WHEATLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL

'Wheatland' is a music organization, festival and traditional arts institution founded in 1973. The Wheatland Music Festival takes place every September during the weekend after Labor Day in Wheatland Township, Mecosta County, Michigan. The first Wheatland Music Festival was held August 24, 1974.
Kitchen services for the annual Wheatland Music Festival are provided by Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination and the Happy Farmer Food Co-op as well as other local fundraising groups.
The dates for the 2007 Wheatland Music Festival are September 7th, 8th, and 9th.

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Performers By Year
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1975
1976
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Performers By Year

1974

★ Bean Town Valley Ramblers

★ Easy Pickins

★ Kentucky Grass

★ Roy McGinnis and the Sunnysiders

★ Pine River Valley Boys

★ Tennessee Valley Boys

1975

★ GLA Grass

★ Kathy Ann and the Sounds of the South

★ Kentucky Grass

★ Pine River Valley Boys

★ RFD Boys

★ Stillhouse String Band

★ Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys

★ Sunset Express

★ Williams Family

1976

★ Cabbage Crik

★ Easy Pickins

★ Highwoods String Band

★ Pine River Valley Boys

★ Mike Seeger

★ Stillhouse String Band

★ Sweet Corn

★ Williams Family

1977

★ Bluegrass Extention

★ Bluegrass Reunion

★ Cabbage Crik

★ Alice Gerrard

★ Hot Mud Family

★ McLain Family

★ Red Clay Ramblers

★ Jean Ritchie

★ Mike Seeger

★ Service

★ Sounds of the South

★ Williams Family

1978

★ Patrick Couton

★ Kitty Donohoe

★ Fall City Ramblers

★ Flat Pickers Local No. 169

★ Green Grass Cloggers

★ Highwoods String Band

★ Hot Mud Family

★ Lost World String Band

★ Joel Mabus

★ Wade Mainer

★ Martin, Bogan and Armstrong

★ New Pine River Valley Boys

★ Quackgrass

★ Quality Quinn

★ Red Clay Ramblers

★ Sinclair Bros.

★ Swamp Cats

★ Jay Ungar and Lynn Hardy

★ Vice Versa

★ Williams Family

1979

★ Backwoods String Band

★ Costabella Cloggers

★ Patrick Couton

★ Dekalb

★ Dutch Cove String Band

★ Green Grass Cloggers

★ Gypsy Gypo String Band

★ Henrie Brothers

★ Hot Mud Family

★ Lost World String Band

★ Joel Mabus

★ Port City Bluegrass Boys

★ Quackgrass

★ Red Clay Ramblers

★ Reel World String Band

★ Jean Ritchie

★ Roustabout String Band

★ Tracy and Eloise Schwarz

★ Mike Seeger and Alice Gerrard

★ Sinclair Bros.

