Happening Today: Jill Sobule returns, choreographer Wayne McGregor speaks

Posted on Thu, Feb 16, 2012 : 5:26 a.m.

Happening Today: Jill Sobule returns, choreographer Wayne McGregor speaks

By Ann Dwyer

The Washtenaw Community Concert Band will present "American Fantasies" at Towsley Auditorium on the Washtenaw Community College campus on Thursday evening.

LECTURE

The Penny Stamps Lecture Series will host Random International/Wayne McGregor at the Michigan Theater on Thursday. 5:10 p.m. McGregor, a dancer, has gone outside the field of "pure" dance to choreograph movement for movies, plays, musicals and art galleries, including "Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire." Free. The Michigan is at 603 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor. 734-668-8397.

MUSIC

Jill Sobule performs at the Ark in downtown Ann Arbor on Thursday night.

Singer/songwriter Jill Sobule will perform at the Ark. 8 p.m. The woman who kissed a girl and liked it long before Katy Perry will return with her deeply personal, socially conscious, seriously funny and derisively tragic songs. $15. The Ark is at 316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor. 734-761-1800. www.theark.org.

MUSIC

The Washtenaw Community Concert Band will present "American Fantasies" at Towsley Auditorium on the Washtenaw Community College campus. 7:30 p.m. Works will be performed that represent varieties of American music including jazz, patriotic, Dixieland, a Sousa march, as well as a new work composed by member Patricio Padilla Las Canciones del Dragon Negro. Free. In the Morris Lawrence building at 4800 E. Huron River Dr., Ann Arbor. 734-677-5033.