Updated: Musical Mondays: Keweenaw Heritage Center to present patriotic concert July 13

Calumet's Keweenaw Heritage Center at St. Anne's, a former French church, is the scene of "Musical Mondays," a series of Monday evening summer concerts by community musicians and singers. Pictured here are the three musical groups that performed ethnic music on July 6: Maple Sugar Folk (singing in foreground), Thimbleberry (left) and Bob Norden's German Band (right). (Photo © 2009 and courtesy Dave Grahek)

CALUMET -- "Musical Mondays in Calumet" continues at the Keweenaw Heritage Center at St. Anne's at 7 p.m. tonight, Monday, July 13, with "This Land is My Land" -- a patriotic concert performed by local community musicians. No admission charge - donations invited. Proceeds from all Musical Monday events will be used for the "universal accessibility" project at the Keweenaw Heritage Center at St. Anne's.

The historic photo exhibit, "Keweenaw's Music Heritage," (pictured above) is on display each weekday afternoon from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. as well as Monday evenings during the concerts.

Ethnic Music concert a success

The July 6 Musical Mondays event, "Hear Your Heritage -- Ethnic Bands," was well attended.

Here's a sample of French music and singing by the Maple Sugar Folk: "Alouette" ...

Led by Wellesley Pereira, the Maple Sugar Folk sing "Alouette," with gestures, during the July 6 Musical Monday event, "Hear Your Heritage -- Ethnic Bands," in the Keweenaw Heritage Center at St. Anne's in Calumet. (Video clip by Keweenaw Now)

Evan Dixon leads the Maple Sugar Folk in singing "Sur la route de Berthier" in French, accompanied by Thimbleberry, left, Dave Bezotte (their director, on keyboard) and Randy Seppala, percussion. Singers are, from left, Marcia Goodrich, Karin Schlenker, Amanda Binoniemi, Janet Wieber, Ralph Horvath, Barry Pegg, Ruth Robertson and Barbara Lide. (Photo by Keweenaw Now)

The audience enjoyed several German tunes by Bob Norden's German Band ...

Bob Norden's German Band performs a favorite German tune. Band members are, from left, Roger Laub, tuba; Bob Norden, trombone; Sherrie Belligrini, drums; Benji Brotherton, trumpet; and Debbie Zei, clarinet. (Photo © 2009 and courtesy Dave Grahek)

Barbara Lide and Karin Schlenker, left, sing a favorite German tune in German with Bob Norden's German Band. (Photo by Keweenaw Now)

The Thimbleberry Band joined with musicians from Maple Sugar Folk to play some favorite Finnish, French Canadian and Croatian tunes ...

Randy Seppala (foreground) plays spoons in the style of the late John Perona, his teacher, for a popular Finnish tune. Thimbleberry includes, from left, Oren Tikkanen on mandolin, Libby Meyer on fiddle, Matt Durocher (seated in background) on guitar, Dave Bezotte on keyboard and Maple Sugar Folk guitarist Cory McDonald. (Photo by Keweenaw Now)

Guest photographer Dave Grahek captured this close-up shot of Thimbleberry fiddler Libby Meyer. Meyer is also a classical violinist and is Executive Director of the Copper Country Suzuki Association and Concert Master of the Keweenaw Symphony. (Photo © 2009 and courtesy Dave Grahek)

Update: After tonight's patriotic music concert at the Keweenaw Heritage Center, the next four Musical Mondays concerts will be held at 7 p.m. at the Calumet Theatre:*

July 20: "The 4-Man Fishin' Tackle Comedy Barbershop Quartet"

July 27: Lee Murdock and Mike Deren -- "Songs of the Great Lakes"

Aug. 3: Bob Milne -- "Ragtime Pianist"

Aug. 10: Kathy and the Boys: "Tribute to Patsy Cline and Country Western Music."

Visit the Calumet Theatre Web site for more information and cost of tickets.

*Editor's Note: We regret some errors posted earlier in the above list of Calumet Theatre concerts. These have been corrected.