The Saginaw on Stage Annual Musical Festival has been one of the Rotary Club of Saginaw's most important fundraising events.  Over the years since the festival's inception in 2003 it has allowed us to support many Saginaw community projects. 

The festival was the brainchild of a Saginaw Rotarian who is himself a professional musician, as an opportunity to showcase Saginaw's tremendous and diverse musical talent. 

The first year's event at the Temple Theatre in downtown Saginaw was a smashing success, but the festival quickly outgrew the limitations of a single-stage theater venue.  Since then we have held the event at various local venues. Among them are Horizons, The Saginaw Club and Apple Mountain.

The festival has provided, and continues to provide exposure for bands and musical artists of nearly every genre, while raising funds for local projects and programs that benefit our community.
  

Locally: All Music is Power (AMP), Major Chords for Minors, Saginaw Bay Youth Orchestra, A Place for Grace, Mustard Seed Shelter, Saginaw Rescue Mission, Underground Railroad, Scouting, Child Abuse and Neglect Council, Child and Family Services, Mid-Michigan Children's Museum, Community Prescription Support Program, Covenant Kids, Pit and Balcony Community Theater, Riverfront Development, Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra, Saginaw Choral Society, Saginaw County Business and Education Partnership, Saginaw Family Care Network, Saginaw City Police Department technology, Saginaw City Fire Department heat sensors, Sam Merrill Memorial Pavilion at a Little League park, Y-Kids Pavilion, Crayola Park on Fordney Street, The Dictionary Project for kids, Boys & Girls Club, Youth Leadership Camp at Camp Rotary, The Sleepsack Project, and our mural of Saginaw County’s history in the atrium of the Dow Event Center.

 

Globally: Sanitation & Clean Water Initiatives, Polio Eradication, Japanese Tsunami Relief, Guatemala Literacy Project.

 

Saginaw on Stage won the 2013 All Area Arts Award from the Saginaw Arts and Enrichment Commission.

 

 

Beginning with the 2011 event, the SoS Event Archive makes available the promotional posters from each year's event.  See the menu bar at the saginawonstage.com home page. That page also contains other information about this event.