Top Left: Liz Sivertson and John Gruber – the Sivertones – perform to an appreciative crowd enjoying art, hors d’oeuvres, and music at Sivertson Gallery at the start of the 2009 Grand Marais Jazz Festival Friday, May 22.
Left: Chris Gillis (left) and Max Bichel provide dinner jazz at the Pie Place Saturday, May 23 during the 2009 Grand Marais Jazz Festival.
Below: The Clearwater Hot Club offering up swingin’ late night Gypsy jazz at the Gun Flint Tavern Friday, May 22 during the 2009 Grand Marais Jazz Festival. Pictured, from left: Mark Kreitzer, Matthew Miltich, and Sam Miltich. Matthew Miltich is a former Cook County News-Herald writer.
Staff photos/Jane Howard Above Left: Holly Beaster busy showing students the art of creating oil monoprints during an open house at the Grand Marais Art Colony Sunday, May 24, 2009. The Art Colony was part of the weekend’s Grand Marais Jazz Festival, which included an “art crawl” with galleries through out Cook County.
Above: Don Hammer, director of the Grand Marais Art Colony, works on a painting of his grandfather, Louis Vang, on vacation near Lake of the Woods. The painting is taken from a 1947 photograph. “Back in those days,” Hammer said, “when you took a vacation, you dressed up.”
Left: Christ Gillis starts off the 2009 Grand Marais Jazz Festival with a performance at Sivertson Gallery Friday, May 22.
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