This week Grand Rapids held its second annual music event known as Rock the Rapids. For this music festival lasting Monday to Saturday, groups from every genre come from all over the country to entertain West Michigan. These bands included Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stone Temple Pilots, Wayland, Willie Nelson, Alice Cooper, Blake Shelton, Bombshel, Ludacris, Due Dilligence, T Pain, and many more! Rock the Rapids is designed to serve our community by providing affordable concert tickets for well-known artists while raising funds for local organizations such as John Ball Zoo. During Rock the Rapids, many other free activities were going on at Festival Village and also The Melting Pot set up at Rosa Parks Circle. One thing Grand Rapids knows how to do and can do it well is bring people together and this event once again proved it!