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 [...]

Free Concerts At The 17th Annual Concert Of Colors

Don Was Reprises All-Star Revue of Detroit Music Luminaries
Enlightening Community Forum Now Free & Open to the Public
Free Kickoff Performance June 25 at Campus Martius
Aaron-Neville
The 2009 Concert of Colors – metro Detroit’s beloved free diversity-themed music festival – will present rising and established acts, bring back past favorites, and offer more free and outdoor activities [...]

Friday Night Live! at the DIA featuring Sara Lee Guthrie, Johnny Irion, and Robert Jones

[ May 28, 2009; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Friday, May 29, 2009 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

7 & 8:30 p.m.

Sara Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, daughter and son-in-law of Arlo Guthrie, join Detroit singer and guitarist Robert Jones for a performance channeling the passion of musicians involved in 20th century American labor and civil rights conflicts, including Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Josh White.
 
American Chronicles: [...]

Chris Bathgate and Frontier Ruckus with Sisters Lucas at Rowland Café inside Guardian Building Promenade

[ April 23, 2009; 7:30 pm; ] On Thursday, April 23, join Pure Detroit for their first ever “Pure Acoustic” concert, to be held in the “art deco decadence” of the Guardian Building Promenade. The folk-drenched and soul-soaked sounds of Chris Bathgate and Frontier Ruckus are headlining, performing a rare, hour-long dueling set. Psychedelic lady pop pioneers Sisters Lucas open.

Doors @ 7:30PM
Show [...]

Paddy Homan, Irish Tenor from Cork

[ March 27, 2009; 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm. 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm. March 28, 2009; 12:00 am; 12:00 am; March 29, 2009; 12:00 am; 12:00 am; ] March 27, Friday.

St. Patrick’s Celebration. St. Paul’s Knights’ of Columbus & Athletic Board Dinner. 7:30 p.m. Alger House War Memorial, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Tickets $65 Available in Parish Office. (Limited to 100 seats) Tel: 313 885 8855. www.paddyhoman.com

March 28, Saturday. Baile Corcaigh. Paddy Homan of Cork with Mike Gavin & [...]