River Raisin National Battlefield Park will be hosting Genot Picor’s “Stories, Songs, and Dances of the Voyageur” on Saturday, February 22, 2014 at the River Raisin National Battlefield Park. The Event starts at 2:00pm, inside the Visitor Center.

Genot is a storyteller, musician and dancer. In addition, he is a published free-lance journalist, public school teacher consultant and grant writer. Currently, Picor is a graduate student in Interpretive/Performance Studies at Eastern Michigan University, specializing in oral tradition, narrative studies and the anthropology of performance. Genot uses all his talents to bring an interactive frontier history alive to audiences of all ages, and has presented at numerous venues throughout Michigan from Ironwood to Rockwood, Niles to Sault Ste. Marie. In addition, he performed in New York, Ontario, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. He also studied voice and movement at the Stratford Festival Theater in Stratford, Ontario.