A Josh White Jr Celebration
Sunday, October 1, 2023, 2:00pm
Tickets: $35-$75
Celebrating 80 years in show business!
This “Josh-a-Palooza” show celebrates a Michigan treasure. Josh and special guests will be onhand for a magical afternoon of music and memories. Josh White Jr has carried his messageof positivity, spirituality, love, peace, and social commitment around the world, performingfor presidents, kings and queens, the Pope, for the poorest of poor in their earthen homesand for children everywhere. In the 1940s, as a child star born into a celebrated family, heperformed for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (his godmother) and for the armed forces, and shared stages with Kate Smith, Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, Frank Sinatra, Ethel Walters, Woody Guthrie, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Dorothy Gish, Duke Ellington, and Lead Belly. His mother was a gospel singer, and his father, Josh White Sr., with whom he began performing at the age of three in 1944, introduced the world to folk, blues, and spirituals. Josh Sr. was the first solo folk and blues artist to make a national concert hall tour of America, and the first to tour overseas. His son, who moved to Detroit in 1976 and is a priceless Michigan resource, is carrying on a very deep tradition.
http://www.joshwhitejr.com/
Category : Blues, Classic Folk, Tributes

At The Majestic Theatre

Broken Social Scene
Special Guest: Hannah Georgas
Monday, October 2, 2023, 7:00pm doors
Tickets: $ 30; $35 day of
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of their album, You Forgot It In People, Broken Social Scene are playing songs from their seminal sophomore album, among many more hits. At the dawn of the 21st-century, just as the internet began infecting every aspect of our daily lives, Toronto musicians Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning began building a social network of their own. Like other such networks you’re familiar with, it quickly expanded to include friends, and friends of friends. It became a place where they could live out their best lives or fret about the fragile state of the world. And yes, occasionally, it became a forum for arguments and oversharing. But this social network didn’t require you to stay glued to your smartphone to take part in it. Quite the opposite: Since debuting in 2001, Broken Social Scene have personified the unyielding, incomparable power of IRL human connection.

https://brokensocialscene.ca/
https://www.hannahgeorgas.com/

Category: Contemporary Songwriters & Groups

Dave & Kristi With Their Showband
w/sg Rochelle Clark
Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 8:00pm
Tickets; $20
“Irrepressible verve and joy” — Daniel Bracken, Wheatland Music
Dave Boutette's Midwest is full of passion, humor, and a certain shaky grace. Influenced by songwriters from Chuck Berry to John Prine to Elvis Costello, he documents the travels and triumphs of life in the heartland. Dave grew up in Detroit's shadow, and he peppers his performances with stories of his home and his life on the road. Kristi Lynn Davis logged in about 1,200 performances and 240,000 kicks as a Radio City Rockette. She also sailed the
globe as a singer-dancer on cruise ships and worked in musical theater productions with showbiz icons Susan Anton, Buddy Ebsen, Maurice Hines, Jack Jones, Paige O’Hara, Juliet Prowse, Rip Taylor, and others. Kristi’s had so many adventures in show business, she had to write a book to keep them all straight. Her award-winning comic memoir is titled "Long Legs and Tall Tales." Close, comforting, and warm, Kristi’s voice slips in right beside Dave’s, and her charming and confident stage presence, along with her quick wit, are adding a whole new appeal to Dave’s shows. Together they have perfor
med at music festivals, listening rooms, and brewpubs from the Porcupine Mountains in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula all the way down to Oberlin, Ohio. Tonight marks their first show with a full band!

https://www.daveboutette.net/daveandkristi/

Category : Contemporary Songwriters & Groups, Local/Regional

GINA CHAVEZ
Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 8:00pm
Tickets: $25
Bilingual songs from Austin A multiethnic Latin pop songstress, Gina Chavez is a ten -time Austin Music Award winner. Herbilingual record "Up.Rooted" topped both the Amazon and Latin iTunes charts following a feature on NPR's All Things Considered and has gained wide critical acclaim. Her Tiny Desk
concert made NPR's top 15 of 2015, and she recently made 12-country tour as a cultural ambassador with the U.S. State Department, Gina offers passionate bilingual songs that take audiences on a journey through the Americas, blending the sounds and rhythms of the region with tension and grace. Her Spanish - language anthem "Siete - D" (Grand Prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest) recounts her experience volunteering in a gang - dominated suburb of San Salvador, where she co - founded the Niñas Arriba College Fund for young Latinas. Her songs share her story of life in Texas as a married, queer Catholic Gina appeared at the 2022 Ann Arbor Folk Festival, and her latest, the all - Spanish album "La que manda," earned a Latin Grammy nomination.

https://www.ginachavez.com/
Category: Contemporary Songwriters & Groups

JOHN RAYMOND & S. CAREY “SHADOWLANDS”
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 8:00pm
Tickets: $25
A deep and unique collaboration
John Raymond and S. Carey have been playing music together for close to twenty years since their time studying music at the University of Wisconsin
– Eau Claire. While they both received training in jazz and classical music, their careers would soon head in very different directions. S. Carey would become the right-hand man to Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver); collaborate as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer with the likes of Sufjan
Stevens, Low, and Bruce Hornsby among others; and release four albums of his own to critical acclaim from Pitchfork, NPR, and more. John Raymond, on the other hand, would become a Grammy-nominated trumpeter and composer “steering jazz in the right direction” (Downbeat); release eight albums
garnering praise from the New York Times, Stereogum, and others; and teach on faculty at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, one of the
most prestigious music conservatories in the world.

In 2019, the two reunited and began experimenting on what their artistic voices would sound like together. Raymond brought in a host of musical ideas, while Carey contributed lyrics and helped shape the ideas into songs. Producer Sun Chung (formerly with ECM Records) came on board shortly after, and together they enlisted a cast of A-list musicians to help flesh out the music including pianist Aaron Parks (Terri Lyne Carrington, Terence Blanchard), bassist Chris Morrissey (Norah Jones, Mark Guiliana), and guitarist Dave Devine (Brian Blade and the Fellowship B and). The result is their new album, “Shadowlands” (out September 29), a stunning, genre-bending collection of songs that combines the warmth and beauty of Carey’s aesthetic with the improvisational, spontaneous nature of Raymond’s. The music ranges from intimate and meditative to soaring and anthemic, with electric moments of musical interplay throughout. It’s the kind of collaboration that feels as if it were years in the making.

https://john-raymond.com/

Category : Jazz

THE BEN DANIELS BAND
Friday, October 6, 2023, 8:00pm
Tickets: $20
Homegrown Michigan roots music for today
Be n Daniels is the son of actor Jeff Daniels, but that's very much the beginning of a story, not the end. When Ben Daniels decided he was going to be a musician, it was more than a career choice. A natural poet, this young songwriter went to school on Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, and Jack White, among others. His lyrics speak directly to a younger generation that hears, sees, and thinks about the very things he's writing. From their opening song to the finale of their set, The Ben Daniels Band brings originality and musicianship to a sound that spans Americana, blues, jazz, and rock. What Ben inherited from his father is, perhaps, a feeling for what it takes to live life as an artist, to reach out and create not just songs but anthems with arrangements that pull people in and, more often than not, tear the house down.The Ben Daniels Band has grown to be a formidable group that sounds pleasantly familiar, yet unforgettably unique.

https://www.bendanielsband.com/
Category : Americana/Alt-Country, Local/Regional, Roots

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