Welcome to Cycling Salamander

The Cycling Salamander is a fine art gallery outside the city of Charlevoix, Michigan. Charlevoix is located on three lakes - Lake Michigan, Round Lake and Lake Charlevoix in the northern lower (peninsula) of Michigan. We feature works from over 40 selected Michigan artists. Come enjoy quality work in our casual Up-North setting and stroll our 3-acre sculpture walk among northern Michigan wildflowers and our annual cutting garden.

Juried Show and Musical Performances


Pieces - A Juried Show
June 21- August 10, 2013
Opening Reception June 29
4-6pm

Featuring mosaics, fiber, and mixed media sculpture and assemblages created from "pieces" to create works of arts.  

Red Onion 
Friday, June 21, 2013
7:00pm - Soup Supper
8:00pm - Concert
Tickets $15/ includes soup supper
Seating is limited.
Benefit concert for Real People Media- a nonprofit helping people tell their stories on video.
About Red Onion
Performing original songs in the Americana tradition with influences in bluegrass, blues, country and folk, Red Onion performs sweet songs that can make one cry. Lena Dorey on Vocals, percussion, ukulele, John Riggs on mandolin, violin, banjo, and guest artists.



Don Julin and Billy Strings
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Doors Open at 7:00pm
Warm up Band at 7:30pm
Tickets $15 in Advance.
$20 at the door if any left.
Seating is very limited.






ABOUT BILLY STRINGS & DON JULIN (donjulin.com/billystrings.html)

Billy Strings and Don Julin play traditional American string band music with energy levels usually associated with extreme sports. A typical set includes haunting Appalachian songs, righteous gospel standards, and blazing bluegrass instrumentals. Honoring the musical traditions of Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, and Jimmy Martin, these boys will take you back to that high lonesome sound of yesterday's bluegrass. No super-slick Nash-pop here. This is your grandaddy's bluegrass delivered with a pedal to the metal intensity of a moonshine runner.

Billy Strings is a 20 yr old  guitar picker/singer that you surely will be hearing about for years to come. "Blessed with the voice of an old soul from the mountains, a gentlemanly air, and the ability to sling hundreds of notes with razor-crisp precision at the speed of a machine gun, Strings' flat-picking talent seems almost beyond comprehension to veterans of the local bluegrass scene, especially given his youth." Northern Express Publications.

Don Julin is a total mandolin geek. For over 30 years, he has built a reputation as being one of the most eclectic and versatile mandolin players today. From jazz to bluegrass, from Vivaldi to Led Zeppelin, old-time fiddle tunes to ambient buddah-bar loops. His original mandolin compositions have been licensed by HBO, VH1, MTV, NBC, Showtime, Bravo, National Geographic Explorer, Fox Sports, and others. Julin is the author of  the best-selling "Mandolin For Dummies" (Wiley & Sons 2012) and is an in- demand mandolin teacher giving mandolin workshops and master classes around the world.