Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon at The Museum of African American History

Thursday, February 25, 2010, 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Bernice Johnson Reagon (mother) and Toshi Reagon (daughter) come together to create a collaborative, live presentation of music and talk that celebrates the African American musical tradition and the role of art in the struggle for what is just and right. Independently these women have broken new ground charting [...]

The HUB of Detroit Benefit Concert w/ The Hentchmen and Wheatpaste

Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 9:10pm- 2:00am
The Park Bar

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The Hentchmen and Wheatpaste provide a night of musical entertainment for the benefit of the HUB of Detroit!
Doors at 9pm
Regretfully this show is for people 21 years old and older only.
$5 gets you in with part of the door and bar take going to the HUB of [...]

The Deep River Choir In Concert

Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
The Deep River is a grass roots community choir dedicated to the roots of American music and the diverse culture of Detroit. Y Arts at the Boll Family YMCA started the choir in 2007 to answer the question, “How can we keep from singing?”
Their [...]

Odu Afrobeat Orchestra at Alvins – Detroit

Friday, February 5, 2010 at 9:pm-2:00am

Photo by Juan N. Only
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juannonly/3078521715/
In Yoruba mythology, an Odù is one of 256 divinatory principals, each associated with a traditional set of verses (or Ese), representing thousands of years of observations and predictions. In the Detroit music scene, Odu is an Afrobeat Orchestra comprised of the city’s best musicians, each [...]

Jer Coons at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival

Friday, January 29, and Saturday, January 30, 2010
Hill Auditorium

Jer Coons
The AA Folk Festival celebrates its 33rd year with some of the finest in traditional and contemporary artists. The Festival returns to Hill Auditorium for two dynamic and different nights of folk and roots music on Friday, January 29, and Saturday, January 30, beginning at [...]

Musictastic Sprinting Sandwich Fundraiser for The Hub of Detroit

Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 9:00pm – 2:00am
At The Cass Cafe
Wheatpaste

Photo by Trevor Long
Come to the Cass Cafe on Sunday, January 17th for a night of Music and Bike Sprints with friends from The Hub of Detroit and meet some new friends starting a bike co-op in Lansing as we kick off 2010 with a [...]

Focus: HOPE Star Studded Folk Music Festival

Sunday, December 6, 2009 – 3 PM
North Rosedale Park Community Center
Josh White Jr, Kitty Donohoe, Robert Jones and Matt
Watroba (above) will joined by many other folk favorites
The annual Holiday Music Festival featuring the Friends of Focus: HOPE will mark a new milestone this year — it is the 40th anniversary of this popular concert.
Folksingers [...]

Matt Watroba: “The voice of folk music in Michigan” at The Ark

[ November 27, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Friday November 27, 2009
Show starts at 8 pm Doors open at 7:30 pm

What could be better than to kick off the holiday season with a Michigan folk music institution? Matt Watroba is the host of WDET-FM’s “Folks Like Us” program and the NPR/XM satellite “Sing Out! Radio Magazine. Matt is the kind of guy who [...]

2nd Annual Corktown Music Festival

BeatDown: Serious Music for the mind
July 25, 2009 from 3pm to 11pm
Roosevelt Park Michigan Central Station (The Old Train Station)
The return of the Corktown Music Festival is coming to Roosevelt Park Saturday, July 25, 2009 from 3pm-10pm. This
year the festival is teaming up with Lions International District 11A-1 & numerous businesses in and around [...]

Midsummer Nights in Midtown

[ June 19, 2009 12:00 am to June 21, 2009 12:00 am. ] Thursday, June 18
7. Detroit Public Library
5201 Woodward – detroitpubliclibrary.org
Thornetta Davis
7:30pm – R&B | Soul
Local singing sensation, Thornetta Davis, has a rich, soulful voice that reaches through the microphone to both soothe and excite.

Linton Kwesi Johnson
9:00pm – Poetry
Reading from his third book of poetry, Jamaican-born and London-based dub poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson, shares his award-winning style of [...]