The Leelanau Community Cultural Center will host a Holiday Dance Party featuring May Erlewine and the Motivations. Join the Motivations on December 14 at 8 pm at the Old Art Building--- Come as you are and bring your dancing shoes. We’ve got the grooves if you’ve got the moves. Tickets are $20 in advance /$25 at the door.

Come on in, whatever you need

There’s no hungry heart that love can’t feed.

Leave your worries on the welcome mat,

We’ll welcome you, wherever you’re at.

The Dance Party was born in the winter of 2016, when Erlewine set out to make music and create a positive space for the weary and grieving. That idea eventually took shape in the form of retro-groove dance parties meant to get people moving, make them feel connected, and help them celebrate the moment -- and each other. The result? Shows that deliver feel-good fun and small revolutions to shake things up, just enough.

On a few special dates each year, singer-songwriter May Erlewine breaks from her Americana and folk roots to front The Motivations: a seven-piece dance-party funk band that dishes up boogie jams and classic soul cuts.

The Motivations feature Phil Barry on guitar and vocals, Joe Hettinga on synth, keys and vocals, Eric Kuhn on guitar and vocals, Max Lockwood on bass and vocals, Mike Lynch on organ and keys, Terrence Massey on trumpet and vocals, Brandon Proch on saxophone and Michael Shimmin on drums, percussion and vocals

This concert is sponsored in part by the Leelanau Community Cultural Center, Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Edmund F & Virginia B Ball Foundation. For more information visit oldartbuilding.com or call 231-256-2131.