MOCAD/Performance: Midsummer Nights In Midtown

Friday, June 26th from 8pm to 12pm
All Ages
The UCCA and Wayne State University present MidSummer Nights in Midtown, the new summer series presents an eclectic music mix, street painting, street theatre and activities for families and children. The event will introduce the public to Midtown Detroit’s wide array of museums, galleries and entertainment venues. Admission [...]

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 [...]

Midsummer Nights in Midtown

[ June 11, 2009 12:00 am to June 13, 2009 12:00 am. ] Thursday, June 11
4. Magic Stick and Alley Deck
4120 Woodward – majesticdetroit.com
Hot Club of Detroit
8:00pm – Jazzy | Gypsy
Hot Club of Detroit is an electrifying and visionary jazz and gypsy ensemble that spins the traditions pioneered by Django Reinhardt and company into a refreshing and contemporary sound.

Brooklyn Qawwali Party
10:00pm – Jazz | World
The thunderous, buoyant dance [...]

A Midsummer Night’s After Party at the Max

[ June 13, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Join us for the DSO’s biggest night of the year – the afterparty for A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Open bar, signature drinks and hors d’oeuvres.  Music by Detroit DJs Global
and Joshua Adams.  Dancing to George Bedard and the Kingpins.  Cigar Terrace and Sports Lounge showing Detroit Tigers game and NBA playoffs.
 

Come early for the Midsummer [...]

The Detroit Festival Of The Arts Is Here!

Midsummer Nights In Midtown
Admission is free throughout the summer series..
Thursday, June 4
The N’Namdi Arts Center
52 & 66 E. Forest – grnnamdi.com
Art Exhibition
Pathe Jassi
Pathe Jassi Trio
8:00pm – West African Jazz
Bass player Pathe Jassi fuses the best of Senegalese and Detroit jazz traditions.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Miles Long
9:30pm – Urban Jazz | Funk
Warner boasts a repertoire that runs [...]

Midsummer Nights in Midtown, First Weekend

[ June 4, 2009 12:00 am to June 6, 2009 12:00 am. ] Thursday,  June 4
 
1a. The N’Namdi Arts Center
52 & 66 E. Forest – grnnamdi.com
Art Exhibition
 

Pathe Jassi Trio
8:00pm – West African Jazz
Bass player Pathe Jassi fuses the best of Senegalese and Detroit jazz traditions.
 

Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Miles Long
9:30pm – Urban Jazz | Funk
Warner boasts a repertoire that runs the gamut from Living Colour to Coltrane, with plenty of [...]

The Detroit Festival Of The Arts Is Now Midsummer Nights In Midtown

Project Bandaloop performs in a wide variety of contexts. The work is presented in theaters, on buildings, in atriums, warehouses, convention halls and in nature on cliffs. The company: eight dancers and two technical support and rigging staff, has been performing since 1991 and touring since 1995. They will be performing this June during Midsummer Nights in Midtown.