapore, and now brings his world tour to Australia, Europe, Asia, and across the U.S.

In this electrifying solo candlelight concert, Blue Violin transforms classic rock into cinematic soundscapes using live looping, searing violin solos, and explosive arrangements. The result: a visceral, immersive performance that shatters expectations and stirs the soul.

Critics call him “the best rock and roll violinist of a generation” and “electrifying” — and audiences from sold out shows around the globe agree. With a sound as bold as the flames surrounding him, Blue Violin invites you to experience a night where rock meets ritual, and violin meets firelight.

From ‘Thunderstruck’ to ‘Free Bird’ — an unforgettable night of strings and light. “Rock and roll meets classical music in a gorgeously crafted hour of music.”

Step into a world lit by over 1,000 flickering candles — where legendary rock anthems are reimagined by one violin, played with the intensity of a full band. This is not just a tribute show. This is Blue Violin — a genre-defying, conservatory-trained virtuoso who has lit up stages from Carnegie Hall to Singapore, and now brings his world tour to Australia, Europe, Asia, and across the U.S.

In this electrifying solo candlelight concert, Blue Violin transforms classic rock into cinematic soundscapes using live looping, searing violin solos, and explosive arrangements. The result: a visceral, immersive performance that shatters expectations and stirs the soul.

Critics call him “the best rock and roll violinist of a generation” and “electrifying” — and audiences from sold out shows around the globe agree. With a sound as bold as the flames surrounding him, Blue Violin invites you to experience a night where rock meets ritual, and violin meets firelight.