Lansing-Area Live Music

Pumpstock Festival of American Roots Music
Saturday, June 7th, 2pm to 8pm
Bailey Park 300 Bailey St, East Lansing, MI
Come celebrate music, life, music, community, music, food, music and family with East Lansing's favorite outdoor music festival.
This year's festival artists span Americana to Blues, Red Dirt Oklahoma Folk to 50s themed singer / songwriters. Details below!
Bring chairs, blankets, your family, your friends, and your dogs.
Outdoors and FREE at Bailey Park, 300 Bailey St, East Lansing.
We are VERY grateful to the City of East Lansing for AGAIN providing us an Arts Grant. We couldn't do this without EL's amazing support!
Our financial model this year also includes the usual Kickstarter fundraising plan.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pumpstock2024/2025-pumpstock-music-festival
If you might attend this year's festival, if you love what we do for Mid Michigan, if you support independent arts presentation, please DONATE via Kickstarter to enable this year's festival.
We are asking you to make your donation ahead of the festival to help make Pumpstock a sustainable event and eliminate donation collection on the day of the festival.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pumpstock2024/2025-pumpstock-music-festival
THANK YOU!
This will be our Fifteenth year. WHAAAATT?? Five great bands on the main stage, 4 great acts on the local stage.
Music, food, art and fun for the entire family!
An instrument petting zoo sponsored by Music Is the Foundation.
Children's Art activities.
Food will be available!
Dave's Ukes (https://davesukes.com/) will be with us again. The best custom made Ukes.
Cold Plunge Records are again super generous Pumpstock Sponsors, enabling our outreach program. https://www.coldplungerecords.com/
Rogo the Clown providing glitter tattoos.
Professional sound provided by Jon Herrmann and Real Deal Audio, plus Steve Simonson and All Around Audio.
This year's Pumpstock Teaching Artist is Elexa Dawson, presented by Cold Plunge Records. She will be leading two workshops / classes around town as part of her appearance and Pumpstock's desire to support the East Lansing / greater Lansing community.
One will be a young person's Land-Based Songwriting class at the East Lansing Public Library on Friday, June 6th. The other will be about Indigenous Foods, hosted in collaboration with the Olde Town General Store in their courtyard on Sunday June 8th..
Stay tuned – more details will be posted when they are available!

Pumpstock's Main Stage, hosted by DJ, musician, and man about town Jim Hall, features (long bios will be added at the end of this event description, and set times are subject to change):
2:00 – The Wild Honey Collective - Midwest Cosmic Roots
http://wildhoneycollective.com/
Lansing’s #1 Folk Artist (City Pulse Top of the Town), the collective is described as having “its feet firmly rooted in classic country and folk while daring to allow its head to explore the technicolor clouds of psychedelia.”
3:00 – The Weda Skirts Trio, led by Elexa Dawson - Acoustic Vocal Folk
https://www.elexadawson.com/
Weda Skirts hail from the Flint Hills of Kansas, where the deer and the antelope play original folk tunes and sing harmonies through the power of Weda, the unified universe's alter ego. Look for Elexa teaching songwriting at the EL Public Library, and leading a workshop about Indigenous foods at the Old Towne General Store
4:15 – Tim Grimm and Sergio Webb - Americana Warriors
https://timgrimm.com/bio https://sergiowebb.wordpress.com/about/
Renaissance man Tim Grimm has forged a rich and varied career as a storytelling balladeer that blends his love of songwriting, travel, and acting in theatre, film and television.
Sergio Webb has been an underrated journeyman musician for hire for years, touring the world accompanying many, and working tirelessly from his Nashville base.
5:30 – Donna Herula and Downtown Charlie Brown - Chicago and Delta Blues
Presented by the Capital Area Blues Society
https://donnaherula.com/ http://downtowncharliebrown.com/
This powerhouse Chicago Blues duo will blow you away! Downtown Charlie Brown, is a Chicagoland favorite multi-instrumentalist and a regular at blues clubs such as Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago and festivals around the country.
Donna Herula is an award-winning blues singer, songwriter and resonator slide player hailed for her “superlative guitar prowess” (Living Blues Magazine). Donna is a Chicago Blues Hall of Fame Inductee and winner of multiple Independent Blues Awards.
7:00 – The Oh Boys - Modern Music for Vinyl Hearts
https://zacharystevenson.com/the-oh-boys
Chicago-based trio The Oh Boys is a vintage-inspired powerhouse of Pop, Rock, Folk and Doo-Wop, whose songs feature tight harmonies, inventive arrangements, and poignant lyrics.
ON THE LOCAL STAGE:
2:40 pm: Anara Pearl
https://sites.google.com/view/anarapearlmusic/home
3:45 pm: AnneMarie Jo
https://annemariejomusic.com/
5:00 pm: Billy Joe Hunt
https://www.facebook.com/BJH61MUSIC
6:15 pm: Sammie Hershock
https://www.sammiehershock.com/

