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Blue Lake Public Radio | By Foley Schuler

Published June 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM EDT

Foley Schuler Announcing a Performance by the Blue Lake Festival Band at Stewart Memorial Shell

Join us tonight at 7:30 for the Blue Lake Festival Band, as Foley Schuler hosts from the stage of Stewart Shell.

Our summer series of live broadcasts from the 2025 Blue Lake Summer will commence Sunday evening, June 29 at 7:30, as LaToya Webb conducts the Blue Lake Festival Band in works of Copland, Sousa and others. The major work of the evening will be Catrish Row, the suite from Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, featuring soprano Alice McAllister Tillman and baritone Marques Jerrell Ruff.

(You can hear Foley's interview with LaToya Webb and special guest, soprano Alice McAllister Tillman, here.)

Foley Schuler

Encouraged by creative parents, Foley began his music career at age 7, studying violin with Jean Manning at North Muskegon Public Schools. As a Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp camper, he became Blue Lake Public Radio’s first high school intern. Foley earned an English Literature degree from Hope College, and Masters in Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson College. He has performed with the West Michigan (formerly West Shore) Symphony; served on the English Department faculty at Muskegon Community College, and been the Music, Art & Theatre reviewer for the Muskegon Chronicle. He follows his love of the arts around the globe, but says, “There is no place like the Blue Lake setting, sharing extraordinary music with our listeners.” Foley hosts Blue Lake Public Radio’s weekday classical music from 1 to 5 p.m. and “Sunday on Blue Lake”.

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