September 25, 2025 • 4 mins
ArtPrize, concerts, Oktoberfest and more! This weekend is PACKED in Grand Rapids!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
She is so much fun. It is West Michigan's Morning News.
Good morning, it's Schmidty and for Steve Kelly, Brett Bakita
is here and Adam Morocho out of the producer booth
into the studio for this weekend's events. Where do we start?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Buckle up, friends, it's a busy weekend. We're kicking it
off with Laney Wilson bringing her Whirlwind World tour to
Van Andel Arena on Saturday night. She's a Grammy winner,
CMA winner, ACM winner, and our friends from B ninety
three hosting a pre party over at Gimme's par and
Grill and listen to this. They're giving away a Lany
(00:34):
Wilson autographed guitar. They're also giving away tickets to an
upcoming Eric Church concert at Van Andel Arena. So head
on over to Gimme's par and Grill four thirty on
Saturday for B ninety three and then head down to
Van Andel for the concert.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's ye great night. I'm not really a country sing
country music listener, but Laney is a lot of fun.
She was at I Think What Big Big One over
the summer and Mike got to interview her and she
just seems like such a great person.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Very cool. Yes, she's gonna be awesome. But downtown's gonna
be packed. Art Prize halftime Show Friday night at Sixth
Street Park that's going down at six o'clock. Also country
powerhouse tire A Kennedy performing along with Jake Kershaw and
the Bootstrap Boys. There's gonna be food music, and they're
announcing the top twenty for each district of the Art Prize.
(01:19):
So if you want to check out what's going on now,
voting's not closed. They're just announcing. Dude, Bootstrap Boys, Come on,
Bootstrap Boys. Yes. October Fest gr twenty twenty five, Friday
and Saturday at Riverside Park featuring authentic beer and wine,
live music, a kegu Toss, and the fourth annual Docs
and Dad the Waiter Dogs.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We go every year. They're so cute.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
They've got little later hosing on. Oh that's jo.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's so fun.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
They've got games, root beer for the kids. It's free
to attend, with tickets required to purchase alcohol. The Brickworld
Lego Expo at de Vos Place. Oh boy, don't walk
around barefoot. That's gonna be a lot of legos Saturday
and Sunday, fifty thousand square feet of Lego creations, vendors
and tons of activities for kids who can get tickets
at brickworld dot com slash Grand Rapids. I just saw
(02:09):
this announced. The Grand Rapid soccer team is revealing their
team name on Saturday at two o'clock at Calder Plaza.
They're gonna have a huge rally right now, they're called
West Michigan Soccer, but the team name getting announced two
o'clock on Saturday. And then right after that is the
Beer City Brewers Guild at Calder Plaza. Well, the kid
(02:30):
is gonna be busy down at Calder, so make sure
you check that out. That's a family friendly event. Starts
at three ghost till eight, so two o'clock for the
soccer announcement at three o'clock for the beer festival. The
West Side Walk for Gildas Club is going down on Saturday,
so that's at Guilda's Club over there on Bridge Street.
Registration starts at ten, the walk is at eleven. Guys.
(02:50):
They've already raised over two hundred thousand dollars for Guilda's
Club this year for this event, and more money is
going to be coming in because of this walk, So
make sure you go out and support the farm Girl
Flea Market happening Friday and Saturday at the Hudsonville Fair Cos.
Oh yeah, that's a vintage and handmade goods from over
one hundred and eighty different vendors, live music, food trucks,
(03:12):
tons of family fun and kids under twelve get in free.
Brett you know a little bit about that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh yeah, my wife loves going to that. My son's
girlfriend lives in Hudsonville and so she kind of got
my wife into it. It's great. I interviewed Karen mead
So on Radio dot com. She's got everything that you're
gonna want to stop. They've got new people, they've got
fan favorites, they've got amazing food. It is such a
cool opportunity to shop local.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Very cool. Last few things that was Candlelight Concerts. They're
featuring Coldplay and Imagine Dragons. That's Friday night at the
Wealthy Theater. Tickets are still available at GRCMC dot org.
Down at the Gilmour Car Museum, it's the Cadillac Fall
Festival on Friday and Saturday, so you can check out
all the Cadillacs from over one hundred years of their
(03:55):
being built and the final one. I know, SCHMIDI, you're
into this. The Pulaski Days kickoff Sunday at two o'clock
at the Diamond Avenue Hall, so they officially raise the flag.
They'll have speeches by the Queen and King of or
the Queen of the Court, and they'll be food and
live music afterwards
Speaker 1 (04:11):
All right, So you can get all that at wood
radio dot com.
