Springfest

April 13th 2025
Abby Travis, Music Matters

This grant supported MUSIC Matters' annual music and arts festival, SpringFest. SpringFest is an annual two-day music festival that features student performances, food trucks, student organization engagement, and a celebrity headliner. The first day includes an outdoor daytime festival with student bands and dance performances that blocks off part of State Street, offering a free and open festival experience to the entire campus and Ann Arbor community.

April 15th 2024
Savannah Halpern, MUSIC Matters

MUSIC Matters’ SpringFest is an opportunity to bring together the Ann Arbor community through the unifying power of music. SpringFest is a SXSW-style festival designed to promote innovation, creativity, and community while showcasing the unique achievements of university students. Over 65 student organizations unite on State Street annually for live music, student performances, food trucks, art installations, and more. The festivities were capped off this year with a massive benefit concert featuring a major headlining artist Alexander 23.

February 20th 2024
Lily Wasvary, MUSIC Matters

Michigan's Got Talent is MUSIC Matters' annual student talent show! We welcome all students in the U-M community to participate in this event with any talent they would like to share. In order to participate, interested students must submit a video of their talent, similar to the act they plan on performing at the live event. MUSIC Matters then chose a select number of submissions to be featured in our live in-person event on February 20th at 7pm EST at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. During the live show, certain acts were chosen to receive various superlative rewards, as well as hundreds of dollars in prizes.

January 27th 2023
Anna Lehrer, MUSIC Matters

Ann Arbor’s favorite music event was back! MUSIC Matters presented Battle of the Bands at The Blind Pig, where everyone’s favorite student bands competed for cash prizes!

April 16th 2021
Abe Weiner, MUSIC Matters

Through a virtual platform, MUSIC Matters put on their annual day-long festival and benefit concert, SpringFest. Musicians and students organizations were able to interact with festival-goers through virtual performances and activities.

April 4th 2018
Audrey Swain, MUSIC Matters

MUSIC Matters held an art-making event at SpringFest, MUSIC Matters’ annual festival event. They have worked with Arts @ Michigan in past years and this year on creating an activity that exposed students to the arts. More specifically, the activity was to decorate pots to house small plants in (the plants will be provided by the Matthei Botanical Gardens). This activity was held in a tent where students walking through SpringFest, an event attended by 10,000 students, were able to stop and decorate a pot.

April 14th 2017
MUSIC Matters

In the Arts section of SpringFest, Arts Ambassadors guided attendees in an interactive art project. Participating students created a collaborative piece of art through the guidance of the Arts Ambassadors, and once each person had created their own part, it was added to a larger piece that evolved throughout the day, in order to engage and showcase the creativity of Michigan students.This piece of art was reflective of them as individuals while being part of a larger work of art. Students from all different academic backgrounds were able to learn from one another by working to create a collective piece of art.

November 30th -0001
MUSIC Matters

Michigan's Got Talent, MUSIC Matters's 2nd annual DEI talent show event, featured performances from Michigan undergraduate and graduate students, with select performances receiving prizes from local Ann Arbor businesses.