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Michigan music: Jay Stielstra, Michigan’s Poet Laureate
“…this year represents the 40th anniversary of North Country Opera, the first of the plays to be penned by Jay. In 1982, it was the second play to be staged at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor. The performance was taken on tour to Northern Michigan, as well as the UP, and was tremendously popular. North Country Opera is a tribute to Northern Michigan.
Set in the Buckhorn Bar, it is the north country’s own version of a timeless love story: a young man falls in love with the beauty of the northern woods and rivers — and the woman he meets there. North Country Opera has been revived in 1992, 1993, 2003, and will be again this year!”