The music scene in Mount Pleasant will be filled to the brim this week with a festival and rockin’ river.

Midwest Fest started its second year of bringing talented bands from all over to Mount Pleasant, while WMHW 91.5 is hosting “91.5 Rocks the River.”

Midwest Fest

Midwest Fest was started last year by Diamonds in the Rough Promotions.

Jason Pyles, the owner of JP’s Gym, 4245 S. Lincoln Road, organizes qualifying meets for the North American Strongman Incorporated competitions and lift up to 700 pounds.

He can now add “proud donor” to his resumé.

Pyles, along with sponsors including Graff Chevrolet, 4580 E.

The ninth annual Farwell Lumberjack Festival is all about seeing children enjoy themselves.

The festival, which was on hiatus during the 1980s and 1990s, was restarted in 2000, said Lumberjack Festival Committee Member Janice Jenkins.

“We wanted to make sure that it was a an environment that kids had something to do for the weekend with plenty of entertainment for adults,” she said.

When bands make strong debut EP’s and sign a record deal, it is often a death trap.
Record companies generally want a full-length out quickly thereafter, forcing the band to remix a few old songs and half-heartedly throw together five or six new ones.
The result ends up being an album that causes the band to lose what made them special in the first place and waters down their entire sound.

The Museum of Cultural and Natural History at Central Michigan University hosted its first tour through Michigan’s natural history yesterday as part of the museum’s July program, “Tour Tuesdays.”

Jena Johnson, a Hastings senior and a museum student staff member, created “Tour Tuesdays” as a 45-to-60 minute program for people of all ages to enjoy during the summer.

Diana Luehm has a story she feels everyone should know.

The English instructor and playwright has been writing “Liberating Harriet,” for two years and will unveil her creation Thursday.

Premiering at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium, the play is a dramatic love story about a family born into slavery and their struggle to be free.

Music will be heard tonight in the northern half of Central Michigan University’s campus.

Sponsored by University Events and 104.3 WCZY, “Music in the Mall” is a free, four-concert music series that begins at 7 p.m. today at Warriner Mall.

“This is one way of us giving back to the community,” said Keith Voeks, assistant director of University Events.

For the past few years, bands such as Fall Out Boy, Paramore and My Chemical Romance have exploded to become mainstream successes.

Within the next 12 months, the band All Time Low has a serious chance of being added to the list of bands going from “scene” to “mainstream.