Broken Like Me
Named the 2026 Grand Haven Walk the Beat Grand Prize Winner (per Local Spins) — the name every conversation about this year's festival starts with.
The bands are the beat.
Welcome to the bands' own page for Walk the Beat — Grand Haven's street-music celebration, where one August afternoon turns a whole neighborhood into a concert.
This page stays live all year. Every band that plays gets a profile here, every new band that signs up leads the roster, and every profile is a door: to the band's own page, its fans, and the community that shows up to listen. The music carries the mission — public school music programs, carried forward one band at a time.
49Bands
25Venues
1–5 PMSat · Aug 8, 2026
Grand HavenMichigan
How a band gets featured here
Four steps, the same for every band — whether Michael meets you at a show, a sponsor introduces you, or you raise your own hand.
1
Say hello
It starts with a conversation. Tell us who you are and where you play — the form below takes two minutes.
2
Send your story
Your name, your sound, your photo, your links. That becomes your profile — your little box on this page.
3
Get featured
New bands lead the roster and get the spotlight post — fresh faces up top, shared out to the community.
4
Own your page
Your profile grows into a permanent page of your own inside the Walk the Beat platform — an asset you keep.
Featured bands
The spotlight rotates — and the newest band to sign up always takes a featured spot. These three names come up in every Walk the Beat conversation:
Asamu Johnson & The Associates of the Blues
A full band in matching red, bringing the blues to Beechtree Street — the kind of set people plan their afternoon around.
Heather Bartman
Guitar in hand on the City Auto Body stage — one voice, one instrument, and a street full of people standing still to listen.
The next featured band is the next one through the door
When your band signs up, your profile goes up top — featured here, posted to the community, and built out from there. Fresh bands keep this page, and the social posts that come from it, alive all year.
New to the Directory
The directory grows all year — bands join between festivals, not just on the day. This is the newest profile to take its place here.
The Group Therapy Band
West Michigan · Rock, Pop, Soul, and Blues
“Super hits and dance tunes from the ages — bringing back memories and creating new ones for all generations.”
A Muskegon Bike Time main-stage band and a returning favorite at Grand Haven Eagles #925 — a packed dance floor there again on October 17, 2026.
The 2026 roster — Grand Haven
All 49 bands from the official 2026 lineup: Saturday, August 8, 2026, 1–5 PM, across 25 venues on and around Beechtree Street. Search by band or venue — and if your band played and a name needs a second look, tell us; the roster is kept accurate with Becky's records.
No bands match that search yet — try a band name, a venue, or a street. Or add the band you're looking for.
Add your band
This is the landing spot for band information. Fill it in and the page builds your onboarding packet — the exact bundle that gets featured here and forwarded on to become your band's own page. Nothing is sent anywhere until you choose to copy it or open it in your email.
Your onboarding packet
As you fill in the form, your packet builds itself here — band name, story, photo, and links in one clean bundle. Copy it, download it, or open it in your email to send it in. This same packet is what gets forwarded to build your band's permanent page.
Your packet will appear here as you type…
Where the bands' pages go next
This page is the introduction — the front porch. Behind it, three things are being built in order:
The directory & categories
The full band directory lives inside the Walk the Beat platform at walkthebeat.store, organized by category — so a visitor can browse by sound, by venue, or by set time, all year long.
Profiles start here, then take their permanent place there. One roster, one home — no second list to keep fed.
Event day & voting
On the next festival Saturday, every band's card in the directory carries a vote button: one tap, one vote — vote for as many bands as you like, never twice for the same band.
Totals count only across the event window, 1–5 PM. Until that day, listings stay vote-free — this page celebrates the bands; the contest belongs to the afternoon itself.
Loyalty, all year
A band's fans shouldn't disappear when the tents come down. Year-round, band pages connect to the Walk the Beat loyalty program — the Passport pattern — so showing up, listening, and coming back earns its way forward.
Built on the loyalty toolkit already in the platform, woven into these same pages rather than bolted on somewhere else.
From this page to a page of your own
Here is exactly what happens to a band's information after it lands here — so every band knows the path before it starts down it.
- The band's information, collected onceBand name, contact, hometown, genre, members — everything from the form on this page, in one packet. No band ever has to tell its story twice.
- The highlight copyThe short story that introduces the band here becomes the opening copy of its own page — same words, same voice.
- The photoThe band's real photo travels with the packet, so the permanent page opens with the band's own face, not a placeholder.
- The linksWebsite, streaming, and social links — everything a new fan needs to keep listening after the set ends.
- Forwarded to RalvinThe complete packet goes to Ralvin, who builds the band's permanent web page inside the Walk the Beat platform, where the directory lives.
An asset a band can invest in
The introduction here is free and fast — a profile the same day we meet. The permanent page is where it becomes something the band owns: its own address, its own audience, its own way to be found.
And a band that wants to run its own show — bookings, fans, follow-ups — can take the next step and invest in a RezConnect.store license of its own, the same platform these pages are built on.