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.
July 3: Rollie Tussing & Friends
Ensemble led by Tussing, a nationally known local guitar virtuoso who specializes in prewar blues and jazz.
July 5: Brad Billmaier Trio
Jazz ensemble led by this local drummer. With keyboardist Kenton Davey and bassist Johannes Ronquillo.
July 6: Playin' Chicken
Local quartet of veteran musicians that plays folk, country, rock, swing, and originals. With bassist Mike Knight, guitarist-mandolinist Bill Connors, fiddler Mary Seelhorst, and guitarist-harmonica player Myron Grant. 8-10 p.m.
July 10: Pete Bullard & the Zou Animals
Blues, swing, and rockabilly by an ensemble led by veteran local guitarist Bullard.
July 11: Annie Capps 
Local singer-songwriter and electric guitarist who writes thoughtful, distinctively personal, warmly exuberant folk-rock songs that are both musically sophisticated and down-home. She's accompanied by her husband, guitarist Rod Capps. Capps has a new CD, Searching for Neverland. 7-9 p.m.
July 13: Mark Jewett
Detroit-area Americana pop-rock singer- songwriter whose latest CD is Love Has No Heart of Its Own. Opener: Mike Gentry, a 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,"
July 16: "Groovy Tuesday"
Local folk & blues Americana trio of guitarists Mike Steele and Tommy Reifel and multi-instrumentalist Wes Fritzemeier. 8-10 p.m.
July 17: The Blue Rays Trio
Eclectic blues-based trio with bassist Ralph McKee, guitarist Peter Holland, and harmonica player Tim Douthit.
July 18: Rochelle Clark
Talented Chelsea singer-songwriter who's half of the Americana duo The Potter's Field.
July 19: Everyday People 419
Toledo-based R&B/Soul band.
July 20: Bill Edwards 
Local country singer-songwriter, 1989 winner of the Billboard Country Songwriting Contest, 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's I Do," was featured in the HBO series True Blood.
July 24: Pete Bullard & the Zou Animals
Blues, swing, and rockabilly by an ensemble led by veteran local guitarist Bullard.
July 24: Rollie Tussing & Friends 
Local blues-oriented vocalist and guitar virtuoso is joined by bassist Todd Perkins and drummer Dave Bendena. 8-10 p.m.
July 25: Sam Corbin
Lansing pop-folk singer-songwriter whose influences range from Leonard Cohen to Bob Dylan. 7-9 p.m.
July 26: The Dawn Giblin Trio
Vintage prewar jazz by this ensemble led by Giblin, a Detroit vocalist whose influences include Connee Boswell, Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey and Ella Fitzgerald. With cellist Mike Caroub and pianist James Dapogny.
July 27: 4Peace4
Postbop jazz by this ensemble led by local guitarist Carl Michel. With vocalist Chris McCall, saxophonist Paul VornHagen, and bassist Keith Malinowski.
July 30: "Groovy Tuesday"
Local folk & blues Americana trio of guitarists Mike Steele and Tommy Reifel and multi-instrumentalist Wes Fritzemeier. 8-10 p.m.
August 2: Mark Palms & Billy King
Duo of Creole du Nord frontman Palms and roots-rock singer- songwriter King.
August 31: Chef Chris & Lou Simon
An evening of postpunk downhome blues by a duo led by veteran local vocalist and blues harpist Chef Chris Sirvinskis.
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