Step back in time at the annual Mackinaw Rendezvous and Trade Fair on August 1-4, 2019 at Conkling Heritage Park in Mackinaw City, Mchigan. La Compagnie will be playing informal music in the park featuring fiddle, flute, whistles, concertina, bodhran, guitars, bass fiddle and crisp vocal harmonies in the French-Canadian, Celtic and Michigan folk traditions. This is a good time to converse with the musicians about the musical traditions of Michigan's past.

Experience 18th and 19th Century life in Native American, Military and Civilian Encampments at the Mackinaw Rendezvous and Trade Fair. The purpose of the event is to present Native Americans, Americans, French & English as they mixed together in the 1700s and early 1800s in the Mackinaw Region. The Mackinaw Rendezvous and Trade Fair features merchants and blanket traders with 18th and 19th Century crafts, clothing and accessories for sale. in addition to the 18th Century Market Fair, there will be many demonstrations of primitive frontier skills, Musket Firing, Cooking and other demonstrations. There will also be competitions in Hawk and knife throwing, primitive archery and much more.

This event is free to the public.