The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival was an annual international music festival for women by women. In 1976, Lisa Vogel, her sister Kristie Vogel, and Mary Kindig organized a women-only event in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan where approximately 2,000 women congregated for a three-day music festival from August 20 to 22. From 1976 to 1981 the festival took place in a wooded area near Hesperia, Michigan, during which time the festival grew from a regional to a national event. In 1982, the festival moved to its final location near Hart, Michigan, to 650 acres of private land where each year women assembled tents, built stages, and delivered a variety of services and workshops at the space called "The Land."

The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, often referred to as MWMF or MichFest, was produced by We Want the Music Cooperative (WWTMC), later known as We Want the Music Collective, and We Want the Music Company. Artists of all genres were welcome to perform at MichFest. From the beginning, the festival attracted feminist and lesbian activists, with many of the performers as active members of these communities. As the number of artists and attendants grew, so did the complexity of the festival, with pre-festival activities, a variety of workshops, shopping tents, separate childcare services for toddlers, boys, and girls, as well as services for people with disabilities. The complexity of the festival was reflected not only in the activities held but also in the set-up of "The Land," which changed every year to meet the needs of a self-sustained community. To many participants, this was a magical, transformative place, although the controversial stance of restricting the space to womyn-born womyn only eventually led to its closure in 2015.