The Paul Keller Orchestra at Zal Gaz Grotto
The Zal Gaz Grotto is a Masonic lodge offering traditional American food, a sensibly stocked bar,...
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Culture
Smell & Tell with Michelle Krell Kydd
Michelle Krell Kydd’s free “Smell & Tell” sessions usually meet downtown on...
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Joyce DiDonato
Classical music is not for the faint of heart. This is especially true of opera, a mind-altering...
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Charles Lloyd & Lucinda Williams
For more than six decades, saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd has been investigating wide...
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Brennan Andes
It’s a little after five on a fall Sunday afternoon. On the patio outside the Ann Arbor...
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Elizabeth Alexander
When Elizabeth Alexander recited her poem “Praise Song for the Day” at President...
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Philip Metres
Philip Metres has become one of the leading poets and critics discussing the position of Arab...
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The War and Treaty
A year and a half ago The War and Treaty were playing occasional gigs around Albion, and when they...
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Diva Royale
If you like Mamma Mia, there’s a fair chance you’ll like Jeff Daniels’ new play,...
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James McMurtry
James McMurtry’s big, storytelling songs work either as acoustic folk or as Southern rock,...
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Roscoe Mitchell
Saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, teacher, and composer Roscoe Mitchell comes to Ann Arbor this...
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Have We Met?
In 1967, Gordon Mumma of the ONCE Group observed that artists are nourished by the cultural...
Read MoreNobody’s Business
I first saw the Redford Township rockabilly trio Nobody’s Business in July, when English soccer mobs materialized seemingly out of thin air for the Manchester United-Liverpool FC match at Michigan Stadium. Afterwards a...
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Maya Healers
Climbing the steps to Lane Hall, home of the U-M Women’s Studies Department, I anticipated...
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Rasa Festival
A microphone rests on a small pillow on the stage floor. A few inches away, Anurekha Ghosh, an...
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Doris Humphrey
Fall and recovery were bedrock in the technique of modern dance pioneer Doris Humphrey...
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Cameron Esposito
Cameron Esposito is not the only comic challenging the gendered and outdated standards of stand-up...
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Paul Keller & Terry Lower
“I’m an instigator,” says Paul Keller. “I just can’t sit...
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A Different Kind of Trio
This year the annual critics poll in Downbeat magazine crowned Ingrid Laubrock as “Rising...
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