New Year's Fest
December 31st, 2025
A Celebration of the Performing Arts
2024 Bands and singers
This is our 2024 New Year's Fest Band & Singers.
Click the artists' photo to learn more about them!
The Bootstrap Boys
Location: City Centre-2nd Floor
Time: 7:00, 8:45, 10:30 p.m.
From the heart of Grand Rapids, Michigan, The Bootstrap Boys are bringing a fresh sound to the country music scene. With their unique blend of traditional country and modern rock, they’re captivating audiences with their energetic live performances and heartfelt lyrics.
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Sophia McIntosh
Location: City Centre -2nd Floor
Time: 6:15, 8:00, 9:45 p.m.
Sophia’s originals are fresh, talented pop music with very seasoned vocals. In addition
to writing her own music, Sophia has enjoyed co-writes with two-time Grammy Award
Winner Rebecca Lynn Howard, Industry legend Rick Beresferd, newcomer Linde LaChance, and Brian Maher.
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Work in Progress
Location: Radisson Ballroom
Time: 9:45-11:00 p.m.
Work in Progress is Kalamazoo’s R&B Motown & Blues Band. The amazing sound, their
harmony, and connection to what Motown is and can be is what makes this band one to remember. Plus, their style is one to
remember.
Zion Lion
Location: First United Methodist Church
Time: 6:45, 8:30, 10:15 p.m.
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Zion Lion is a multi-talented Kalamazoo based band playing music from the Caribbean and African diasporas, i.e. reggae, steel pan, calypso, soca, and zouk. You will certainly be in the mood to dance or tap your feet to the rhythms! Yeah mon'
Gemini Moon
Location: KNAC - Social Hall
Time: 6:45, 8:30, 10:15 p.m.
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Gemini Moon perform fresh interpretations of classic and modern covers & guitar-driven originals with male/female lead vocals and harmonies. Vocalist and guitarist Joe Chamberlin, is a long time veteran of the Michigan music scene, and has performed at music venues throughout he United States for more than a decade. Vocalist Casmira Draconid, having been born into a musical family, continues a long tradition in the arts, bringing their masterful prose and powerful voice to the songs of Gemini Moon.
The group is influenced by 90s alternative and 60s/70s classic rock, as well as blues, pop, and folk from all eras. Gemini Moon blend these influences together into a playful, loving, and inviting musical space with balanced tones and mindful volume
Out of Favor Boys
Location: Radisson Ballroom
Time: 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Since coming together in 2003, the Out of Favor Boys have evolved into a blues staple in the region. OFB won the 2017 West Michigan Blues Society Blues Challenge, winning the right to represent WMBS in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2018.
The Rebel Eves
Location: KNAC
Time: 6:45, 8:30, 10:15 p.m.
Comprised of three Michigan bred award winning songwriters, Katie Pederson, Grace Theisen and Jilian Linklater have spent the better part of the last decade writing, touring, and harmonizing across the country with successful solo careers. With a motto of connection over perfection, in less than one year the trio has reached new heights in
their collaboration, outselling venues. Percussionist Carolyn Koebel will be
playing with the Rebels for the night.
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Selkie
Location: First Presbyterian Church Social Hall
Time: 6:15, 7:30, 8:30 p.m.
The three multi-instrumentalists in Selkie play in the Celtic tradition and beyond. They write music inspired by Michigan’s natural places, sing in Gaelic, French and English, and can play dance music for days.
DJ Monte
Location: Bronson Park Tent
Time: 8:30-11:45 (P.M.)
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It’s time to close out 2024 with DJ Monte.
Under the heated tent, it’s a place to stop
in, enjoy great music, celebrate the ability
to do a few dance moves, and then keep
visiting all the great venues and artists. The
music will warm you up.
WMU Broncords
Location: First Presbyterian Church
Times: 6:45, 8:30, 10:15 p.m.
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Established in 2007, The WMU Broncords is Western’s very own tenor/bass A Cappella group. Open to all majors and identities, the WMU Broncords sing and perform pop music in various new and exciting arrangements. To see more of what they do, follow them on our social media!