The Good Neighbor Concert Series

About the Series

The mission of The Good Neighbor Concert Series (GNCS) is to 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.

Upcoming Shows

Special thanks to our Season 2 Sponsors!

Michigan Millers Insurance (“Advocate” level)

Rose Lake Community of Christ (“Good-Influence” 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 current or future sponsor of the series, OR if you would like to volunteer at one of our upcoming events, please email taniawattcreative@gmail.com for more information!

Featured Nonprofits

Each Good Neighbor Concert Series event highlights a different local nonprofit organization or charitable cause, with either a Lansing-area or statewide Michigan focus. Here’s a look back at the nonprofits and causes we have featured and/or will be featuring. Missed an event? Click on the images below to learn more, get involved, and/or donate directly! Looking to get featured? Please reach out via email and if our values and schedule align, we’ll be in touch.

Press and Good News

In February 2026, we were awarded a grant from the Stage One Amplifier Program from our host venue Stage One at Sycamore Creek Eastwood, which will provide additional coaching and marketing support to increase the reach of the Series.

Toward the beginning of Season 2, we were awarded a small Artists in the Community Grant from the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, which enabled us to be able to offer a couple of events in Season 2 (our November 2025 and February 2026 events) free to the public, including additional arts programming prior to the concerts.

We were also 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.

In Season 1, 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.