West Michigan Weekend June 12-15

The Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give highlights a big weekend of events. Shmitty has the details. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And this is West Michigan's morning News Steve Kelly. That's
Lauren Smith Brett Pikata broadcasting live at Blythefield Country Club,
the Meyer LPGA Classic for a simply give.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
That's where we start.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Let's talk about weekend events, Schmidy.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
He reason, we got the Caddy Shack theme going and there
it is. Kicks off today. Like you said, Blyfield Country Club,
the best women in the sport for four days right
here in Grand Rapids. Even better of course a benefits
simply give helping to feed hungry neighbors across our great state.
This is really cool and there's something I wanted to
point out. Big shout out to Jeremy Friedman, the head

(00:38):
of media, who's been giving us some really cool things
to talk about. We've got a local woman who actually
just teed off about a half hour ago, Olivia Stole
from Grand Valley. Yes, so heck yes, it's a lot
of fun. Great for Father's Day, which I believe Brett's
been saying, a free ticket with any paid entry on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Deal.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Tell me add one thing to that. Lauren, by the way,
she is, her mom is Stacy Slobodnik Stole, who's the
MSU women's head golf coach and Stacy her mom played
in this event.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Oh that's cute.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
It's just a little family affair. Cute.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Also, this weekend, you have heard of Banana Ball thanks
to the Savannah Bananas, the party Animals are coming to
LMCU Ballpark, of course, home of the West Michigan white Caps.
They will be here starting tonight with shows on Friday
and Saturday. I gotta tell you, this thing's totally sold out.
They had to do a lottery for it. But I

(01:34):
bring it up because a traffic could be kind of
nuts and be if you throw it out there that
maybe somebody is down to sell some tickets. This is
something the whole country's been trying to get into.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, it's not the Savannah Bananas come to play the
white Caps. Correct, it's you say show, It's a show,
a show.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
We've also got a big show for Vanandel two nights
this weekend with Chris Stapleton. What oh and I love
this song? Yes, both tonight and tomorrow night he's taking
over Vanndel seven thirty Star Time special guest Mike Campbell
and the Dirty Knobs. I just wanted to get that
in there.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I'm sorry, So that's gonna be a good time.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
He's an incredible act. Incredible act, and we've also got
incredible acts coming to our Frederick Meyer Gardens for the
summer Concerts series that continues tonight with Taj Mahal and
keb Mo. They are fan favorites seven o'clock and then
look forward to Monday night, Diana Crawl will be at
the gardens.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
The Grand Rapids Asian Pacific Festival is this weekend as
well at calder Plaza, ninth annual, a vibrant celebration of
Asian and Pacific islander cultures. They're gonna have live performances,
family friendly activities, music, traditional dances, martial arts demonstrations. Should
tell our news guy James Gemmel about that one black

(02:56):
Belt exactly that is going down Friday and Saturday as
well as Sunday. This is a fun one. If you
are a fan of comedy. There is Killers of Kill Tony.
So this is a podcast that has a lot of
great talent attached to it. They are now out on
a live tour, so actually coming to DeVos Performance Hall
tomorrow night. Tickets still available for that. You want to

(03:18):
go a little further south to Hastings, the Very Expo
Center is hosting Rock the Country twenty twenty five. This
is tomorrow and Saturday, Kid Rock, Nickelback, Lynyrd, SKINNERD Big
and Rich, Travis Tritt and a bunch of other big names.
What Yeah, it's crazy. You can check out tickets for that.
And finally, if you're headed towards the Lake Shore, big

(03:40):
shout outs. I know a ton of work goes into
this every year. The Taste of Muskegan is this weekend
Tomorrow and Saturday, Hackley, park Man, oh Man. Tons of
awesome restaurants, food trucks, music, tons of family friendly.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
You have to end with food every time we do this.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
You're not having to look at these pictures. Oh there's
a food truck called bon Ends and it's text mech BBQ,
I mean, drool on my mic.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Let's get in the car.