Hana Malhas When Hana Malhas arrived in Ann Arbor from her native Amman, Jordan, several years ago, it was to pursue a business degree at the University of Michigan. Now she’s an indie-folk musician with a busy international career. So how did one turn into the other? “I came to ...
Dave Sharp One way the music business continues to evolve is the use of online fund-raising drives to back recording projects. Well-known and well-respected local jazz musician Dave Sharp has a drive under way via Kickstarter to fund a new album called "Worlds" he plans to release this fall with ...
A vintage publicity photo of Masterpiece By Ben Solis As Washtenaw Community College guitar instructor John E. Lawrence looks in a crate of old 45s, he says he never expected his own music would someday have the same appeal of classic Detroit artists such as Stevie Wonder or The Temptations. ...
Sonic Lunch, the popular weekly free summer concert series in downtown Ann Arbor, released its season schedule today, and it combines some bigger-than-usual names with some old favorites.
When it comes The Moxie Strings, the name says it all. “Drive, energy, fervor—we think it represents our sound and the two of us as people pretty well,” said Diana Ladio, fiddle player. Ladio’s performing partner is cellist Alison Lynn. Although officially a duo, they sometimes join forces with percussionist ...
Drew De Four Ann Arbor singer/songwriter Drew De Four may be touring in Europe the next four months, but that doesn’t mean things are quiet on the home front. For one thing, the video for his new single, "Keep a Light” is getting plenty of hits on YouTube, and he ...
(This story has been revised to correct the day of the event.) You can thank the Mayans and their prediction that the world will end in December for the theme of this year’s “Breakin’ Curfew” teen variety show. “Last year’s theme was Michigan pride. This year it morphed into something ...
Sunday afternoon saw the second year of Ann Arbor's Water Hill Music Fest, a unique event in which residents of a single neighborhood play music on their front porches (or a handy patch of ground) for the enjoyment of passers-by. Some 86 separate acts performed in countless different genres, and ...
poster design by Kate Uleman Not too much will change as the Water Hill Music Fest approaches its second year. Why would it? With last year's inaugural event generally considered a remarkable success, minor tweaks—and even more music—are the only differences expected this time around. If you missed it last ...
Cairn to Cairn For Terry Farmer and the other members of Ann Arbor acoustic trio Cairn to Cairn, it’s all about finding the next stop on their musical path. “A cairn is like a trail marker,” Farmer explained. In this case, Cairn to Cairn’s latest waypoint is a new album. ...
The second annual Water Hill Music Fest takes place next weekend, and organizers are still signing up musicians to participate. Last year saw the event become an immediate hit in Ann Arbor, and already more performers have signed on than last year, organizer Paul Tinkerhess said. There's still room for ...
The sad truth about many of the great old bluesmen (and women) who were a big influence on the generations of blues and rock musicians who followed is that many of them never earned much of a living from plying their musical trade. So, they often died with little or ...
This story has been updated to correct an error. Speaking about what happened to a friend who was recently stuck in an abusive relationship still brings tears to 15-year-old singer Dymond Harding’s eyes. Harding's friend was a victim of physical and mental abuse, and that situation was part of the ...
The American Bar Association's annual meeting will be held August 2-7 in Chicago, and this year's meeting will include a Battle of the Lawyer Bands. Ann Arbor's own 9-member lawyer band, Soultivity (which made the cut as one of the top 5 lawyer bands in the country by virtue of ...
He was singing in the Boychoir of Ann Arbor at age 4 and picked up his first guitar when he was 13. When his high school friends were flipping burgers for comic-book money, he was gigging regularly with the Community High School Jazz Band and, by, 18, he’d already toured ...
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