Together, they bring great music and fun to their shows, filling the dance floor. This unique combination of guitar chops, dancer’s sense of rhythm, and a really fun collection of songs has attracted and maintained an excellent team of sidemen who join her in various combos for gigs. Her repertoire continues to draw from this range of styles, enabling her to entertain a wide variety of audiences. It turned out to be a perfect bridge between the r&b and blues of the Revelators and the vintage country and western swing she had grown to love. She had no idea what that was, but took his advice and looked up Wanda Jackson and Rosie Flores. She continued to travel back to Michigan every September for the Wheatland festival, and it was there that an old friend suggested she would be great at rockabilly. She also began to lend her voice to singing at blues jams, and formed the Revelators around blues and r&b of the late 50/early 60s. She moved north to Benzie county (top of the pinky on the mitten map) and planted herself in the middle of organizing concerts, dances and an annual music festival called Spirit of the Woods.Īn open ended trip landed her in NC in 1986, where she found some deep roots of oldtime and bluegrass music at the many fiddlers conventions, and developed her unique style of clogging (featured on 4 CDs so far). She had found a home, and begun friendships that would last a lifetime. Hippies and down home people joined in a community built around music -bluegrass and old time, vintage country, blues, gospel, cajun, zyedco- playing hackey sack, camping out, and dancing.
She was 18 when she went to her first Wheatland traditional music and arts festival, and so began a lifelong journey. Growing up in suburban Detroit in the 60s and 70s, Michelle spent many late nights with her FM radio tuned to rock, folk rock and motown. She’s been known to single-handedly get groups of people dancing. Her excellent rhythmic sense and many years of dancing combine with some rockin’ guitar chops to make a great foundation for her soaring singing on a fun selection of material. Michelle Belanger is the driving force behind the Mystery Hillbillies.
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