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UPCOMING SHOWS

February 24, 2024 - Songwriters in the Round: Sammie Hershock, Nicholas James Thomasma, and Tania Watt, in support of the Michigan Music Alliance.

Event Details

Part I:

Prior to the show, there will be a FREE Industry Mixer for local artists and music industry professionals hosted by our featured nonprofit, the Michigan Music Alliance (MMA). The mixer will feature a short, focused presentation on a music business topic by Executive Director Nicholas Thomasma, followed by an open networking session. Attendees will be able to network, share ideas, find collaborators, and gain insights to help build a thriving music career. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided by Tania Watt Creative.

Register for the Industry Mixer here!
https://www.michiganmusicalliance.org/event-details-registration/industry-mix-lansing

Part II:

The Good Neighbor Concert Series show will start at 7 PM, immediately following Industry Mix. Those attending the concert only, please arrive beginning at 6:45 PM. This show will be a songwriters-in-the-round concert featuring Michigan songwriters Sammie Hershock, Nicholas James Thomasma, and series organizer Tania Watt.

Admission is FREE for this concert thanks to a grant from the Arts Council of Greater Lansing and PNC, but please still register in advance if possible so that we know you're coming!

Concessions for those attending the concert will be available from Honey Bun Bakery and Chengdu Teahouse, and can be enjoyed in the café prior to the show and during intermission.

Reserve your FREE tickets for the concert here!
https://thegoodneighborconcertseries.ticketspice.com/gncs14

Help Support the Michigan Music Alliance!

A percentage of online and in-person donations, along with a portion of concession proceeds from this event, will support the Michigan Music Alliance (MMA), a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to uniting and empowering the state’s music community. By providing equitable professional growth opportunities, workshops, and resources, the MMA fosters a diverse and inclusive scene. Their mission focuses on collaboration over competition, ensuring Michigan musicians have the tools they need to thrive. Direct donations to the Michigan Music Alliance at the event are also highly encouraged.

Tickets for additional shows will be released soon. Please save the dates for our upcoming shows and check back for updates!

About The Good Neighbor Concert Series

The mission of The Good Neighbor Concert Series (GNCS) is provide a high-quality, inclusive, and accessible listening-room experience, featuring diverse, underrepresented, and emerging musical artists from across Michigan and beyond, where performers, community members, local businesses, and nonprofit organizations can make a positive impact for the Greater Lansing area, and inspire others to do likewise. Its vision is to transform the Greater-Lansing area into a vibrant, healthy, joyful, and hopeful destination, where live, original, Michigan-grown music thrives, and where all people are seen, valued, supported, inspired, and empowered to lead authentic and fulfilling lives, in harmony with one another.

The series works to raise awareness, funding, and other support for local nonprofit organizations, collaborates with local businesses whose values align with its mission, and elevates artists from a variety of backgrounds whose lives and work clearly exemplify and advocate for a more just, peaceful, kind, healthy, diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible community, state, and world. We strive to provide a safe gathering place where attendees and artists alike can build life-giving, in-person connections, work toward mutual growth and understanding, and become agents of positive change, that, in turn, inspire others in the community to work together for the common good.

The series occurs on select Tuesday evenings, once per month. All shows take place at Stage One at Sycamore Creek Eastwood, a performance venue made available to the Greater-Lansing community by Sycamore Creek Church (SCC), an inclusive, affirming church where diversity is celebrated and all people are welcome. It occurs once a month. The series also partners with local food-based businesses to provide a variety of concession items for purchase at the events in the time between when the doors open and when the music begins.

Each event highlights a different local nonprofit organization or charitable cause, with either a Lansing-area or statewide Michigan focus. Each nonprofit has the opportunity to table at the event, so that attendees can learn more, gain access to needed support and resources, get involved as a volunteer, and/or donate directly to the nonprofit if desired. Nonprofits also have an opportunity to give opening remarks before the music starts.

We were recently recognized for our efforts at the 2025 Stage One Annual Red Carpet Awards Gala, taking home the Creativity Award! Check out the replay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqaaxu3_jI8.

We were also featured on a segment of the coincidentally-named “Good Neighbors with Bob Hoffman” series on FOX 47 News! https://www.fox47news.com/neighborhoods/good-neighbors/tunes-and-togetherness-a-local-womans-impact-through-music-and-giving.

Special thanks to our Season 2 Sponsors!

Michigan Millers Insurance (“Advocate” level)

Plant Joy (“Partner-In-Good” level)

Rathbun Public Relations (“Helping Hand” level)

The Lansing Wedding Association (“Helping Hand” level)

If you would like to be a sponsor of the series, please email taniawattcreative@gmail.com for more information.