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The free summer music series
Vibe@5 took a ride back in time
last Friday when the “Magic
Bus” band played two-plus hours
of Woodstock-era tunes on the
Friendship Park stage in downtown
Battle Creek.
“Magic Bus” was the fifth of six
acts on this summer’s Vibe@5 play-
bill.
Completing Vibe@5’s 2024 series
this Friday (Aug. 9) from 5-7:30
p.m. will be the band “Moonshot,”
which features music from the
1950s to today.
David Bauman of David’s
Productions LLC – who along with
Kellogg Arena teamed up again this
year to put on the Vibe@5 series
- said prior to the performance
by “Magic Bus” that he’d won a
contest to get the seven-member
Detroit-area band into the Vibe’s
mix this season, “because other-
wise,” Bauman said previously,
‘Magic Bus’ takes music listeners on trip back to Woodstock era
The band “Magic Bus” provided Vibe@5 goers last Friday at Friendship Park
with Woodstock-era tunes and messages of peace, love and understanding.
(Shopper News photo by Will Kowalski)“without winning them in a contest,
we couldn’t have afforded them.”
“Now,” Bauman said last Friday,
about a handful of songs into the
“Magic Bus’” opening set that took
place in patches of light drizzle that
later cleared the area, “you can see
and hear why. They’re that good.”Lead singer and band founder
Mark (no last name available) said
that “Magic Bus” played a variety of
“peace and love and everybody come
together” type music from 1967 and
1968 during the first half of its set,
and followed that with Woodstock-concert and other late-1960s music
after intermission.
And many of the Vibe@5 attend-
ees sang along with many of “Magic
Bus’” familiar tunes.
The “Magic Bus’” Mark noted in
a later-held interview that the band’s
cover music is not only upbeat and
well known, but also “music filled
with social, pertinent lessons.”
“The songs we play are filled with
messages of getting people to love
one another and get along, and to
smile on each other – songs that
were important back in the 1960s,
and which I think are just as impor-
tant today,” he said.
“With the world the way it is
today, the social message songs we
play still have a lot of meaning, and
still promote everyone getting along
with each other instead of” the alter-
nate.
In a moment, we’ll take a trip back
through time with “Magic Bus” via a
list of the songs the group played last
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