FULL BIOS OF ALL ARTISTS:
THE WILD HONEY COLLECTIVE:
https://gtgrecords.net/thewildhoneycollective/
The Wild Honey Collective formed in the summer of 2020 to perform original songs and traditional American folk music. Singers and songwriters Tommy McCord, Danielle Gyger, Timmy Rodriguez, and Dan O’Brien, joined shortly thereafter by pedal steel guitarist Adam Aymor and drummer Joel Kuiper, launched the project in rural Michigan as a back porch acoustic gathering purely for the love of music in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The rootsy and unassuming beginning of the band led to the immediate recording of the 2021 The Wild Honey Collective: Volume 1 full-length debut album, which Local Spins described as having “its feet firmly rooted in classic country and folk while daring to allow its head to explore the technicolor clouds of psychedelia.”
TIM GRIMM and SERGIO WEBB
https://timgrimm.com/bio
https://sergiowebb.wordpress.com/about/
Tim Grimm is a bit of a Renaissance man in the performing arts world, forging a rich and varied career that blends his love of songwriting, travel, and acting in theatre, film and television. For most of his 25-year career as a storytelling balladeer in the tradition of John Prine, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Tim has written primarily about community, history, family, and social issues - often framed by his strong sense of place and the many years he spent on the family farm he built in rural Indiana.
Sergio Webb has been an underrated journeyman musician for hire for years. He has toured the world accompanying many, and works tirelessly from his Nashville base on call to those singers who possess musical integrity—in short the guy’s something of a ‘maverick’—so don’t expect to see him on stage accompanying the likes of Faith, Taylor or Carrie.
THE OH BOYS
https://zacharystevenson.com/the-oh-boys
Modern music for vinyl hearts.
Chicago-based trio The Oh Boys is a vintage-inspired powerhouse of Pop, Rock, Folk and Doo-Wop, whose songs feature tight harmonies, inventive arrangements, and poignant lyrics. Veterans of the stage, their live show engages and entertains with a sense of humor, spontaneity, and melodic storytelling.
“The Oh Boys have a joyous energy to their songs and performances. Their unconventional combination of rockabilly, psychedelic rock, and doo-wop is refreshing!”
- Jason Narducy, Superchunk/Split Single
DONNA HERULA and DOWNTOWN CHARLIE BROWN
Brought to you by the Capital Area Blues Society
https://donnaherula.com/
http://downtowncharliebrown.com/
This powerhouse Chicago Blues duo will blow you away! They're teaming up for a special Pumpstock set, sponsored by the Capital Area Blues Society
Downtown Charlie Brown, a Chicagoland favorite, is a multi-instrumentalist, and a regular at blues clubs such as Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago. He also performs at venues across the country, including Ground Zero in both Clarksdale and Biloxi, Mississippi. He has appeared on King Biscuit Time in Helena, Arkansas, and was referred to as “Chicago’s Delta” by American Blues Scene. He was also featured in Living Blues, as well as BG Blues and Music News Magazine. Artists like Muddy Waters, Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Koko Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, and Howlin’ Wolf come alive during his performances.
Donna Herula is an award-winning blues singer, songwriter and resonator slide guitarist that plays a range of blues styles including Chicago and Mississippi Folk Blues. Hailed for her “superlative guitar prowess” (Living Blues Magazine), Donna is a Chicago Blues Hall of Fame Inductee and winner of the 2022 Independent Blues Award for “Best Traditional Blues Artist” and “Best Acoustic Blues Album” for her album “Bang at the Door.” She is a teacher at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, has performed at numerous folk and blues venues and has been featured in blues music magazines in the US and throughout the world.
THE WEDA SKIRTS TRIO, LED BY ELEXA DAWSON
https://www.elexadawson.com/
Weda Skirts hail from the Flint Hills of Kansas, where the deer and the antelope play original folk tunes and sing harmonies through the power of Weda, the unified universe's alter ego.
These long-time friends continue to grow and evolve as a group, keeping originals as the core of their repertoire, but throwing in their homemade renditions of popular rock and folk songs. Formerly "The Skirts", Weda Skirts have produced two studio albums, “Many Moons” and “Mother”, as well as a live album, “Live at Kaw Valley Public House”.
"The Skirts" were born when former Elexa & The Hitchhikers members Elexa Dawson and Melissa Tastove joined with their friend Sarah Bays, who had recently taken up the upright bass in the summer of '09. Emily Wilson was quick to join them on mandolin. Rachel Allai was added the night before she recorded "Many Moons", The Skirts' first full-length studio album with her fiddle. The group recorded their second album, Mother in 2017. At the beginning of 2019, they reintroduced themselves as Weda Skirts.
ON THE LOCAL STAGE:
SAMMIE HERSHOCK:
Sammie Hershock almost became a cloistered Catholic nun at the age of 18. Now she travels around Michigan singing songs about not knowing the answers. She weaves her humor and playfulness into the depth of the human existence, and it is a regular occurrence for audience members to laugh and cry simultaneously. Hershock is an award-winning Michigan based songwriter, classically trained pianist, and young mother of three incredible children. She majored in sacred music with an emphasis on the pipe organ: and though you won’t currently find her behind an organ at a church, you may find little pieces of that influence sprinkled throughout her original folk music.
ANARA PEARL:
Anara Pearl is a 11-year-old singer-songwriter from East Lansing, Michigan, who blends folk and pop with a maturity beyond her years. Inspired by musical theater and artists like Taylor Swift, The Rebel Eves, May Erlewine, and The Accidentals, Anara captivates audiences with her earnest, energetic covers. But her talent doesn't stop there; she's already making waves as a budding songwriter. With lyrics that resonate deeply and a stage presence that belies her age, Anara is destined to become a bright star in the Michigan music scene. Anara is often accompanied by her father, Austin Kaufmann, guitarist and singer for the indie folk band The Dangling Participles.
BILLY JOE HUNT:
Raised on a dirt road in a small Michigan town, I write and sing songs about friends, family, lovers , life on the road and my old guitar.
ANNEMARIE JO
Annemarie Jo is a well accomplished singer-songwriter from the Detroit MI. area and has been singing since she could talk. Music has always played a big part in her family, leading her to writing catchy, emotionally charged songs, playing guitar and often performing up to 4 to 5 shows a week. Being musically versatile, her genres include pop, rock, alternative, and soul.