The Yellow Room gang is, front row from left: Annie Capps, Jan Krist, Kitty Donohoe, Michael Hough: back row, Jim Bizer, Matt Watroba, David Tamulevich and David Barrett. The phrase “recorded live before a studio audience” now holds special meaning for members of Ann Arbor folk-acoustic collective The Yellow Room ...
Matt Watroba returns to The Ark on Friday. Well, if it’s late November, that means it’s time for Matt Watroba’s annual day-after-Thanksgiving show at The Ark. The event has become such a tradition that even Watroba isn’t sure how many years he’s been doing the show now. “I do know ...
Been missing "Folks Like Us," the popular regional acoustic-music program that WDET canceled late last year? Matt Watroba — the host of that show and a well-known area singer and musician —Â will guest host for Jeremy Baldwin on "The Roots Music Project" this Saturday on WEMU, the station announced.
These are obviously brutal times for the state of Michigan and its residents — especially in the Metro Detroit area, what with the endless layoffs, an unemployment rate hovering around 22 percent, the flood of foreclosures and underwater mortgages, and big funding cuts for everything from education to the arts ...
There’s a good reason why the group of Ann Arbor singer-songwriters known collectively as The Yellow Room Gang plans its annual local show in the early days of each new year. “It’s really about the only time that all 8 of us are all together. We schedule this one far ...
WDET (101.9-FM), the public radio station based at Wayne State University in Detroit, recently announced schedule changes that include the cancellation of three weekend roots music programs, Matt Watroba's "Folks Like Us," Larry McDaniel's "Arkansas Traveler," and Robert Jones' "Deep River." At the same time, additions to the schedule include ...
Jeff Daniels said it himself, and he was right: “This one was the best one yet.” He was referring to his annual Thanksgiving weekend concert, Jeff Daniels and Friends, Saturday night at the Michigan Theater. As usual, Daniels showed impeccable taste in “friends” — the acts, all from the Mitten ...
Matt WatrobaA number of Thanksgiving-weekend entertainment traditions have developed in Ann Arbor in recent years: There's the "Jeff Daniels and Friends" concert at the Michigan Theater. There's Heywood Banks' regular stand at the Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase. But the longest-standing of these is Friday's day-after-Thanksgiving appearance by Matt Watroba at ...
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