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Arts & Culture

OCCOA presents ‘A Night at Moulin Rouge’ Sept. 20

September 9, 2025

HART — Oceana County Council On Aging presents “A Night at Moulin Rouge” Saturday, Sept. 20, from 6-10 p.m. at the senior center located 4250 W. Tyler Rd. “Step back in time and experience 1920s Paris at Charles Zidler’s Moulin Rouge, known as the birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance,” states a press release about the event,…

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Electric Forest ‘Music in Schools’ program generates $40,000

September 9, 2025

When local students returned to school this fall, they discovered some new band and music equipment.  Since 2008, the four-day summer festival draws tens of thousands visitors from across the nation and beyond to experience a unique blend of art, music, and nature at the Double JJ Resort in Rothbury.  “As the Electric Forest Festival continues to grow, so does…

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Hart Community Performing Arts Series announces concert lineup for 2025-26 season

August 8, 2025

HART — The Hart Community Performing Arts Series recently announced its schedule of concerts for the 2025–2026 season. The season will begin Friday, Oct. 10 with a concert by the Kris Johnson Group. Kris Johnson is an empathetic, intelligent, and efficient trumpeter, composer, arranger, film composer, and educator based in Detroit. With contributions to six Grammy-nominated albums as a trumpeter…

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Hart named finalist for state-wide Community Excellence Award

July 31, 2025

  HART – The City of Hart is among four finalists for the Michigan Municipal League’s 2025 Community Excellence Award for the city’s HArt Project. The HArt Project focuses on art, culture and diversity. Among the project’s goals is getting more art installations downtown, such as the gigantic Tin Man that arrived two years ago. The other three finalists are…

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Until next year, Electric Forest

June 25, 2025

By Ross Field, Contributing Writer ROTHBURY — And that’s a wrap. The massive number of cars heading south on US 31 Monday morning, June 23, was proof positive that the 2025 Electric Forest had come to an end. While Mother Nature brought intermittent rain on Thursday and Friday, and high winds over Saturday and Sunday, these weather events actually contributed…

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