Event Calendar
“Here Come’s the Sun” is on Monday May 31. Come dance on the deck to The Hidden Agenda Band playing 1-5pm. Corona, Pacifico, Landshark, and Leland Lemonade features. Summer is here.
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Second Annual M-22 Challenge - 9AM Saturday, June 12, 2010 - Glen Arbor, MI
The M-22 Challenge is a multi-discipline event based in beautiful Leelanau County in Northern Michigan. Designed to challenge athletes against the natural terrain and environmental elements of the area, the challenge is open to first time racers and seasoned athletes.
Beginning with a 2 mile run, participants climb their way up the steep and sandy Sleeping Bear Dunes overlooking the area and Lake Michigan. After a rewarding view at the top, runners will get catch their breath on run down and back to the event site.
Next, participants will transition to a 17 mile bike race around Big and Little Glen Lake. Riders will cover a stretch along M-22 and pass Inspiration Point before taking to the water.
The most exciting part of the event takes place on the water and it doesn’t involve swimming. Participants will transition to a short and exciting paddle event where kayaks, stand up paddleboards, surfski’s, or any watercraft powered with only one handheld paddle is allowed. This is sure to be an unforgettable event.
Are you up to the Challenge?
Register for the run, bike, paddle, event to be held in Northern Michigan’s Leelanau County on June 12th, 2010 presented by the Broneah brothers, M-22.
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Chris Lawrence, a hot young trumpeter from Grand Rapids who wowed audiences when he performed in TC last month.
Chris, who looks like a healthy Chet Baker and sounds like Freddie Hubbard, will join the Jeff Haas Trio with his very personal sound and takes on Someday My Prince Will Come, Night in Tunisia, Night and Day as well as tunes by Gershwin, Monk and Haas originals.
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National Cherry Festival Takes Flight over West Grand Traverse Bay Again in 2010 with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels.
The National Cherry Festival will kick off its 84th annual celebration with a highly anticipated and patriotic 4th of July weekend return visit by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, along with civilian acts Christine “CC” Gerner and Billy Werth. The Festival Air Show will take to the sky on Saturday, July 3 and Sunday, July 4 over West Grand Traverse Bay. The Festival Air Shows are sponsored by Northern Michigan Toyota Dealers, Cherry Capital Airport, Charter Business, Sam’s Club, Harbour Air Services and Schmuckal Oil Company.
The slate of performers guarantees a fast-paced, exciting show over Lake Michigan. The Blue Angels flight team demonstrates the choreographed refinements of Navy-trained flying skills while exhibiting graceful, aerobatic maneuvers like the four-plane diamond, opposing solos and the six plane delta formation.
Traverse City, along with the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station, will prepare for a ‘practice show’ on Friday, July 2 featuring all Air Show performers, with official U.S. Navy Blue Angels performances taking place during the Festival Air Show Saturday, July 3 and Sunday, July 4. The Festival Air Show is expected to get underway at approximately 1:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Both Air Shows will be simulcast on WTCM AM Radio. ‘Flight Deck Seating’ will be available for both Air Shows at the Festival Open Space ‘Upper Deck’.
The Blue Angels’ mission is to enhance Navy and Marine Corps recruiting efforts and to represent the naval service to the United States, its elected leadership and foreign nations. The Blue Angels serve as positive role models and goodwill ambassadors for the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps.
Also appearing in this year’s Festival Air Show is “CC” Gerner. Since learning to fly nearly 20 years ago, Christine “CC” Gerner has logged over 10,000 hours of flight time in a variety of aircrafts ranging from antique biplanes to state of the art Transport Category Airliners.
Join us for the 84th National Cherry Festival Air Show, sponsored by Cherry Capital Airport, Northern Michigan Toyota Dealers, Sam’s Club, and Charter Communications on Saturday, July 3 and Sunday, July 4 for an exciting airshow, featuring the U.S. Navy Blue Angels.
Watching from the shores of West Grand Traverse Bay? Listen live on WTCM AM 580 to hear air show commentators give minute to minute maneuvering.
U.S. Navy Blue Angels
The Blue Angels’ mission is to enhance Navy and Marine Corps recruiting efforts and to represent the naval service to the United States, its elected leadership and foreign nations. The Blue Angels serve as positive role models and goodwill ambassadors for the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps.
A Blue Angels flight demonstration exhibits choreographed refinements of skills possessed by all naval aviators. It includes the graceful aerobatic maneuvers of the four-plane Diamond Formation, in concert with the fast-paced, high-performance maneuvers of its two Solo Pilots. Finally, the team illustrates the pinnacle of precision flying, performing maneuvers locked as a unit in the renowned, six-jet Delta Formation.
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Grab your girlfriends to sip, savor and enjoy this fun ‘Girls Night Out’ event!
Visit the Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula on this evening devoted to women, wine and food. Each of the seven wineries will offer a wine selection expertly paired with an appetizer prepared by a local restaurant chef, plus giveaways from local businesses and artists.
Tickets are $25 and include a souvenir wine glass.
‘Designated Divas’ (those volunteering to drive) tickets are offered at a discounted rate. Please call 231.223.7615 for more information and to purchase tickets. Space is limited.
