Nightspots

Zou Zou's Cafe

101 N. Main, Chelsea [map]
433-4226
zouzouscafe.com/

Newly renovated and expanded café features live music most Fri. & Sat., 8-10 p.m. No cover, no dancing.

September 1: Mixed Nuts

Acoustic covers and originals by this Chelsea trio.

September 7: Whiskey Charmers

Classy Detroit neo-honky-tonk duo featuring singer- guitarists Carrie Shepard and Lawrence Daversa, who bill their music as "electric heartbreak on the rocks." The band has a new CD, The Valley, that TJ Music critic Brian Rock calls a "moody, atmospheric soundscape that plays like the soundtrack to a film noir/spaghetti western mashup … simultaneously foreboding and alluring."

September 8: The Potter's Field

Americana roots duo of singer-songwriters Rochelle Clark of Chelsea and John Natiw of Canton.

September 14: 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.

September 15: Jen Cass & the The Lucky Nows

Bluesy Americana roots-rock by an ensemble led by veteran Detroit singer-songwriter Jen Cass.

September 21: Jen Cass & the The Lucky Nows

Bluesy Americana roots-rock by an ensemble led by veteran Detroit singer-songwriter Jen Cass.

September 22: Ruth & Max Bloomquist

Acoustic Americana by this Muskegon husband-and-wife singer- songwriter duo whose 2011 CD, Turn Back a Page, reached #5 on the Folk Radio Airplay chart.

September 28: Derzier

Celtic fusion by the duo of singer-flutist Kelly McDermott and multi- instrumentalist Rob Crozier.