Friday August 8, 2008
		The Ark presents John Sebastian and Roger McGuinn at the Michigan Theater
		Show starts at 8 pm Doors open at 7:30 pm
		Buy Online ($75, $39.50, $25)
		Buy In Person
		Seating Chart
		Rock/Pop

"Legends of folk rock, together in concert"

It's a once-in-a-lifetime folk-rock revival at the Michigan Theater! Roger McGuinn was the nucleus of a group of musicians that blended folk and rock in 1964, forming the Byrds and creating a sound that changed American popular music. McGuinn had a consistently fresh and successful solo career after the Byrds disbanded, and lately he's returned to his roots as an acoustic folk singer-songwriter. John Sebastian was the lead singer and songwriter of the Lovin' Spoonful. He drew on blues, country, folk, and jug band sounds to create a new American roots mixture and a string of songs you know by heart: "Do You Believe In Magic?," "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?," "Summer In The City," "Nashville Cats." Sebastian, too, has continued to perform and make new music, and he's the author of a great children's book, JB's Harmonica. Roger McGuinn and John Sebastian will each perform a solo set, and they will also perform together.


Two opportunities to prepare for the Friday August 8 concert by 60's icons John Sebastian and Roger McGuinn:

1. Popular radio morning show host Martin Bandyke will air an interview with Roger McGuinn on his wonderful Fine Tuning program on 107one FM this Sunday, August 3 at 4:00 pm.

2. Later in the week, highly regarded music journalist James Leonard will deliver a talk entitled "America Fights Back: the Byrds, the Spoonful and the End of English Domination," at the downtown branch of the Ann Arbor District Library on Wednesday, August 6 at 7:00 pm. The talk will include insights he gained while interviewing both Sebastian and McGuinn for a piece in this month's Ann Arbor Observer.

Click here or here to visit Roger McGuinn on the Web.

Click here or here to visit John Sebastian's websites.

Tickets to Ark-produced shows at other venues are available only through Ticketmaster or by phone through the Michigan Union Ticket Office at 734-763-8587.