"Window, Fort Laramie" Overlapping chromatic abstraction with color digital photography, Dexter’s John Lilley is one of those rare artists whose talent lies chiefly in his ability to paint with his eye. His 26 “Photographs” at the Kerrytown Concert House show us how he balances the meticulousness of photography with the ...
This article was amended to accurately establish the author of the show's program notes. Matthew Coley The collaborative percussion ensemble coming to Kerrytown Concert House Sunday evening bears the moniker “Sonic Inertia.” But there’s nothing lifeless about this group, led by nationally known percussionist Matthew Coley, starting with the group’s ...
The Jalala Trio leads off a strong month of jazz shows at Kerrytown Concert House. As far as Kerrytown Concert House’s expanded jazz offerings are concerned, it’s a case of noticing a void in the community, then helping fill it. “We’ve really ramped up our jazz series,” said Deanna Relyea, ...
Professor Longhair, by John Pappas There’ll be more than just music at Mr. B’s annual Birthday Bounce, Saturday night at Kerrytown Concert House. This year Mr. B—Ann Arbor keyboard dynamo Mark Braun—and Chelsea-based visual artist John Pappas have collaborated to provide an evening of boogie-woogie and blues piano combined with ...
I suppose it’s true, happily true, that Robert deMaine is “old news in Ann Arbor,” as he wrote in a recent e-mail. The town knows him as the superb principal cellist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; as a chamber musician; a soloist; and as a composer. This Friday, meet deMaine ...
Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that an annual live music event called Wine, Women and Song, happening Jan. 27-29 at the Kerrytown Concert House, is so popular that a fourth show was recently added. I mean, of those three things, what’s not to love? Plus, this year marks the 10th ...
Marlena Studer will perform at Kerrytown Concert House. You might say that Marlena Studer is a bit of a Renaissance woman. She's certainly versatile and multi-talented. She has a PhD in sociology, she worked as a sociology professor for 10 years at Tulane University in New Orleans, she’s a wine ...
It has been a long journey back from devastating injuries for Alicia Doudna and Andrew Kratzat, two local musicians who were critically hurt July 26 in an automobile accident on I-94 in Jackson County. Kratzat, who turned 27 on that day, and Doudna, 31, were both flown by emergency helicopters ...
Sometimes the pieces all fall into the right places. When you’re talking about Edgefest, which wrapped up its five-night residency on Saturday, that can refer to the notes being played, or the people playing them. In this case, it’s both. Edgefest organizers got everything right this year, and the result ...
So what is Edgefest all about? Consider this: artists the five performers who appeared during the festival’s opening night on Wednesday have played with include Milt Hinton, Cecil Taylor and Yusef Lateef and, as well as Loretta Lynn and Ray Price. Yes, Edgefest is about every kind of music you ...
The standard 15th anniversary gift is crystal. So, as Edgefest celebrates its own 15th anniversary, organizers and performers are looking into their crystal balls and gazing back at the music that informs the creative improvisational music upon which the festival is based. “We wanted to look at how classical music ...
Freddy Cole plays two shows at Kerrytown Concert House on Friday. When it comes to piano-playing jazz crooners, Nat King Cole casts a very long shadow. So the fact that Freddy Cole, during a six-decade career, has not only emerged from his older brother’s shadow—but also established himself as a ...
Howard Fishman plays Kerrytown Concert House on Friday. Howard Fishman might just be the best—and most prolific—singer-songwriter you’ve never heard of. He’s been featured in the New York Times. His likeness has been depicted in one of those New Yorker illustrations. He’s played Lincoln Center, fer crying out loud. Yet ...
Janelle Reichman plays Kerrytown Concert House on Friday. When Brooklyn-based jazz instrumentalist Janelle Reichman decided to book a CD release show in her Ann Arbor hometown, the idea of bringing a New York band along didn’t even occur to her. When she performs songs from her debut CD, “Middleground,” Friday ...
"Stripes No. 7" by Nathan Caplan “Caplan at 80: Explorations, Experiments and Prospects” at the Kerrytown Concert House shows us that art is more of a state of mind than it is a matter of age for Nathan Caplan. As this University of Michigan emeritus professor of psychology (and lifelong ...
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