Emmylou Harris headlines the second night of the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. For most of her career, dating back to the late 1960s, Emmylou Harris was known primarily as a gifted interpreter of songs penned by other artists / writers. Her pristine, crystalline voice and unique phrasing often found new ...
Ryan Adams plays the Ann Arbor Folk Festival on Friday. It might be tempting to lump Ryan Adams in with a slew of other sensitive-sounding male singer-songwriters who are popular these days—Jack Johnson, Pete Yorn and Jeff Tweedy, to name just a few. Adams may have a bit more grit ...
The Ark has announced the full lineup for the 2012 Ann Arbor Folk Festival, with headliners including Ryan Adams, DeVotchKa, Emmylou Harris, Glen Campbell and Nanci Griffith. Tickets are currently on sale to Ark members, and to those buying higher priced Gold Circle, Platinum Circle and Benefactor Circle tickets. A ...
Most of us have probably seen one of those family portraits where several generations line up side by side, grandparents with their children and grandchildren. That’s the kind of image I took away from the second night of the Ann Arbor Folk Festival on Saturday, an event that included music ...
Musical up-and-comers more than held their own with the bigger acts at Friday night’s Ann Arbor Folk Festival, the first of two night’s worth of music that acts as a fundraiser for downtown’s nonprofit music club The Ark. Friday night’s acts generally hew toward the cutting edge of folk, while ...
Judy Collins is one of the headliners on the Saturday night bill of the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. At this point in music history — more than a half-century after popular music was re-defined by the youthful energy of rock ‘n’ roll — one important measure of greatness is longevity. ...
To get you in the mood for this year's Ann Arbor Folk Festival, here's some more info on the performers participating on the second day of the annual event, Saturday at Hill Auditorium.
Theo Katzman leads off the first night of this year's Ann Arbor Folk Festival. Theo Katzman acknowledges he has a daunting task. The local indie musician is the first act on the bill on the first night of the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, starting Friday. He’s also the only local ...
To get you in the mood for this year's Ann Arbor Folk Festival, here's some more info on the performers participating on the first day of the annual event, Friday at Hill Auditorium.
The 34th edition of the Ann Arbor Folk Festival boasts an impressive roster of new and veteran acts, with headliners including the Avett Brothers, the Swell Season, Judy Collins and Mavis Staples. This year’s festival will take place at Hill Auditorium on Friday, Jan. 28 and Saturday, Jan. 29, and ...
With its headline acts named earlier, the Ann Arbor Folk Festival has announced the other acts in its lineup. The festival —Â the primary fundraiser for The Ark nonprofit music club —Â takes place over two nights, Friday, January 28 and Saturday, January 29, 2011, at the University of Michigan's ...
The Ark, sponsor of the annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival, today announces the headline acts for the 34th edition of its signature fundraiser, and both are popular with local audiences: the Avett Brothers and the Swell Season. As has become the norm in recent years, the festival will take place ...
There were so many standout moments during Saturday’s installment of the two-night Ann Arbor Folk Festival it’s hard to know where to start. There was the iconic Richie Havens, with that amazing, instantly-recognizable voice, performing “Here Comes the Sun.” There was Rosanne Cash offering her dad’s “Tennessee Flat Top Box” ...
One night down, one more of the annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival to go. And what a night Friday — devoted to acts more on folk's cutting edge — was. The headliners delivered strong sets, but the lesser-knowns on the bill were also well worth catching, right from the opening ...
What better way to warm up the bitter end of a cold January than with two nights of top-flight folk music? The Ann Arbor Folk Festival, a 2-night extravaganza of traditional and cutting-edge folk, kicks off its 33rd year on Friday. Headliners on Friday are Iron and Wine and the ...
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