Great Lakes Folk Festival -2013

Michael Beauchamp has a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnomusicology and English Literature from the University of Michigan, where he played in several bands both acoustic and electric. Growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Beauchamp was musically raised on everything from Broadway musicals to... Read More →

Laurel Premo graduated with a BFA from the Performing Arts Technology Dept. of the University of Michigan School of Music, and spent time during her undergraduate attending the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, Finland to study traditional Finnish music and dance. She was raised... Read More →

Red Tail Ring is a Kalamazoo-based duo formed in 2009 by Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp, which performs a blend of original and traditional old-time American music.Add Sam Cooper to Michael and and Laurel and you get the old time square dance band, Bowhunter.