FESTIVAL LINEUP A-Z
Calvin Pruden - Danny Cox - Ella Rose -
Funk Voyage - Jared Robison -
Kenny Nelson - Kira Blue - Lac La Belle -
Maxwell Rincón - Rebecca Cameron -
Stella + Sophia -
Stone Sound Collective
Calvin Pruden II
Calvin Pruden II is an up-and-coming artist from Pontiac, MI. He is a college student at OCC studying music and business. His music ranges from the technicality of neo-soul to the depth of folk. With the songs he creates, he wants the listeners to be drawn into the engaging melodies and brought to contemplation with the depths of the lyrics. The message he strives to convey is that each listener has purpose, meaning, and that they can be a positive influence on the world.
Danny Cox
Danny spent the majority of his early music career as a session and touring drummer, based out of the Detroit region. He has performed with a multitude of local, national, and international artists including Alexander Zonjic, Bob James, Angela Bofill, Kirk Whalum, Jonathan Butler, Reo Speedwagon and several others.
In the late 1990s Danny began writing and producing original songs with his first collection as a singer/songwriter under the moniker “Daniel’s Crossing”. Over the years he has released six solo CDs as well as numerous singles. Many of these projects garnered multiple Detroit Music Awards along with national recognition with his song “God of Power, Truth and Grace”, recorded by artist Nate Marialke, which charting on Billboards Top 20 Hot Singles Chart. His song “You Make My Heart Sing” placed as a semi-finalist in the International Song of the Year songwriting contest. Many of his compositions have been featured on national television shows such as One Tree Hill, Jersey Shore, and others.
In recent years Danny has focused his musical abilities within faith-based settings but continues to produce local artists and record his personal compositions. Danny’s music takes the listener on a beautiful journey of life, love, loss, longing, gratefulness and hope. It is a beautiful ride and one you will want to take over and over again.
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Ella Rose
Ella Rose has been writing and performing for as long as she can remember. Ella is located in the metro Detroit area, and grew up right in Lake Orion. She released her debut album in February of 2025 called “Walking daydream”. She loves to include elements of storytelling in her writing and create a unique experience for her listeners. Her music can be described as indie/folk with a vintage flair featuring nods to some of her favorite artists including Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks and Phoebe Bridgers.
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Funk Voyage
Founded in 2024, Funk Voyage is a student-led jazz and contemporary music collective at Oakland University. It’s members are both current students as well as alumni of the Jazz Studies Program providing instrumental and vocal performances. Led by Michael-Ashton Samuel and Thomas Baker, the collective tours all around Detroit and Pontiac area.
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Jared Robison
Jared Robison is a Metro Detroit indie rock singer/songwriter who blends intimate songwriting with atmospheric sounds. Inspired by artists including Lizzy McAlpine, Caroline Polachek, Loathe and The Smile, Jared brings a distinctive evolving voice to the indie scene. He is currently recording new music, with plans to release it later this year.
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Kenny Nelson
Kenny Nelson is a singer/songwriter from Metro Detroit. Drawing inspiration from multi-genre musical greats, his conversational approach to songwriting showcases the ups and downs of real life, combined with big choruses and memorable hooks.
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Kira Blue
Growing up as a French-Chinese-American, Kira Blue is not your typical country artist. She has been shaped by many different cultures, sounds, and experiences from an early age. A Michigan born country-pop artist, songwriter, and performer, she is the winner of the 2026 Michigan State Fair Superstar Contest. Her current sound echoes elements of Kacey Musgraves, Ella Langley, and Stevie Nicks in a way that feels natural to who she is, creating a style uniquely her own.
Most of what Kira writes comes from real life: the awkward moments, the exciting ones, the relationships that change you, and everything in between. Her personal mission is to uplift, motivate, and inspire her listeners while never taking life too seriously. A little humor has always been part of who she is, and she loves finding the light in everyday situations.
From intimate acoustic shows to full-band sets, she loves creating a connection with every audience and getting to meet people after the music is over just as much as playing the songs themselves.
Be sure to catch her performance Saturday the 26th from 1:45-2:30pm on the Firefly stage — for a set with new originals and some of her releases available for listen online that include “City Slicker Farm Girl”, “Take Me To Town”, and “Sitting On A Cloud”.
