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He says the group initially came together to perform benefit concerts for the Little Traverse Bay’s emerging youth orchestra, which is now at Crooked Tree Arts Center.
The musicians enjoyed playing in these benefit concerts so much that they decided to create a more permanent orchestra in the region.
In October 2001, the newly minted Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra gave its first official concert.
Pattengale says some of the early concerts were sparsely attended. Sometimes we would get 25 people, and sometimes we’d have more players in the orchestra than we had in the audience, he says.
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A tribal aviary located north of Harbor Springs will be the first of its kind east of the Mississippi River.
A raptor rescue and release nonprofit organization in northern Michigan and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of the Odawa Indians recently announced plans for an eagle aviary and rehabilitation center.
The Migizi Aviary is named for a Native American word for eagle. An associated rehabilitation center is named Wings of Wonder after an organization that has cared for raptors for 31 years. Both facilities will be located on land belonging to the Little Traverse Bay Bands of the Odawa Indians.
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Thinking about buying a house in Michigan this spring?
Here’s some advice: Stop listening to your parents, grandparents or friends who tell you that paying list price will always be too much.
And get ready to compete with other buyers – probably a lot of them – who will start writing offers within hours of a home hitting the market.
Michigan’s housing market may be the most competitive in history, with double-digit sale price increases as home listings across the state plummeted 54 percent in January from a year earlier. It’s more severe than the national listing decline, which reached 42 percent over the same period and set a new record.