MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – A number of community-wide occasions are deliberate for this summer time in Muskegon.
The Muskegon County Board of Commissioners permitted a number of occasions final month, together with Fourth of July Fireworks and two main music festivals.
The primary is arising June 20-21 and is a brand new mixture of two current occasions:
Celebration of Service and Tesla Meetup Occasion
A celebration honoring the service of American veterans is sharing the identical occasion house as a meetup of electrical automobile house owners and expertise fanatics.
The veterans’ occasion, hosted by Jamal Steward of Artistic Group Leisure, is in its second 12 months. Final 12 months, it was held in Grand Haven however this 12 months has moved to Heritage Touchdown in Muskegon.
A patriotic mild present is a part of the annual occasion that honors veterans, active-duty navy and their households.Photograph offered to MLive by Jamal Steward
The family-friendly occasion is scheduled for Friday, June 20, and Saturday, June 21, at Heritage Touchdown, 1050 seventh St. downtown Muskegon.
There shall be a veteran’s useful resource and enterprise honest, a family-friendly STEAM honest the place there shall be demonstrations and hands-on alternatives and a lightweight present powered by drones and electrical automobiles.
This 12 months, 500 drones and 200 EVs will mild the skies in a world-record try for essentially the most synchronized drones and EVs in a lightweight present.
Hear from each veteran audio system and expertise specialists in the course of the two-day occasion.
Admission is free for active-duty members, veterans with ID and Okay-12 college students. All others aged 8 and up require a $5 ticket.
Scenes from the forty first Trinity Well being Seaway Run the place runners participated within the half marathon, 10k, 5k and group stroll beginning and ending at Heritage Touchdown in Muskegon on Saturday, June 25, 2022. (Daniel Shular | MLive.com)Daniel Shular | MLive.com
Trinity Well being Seaway Run
The annual scenic race that begins and ends at Muskegon’s Heritage Touchdown will happen on Saturday, June 28 this 12 months.
The Trinity Well being Seaway Run features a half marathon, 10K, 5K and 5K group stroll.
Registration is $25 for the group stroll, $45 for the 5K Run, $65 for the 10K Run and $90 for the half marathon, plus charges.
Proceeds from the occasion profit the Muskegon YMCA.
Spectators watch the fireworks go off over the water at Heritage Touchdown, in Muskegon on Thursday, July 4, 2019.Kayla Renie | MLive.com
July 4 Fireworks at Heritage Touchdown
A fireworks show by the town of Muskegon will happen at 10:20 p.m. on Friday, July 4.
Take pleasure in reside music from DJ Prim on stage from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. adopted by the fireworks present. There shall be meals distributors on website.
Earlier this 12 months, the Muskegon County Fee waived the $950 charge to lease Heritage Touchdown after they permitted the occasion.
Unity Christian Music Competition is celebrating its twentieth anniversary on the occasion from Wednesday-Saturday, Aug. 11-14. The annual occasion brings 1000’s of individuals to Muskegon’s Heritage Touchdown, 1050 Seventh St., for 4 days jampacked with live shows. (Youngrae Kim | MLive.com)Youngrae Kim | MLive.com
Unity Christian Music Competition
This four-day Christian music competition is held every summer time on Muskegon Lake by Unity Christian Occasions/Alive on the Lakeshore.
This 12 months’s Unity Christian Music Competition will go from Aug. 6 to 9 at Heritage Touchdown.
The occasion has 5 to 6 occasions and/or performances scheduled for every of the 4 days.
Till June 30, one-day tickets are $55 and three-day passes are $90.
From July 1 to Aug. 5, one-day tickets shall be $60 and three-day passes shall be $95.
On the gate in the course of the competition, one-day tickets shall be $65 and three-day passes shall be $105.
The Drowsy Lads carry out in the course of the 2019 Michigan Irish Music Competition at Heritage Touchdown, in downtown Muskegon.Kayla Renie | MLive.com
Michigan Irish Musical Competition
Michigan’s largest celebration of Irish music and tradition will happen Sept. 11-14 at Heritage Touchdown.
The Michigan Irish Music Competition brings 30,000 folks downtown Muskegon annually to benefit from the music, dancing, meals and heritage of the Irish.
Modern and conventional Irish bands will carry out throughout six coated phases.
A comfortable opening of the competition kicks off from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 11. Solely the Pub shall be open.
Full festivities shall be out there beginning Friday, when the competition goes from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
The competition will go from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. to six p.m. Sunday, with an 11 a.m. Catholic Mass on Sunday.
Members of Steph’s Steps carry out throughout Saturday’s 2019 Michigan Irish Music Competition at Heritage Touchdown, in downtown Muskegon on Sept. 14, 2019. Kayla Renie | MLive.com
Tickets bought earlier than Aug. 31 are $65 for a full competition go, $10 for the Thursday Pub Preview Occasion, $20 for Friday, $30 for Saturday and $15 for Sunday. Anybody that arrives earlier than midday on Sunday can enter the competition without cost.
Competition parking shall be out there for $10 on the Mart Dock, in any other case there may be public parking downtown Muskegon.
