Bayside Music Stage

01/14/2024

Ok…. It’s not pretty anymore……

07/06/2023

Morning at the National Cherry Festival. I love the smell of bacon and diesel fuel in the morning..

07/05/2023

3 Doors Down withCandlebox tonight. 5 tour buses, 3 semi trailers of gear, 80• weather, hot crew guzzling gatorade. Great week of shows so far. Come on up!

07/05/2023

Candlebox and Three Doors Down!! Tonight! Perfect concert. Perfect show weather.

07/04/2023

Ted Nugent and Jack Blades at the National Cherry Festival July 3, 2023.

07/04/2023

Skillet and Theory of a Dead Man all loaded and ready for soundcheck. The show is selling very well.. Should be big fun…

07/04/2023

With Ted Nugent, and some guys from Ratt at the National Cherry Festival. Night Ranger on stage! Big fun.

07/03/2023

Night Ranger setting up. Ted Nugent is the special surprise guest. Word leaked, tickets are flying out the door. Steven Pearcy from Ratt is co-headliner and opens. Perfect show weather. Come on up.

07/03/2023

Approaching sellout, but the artists released a few good seats.. Hurry!

You recognize this dude with me?! That's dad gum Jeff Foxworthy! We're going to be at The National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, MI in a couple weeks. Grab your tix at www.larrythecableguy.com/tour

01/31/2023

A little history lesson about the band Chicago on this cold day! Enjoy and learn!!

01/26/2023

What My World Spins Around is #1 for the second week! Congrats Jordan Davis.
Catch Jordan at 2 MICHIGAN SHOWS.
1.) Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort on April 7th. Tickets go on-sale Saturday: https://www.soaringeaglecasino.com/shows/2023/04/Jordan-Davis.html
2.) National Cherry Festival on July 6th. Tickets go on-sale January 27 @ 9am: https://www.cherryfestival.org/jordandavis

06/12/2022

July 8th! Bay Side Music Stage!

04/28/2022

Tickets are moving at a steady pace... Get some today!

“I learned from the best,” grins Billy Gibbons on his knack for musical truths. “There’s a secret language to the blues - you need to say it without saying it! There is a mystique in the poetry and in those simple three chords that have been stretched every which way. You take a song from my new record like Mo’ Slower Blues: it just has one chord that it never leaves! It just stays on the tonic. It doesn’t need to do anything else.”

“I was talking to my dear buddy Jimmie Vaughan, who recounted a tale where BB King showed up and had his guitar with him.

"Jimmie was over the moon, pointing at the spare amp on stage. He took his solo and turned it over to BB after which he said he 'woke up in a daze'.

"He didn’t think BB played more than two notes throughout the solo, but that’s all that was required. Sometimes those spare, skinny moments make the most sense.”

Amit Sharma Interview, Music radar

Photo by Jeremy Ray Valdez

03/19/2022

Tickets on sale NOW!

Sheryl Crow performs "If It Makes You Happy" at Farm Aid 2017 at KeyBank Pavilion in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, on September 16.Farm Aid was started by Will...

03/14/2022

Soak up the Sun at the NCF when Sheryl Crow takes the Pepsi Bayside Music Stage presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan on July 2, 2022. Tickets go on sale March 18 @ 9am, for more information head to https://www.cherryfestival.org/events/2022/sheryl-crow

03/09/2022

Really looking forward to ZZ Top on the Bay Side Music Stage.

Months before Dusty Hill died, ZZ Top got together in a funky rural dance hall northeast of San Antonio and recorded a live set. That performance, recorded with only the band, crew and a few others present, will get released on July 22. Billy Gibbons says recording it that way was the trio's way to shed the trappings and complications of its success and reconnect in a real basic way with the music they love making together. With the Raw album release, the band, now including former guitar tech Elwood Francis on bass, will launch it's Raw Whiskey Tour. Of losing bass player Hill, Billy says, The Dust may have left the building, but he is still very much with us."

02/27/2022

Hope we can get them to put this song on the set list! There's still some good reserved seats on sale!

Lyrics If you see me walkin' down the line With my fav'right h***y tonk in mind, Well, I'll be here around suppertime With my can of dinner and a bunch of fine. Beer drinkers and hell raisers, yeah. Uh-huh-huh, baby, don't you want to come with me? The crowd gets loud when the band gets right, Steel...

02/18/2022

One of the early years

02/14/2022

Join Jim Gaffigan for the newest stop on his The Fun Tour at the Pepsi Bayside Music Stage presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan of MI on July 6th! Tickets go on sale February 18th at 9am. For more information head to https://www.cherryfestival.org/JimGaffigan

01/24/2022

This will be a lot of fun!

01/24/2022

You will be "Waitin' For The Bus" to the Pepsi Bayside Music Stage presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to see ZZ Top on July 8th! Tickets go on sale January 28th at 9am. For more information head to www.cherryfestival.org/zztop2022

11/27/2021

Two of the top 3 have played the Bay Side Music Stage in past two or three Cherry Festivals that we ran with regular programs!

It's only rock 'n' roll, but you like it

11/02/2021

Played the Bay Side Music Stage with GVF in 2017! Congratulations!

Pleased to announce that Jake Kiszka is nominated by Guitar World for 2021 Guitarist of the Year.

Vote here: GVF.lnk.to/2021Guitarist

10/05/2021

Happy Birthday to our old Pal, Laith Al-Saadi today...

09/26/2021

A couple National Cherry Festival Music Stage veterans celebrating Joan Jett's birthday this past week!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Joan Jett (The Runaways, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, solo) (63)

03/04/2021

Probably retiring to his yacht in Traverse City....