Great Lakes Celebrates

About Great Lakes Celebrates

Great Lakes Celebrates is a talk show focused on all the positive things going on in the wonderful state of Michigan. From newsmakers to artists, Great Lakes Celebrates covers it all.

Publisher

Joy Road Media

Category

arts · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Mar 2022

Latest episode

1 Jul 2022

Latest episodes

15 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Jul 2022

   Great Lakes Celebrates Mental Health and Flint Area Fun

   Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! Season 1 ends with an interview with Julia Cohen (https://www.facebook.com/weneedtotalkdetroit/), a licensed clinical social worker working with at-risk children. Find out how she connects with younger people when it comes to mental health and illness. Closing out the season is Rats of Unusual Size (https://www.facebook.com/ROUSgroup) and their song "Elephant Man". Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Want to be featured on an upcoming episode of Great Lakes Celebrates? Send an email to contact@joyroadmedia.com Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

2. 

   24 Jun 2022

   Great Lakes Celebrates Great Lakes CISMA and the Polish Muslims

   Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! This week we learn about conservation, invasive species, and habitat restoration with Elise Desjarlais (http://www.l2lcisma.org ). Learn about how she and her team are managing wanted and unwanted critters in the Upper Peninsula. Closing out the show are the Polish Muslims (http://www.thepolishmuslims.com)! Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Want to be featured on an upcoming episode of Great Lakes Celebrates? Send an email to contact@joyroadmedia.com Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

3. 

   17 Jun 2022

   Great Lakes Celebrates Music and Family Summer Fun!

   Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! This week we chat with Alan Sloan (https://www.facebook.com/sloanandthefilthyanimals ) - musician, teacher, writer, performer... the list goes on and on. Closing out the show this week is Guilty Bystanders (link below). Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Want to be featured on an upcoming episode of Great Lakes Celebrates? Send an email to contact@joyroadmedia.com Events: Welcome to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park | Grand Rapids, Michigan (https://www.meijergardens.org/) SummerSwap Beer Can and Breweriana Collectibles Show | Frankenmuth (https://www.frankenmuth.org/events/summerswap-beer-can-and-breweriana-collectibles-show/) Music: Guilty Bystanders (The Guilty Bystanders - Another Happy Sunshine Day (2003) : www.takenoprisoners.info : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive) "Unique" The band is defunct now, but follow Steve Reddy on Facebook to see his 300 other bands! facebook.com/steve.reddy.98

4. 

   10 Jun 2022

   Great Lakes Celebrates Megan Cottington-Heath and Patrick Foogazi

   Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! Our guest this week is Megan Cottington-Heath, a family law attorney running for Circuit Court Judge in Saginaw, MI. She's got a very interesting and inspiring story, and we're just waiting to see how she helps to change the world! Closing it out this week is Patrick Foogazi with his song Someone to Please. Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Want to be featured on an upcoming episode of Great Lakes Celebrates? Send an email to contact@joyroadmedia.com Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

5. 

   3 Jun 2022

   Great Lakes Celebrates Satori Circus and Annabeth Taber

   Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! Our guest this week is Satori Circus (https://www.facebook.com/satori.circus ), a Detroit performance artist since 1988, combining and weaving a myriad of the arts together, including music, poetry, film, theatre, vaudeville... the list goes on. Closing our the show is Annabeth Taber (https://portaustinmusic.com/all-porch-fest-musicians/annabeth-taber). Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Want to be featured on an upcoming episode of Great Lakes Celebrates? Send an email to contact@joyroadmedia.com Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

6. 

   27 May 2022

   Great Lakes Celebrates Cockroaches and Burlesque

   Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! Our guest this week is Lauren Jewell (https://www.facebook.com/Lauren.Jewell91) - burlesque performer and podcast host (https://www.facebook.com/campcreeppodcast). She's known as the Countess of Cockroaches, which may give you the heebie-jeebies, but when you hear the reason why, we don't think you'll be as creeped out. Closing out the show is Matt Wixson's Flying Circus (https://www.facebook.com/mwfcpunk). Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Want to be featured on an upcoming episode of Great Lakes Celebrates? Send an email to contact@joyroadmedia.com Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman Matt Wixson: Matt Wixson | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/mattwixson)

7. 

