Michelle Chenard

Michelle Chenard is a Michigan Emmy® Award Winning Songwriter and performing music artist who has been continually voted a favorite in Northern Michigan as Best Solo Performer, Best of the Best and more in Northern Express, Northern Michigan’s largest newsweekly. Michelle scored a Michigan Emmy® Award for musical score on the TV documentary Sacrifice and Honor:  A Tribute to our Northern Michigan Veterans. She released her first music video, Blade with critical acclaim and to a packed house at City Park Grill, a well known music venue in Petoskey, Michigan in the spring of 2012. She continually performs hundreds of shows across the state each year, including some of the most well known Music Festivals in Michigan. In addition to her tireless schedule, Michelle founded Big Water Creative Arts, INC. with her brother from another mother Pete Kehoe to fulfill her passion for educating kids and adults in the art of songwriting, music exploration and performance. She also writes, records and performs with multiple Detroit Music Award winning Country Artist Julianne Ankley as Ankley and Chenard, is co-author with Pete Kehoe on the song "I Love This Town" for the Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce video promoting Petoskey and recently wrote the music score along with Jeff "Jabo" Bihlman for the latest Corey Adkins film "Crossing Lake Erie", released on December 25, 2019.