Name: Beaver Island Music Festival, 2004
Start: 2004-07-16
End: 2004-07-17
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Dates: 2004-07-16 – 2004-07-17
Kind: Music festival
Followed by: Beaver Island Music Festival, 2005
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: music-folklorecelebrationtourismcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Island Music Festival’s second held edition ran July 16-17, 2004, on “Danny Burton’s Place” – the same family property that hosted the 2003 founding gathering, per the festival’s later official retrospective (see Beaver Island Music Festival). Three 2004 Beaver Beacon issues (May, June, and July) carry a calendar listing and near-identical ad text for this edition; no 2004 issue narrates the event after the fact, so this article records only what was announced.¹²³

Program

The June and July 2004 ads list the same lineup, “on 2 stages”: simplicity (described as “from detroit”), Sparkle Motion, Prisoners of Paradise, Justin Rock, Cass Avenue Ramblers, Beaver Island Boys, Gretchen Wolff, Ernie Douglas, and Chris Kurzawa.²³ Act-name capitalization is inconsistent between the two ads (e.g. “Prisoners of paradise” vs. “Prisoners of Paradise”) and is quoted here as printed in each source rather than normalized.

Admission was advertised at $8.00 per day or $15.00 for the weekend, described as “rain or shine,” with overnight camping available at the site. Tickets and details were directed to simplicitymusic.com and jambasetickets.com, or by calling Danny or Carol Burton.²³

The July 2004 ad text carries the label “DANNYVILLE 2” beside the event name and dates – possibly a numbered nickname for the encampment consistent with 2003 having been a first “Dannyville,” though no source read for this article states that explicitly.

Evidence limits

All three held 2004 sources are announcements (a calendar listing and two near-duplicate advertisements), not reports of what actually took place. No 2004 issue of the Beaver Beacon read for this article describes attendance, confirms which announced acts performed, or gives a post-event account. The lineup above is therefore the announced program, not a verified roster of performers who appeared.

Open questions

Did every advertised act perform, and were any of the “more acts to be announced” (per the May listing’s phrasing) added later in the season?
What does “Dannyville 2” refer to, and is it evidence that 2003 was informally called “Dannyville 1” or “Dannyville”?
No attendance or fundraising figures were found for this year, unlike later editions.

Sources

"Beaver Island Music Festival," Beaver Beacon, May 2004 (calendar listing).
Community calendar entry lists "Beaver Island Music Festival" July 16th-17th, alongside Museum Week (July 12-17) and MAD Camp (July 19-24). No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-05_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, May 2004, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held thirty-six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-05_Beaver-Beacon
"Beaver Island Music Festival," Beaver Beacon, June 2004 (advertisement).
Full-page advertisement headed "BEAVER ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL JULY 16TH & 17TH 2004 DANNY BURTON'S PLACE," reproducing a poster graphic (OCR-described as reading "RAIN OR SHINE", "$8.00 PER DAY $15.00 WEEKEND", "ONE DAY OR ONE DAY ALL") and listing a lineup on 2 stages; gives a contact phone number and simplicitymusic.com / jambasetickets.com for tickets. A second calendar entry in the same issue repeats the July 16-17 dates. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-06_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, June 2004, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held thirty-six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-06_Beaver-Beacon
"Beaver Island Music Festival," Beaver Beacon, July 2004 (advertisement).
Repeats the ad text as OCR plain text rather than an image caption: "BEAVER ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL / JULY 16TH & 17TH 2004 / DANNY BURTON'S PLACE / COME ONE COME ALL / DANNYVILLE 2 / RAIN OR SHINE / $8.00 PER DAY $15.00 WEEKEND / simplicitymusic.com jambasetickets.com for ticket info and all other details / CALY DANNY CAROL 281 3304 / overnite camping available / Featuring simplicity from detroit / Sparkle Motion / Prisoners of paradise / Justin rock / Cass Avenue Ramblers / Beaver Island Boys / Gretchen Wolff / Ernie Douglas / Chris Kurzawa / on 2 stages / Beaver Island MICHIGAN." No post-event report was found in this or later 2004 issues read for this article. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-07_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, July 2004, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held forty-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-07_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Music Festival, 2004”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-music-festival-2004/, accessed [date], citing "Beaver Island Music Festival," Beaver Beacon, May 2004 (calendar listing). (and 5 further sources listed on the page).

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