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SUMMARY:Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Made up of three sisters from Oregon\, Joseph are renowened for their signature sibling harmonies and stripped-back performance style. While their sophomore album\, I’m Alone\, No You’re Not (2016)\, arrived in a breeze of swoony folk\, pop rock-minded follow-up Good Luck\, Kid (2019) saw Joseph turn the volume – and soul – up. Raising their profile on tour with James Bay\, the group has since hosted a cosy NPR Tiny Desk concert and performed on Later… with Jools Holland.
URL:https://theark.org/event/joseph-260408/
LOCATION:El Club\, 4114 W Vernor Hwy\, Detroit\, MI\, 48209\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:James McMurtry Duo feat. BettySoo: The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy
DESCRIPTION:“One of America’s greatest living songwriters.” (Rolling Stone) Texas-based songwriter and guitarist James McMurtry is a supremely insightful and inventive storyteller whose fans include everyone from Stephen King to John Mellencamp. Funny and sad often in the same breath\, McMurtry teases vivid worlds out of small details\, crafting searingly honest lyrics set against a rock/Americana backdrop. His Ypsilanti Freighthouse debut draws from his 2025 album The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy. The story-songs on that album find inspiration in scraps from his family’s past: a rough pencil sketch by Ken Kesey that serves as the album cover; the hallucinations experienced by his father\, the legendary writer Larry McMurtry; an old poem by a family friend. “A solid smorgasbord of aging\, Americana\, and arrested development.” (The Austin Chronicle) \nTwo performances\, 7:00pm and 9:30pm \nPRESENTING SPONSOR\nMatt and Nicole Lester
URL:https://theark.org/event/james-mcmurtry-the-black-dog-and-the-wandering-boy/2026-04-09/1/
LOCATION:Ypsilanti Freighthouse\, 100 Market Pl\, Ypsilanti\, MI\, 48198\, United States
CATEGORIES:Low Ticket Alert,Special Event
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SUMMARY:James McMurtry Duo feat. BettySoo: The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy
DESCRIPTION:“One of America’s greatest living songwriters.” (Rolling Stone) Texas-based songwriter and guitarist James McMurtry is a supremely insightful and inventive storyteller whose fans include everyone from Stephen King to John Mellencamp. Funny and sad often in the same breath\, McMurtry teases vivid worlds out of small details\, crafting searingly honest lyrics set against a rock/Americana backdrop. His Ypsilanti Freighthouse debut draws from his 2025 album The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy. The story-songs on that album find inspiration in scraps from his family’s past: a rough pencil sketch by Ken Kesey that serves as the album cover; the hallucinations experienced by his father\, the legendary writer Larry McMurtry; an old poem by a family friend. “A solid smorgasbord of aging\, Americana\, and arrested development.” (The Austin Chronicle) \nTwo performances\, 7:00pm and 9:30pm \nPRESENTING SPONSOR\nMatt and Nicole Lester
URL:https://theark.org/event/james-mcmurtry-the-black-dog-and-the-wandering-boy/2026-04-09/2/
LOCATION:Ypsilanti Freighthouse\, 100 Market Pl\, Ypsilanti\, MI\, 48198\, United States
CATEGORIES:Low Ticket Alert,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260502T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260502T230000
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SUMMARY:Alan Doyle
DESCRIPTION:Alan Doyle— actor\, producer\, best-selling author\, and best-known as lead singer for Newfoundland’s beloved Great Big Sea these past 20+ years— hardly needs an introduction. With five solo albums under his belt\, Doyle has been touring the world with his ace six-piece band for the last decade. In late 2014\, Doyle released his best-selling memoir Where I Belong\, followed by A Newfoundlander In Canada released in October 2017\, and All Together now released in November 2020. Amidst these projects\, Doyle found time to write music for and appear on CBC’s Republic of Doyle\, guest on CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries\, a role in 2014’s Winter’s Tale and 2010’s Robin Hood. With his 2022 live album “Here\, Tonight” and a recent JUNO nomination for his 2021 album “Back to the Harbour”\, Doyle chalks up a lot of where he is right now to luck. “I’m the luckiest guy I’ve ever even heard of\,” he says. “This was all I ever wanted\, a life in the music business\, singing concerts.” \nDoyle hails from Petty Harbour\, NL\, and formed Great Big Sea in 1993 with Sean McCann\, Bob Hallett\, and Darrell Power\, in which they fused traditional Newfoundland music with their own pop sensibilities. Their nine albums\, double-disc hits retrospective\, and two DVD releases have all been declared Gold or Platinum and have sold a combined 1.2 million copies in Canada.
URL:https://theark.org/event/alan-doyle-260502/
LOCATION:Royal Oak Music Theatre\, 318 W 4th St\, Royal Oak\, MI\, 48067\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Iron & Wine
DESCRIPTION:Iron & Wine is the musical project of singer-songwriter Sam Beam. Born and raised in South Carolina\, Beam is a former film professor who got his start making home recordings before landing on Sub Pop Records. Iron & Wine’s 2002 debut\, The Creek Drank the Cradle garnered both critical and popular acclaim\, vaulting Beam into the spotlight of the burgeoning indie- folk/Americana scene as one of its new and leading voices. \nFor over 20 years\, Iron & Wine has captured the emotion and imagination of listeners with distinctly cinematic songs. His recorded output includes seven full-length studio records\, collaborations with Calexico\, Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses)\, and Jesca Hoop\, countless EP’s\, singles and compilation/soundtrack appearances\, a live concert documentary\, and five GRAMMY nominations. \nIron & Wine’s latest record\, Light Verse was released in April 2024 with Paste Magazine noting “… Beam returns with an expanded sonic palette while also rekindling the bright spark that made 2007’s The Shepherd’s Dog so magical.”
