Mackinac County Republicans

My first post in the Mackinac Blog. Woo-hoo! As a longtime blogger, I have realized what a godsend Google Alerts can be. One of my Google Alerts is “Sault Saint Marie.” I found this awesome article about some great bands that are coming to the Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan. As a gen-xer, this really peaked my interest; “On March 15, rocker Bret Michaels, along with Firehouse, will heat up Kewadin Casino’s DreamMakers Theater in Sault Ste. Marie. Tickets are $38.50. …” Well as someone who had a huge crush on Bret Michaels, I was really excited. I had to click on to read the story. In case you don’t know who Bret Michaels is, he was the lead singer of Poison. They were an awesome band from the late eighties and early nineties. There is an article in MLive.com that lists many of the musical artists that were popular with baby boomers and gen-xers who will be appearing at Michigan casinos within the next few weeks.
Some of these artists, but not limited to are, original lead guitarist Ace Frehley, of KISS, Grand Funk Railroad, The Romantics, Gladys Night and others appearing at Soaring Eagle of Mt. Pleasant. This is just awesome. KISS appeals to both baby boomers and gen-xers. What gen-x kid doesn’t remember wearing those plastic KISS Halloween costumes? Grand Funk is also another group that appeals to multiple generations. I grew up in Flint and always thought it was awesome that Grand Funk Railroad was from Flint.
But the great music visiting Northern Michigan doesn’t end there. At Odawa casino B.B. King, Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker, Tina Turner and many others will be appearing. Again, another great line-up. As someone who is a huge fan of the old, old school blues of the fifties and sixties B.B. King and John Lee Hooker would be awesome to see in person. If you have never heard this music, ya gotta hear it. Eric Clapton and Tina Turner are other artists that transcend generations.
Brett Michaels will be playing at the Kewadin in the Sault, along with Firehouse. Let’s not forget also will be the Wilkinsons and Bryan White, country artists, will be performing at Kewadin.
The Charlie Daniels Band, .38 Special and Shooter Jennings will be performing at the Island Casino.
For all the info on tickets, dates and times click here.

Hello First District GOP Friends. Welcome to our Blogs!

For those who may not be familiar with blogging let me give you a quick tour around our site.

How to post? County Party Leadership - you will need to contact Keith Almli to get signed up - his email address is pcmxnetworks@gmail.com or his phone number is 906.524.2248.

Keith will need the user name that you would like to use and your email address to sign you up to be able to post to your county blog and the first district blog. You will also want to inform him of other people in your county who will be authorized to post on your county blog.

For other people coming to the site who would like to make comments to postings already on either the county blogs or the first district blog, look underneath the postings you will find the word “No Comments” or it may have a “number of comments” you will click on the word Comments and it will open a screen for you to post your comment to any posting already on the site.

If you wonder if other people have made comments to the postings, you will need to see if there are comments “hidden” if it gives a number of comments in the link below the comment.

I hope that I have not completely confused you … but encourage you to have fun reading the postings on the blogs and adding your comments to the blogs.

Happy Postings!

John Niemela, Houghton

Welcome to Firstgopblogs.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!