Aside from the variety of performers there is an array of activities offered at GLFF. It offers the Green Arts Marketplace where you can find all sorts of wonderful, hand-made items from around the world, all made from reused and recycled products. There is the Grassroots Green Program which teaches the community about green living. There are also plenty of activities for kids. The list includes making crafts with recycled bags and scraps, planting vegetables, and making bike-powered smoothies.
To keep to the around-the-world theme, the food vendors in the Taste of Tradition Food Court will offer a variety of food from Greek to Indian. Most of the vendors are locally based and there will also be a Michigan beer and wine tent.
–Johnnie Bassett, ’03 | Blues | Detroit, Michigan
–Cats & The Fiddler, ’08 | Bluegrass | Milford, Michigan
–Calvin Cooke, ’04 | Sacred Steel Guitar/Gospel | Detroit, Michigan and McDonough, Georgia —
2011 Michigan Heritage Award recipient
–Detour, ’08 | Bluegrass | Brethren, Michigan
–Nadim Dlaikan, ’02, ’06 | Arab-American Nay | Southgate, Michigan — NEA National Heritage Fellow
–Feufollet, ’03, ’06 | Cajun | Lafayette, Louisiana
–Steven Greenman Klezmer Ensemble, ’03 | Klezmer | South Euclid, Ohio
–Gao Hong, ’04 | Chinese Pipa | Northfield, Minnesota
–George Kahumoku Jr., ’03 | Hawai’ian Slack Key Guitar | Lahaina, Hawai’i
–Elizabeth LaPrelle, ’08 | Old-Time Ballads | Rural Retreat, Virginia
–Dudley and Jacqueline Laufman, ’03 | New England Traditional Barn Dance | Canterbury, NH — NEA National Heritage Fellow
–Los Bandits de Michigan, ’09 | Tex-Mex | Kalamazoo, Michigan
–Pan Franek & Zosia’s Polka Towners, ’04 | Polka | Muskegon, Michigan
-Réveillons!, ’08 | Québécois | Montréal, Québec, Canada
–Roots Vibration, ’06, ’07 | Reggae | Detroit, Michigan
–Skålmusik, ’03 | Scandinavian | Brainerd, Minnesota
–Téada, ’05 | Irish Celtic | Dublin, Ireland
-A community sing and musician jam were added to the mix last year, with a rousing response and plans to expand on them for ’11.