★ Carl Story

★ Williams Family with Jay Round

1980

★ Backwoods String Band

★ Tony Barrand

★ Costabella Cloggers

★ Hazel Dickins

★ Fiction Brothers

★ Fiddle Puppets

★ Henrie Brothers

★ Si Kahn

★ Lost World String Band

★ Michael, McCreesh, and Campbell

★ Quackgrass

★ Reel World String Band

★ Jim Ringer and Mary Caslin

★ Roustabouts

★ Sweet Corn

★ John Turner

★ Whetstone Run

★ Robin and Linda Williams

1981

★ Bosom Buddies

★ Wilma Lee Cooper and the Clinch Mountain Clan

★ Dance All Night

★ De Dannan

★ Rick and Maureen Del Grosso

★ Fiction Brothers

★ Fiddle Puppets

★ Henrie Brothers

★ Hot Mud Family

★ Ken Bloom

★ Mulligan Dancers

★ Na Cabar Feidh

★ Percy Danforth

★ Red Clay Ramblers

★ Sally Rogers

★ Dick Tarrier

★ John Turner and the Fiddletree Band

★ Whetstone Run

★ Williams Family

1982

★ Blue Velvet

★ Boreal String Band

★ Dan Brandon, Rex and Letha Raymond

★ Bryan Bowers

★ Costabella Cloggers

★ De Dannan

★ Fiddle Puppets

★ Hotfoot Quintet

★ Hot Mud Family

★ Lost World String Band

★ Mulligan Dancers

★ New Pairie Ramblers

★ Northland College Voyageurs

★ Utah Phillips

★ Riders In The Sky

★ Sally Rogers

★ Dick Tarrier

★ Will White and Paul Gifford

★ Robin and Linda Williams

1983

★ Beausoleil

★ Sandy Bradley and The Small Wonder String Band

★ Major Contay and the Canebrake Rattlers

★ Costabella Cloggers

★ Jean Denny

★ Robert Dodson

★ Double Decker String Band

★ Fiddle Puppets

★ Foot Loose

★ Day and Kay Gordon

★ Henrie Brothers

★ Hot Mud Family

★ Lost World String Band

★ Joel Mabus

★ Na Cabar Feidh

★ Reel Union

★ Sally Rogers

★ Claudia Schmidt

★ Mike Seeger

★ Dick Tarrier

1984

★ O.J. Anderson

★ Beausoleil

★ Ken Bloom

★ Canebrake Rattlers

★ Costabella Cloggers

★ Double Decker String Band

★ Dave and Kay Gordon

★ Hot Rize

★ Iowa Rose and Riff Raff

★ Ira Bernstein

★ Si Kahn

★ Kinvara

★ Red Clay Ramblers

★ Red Hot Peppers

★ Claudia Schmidt

★ Shuffle Creek Dancers

★ Sweet Honey in the Rock

★ Dick Tarrier

★ Trapezoid

1985

★ O.J. Anderson

★ Dewey Balfa

★ Ira Bernstein

★ Costabella Cloggers

★ Critton Hollow String Band

★ Percy Danforth

★ Sheila Dailey

★ The Dixie Hummingbirds

★ Doug dillard Band

★ Eclectricity

★ Fiddle Puppets

★ Cathy Fink

★ Friends of Fiddlers Green

★ The Horse Flies

★ Hot Rize

★ Iowa Rose

★ Ray Kamalay

★ Joel Mabus

★ Malone, Carroll, Keane and O'Connell

★ Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers

★ Rugcutters

★ Dick Tarrier

1986

★ Ira Bernstein

★ Ken Bloom

★ Bob Brozman and Brownie McGhee

★ The Dixie Hummingbirds

★ Lost World String Bsnd

★ Reel World String Band

★ Riders In The Sky

★ Peter Madcat Ruth

★ Savoy-Doucet

★ Howard "Sandman" Sims

★ Skylark

★ Rosalie Sorrels

★ Pete Sutherland

★ Dick Tarrier

★ Uncles and the Footnotes

★ Robin and Linda Williams

1987

★ Chicken Chokers

★ Lotus Dickey and Bob Lucas

★ Kitty Donohoe

★ Fairfield Four

★ Fiddle Puppets

★ Folktellers

★ Green Grass Cloggers

★ The Horse Flies

★ Denny Jones, Paul Kovac, and Clear Fork

★ Kentucky Warblers

★ Red Clay Ramblers

★ Peter Madcat Ruth

★ Johnny Shines, Peter Ostroushko and the Mando Boys

★ Volo Bogtrotters

1988

★ Ralph Blizard and The New Southern Ramblers

★ Greg Brown

★ Chicken Chokers

★ Les Danseurs de la Rivière-Rouge

★ Fiddle Puppets

★ Johnny Gimble

★ David Holt

★ Heartbeats

★ Iowa Rose

★ Laketown Buskers

★ Nashville Bluegrass Band

★ LaVaughan Robinson

★ Terrance Simien and The Mallet Playboys

★ Song Sisters

★ The Tannahill Weavers

★ Dick Tarrier

★ Volo Bogtrotters

1989

★ Ira Bernstein

★ Ralph Blizard and The New Southern Ramblers

★ Delton Broussard and The Lawtell Playboys

★ Cephas and Wiggins

★ Fiddle Puppets

★ Henrie Brothers

★ Johnny Gimble

★ Howard Levy

★ Laurie Lewis and Grant Street

★ Joel Mabus

★ Memphis Beck and the Red Hots

★ Millie Ortego

★ Song Sisters

★ Sukay

★ Wildcats

★ Robin and Linda Williams

1990

★ Birmingham Sunlights

★ Ralph Blizard and The New Southern Ramblers

★ Kevin Burke, James Kelly, and Gerry O'Beirne

★ Critton Hollow String Band

★ Drummers and Dancers

★ Henrie Brothers

★ David Holt

★ Santiago Jimenez, Jr.

