Arts and Entertainment
August 28, 2023
From: Kerrytown Concert HouseWe've got an exciting season in store for you!
Below is just a sampling of the world-class artists and events we're featuring this year:
Cabaret
NYC Cabaret Artist
Ari Axelrod: An Evening with Ari Axelrod
TWO SHOWS
Sunday | September 10
4:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Ann Arbor native Ari Axelrod returns to his hometown to debut his newest show on the Kerrytown Concert House stage! Featuring songs from Broadway, the pop world, and beyond, Ari will take you on a musical journey exploring what makes us human with compositions you know and love, served with a unique twist that will send you home whistling a new favorite tune or humming a long treasured gem.
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Jazz Listening Room
Preservation Hall Legend
Charlie Gabriel
Live in the House!
with special guest, saxophonist Kasan Belgrave
Adam Mosley (piano),
Paul Keller (bass),
Pete Siers (drums)
TWO SHOWS
Friday | September 29
7:00 PM & 9:15 PM
Kerrytown Concert House is thrilled to welcome back to its stage Preservation Hall Legend - clarinetist, saxophonist, and flutist Charlie Gabriel! A fourth-generation jazz musician from New Orleans, Gabriel has strong ties to Detroit, where he moved as a teenager, and to Kerrytown Concert House, where in 1994, he recorded his award-winning CD, Live at the Kerrytown Concert House with jazz pianist Red Richards. He came back to KCH again with Richards in 1997 to collaborate in a tribute to Doc Cheatham with Marcus Belgrave and Kurt Krahnke. Now on the heels of his 91st birthday, Gabriel returns for a reunion performance with former bandmates Paul Keller & Pete Siers, and for an especially meaningful collaboration with Marcus Belgrave’s son and multi-woodwind-instrumentalist Kasan Belgrave. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear this elder statesman of Preservation Hall and New Orleans jazz play at KCH - up close and personal!
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Classical Salon Series
Ev’ry Night and Ev’ry Morn
Houston Grand Opera Finalist
Samuel Kidd, baritone
Julian Grabarek, piano
Wednesday | October 11th
@ 7:30 PM
Kerrytown Concert House is delighted to welcome back to its stage Ann Arbor native and Houston Grand Opera finalist, baritone Samuel Kidd. Joining him will be collaborative pianist Julian Grabarek - both artists just back from a summer performing in San Francisco for the world-renowned Merola Opera Program. Together, Kidd and Grabarek will present Ev'ry Night and Ev'ry Morn, a compelling voice recital centered on Benjamin Britten's striking and haunting cycle, Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, examining the contradictions of modern life in our societies, relationships, and even within ourselves. You won’t want to miss this special opportunity to hear an extraordinary baritone emerging on the national operatic scene in KCH’s intimate setting!
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Edgefest - 4 Day Festival!
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Jazz Listening Room
When Saturday
Becomes Sunday:
Pianist Rick Roe Plays
the Music of Mr. B
(Mark Lincoln Braun)
Rick Roe, piano
Robert Hurst, bass
Nate Winn, drums
Sunday | November 5th
7:00 PM
Pianist and composer Rick Roe plays the music of Mark Lincoln Braun (“Mr. B”) arranged for the Rick Roe Trio featuring celebrated jazz greats Robert Hurst (bass) and Nate Winn (drums). The Trio explores Mr. B classics like “My Sunday Best” and “Deep Excavation,” and will showcase newer compositions which will include “Waltz for Mary Ann” and “Prayer for Web.” This concert will be special, with three outstanding musicians paying homage to the legendary Mr. B - the world’s premiere purveyor of blues and boogie woogie piano, a quintessential American art form.
*Mark Lincoln Braun / “Mr. B” is a celebrated blues, jazz and boogie woogie pianist, and founder of Mr. B's Joybox Express, a 501c3 organization that raises funds for children's arts and athletic programs through musical events.
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Classical Salon
The Siciliano Salon Series at Kerrytown Concert House:
Pianist Julia Siciliano
& Rising Cello Sensation Miriam K. Smith Play Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff & Dvo?ák
Thursday | November 11th
@ 7:30 PM
“...exceptionally mature grasp of the music…extraordinarily beautiful, vibrant tone.”
– Atlanta Audio Club on cellist Miriam K. Smith
Kerrytown Concert House is delighted to present the third installment of this season’s Siciliano Salon Concerts - a series of 5 chamber music concerts curated by collaborative and concert pianist, Julia Siciliano!
This third concert in the series introduces rising cello sensation, Mirian K. Smith in collaboration with pianist Julia Siciliano for a thrilling recital program that will include Beethoven Variations on the theme “Bei Männern,” Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No.4 in C major, Op.102 No.1, Rachmaninoff Prelude Op.2 No.1, Brahms Cello Sonata in E minor, and Dvo?ák Polonaise in A Major for Cello and Piano.
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Jazz Listening Room
Seasons of Mercer
Tamir Hendelman, piano
& Tierney Sutton, jazz vocalist
Friday | January 12th
@ 7:30 PM
“This is truly one of my very favorite projects. No pianist in the world swings harder than Tamir and he’s an encyclopedia of songs so I’m able to be so free and improvisational. This project is a joy.”
~ Tierney Sutton
KCH is thrilled to welcome internationally celebrated jazz musicians Tierney Sutton (vocals) and Tamir Hendelman (piano)! The Sutton/Hendelman musical duo relationship goes back more than 20 years. In that time, Sutton has earned 9 Grammy nominations for her 14 albums as leader, and Hendelman has been arranging, recording and performing with a host of Luminaries including Barbra Streisand and Natalie Cole, leading his own trio, and being the featured pianist of the Jeff Hamilton Trio as well as the Grammy-Winning Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Still, Tierney and Tamir found time to tour as a duo in Italy, Japan, China and throughout the U.S.
With all of that, it was the pandemic that cemented and deepened the partnership of these two Los Angeles-based artists. Throughout 2020 and 2021, Tierney and Tamir created and presented live-streamed themed shows and “By Request” video dedications for fans around the world.
Don’t miss this swinging and intimate musical journey with the Sutton/Hendelmen duo, as they celebrate the Great American Songbook through one of its quintessential lyricists, Johnny Mercer, taking us through the seasons of the year and indeed, the many seasons of our lives.
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