Bonnie Raitt turned the page on a four-decade-long mutual love affair with Ann Arbor on Friday, delivering a riveting performance that reduced a packed Hill Auditorium to an intimate coffee shop and served as a reminder of what a delightful performer Raitt has always been. Alternating between material from her ...
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. ...
On Friday morning, right around 9 a.m., Linda Yohn will flip the switch that turns on her studio microphone at WEMU, 89.1-FM. When she does, she’ll be marking a milestone—her 25th anniversary of being an on-air host at Eastern Michigan University’s venerable public-radio station. Yes, it was on May 25, ...
Most tickets available from Ticketmaster.com or Ticketmaster retail sites, including the Michigan Union. The Michigan League Ticket Office, 911 N. University Ave., sells tickets in person or by phone at 734-764-2538 for University Musical Society, University of Michigan and Ann Arbor Summer Festival productions; these tickets are also available online: ...
AnnArbor.com and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival are partnering to offer readers a chance to win free tickets to Feist's upcoming concert at Hill Auditorium.
My name is Mike, and I'm a banjo picker. In my last column, I suggested that I intend to exact a particularly fiendish sort of retribution on my son by teaching my beautiful new granddaughter how to play the banjo, just like her "PopPop" does. This is not an idle ...
Bonnie’s back—refreshed and revitalized. In April, when Bonnie Raitt released her new “Slipstream” album, it had been seven years since her last studio record. After enduring many personal losses, starting in 2004, she decided she needed the break—to grieve, adjust, and just take some time for herself, after being one ...
The sound of local high school and middle school bands in the open air is the draw today at Pioneer High School, where the traditional Picnic Pops concert (and more) takes place through the rest of the afternoon. It's a carnival and a concert with plenty of fundraising games like ...
AnnArbor.com and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival are partnering to offer readers a chance to win free tickets to Bonnie Raitt's upcoming concert at Hill Auditorium.
Washtenaw Community Concert Band will present a concert called A Celebration of American Musicians on Sunday, May 20 at 3 p.m. on the north lawn of the Ann Arbor First United Methodist Church, 120 S. State St.
Editor’s note: This is the next installment of a weekly column by Paul Wiener designed to point readers to cool or useful websites. Google Translate Google's web-based translation app has been out there for years, linked from the bar (click "more") at the top of the basic search page. It's ...
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.
After 50 years and still going strong, the tradition of Picnic Pops returns to the lawn of Pioneer High School this Saturday. The citywide "ice cream social" is a chance to eat, socialize, and most of all experience the talent of the music programs in the Ann Arbor Public Schools. ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
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