Traverse City District Library names local musicians to be featured on new streaming platform

TRAVERSE CITY — The Traverse Area District Library recently announced the first group of musicians to be featured on its new local music streaming service TADL Waves.

There were more than 40 artists who submitted, with the final 18 being hand-picked by the library’s jury panel for the initiative.

Featured Michigan artists on the Wave streaming platform include:

• BIG FUN
• Billy B
• Boundarywater
• Rachel Brook
• Bruce Matthews Band
• Les Dalgliesh
• Chris Dark
• The Hacky Turtles
• Hunter Noll Bell
• Janice Keegan
• Kid Dexx
• The Knockauffs
• Lucky vs. the Bomb
• Laurel Premo
• Nitro Supertonic
• Punk Array
• Saltbreaker & Yali Rivlin
• Ted Alan and the Underprivileged

TADL’s head of sight and sound Josh Denby, who has steered the TADL Waves project, said centering local artists was a priority.

“I was really excited to send invitations to these musicians,” Denby said. “We have a great, well-rounded selection of music. Our jurors did a great job and I’m so grateful that they took time out of their busy schedules to review this music for us.”

He said TADL’s first jury panel included The Accidentals, Karine Pierson of MI Music Education and TADL employees Keith Schwartz and Chad Farrell.

Over the next few weeks, the musicians will be sending additional songs in to populate the streaming service.

Once the music is all uploaded the service will be available to TADL patrons in late August.

TADL is additionally planning an outdoor listening party once the service is ready to launch sometime in August.

For more information on the library streaming service visit www.tadl.org .