Pumpstock Music Festival to Return June 7
The festival will feature nine performers this year.
Pumpstock Music Festival to Return June 7
The festival will feature nine performers this year.
Author: Ayah Imran
Ayah is a senior at Michigan State University, double-majoring in Journalism and Women and Gender Studies, with a minor in Leadership in Integrated Learning through the Bailey Scholar Program. She loves to travel and has been to six countries, including Turkey and Palestine, where her family is from. In her free time, she loves discovering new music, thrifting, reading non-fiction, trying new recipes, and spending quality time with friends and her cats, Roscoe and Toph.
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