★ Laurie Lewis and Grant Street

★ North Carolina Blues Revue

★ Maura O'Connell

★ Rhythm In Shoes

★ Saginaw Ojibwe Singers

★ Dick Siegel

★ Song Sisters

★ Volo Bogtrotters

1991

★ Howard Armstrong and Ray Kamalay

★ Mac Benford and His Woodshed Allstars

★ Bone Tones

★ Cobb Brothers

★ Drummers and Dancers

★ Fiddle Puppets

★ Holmes Brothers

★ Alison Krauss and Union Station

★ Lost World String Band

★ Tim and Mollie O'Brien

★ Old Time Missouri Fiddlers

★ Robin Petrie and Danny Carnahan

★ Ranch Romance

★ Saginaw Ojibwe Singers

★ Dick Siegel

1992

★ Ira Bernstein

★ Bone Tones

★ Bryan Bowers

★ Cephas and Wiggins

★ Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer

★ Ginny Hawker and Kay Justice

★ Hoosier Humdingers

★ Tim and Mollie O'Brien

★ Tim O'Brien and the O'Boys

★ Old time Missouri Fiddlers and Dancers

★ Pashami Dancers

★ Porkypines

★ Red Mule String Band

1993

★ Ira Bernstein

★ Bone Tones

★ Critton Hollow String Band

★ Dry Branch Fire Squad

★ Feltliners

★ Fiddle Puppets with Rodney Sutton

★ Heartbeats

★ Lonesome River Band

★ Joel Mabus

★ Peter Ostroushko and Dean Magraw

★ Utah Phillips

★ Red Mule String Band

★ Peter Madcat Ruth and Shari Kane

★ Reunited Gospel Echoes

★ Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt

★ Trian

★ Volo Bogtrotters

★ Robin and Linda Williams with Jim Watson and Kevin Maul

1994

★ Kitty Donohoe

★ Gospel Warriors

★ Indian Creek Delta Boys

★ Jive At Five

★ John Hartford

★ Kapelye

★ Lonesome River Band

★ Poodles

★ Rhythm In Shoes

★ Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys

★ Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin

★ Thundering Cannonballs

★ Claude "Fiddler" Williams

1995

★ Amaryllis

★ Critton Hollow String Band

★ Del McCoury Band

★ Footworks

★ Jive At Five

★ Si Kahn

★ Los Bandits

★ Kate MacKenzie

★ Tim and Mollie O'Brien and the O'Boys

★ Open House

★ Raisin Pickers

★ Renegades

★ Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys

★ Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women

★ Samite

★ Second Opinion

1996

★ Mac Benford and His Woodshed Allstars

★ Benoit Bourque and Gaston Bernard

★ Ira Bernstein

★ Bing Brothers

★ Burns Sisters

★ Johnny Gimble and Texas Swing

★ Laurie Lewis and Grant Street

★ Raisin Pickers and Crows Feet

★ Red Mules

★ Rhythm In Shoes

★ Peter Rowan and Jerry Douglas

★ Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women

★ Dick Siegel

★ Pop Wagner and Glenn Ohrlin

1997

★ Bone Tones

★ Continental Divide

★ Ramblin' Jack Elliott

★ Footworks

★ Freight Hoppers

★ Johnny Gimble

★ Jive At Five

★ Los Bandits

★ Larry Penn

★ Rhythm Rats

★ Paul Rishell and Anne Raines

★ Schryer Triplets

★ Solas

★ Rosalie Sorrels

★ Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

1998

★ Ira Bernstein

★ Ralph Blizard and the New Southern Ramblers

★ Continental Divide

★ Critton Hollow String Band

★ De Dannan

★ The Dixie Hummingbirds

★ Iowa Rose

★ Jive At Five

★ Joel Mabus