She is so much fun. It is West Michigan's Morning News.
Good morning, it's Schmidty and for Steve Kelly, Brett Bakita
is here and Adam Morocho out of the producer booth
into the studio for this weekend's events. Where do we start?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Buckle up, friends, it's a busy weekend. We're kicking it
off with Laney Wilson bringing her Whirlwind World tour to
Van Andel Arena on Saturday night. She's a Grammy winner,
CMA winner, ACM winner, and our friends from B ninety
three hosting a pre party over at Gimme's par and
Grill and listen to this. They're giving away a Lany
(00:34):
Wilson autographed guitar. They're also giving away tickets to an
upcoming Eric Church concert at Van Andel Arena. So head
on over to Gimme's par and Grill four thirty on
Saturday for B ninety three and then head down to
Van Andel for the concert.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's ye great night. I'm not really a country sing
country music listener, but Laney is a lot of fun.
She was at I Think What Big Big One over
the summer and Mike got to interview her and she
just seems like such a great person.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Very cool. Yes, she's gonna be awesome. But downtown's gonna
be packed. Art Prize halftime Show Friday night at Sixth
Street Park that's going down at six o'clock. Also country
powerhouse tire A Kennedy performing along with Jake Kershaw and
the Bootstrap Boys. There's gonna be food music, and they're
announcing the top twenty for each district of the Art Prize.
(01:19):
So if you want to check out what's going on now,
voting's not closed. They're just announcing. Dude, Bootstrap Boys, Come on,
Bootstrap Boys. Yes. October Fest gr twenty twenty five, Friday
and Saturday at Riverside Park featuring authentic beer and wine,
live music, a kegu Toss, and the fourth annual Docs
and Dad the Waiter Dogs.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We go every year. They're so cute.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
They've got little later hosing on. Oh that's jo.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's so fun.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
They've got games, root beer for the kids. It's free
to attend, with tickets required to purchase alcohol. The Brickworld
Lego Expo at de Vos Place. Oh boy, don't walk
around barefoot. That's gonna be a lot of legos Saturday
and Sunday, fifty thousand square feet of Lego creations, vendors
and tons of activities for kids who can get tickets
at brickworld dot com slash Grand Rapids. I just saw
(02:09):
this announced. The Grand Rapid soccer team is revealing their
team name on Saturday at two o'clock at Calder Plaza.
They're gonna have a huge rally right now, they're called
West Michigan Soccer, but the team name getting announced two
o'clock on Saturday. And then right after that is the
Beer City Brewers Guild at Calder Plaza. Well, the kid
(02:30):
is gonna be busy down at Calder, so make sure
you check that out. That's a family friendly event. Starts
at three ghost till eight, so two o'clock for the
soccer announcement at three o'clock for the beer festival. The
West Side Walk for Gildas Club is going down on Saturday,
so that's at Guilda's Club over there on Bridge Street.
Registration starts at ten, the walk is at eleven. Guys.
(02:50):
They've already raised over two hundred thousand dollars for Guilda's
Club this year for this event, and more money is
going to be coming in because of this walk, So
make sure you go out and support the farm Girl
Flea Market happening Friday and Saturday at the Hudsonville Fair Cos.
Oh yeah, that's a vintage and handmade goods from over
one hundred and eighty different vendors, live music, food trucks,
(03:12):
tons of family fun and kids under twelve get in free.
Brett you know a little bit about that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh yeah, my wife loves going to that. My son's
girlfriend lives in Hudsonville and so she kind of got
my wife into it. It's great. I interviewed Karen mead
So on Radio dot com. She's got everything that you're
gonna want to stop. They've got new people, they've got
fan favorites, they've got amazing food. It is such a
cool opportunity to shop local.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Very cool. Last few things that was Candlelight Concerts. They're
featuring Coldplay and Imagine Dragons. That's Friday night at the
Wealthy Theater. Tickets are still available at GRCMC dot org.
Down at the Gilmour Car Museum, it's the Cadillac Fall
Festival on Friday and Saturday, so you can check out
all the Cadillacs from over one hundred years of their
(03:55):
being built and the final one. I know, SCHMIDI, you're
into this. The Pulaski Days kickoff Sunday at two o'clock
at the Diamond Avenue Hall, so they officially raise the flag.
They'll have speeches by the Queen and King of or
the Queen of the Court, and they'll be food and
live music afterwards
Speaker 1 (04:11):
All right, So you can get all that at wood
radio dot com.
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