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Lac La Belle
Lac La Belle is an acoustic duo made up of multi-instrumentalists Jennie Knaggs & Nick Schillace. Influenced by early Americana, Lac La Belle blends history with the present to create stories that capture the human experience via accordion, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, harmonizing vocals, and finger-picking resonator guitar. Nick and Jennie are also the owners of Orion Music Studio in downtown Lake Orion, a music lesson facility that has been teaching music to all ages for 26 years.
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Maxwell Rincón
Maxwell Rincón is a singer-songwriter carving a path through the intersection of Western Gothic and soulful blues. Based between the industrial grit of Detroit and the heart of Columbus, his music ranges from haunting, intimate stories to foot-stomping Folk Rock anthems. Rincón & Co. have earned a reputation for engaging live shows, earning them support slots with national acts such as Marcus King, Joe Jordan, Bird and Byron, and more.
With a distinctive vocal timbre that carries the weight of the Rust Belt, Rincón channels a sound that is as cinematic as it is raw--modern outlaw music for the midwestern soul.
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Rebecca Cameron
Rebecca Cameron is a Michigan-based singer-songwriter blending modern country with Americana storytelling. Performing professionally since 2021, she has become a versatile live artist across the Midwest circuit, appearing at weddings, festivals, private events, and established music venues including performances in Nashville. Known for lyric-driven songwriting and heartfelt delivery, she writes music rooted in personal storytelling and emotional honesty. Some of her greatest musical inspirations to this day are Joy Williams and Rayland Baxter.
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Stella + Sophia
Founded in 2024, Funk Voyage is a student-led jazz and contemporary music collective at Oakland University. It’s members are both current students as well as alumni of the Jazz Studies Program providing instrumental and vocal performances. Led by Michael-Ashton Samuel and Thomas Baker, the collective tours all around Detroit and Pontiac area.
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Stone Sound Collective
Prof Mark Allen Stone, Gɔba is an improviser-composer and performer-scholar with a passion for using music to bring diverse communities together. An internationally recognized percussionist, Stone has performed with the foremost musicians of Uganda, Ghana, South Africa, India, Trinidad, Ecuador, Brazil, and the United States. Through his dedication to the study of Dagara Gyil music, the Gyil Guba elders of Hiineteng, Ghana honored him with the title of "Gyil Gɔba" in recognition of his 2016 completion of the Gyil Gɔba initiation. Stone is a professor at Oakland University, where he coordinates the world music program. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of South Africa, pursuing a transdisciplinary study of performance praxis through extensive research in musicology, embodied cognition, and indigenous knowledge systems.
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As a composer and improviser Mark Stone’s work is rooted in traditions stretching from classical Indian music to European concert music and American jazz to traditional African music. The cross-cultural capacity of his music has been described as, “revolutionary to our musical landscape. The experiences he gained traversing geographical borders has put him in a unique position to cross genre borders and break conceptual boundaries.” His newest project, the Stone Sound Collective, crosses these borders and boundaries as it unites diverse musicians and instruments. The group brings together percussion traditions of Africa and India with the lyricism of diverse wind instruments. The collective performs original compositions rooted in its member’s wide-ranging musical influences, creating music that celebrates the oneness of humanity by uplifting hearts, expanding minds and connecting souls.
In the group, Stone plays the newly-invented array mbira, an American-made 120 key lamellaphone, together with multiple traditional melodic African instruments, including the Ghanaian gyil, Ugandan akogo, and South African karimba. He is joined by Sam Jeyasingham (Indian percussion), and Matt Dufresne (winds).
Sam Jeyasingham, originally from Sri Lanka, is a versatile percussionist in high demand as a musician for Indian dance. He is the rare artist with expert knowledge of multiple Indian percussion instruments. In the Stone Sound Collective, Jeyasingham performs spectacularly on the mridangam, thavil, tabla, kanjira, and morsing, drawing on the rich musical heritage of these instruments, while adeptly connecting them to other global genres.
Matt Dufresne is a prodigious woodwind specialist, steeped in diverse American genres including jazz, Latin jazz, funk, math rock, and contemporary chamber music. A virtuoso saxophonist, he also doubles on bass clarinet and flutes. Most recently, Dufresne has immersed himself in Carnatic music of India and the ancient double-reed nadaswaram.