MARQUETTE — North Words and Music returns to the Peter White Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time Thursday, July 24, with an Upper Peninsula variety show.

The public is invited to join Marquette Writer of the Year B. G. Bradley and his friends for an evening of music, stories, poetry and skits sure to make attendees laugh, cry, clap and sing for those crossroads in their lives.

The show also features two-time U.P. Poet Laureate Marty Achatz; celebrated musicians Linda Smith and Seamus Collins of Big Lake Acoustic; and actress Jacque Love and Jim Edwards of the Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum.

This event will be livestreamed. For more information, contact Achatz at 906-226-4322, machatz@pwpl.info, or go to pwpl.info.

The program is free.