Nightspots
Wednesday Mar 17, 2010
The Ark: Open Stage
All acoustic performers invited. Fifteen acts are selected randomly from those who sign up to perform 8 minutes (or 2 songs) each. The most talented and popular Open Stage performers are offered their own evenings at the Ark. $3 (members & students, $2).
The Black Pearl: Beth Stalker & Jim Rawlings
An eclectic mix of styles, from blues, R&B, and jazz to rock and country, by the Detroit Music Award-winning duo of singer- songwriter Stalker and songwriter-guitarist Rawlings.
The Blind Pig: Honey & the Honey Bees
U-M student indie rock band. Opening acts are 2 other U-M student rock bands, Sha Sha La La and Jeremy & Demyan.
The Circus: Wolfie Complex
Local quartet, fronted by singer-guitarist Wolfie Geske, whose music mixes folk, jazz, and hip-hop.
Cleary’s Pub: Fritz’s Fury
Chelsea band that plays everything from traditional and contemporary Irish music to classic rock covers. Also, bagpiper Tom Kennedy. 4-11 p.m.
The Earle: Jake Reichbart
Solo jazz guitarist.
Elbow Room: Black Jake & the Carnies
Ypsilanti octet that calls its energetic, foot-stomping blend of punk, old-time music, and bluegrass “crabgrass.” All Music Guide writer Steve Leggett calls it “a kind of raucous acoustic Americana that tosses postmodern Appalachian murder ballads, Irish drinking songs, skewed, twisted love songs and general cautionary tales into a stylistic blender that has them sounding like nothing so much as a maverick, hopped-up punk polka band in full 21st-century everything-fits jug band mode.” Opening acts are The Darn Fools, a local indie rock band featuring members of Black Jake & the Carnies and Ghostlady, and another band TBA.
The Habitat Ultralounge: Green-Eyed Soul
Windsor pop trio fronted by vocalists Melissa Danese and Fallon Deluca.
Keystone Underground Martini Bar: Open Mike
All musicians invited. 10 p.m.
The Necto: VNV Nation
An array of genres fro electronic dance music to ballads and classically inspired music by the British/Irish duo of singer- songwriter and electronic musician Ronan Harris and drummer Mark Jackson. Opening act is SITD, a German electro- industrial band.
