Ralph Koziarski Returns To Alvins With The Luddites

Unpredictable and unplugged, The loudest acoustic band on earth.
Saturday May 1, 2010, 9:00 pm -1:00 am

The Luddites are an 11 piece folk orchestra that redefines the image of acoustic music. The Luddites take their name from a rabble of desperate English textile workers who, in the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, took to smashing [...]

Great Lakes Songwriting Contest Winner’s Showcase at Trinity House

Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8:00pm – 10:00pm
First Place winner Julianne, Second Place winner Dennis G. Donoho, and Third Place winner Ralston will perform at the Trinity House Theatre. Come hear these wonderful songwriters and performers in the best small concert venue in the Detroit area. For more information and reservations, go to www.TrinityHouse.org or call [...]

Book Release: Blair’s “Moonwalking” and The Boyfriends at The Park Bar

Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 9:00pm – 12:00am

A new book being released on Penmanship Books of New York. The book is called “Moonwalking.” It’s a collection of poems regarding the life, career and influences of Michael Jackson, The King of Pop. Blair will be reading poems from the manuscript and then his band Blair [...]

HighLonesome Show at Trumbullplex

Beer City Bluegrass Show
March 27, 2010 at 8:00pm – 2:00am

Highlonesome From Milwaukee
Petal Shop From Detroit
Rachel Brooke From Detroit Area
The Crow Family Big Band From Detroit
Doors are at 8:00pm and Its only $5.00
The Crow Manor 3407 Trumbull. Detroit, Michigan

Lamb’s Songwriters Showcase

Sunday, March 28, 2010, 8:00pm – 11:00pm

David Nefesh, Photo by Rio Scafone / Feral Fotography
Lamb’s Songwriters Showcase
Featuring:
Host-John D. Lamb
Dave Edwards (from the Look) (Detroit Music Award nominee)
Bob Monteleone (from Black Market)
Emily Rose (DMA nominee)
David Nefesh (DMA nominee)
John Natiw & Rochelle Clark (Potter’s Field)
Chris Degnore
Named after the popular country singer’s hit single “I Love This Bar,” [...]

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

Wheatpaste>
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 [...]