Michigan Festival Photo Contest

Are you a Michigan festival devotee? We want to see your best photos from the summer 2025 Michigan music festival season.

The top three photos as selected by our panel of professional photographers will receive special prizes from Local Spins

Each prize will include concert/festival tickets, a Local Spins T-Shirt, Local Spins merch and a new Local Spins trucker hat (which also are available for purchase online here). The top three photos will be included in our spectacular 2026 Local Spins Calendars.

Just as exciting is an alternative contest: Submit photos of fans or musicians wearing Local Spins T-Shirts or trucker caps and your name will be placed in a separate drawing for a special Local Spins gift pack.

All of those submitting photos automatically give Local Spins permission to use these photos (with credit) in our photo galleries and coverage of the festivals displayed in the images.

Of course, we’d love to see images from smaller and more remote festivals that don’t get as much attention — whether Nor-East’r Music & Art Festival in Mio or the Porcupine Mountains Music Festival in Ontonagon or the Sol of the Lost Tamarack in Wolverine. But every festival is in play.

The Rules:

• A maximum of five photos can be submitted by each individual and each photo must be labeled with the name of the subject or band in the photo and the name of the photographer.
• Photos should be at least 1800 pixels wide by 1200 pixels tall or vice versa, and can be taken with professional cameras or smartphones.
• Photos of children, nudity or profanity won’t be accepted.
• Photos can be of performers or crowds or festival settings. When emailing the photos, indicate where the photos were taken and at which festival(s).
• Winners must sign a document confirming that they are the photographer of the submitted photo.
• Photos must be submitted via email by noon Sept. 15, 2025 to photos@localspins.com with “FESTIVAL PHOTO CONTEST” in the message field.

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