For sponsorship information, email info@bowersharbor.com
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Join us for our 6th Anniversary Pig Roast – Swine and Dine
Saturday, May 29 marks our 6th Anniversary, and, as is the case each year, we welcome you to join us for our annual Pig Roast. Live music, prizes, fantastic wines, and, of course, the succulent pork slow-roasted for hours prior. Bring your family and friends and enjoy the best kick-off to our year. Dig in at 11:00 a.m.!
We will only be printing up 130 of the very cool Anniversary Swine and Dine T-shirts as seen in the photo above. Be sure to snap yours up as this is a one-time deal from a very talented New York artist.
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We’re celebrating the opening of our new tasting room!
The time has finally come, after a year and a half of construction we’re in our new post and beam tasting room! Please come join us in celebrating the opening with live music from Blue Dirt (3- 5:30pm) and The New Third Coast with Norm Wheeler (6- 9pm). Mary in the Morning will also be on-site before the event from 12-3pm doing live broadcasts and giving out prizes, so feel free to come on out early!
Tickets are $15 (buy ‘em online, call 231-271-1188, or at the door) and include 5 complimentary wine pours, a pig roast, and music! Festivities begin at 3pm on June 26th.
Also, on Saturday only, with the purchase of a case (12 bottles) or more of wine, get a free silk-screened t-shirt and a coupon for 20% off your next case purchase!
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| Bring the entire family and join us as we convert Crystal Mountain Resort and Spa into “Main Street USA” and celebrate our country’s independence in good old fashioned red, white and blue style!
Come splash about at the Park at Water’s Edge, Crystal’s exciting outdoor water playground for all ages! Ride the Crystal Coaster, Michigan’s only alpine slide. Challenge you family and friends to a game of paintball. Play 36 holes of four-star golf. And celebrate the 4th of July with special events at Crystal Mountain and the surrounding community! |
| JULY 2-5, 2010 THIS ANNUAL EVENT IS OPEN TO EVERYONE! |
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| Family Carnival, DJ Hot Traxx & Fireworks over the Mountain on Saturday July 3, Family Golf Scrambles, daily Kayak/Canoe and Tubing Trips, Area Fireworks Show and much more! SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES |
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| LODGING PACKAGES From $179 per family, per night. BOOK ONLINE or call 800-968.7686 ext. 5100. Minimum 2 night stay. Valid June 27-July 4, 2010. Some restrictions apply. |
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The Leland Wine & Food Festival is a northern Michigan tradition held on the second Saturday in June (June 12, 2010). Noon til 6pm.
Come enjoy a day near the Leland Harbor and Leland’s historic Fishtown tasting wines from local wineries and tasting the specialties from local restaurants and vendors.
Listen to live music in the park all day and enjoy the beautiful views of Lake Michigan and the Manitou Islands.
Admission is $12 and includes an etched wine glass and two tickets for wine tasting. Additional wine tasting tickets are available.
Food vendors accept cash only.
Visit Leland Wine & Food Festival Website >>>>
Arnold Palmer’s “Signature Course” King’s Challenge is reborn in Leelanau County as Manitou Passage Golf Club
Over the past two decades some of the most distinguished new golf courses in America have opened in northern Michigan. Perhaps that’s because the nationally acclaimed golf course architects who designed those courses were inspired by the beauty of region’s hills, forests and waters. Nowhere is that beauty more pronounced than to the northwest of Traverse City in Leelanau County.
This sparsely populated decidedly rural county is made up of 348 square miles of land and 2,184 square miles of water. It is the home of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, which is considered by many to be the State’s number one attraction. Its unmatched beauty with a climate tempered by the water made it a perfect setting for an Arnold Palmer Signature Course - the course that King’s Challenge was meant to be.
When a group lead by Bob Kuras, president of The Homestead, purchased King’s Challenge last year they knew it had not been what it was meant to be. They also knew it could be a signature course and, with dedication, could become a destination course featuring exceptional playing conditions and unmatched service. When the group adopted a goal of becoming a destination course they decided that the course needed a new name that would tie it to Leelanau County and portray the unique high-end experience it would offer.
“While working on the new tee boxes for No. 8 we discovered a view of Lake Michigan’s Manitou Passage. Immediately, we realized that name was the tie to Leelanau County. We also realized that the grandeur of the passage would portray what we are doing here: creating a world-class golf experience on a course designed by one of the greatest golfers to play the game”, said Kuras.
To create that experience the new ownership group reestablished a relationship with Palmer and brought in other experts. One was Wadsworth Golf Construction, the most respected golf course contractor in the country with over 800 projects to its credit. The other was Peridian International, a leader in land planning and landscape architecture for resort destinations throughout the world. Together, Palmer, Wadsworth and Peridian envisioned scores of changes, some minor, some major, that would be made to bring the course and facility up to the championship level experience that an Arnold Palmer “Signature Design” is noted for.
Wadsworth worked from early spring until early winter to make the majority of the recommended changes. Renovations included the repositioning, adding and squaring off of tee-boxes, widening of fairways in key landing areas, renovating bunkers, lengthening some holes, restoring areas with native grasses and clearing of trees and brush to open vistas to the area’s natural beauty.
