Nightspots

Crazy Wisdom Tea Room

114 S. Main [map]
665-9468
crazywisdom.net

Tea room above Crazy Wisdom Bookstore features live music, Fri.-Sat. 8-10 p.m. No cover, no dancing.

March 6: Taller Than They Appear

Quartet of veteran area singer-songwriters who accompany each other with soulful vocal harmonies and on an eclectic array of instruments, from bells, bongos, woodblocks, washboards and whistles to guitars, violins, and ukuleles. Members are Jere Stormer, Bobby Pennock, Sigrid Christiansen, and Lauren Crane.

March 7: Eastward Bound

Duo of Luti Erbeznik and John Finan. Erbeznik is a Milford singer- songwriter and guitarist who sings in a voice that's been compared to Nick Drake and whose music blends American folk, rock, and pop forms with the rhythms and colorings of the music of his native Yugoslavia. Finan is a Canton singer-songwriter who writes country- tinged folk-pop.

March 13: Emma McDermott

20-year-old local indie pop-folk singer-songwriter.

March 14: Mike Gentry

Local pop-folk singer-songwriter whom longtime Guitar Player editor Jas Obrecht praises as "brilliant at coffeehouse-approved acoustic music, blistering hard rock, and most styles in between."

March 19: Open Mike

All musicians invited. Hosted by local fiddler Emily Slomovits. Signup begins at 7:30 p.m.

March 20: John Churchville

Local tabla player, accompanied by several musician friends, who plays Indian classical, light classical, fusion, and folk music.

March 27: Bill Edwards

Veteran local country singer-songwriter whose songs have been covered by the likes of Lee Roy Parnell and T. Graham Brown. His collaboration with former Ann Arborite Whit Hill, "What'd I Do," was featured in the HBO series True Blood.

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