As a performer, Don White is not easily pigeonholed. On the one hand, he's a singer- songwriter / folk singer, and the moods of his songs range from playful to elegiac to irreverently funny to introspective. But, he’s also a comic. And a storyteller. Indeed, at one point, he worked ...
Cal Scott and Kevin Burke With St. Patrick's Day on the horizon, Irish music is suddenly plentiful around the area. But the Detroit Irish Music Association is hosting a chance not only to listen, but also to learn. Both events feature two noted Irish musicians, fiddler Kevin Burke and composer/guitarist ...
“Valentine's started as a day devoted to a saint, but nobody remembers that anymore. We're awash in a deluge of commercial sentimentality, forced attentiveness, chocolates and pink ribbon—an event as mercantile and manufactured as Sweetest Day or those nasty little candy hearts. “Had enough? Of course you have, and here's ...
Kim and Reggie Harris come to the Green Wood Coffee House on Friday. If there’s anyone who knows how to get an audience going, it’s Kim and Reggie Harris. The husband-and-wife duo have been honing their traditional, gospel-flavored act for more than 30 years. The pair will play at the ...
Matt Watroba When reached recently for a phone interview, Matt Watroba was headed south on US-23. “I’m doing my new favorite activity, which is driving back and forth to Ohio,” former Ann Arbor/Detroit area folksinger-songwriter Watroba explained. Former? Ohio? Yep. Longtime Michigander Watroba recently relocated to Kent, where he’s landed ...
The Juggernaut Jug Band plays the Green Wood Coffee House series Friday. A little more than a year ago, the guys in the Juggernaut Jug Band considered calling it quits — which would have ended a roots-music saga that began in the 1960s, when Steven “The Amazing Mr. Fish” Drury ...
It’s been four years since Chuck Brodsky’s last studio album, “Tulips for Lunch” (he released the 2-CD live album, “Two Sets,” in 2008). But Brodksy fans who are champing at the bit for their next “fix” from this talented singer-songwriter won’t have to wait much longer: he presently has enough ...
Ann Arbor's Katie Geddes doesn't sing for her supper. But if she was so inclined, she certainly has the vocal talent and musical taste to be a full-time singer and performer. Geddes has been singing publicly in and around Ann Arbor for about 15 years — usually doing coffeehouse gigs ...
The Green Wood Coffee House series will hold a benefit concert Friday, with proceeds going to the concert series and to Friends In Deed, an interfaith volunteer organization that provides for needs of Washtenaw County residents that are not being met by other human service agencies. Friends In Deed provides ...
The Green Wood Coffee House series will hold a benefit concert Friday, with proceeds going to the concert series and to Friends In Deed, an interfaith volunteer organization that provides for needs of Washtenaw County residents that are not being met by other human service agencies. Friends In Deed provides ...
Don White has gone back to his old habits — much to the delight of his longtime fans. Don White A couple of years ago, White, a folk-pop singer-songwriter whose live shows focus on amusing songs and funny stories, decided that it was time to retire some his best-known comic ...
Chuck Mitchell performs at the Green Wood Coffee House on Friday night. Singer/guitarist/actor Chuck Mitchell — a Detroit native (and ex-husband of Joni Mitchell) whose credits include "A Prairie Home Companion," and "Mr. Foster & Mr. Twain," a 2-man minstrel show in which Stephen Foster (Mitchell) joins Mark Twain for ...
Ann Arbor singer-songwriter Dave Boutette has a nickname that a few of his musician pals have bestowed on him. The moniker is “Happy Dave.” “That used to make me cringe, but now I’m cool with it,” says Boutette, who’s been a fixture on the local roots music scene for the ...
Katie GeddesOn concert night at the Green Wood Coffee House, Katie Geddes is almost always playing hostess — because she’s the one who books and organizes Green Wood’s concert series. But one night a year (more or less), she gets to do a show of her own. And this year, ...
The Green Wood Coffee House series is normally known for showcasing acoustic-folk and other roots-music artists. But tonight, Green Wood hosts a pop-music blast from the past for baby boomers - the band Looking Glass, which notched one of the biggest hits of 1972 with "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)."
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