Complimenting the golf course work was a complete renovation of the entry drive, parking area, cart storage, starter’s plaza and clubhouse. The new clubhouse features a tastefully detailed stone and cedar shake exterior. Inside, the newly created library and trophy alcoves, club room, grill and golf shop feature stone fireplaces, luxurious furnishings, oriental rugs, warm rich woods and original art. New patio doors lead to a multi-level patio that affords stunning views of the 18th hole and offers guests’ outdoor food and beverage services.
“We adopted a very high goal and are delighted with the contributions that Palmer, Wadsworth and Peridian made toward our achieving our goal of becoming a destination course. We are looking forward to completing the work and providing the playing conditions and service discerning golfers desire and deserve,” said Kuras.
For more information visit: www.manitoupassagegolfclub.com (under construction), www.thehomesteadresort.com, www.sleepingbeardunes.com and www.nps.gov/slbe.
Location: Cedar, MI 20 minutes northwest of Traverse City
Address: 4600 Club Drive
Yardage: 6,734 from back tees
Architect: Arnold Palmer Design Company
Year Opened: 1998, Reopened 2010
Phone: 231.228.6000; 888.656.7572
For More: Jamie Jewell, Senior Manager, The Homestead, 231.334.5524>
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Celebrate sunshine and spring skiing with a weekend filled with music, food and fun! In honor of our favorite sticky, sweet delicacy… maple syrup, Crystal Mountain Resort and Spa presents the 2nd Annual Maple Syrup Festival.
Tree tapping demonstrations, maple syrup shack, cooking classes, chainsaw wood carving demonstration, pancakes drenched in delicious northern Michigan maple syrup and live entertainment in the Vista Lounge by the bluegrass band Detour are just a few of the highlights. See activity schedule below.
Maple Syrup Festival Lodging Package
Bring the family and join the celebration! Our Maple Syrup Festival Package includes Friday and Saturday night’s lodging, Sunday Pancake breakfast, Family Maple Syrup Surrey Ride, one bottle of Maple Syrup (per reservation).
Maple Syrup Festival
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
11am - 4pm
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All things Irish plus the annual Cardboard Classic Race down Schuss Mountain in a sled you make yourself.
Saturday, March 13
All activities take place in Schuss Village. Space is limited–please sign up early.
Registration for each event closes 30 minutes prior to the start.
• 9:00-11:00am — Registration (you may register for Blarney Stone Rail Jam on Saturday or Sunday)
• 10:00am — Frozen Fish Toss
• 11:30am — Judging for Cardboard Classic Click for Rules
• 12:00pm — Cardboard Classic Races
• 1:00pm — Pot of Gold Coin Toss
• 1:45pm — VIP Seating Winner Announced
• 2:00pm — Slush Cup (limited to first 50 registrants)
• 4:00pm — Slush Cup Awards
Sunday, March 14
• 9:00-11:00am — Registration for Blarney Stone Rail Jam
• 12:00pm — Blarney Stone Rail Jam
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Spring carnival atmosphere with a luau theme and activities such as the Midwest’s only Dummy Darts competition, Canoe Races and Poker Run.
Saturday, March 20
All activities take place in Schuss Village. Space is limited–please sign up early.
Registration for each event closes 30 minutes prior to the start.
• 9:00-11:00am — Registration
• 9:00am-4:00pm — Seashell Hunt (person with most seashells wins a prize)
• 11:00am — Canoe Races
• 12:00-4:00pm — Poker Run
• 1:00pm — Dummy Dart Competition Click for Rules
• 2:00pm — Tacky Tourist Relay
• 4:00pm — Prizes Awarded
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A best seller…this package includes two nights’ lodging, continental breakfast each morning, a tasting tour of four Leelanau County wineries on Saturday with transportation and to-go lunch provided. That evening, you’ll enjoy an exquisite five course winemaker dinner prepared by Chef John Piombo featuring wines with each course.
Offered in Fiddler’s Pond, Little Belle and The Inn from only $126 per person, per night, based on double occupancy. Space is limited. Call 231.334.5100 for reservations.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
11am - Cardboard Classic
Build a cardboard sled using ONLY cardboard and duct tape… decorate it as you’d like, and then race it against others on Cheers! Read More
1pm - NASTAR Race
$6 for two runs, $1 for each additional run. Register at nastar.com and then sign up the day of the race at the Snowsports Desk. Read More.
3pm - On-slope Kayak Race
Race head-to-head down Cheers slope, while in a kayak. Read More
4pm - Slush Cup
Ski thru a giant pit of icy slush at the base of the Loki slope. Read More.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
King of the Hill Triple Threat Challenge
Can you ski? Can you snowboard? Can you tele? Read More
Sleeping Bear Telefest
Free your heel, free your mind. Read More.
Spring Fling FUN - March 15-18
This year, we’ve expanded the Spring Fling FUN with daily activities on Monday, March 15 thru Thursday, March 18 including a Paintball Biathlon, Speed Trap, Mogul Competition, Terrain Park Jams. Read More.
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