★ Tim and Mollie O'Brien with Jerry Douglas

★ Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys

★ Rhythm In Shoes

★ Sally Rogers

★ Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women

★ Samite

★ Robin and Linda Williams and their Fine Group

1999

★ Los Bandits

★ Barton and Sweeney

★ Blues Swingers

★ Lee Benoit and the Bayou Stompers

★ Cephas and Wiggins

★ Guy clark

★ The Dixie Hummingbirds

★ Footworks

★ Freight Hoppers

★ Hillbilly Idol

★ Improbabillies

★ Patty Larkin

★ Claire Lynch

2000

★ Howard Armstrong Trio

★ Lee Benoit and the Bayou Stompers

★ Ira Bernstein and Company

★ Blue Highway

★ Blues Swingers

★ Guy Davis

★ Fat City String Band

★ Hillbilly Idol

★ Lynn Morris Band

★ Tim O'Brien and The Crossing

★ Los Pleneros de la 21

★ Claudia Schmidt

★ Tongue and Groove

★ Volo Bogtrotters

2001

★ Balfa Toujours

★ Barachois

★ Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys

★ Blue Highway

★ Calvin Cooke Sacred Steel Ensemble

★ Chief O'Neill's House Band

★ Guy Clark

★ Stacey Earle

★ Footworks

★ John Hammond, Jr.

★ Ill-Mo Boys

★ Tom, Brad, and Alice

★ The Whites

2002

★ Aztec

★ Eric Bibb

★ Norman and Nancy Blake

★ Clayfoot Strutters

★ Geno Delafose

★ Rachael Davis

★ Johnny Gimble and the Hot Club of Cowtown

★ Buddy and Julie Miller

★ Millish

★ Melvin Mosley and The Spirit of Memphis

★ Mountain Heart

★ Rhythm In Shoes

★ April Verch

2003

★ Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys

★ Charivari

★ The Dixie Hummingbirds

★ Donna the Buffalo

★ Door Nails

★ Grasshoppah

★ Josh Graves and Kenny Baker

★ Jive At Five

★ The Mammals

★ Tim O'Brien

★ Ramble Shoe

★ Red Clay Ramblers

★ Rhythm In Shoes

★ Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women

★ Dick Siegel

★ Chris Smither

★ Rodney Sutton

★ Blake Travis

★ Vishten

2004

★ Campbell Brothers

★ Footworks

★ Whit Hill and The Postcards

★ King Wilkie

★ Louisiana Red

★ The Mammals

★ Mollie O'Brien and Jive At Five

★ Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys

★ Darrell Scott

★ Solas

★ Dale Watson and His Lone Stars

★ The Wilders

★ Robin and Linda Williams and their Fine Group

2005

★ Charivari

★ Hillbilly Idol

★ Robert Jones

★ King Wilkie

★ Laurie Lewis

★ Maria Muldaur and Her Red Hot Bluesiana Band

★ Pierce Pettis

★ Red Stick Ramblers

★ Rhythm In Shoes

★ The Rockinghams

★ Steppin' In It

★ Le Vent du Nord

★ The Wilders
===2006 (as of July 29)===

★ Seth Bernard and Daisy May

★ Ira Bernstein and Riley Baugus

★ The Biddies

★ Calvin Cooke

★ Detour

★ The Duhks

★ Foghorn Stringband

★ Freshwater

★ Grada

★ Green Grass Cloggers

★ Whit Hill and The Postcards

★ Hurry The Jug

★ Jay and Molly and Their Family Band

★ Jive At Five

★ Randy Kohrs and The Lites

★ Lafayette Rhythm Devils

★ Los Bandits

★ Pat Madden

★ Mamadou Diabate Ensemble

★ Michigan Songwriters in the Round

★ Mountain Town Moonshiners

★ Tim O'Brien

★ Sally Potter

★ The Ragbirds

★ Rootstand

External link

★ Wheatland Music Organization