Juhannus Dance with White Water - SAT 6/22, 6-8:30p, FAHC
Clare Zuraw
Saturday, June 22, 2024 – 6-8:30pm ET
“Come as you are, pay what you can”
Finnish American Heritage Center
435 Quincy St. Hancock, MI
Dean and Bette Premo, Carrie and Susan Dlutkowski, and Dave Harmon will come together as the band White Water for a special performance at the Midsummer/Juhannus Dance at the Finnish American Heritage Center in Hancock, Michigan.
Dean and Bette Premo formed the band White Water in 1984. Music brought them together when they were in college and has been an important part of their life together ever since. Their welcoming style invites every audience member to richly experience folk and traditional music. For nearly 15 years virtuoso fiddler/dancer Carrie Dlutkowski has been a musical force with White Water. Carrie’s mother Susan (piano) and father Dave Harmon (bass and bones) are also frequent White Water collaborators. This quintet delights in playing traditional Finnish dance tunes. On occasion, they will teach and play a called folk dance.
Bette and Dean are long-time activists for performing arts in the Upper Peninsula. Founders and hosts of the long running Second Sunday Folk Dance series, their latest musical endeavor is the Northwoods Music Collaborative (a not-for-profit organization that sponsors Beethoven and Banjos and other music productions in public venues and schools in the U.P.).