   20 May 2022

   Great Lakes Celebrates Pizza, Crafting and Good Neighbors

   Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! This week's guest is Alex Abramajtys. Alex is the managing broker at Kent County Real Estate, and he has a passion for community involvement and bringing people together. Our musical guest is Kung Fu Lovers. Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Want to be featured on an upcoming episode of Great Lakes Celebrates? Send an email to contact@joyroadmedia.com Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

8. 

   13 May 2022

   Great Lakes Celebrates Lemonade from Lemons

   Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! This week's guest is Katie Papke (https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-papke-500172b4). Katie is not only a social worker helping sex trafficking victims, she was also a victim herself. This episode can be really heavy, but we feel it's an important conversation to have. Please use caution if listening with younger people. Closing out this week, is Jake Ford (https://www.instagram.com/jakefordmusic/). If you or someone you know is a victim of sexual assault, and resources are needed, please call 888-373-7888 or 616-443-6233 Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Want to be featured on an upcoming episode of Great Lakes Celebrates? Send an email to contact@joyroadmedia.com Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

9. 

   6 May 2022

   Great Lakes Celebrates The Arts

   Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! This week Alana chats with contemporary artist, Keto Green (https://www.facebook.com/groups/160102031063117/?ref=share) who's pieces focus on community issues. His story is both heartbreaking and inspiring. We end this week's episode with music from DuJuan Smith and his song Concentrated Ambitionz. Check out our Facebook page for a link to his music video. Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Want to be featured on an upcoming episode of Great Lakes Celebrates? Send an email to contact@joyroadmedia.com Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

10. 

    28 Apr 2022

    Great Lakes Celebrates Authors

    Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! We've never met a reptile wrangler, or a phone sex operator, or a violin sales professional, so imagine our surprise when we found one person who was all of those things... This week Alana talks to Wednesday Webster-Friday ( https://www.facebook.com/Wednes/) about the many things she's done and currently does, with James Hamer (https://ampl.ink/W4J56)'s song Stupid ending our show. Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

11. 

    22 Apr 2022

    Great Lakes Celebrates Heroic Canines

    Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! This week's guest is Nicholas Meier, who is the Michigan Coordinator and Regional Manager of the Midwest Region for an organization called HOPE Animal Assisted Crisis Response (https://www.facebook.com/HopeAACR). If you love pups as much as we do, we think you're going to love this interview. After The Money Is Gone (https://www.facebook.com/Atmig) closes out the show with their song Refuge. Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

12. 

    15 Apr 2022

    Great Lakes Celebrates Community through Crafting

    Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! This week's guest is Sally Moore, owner and operator of Parker Avenue Knits (https://www.facebook.com/Parkeravenueknits313) in downtown Detroit. Even if you're not a crafty person, you'll want to hear her inspirational story. We end this show with a beautiful original song by Alan Sloan (https://www.facebook.com/alan.b.sloan.9 ), called Kayleigh's Song. Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

13. 

    8 Apr 2022

    Great Lakes Celebrates Comedy in the 21st Century

    Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) every week as they share local news, interviews with talented, interesting, and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! This week Aaron Sorrels, The Unemployed Alcoholic, joins us to talk about comedy and the Metaverse, and Kait Wilson and Levi Galloway close out the show with their song, Lactose Love. You can find more of Aaron's story on his website (https://theunemployedalcoholic.com/ ). For more music from Kait and Levi, head over to Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/levi-troy-galloway ). Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

14. 

    1 Apr 2022

    Great Lakes Celebrates Creepy Art

    Let's celebrate! Join hosts Alana Gonzalez (https://www.instagram.com/gonzaleeza/) and Mike Bobbitt (https://www.facebook.com/MPBobbitt) weekly as they share local news, interviews with talented and inspiring Michiganders, and Michigan based entertainers! On this week's pilot episode, we talk to Angie Amman, creator and small business owner, and podcast mogul. You can find her creations on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/bonejackies), and learn more about other podcasts she's involved with here (https://www.joyroadmedia.com/). Closing out the show this week is Icarus Fell (https://www.facebook.com/weareicarusfell) from Detroit. For more on Icarus Fell, check out their website (https://www.weareicarusfell.com/)! Great Lakes Celebrates (https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesCelebrates) Host: Alana Gonzalez Co-host: Mike Bobbitt Producer: Angie Amman Assistant Producer: Mike Bobbitt Logo: Alana Gonzalez Theme music: Kait Wilson Editing: Mike Bobbitt and Angie Amman

15. 

    31 Mar 2022

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