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Festivals / Old Town Lansing

Michigan BluesFest

An outdoor blues festival that turns Turner Street in Lansing's Old Town into a stage every September.

01 / The story of this place

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It counts among Michigan's biggest and longest-running outdoor blues festivals, with past performers including Larry McCray, Reverend Raven and David 'Honeyboy' Edwards. Three stages share the program: the open-air MICA and MessageMakers stages and the indoor UrbanBeat Afterglow stage; MICA started it after JazzFest.

  1. Three stages on Turner Street
  2. Open-air and indoor stages
  3. Jam-session record try (2026)

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Sources & fact check · Checked: 2026-09-25

An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.

03 / Events

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