URL:https://theark.org/event/iron-wine-260508/
LOCATION:Michigan Theater\, 603 East Liberty\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Low Ticket Alert,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Like A Star: Celebrating 20 Years of Corinne Bailey Rae
DESCRIPTION:In 2006 Corinne Bailey Rae released her self-titled debut album\, a record she had recorded on a shoestring budget while still unsigned. An early appearance on BBC2’s ‘Later With Jools’ and some intimate gigs around the UK had already started a word-of-mouth buzz leading her to be tipped as the next big thing. But the success of that album was instant and immense. Debuting at Number One in the UK\, featuring hit singles such as ‘Put Your Records On’ and ‘Like A Star’\, becoming a smash-hit around the world\, and crashing straight into the Billboard Top 20 in the US – the first British female singer-songwriter to do so in decades – meant Bailey Rae gained a huge global audience within months. \nAnd now\, four years and four-million album sales later\, comes the long-awaited second album. For the 30-year-old singer and songwriter from Leeds\, this meant politely declining the suggestions that she work with this or that big-league producer in this or that big-money studio. It meant co-producing the album herself with friends and musicians she had worked with in the past to retain intimacy and control\, shrugging off the huge\, worldwide expectations engendered by the self-titled debut and refusing to be bedazzled by that album’s multiple Grammy and Brit Award nominations.
URL:https://theark.org/event/like-a-star-celebrating-20-years-of-corinne-bailey-rae/
LOCATION:Royal Oak Music Theatre\, 318 W 4th St\, Royal Oak\, MI\, 48067\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260619T230000
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SUMMARY:The Avett Brothers and Mike Patton present: ATTV/PTTN
DESCRIPTION:Scott and Seth Avett of The Avett Brothers join forces with Mike Patton\, legendary frontman of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle\, for AVTT/PTTN\, an unexpected new collaboration marked by a bold\, self-titled debut released through Thirty Tigers\, Ramseur Records\, and Ipecac Recordings. The Avetts bring a storied career as four-time GRAMMY nominees with multiple top Billboard debuts\, a critically acclaimed HBO documentary (May It Last)\, a Broadway musical inspired by their work (Swept Away)\, and a long run of chart-topping Americana and rock releases. Mike Patton contributes his own genre-expanding legacy across experimental rock\, orchestral projects\, and film scoring\, in addition to his influential work with Mr. Bungle\, Faith No More\, and his boundary-pushing collaborations. Together\, AVTT/PTTN merges two singular artistic worlds into a striking new chapter for all three musicians.
URL:https://theark.org/event/the-avett-brothers-and-mike-patton-present-attv-pttn/
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium\, 825 N University Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260710T230000
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SUMMARY:Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band
DESCRIPTION:Taj Mahal doesn’t wait for permission. If a sound intrigues him\, he sets out to make it. If origins mystify him\, he moves to trace them. If rules get in his way\, he unapologetically breaks them. To Taj\, convention means nothing\, but traditions are holy. He has pushed music and culture forward\, all while looking lovingly back. \n“I just want to be able to make the music that I’m hearing come to me — and that’s what I did\,” Taj says. The 82-year-old is home in Berkeley\, reflecting on six + decades of music making. “When I say\, ‘I did\,’ I’m not coming from the ego. The music comes from somewhere. You’re just the conduit it comes through. You’re there to receive the gift.” \nTaj is a towering musical figure — a legend who transcended the blues not by leaving them behind\, but by revealing their magnificent scope to the world. “The blues is bigger than most people think\,” he says. “You could hear Mozart play the blues. It might be more like a lament. It might be more melancholy. But I’m going to tell you: the blues is in there.” \nIf anyone knows where to find the blues\, it’s Taj. A brilliant artist with a musicologist’s mind\, he has pursued and elevated the roots of beloved sounds with boundless devotion and skill. Then\, as he traced origins to the American South\, the Caribbean\, Africa\, and elsewhere\, he created entirely new sounds\, over and over again. As a result\, he’s not only a god to rock-and-roll icons such as Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones\, but also a hero to ambitious artists toiling in obscurity who are determined to combine sounds that have heretofore been ostracized from one another. No one is as simultaneously traditional and avant-garde.
URL:https://theark.org/event/taj-mahal-the-phantom-blues-band/
LOCATION:Royal Oak Music Theatre\, 318 W 4th St\, Royal Oak\, MI\, 48067\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Men at Work\, Toad the Wet Sprocket\, & Shonen Knife
DESCRIPTION:Men At Work were born in Melbourne\, Australia in the middle of 1979. The band went on to become a globally successful Grammy winning\, multi-platinum selling act. The original band however came apart relatively quickly and had disintegrated by 1985. Colin Hay and Greg Ham responded to demand and toured many parts of the world as Men At Work from 1996 into the 2000’s. Sadly\, Greg Ham passed away in 2012. Colin Hay has developed a solo career over the last 35 years\, writing\, recording\, and touring extensively throughout the world as a solo artist. He is presently part of Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band. Since 2019\, he has also toured and played under the Men At Work banner with his LA based group of musicians\, where he plays an exclusively Men At Work set\, including all the hits and dearly loved songs which clearly have stood the test of time. \nAny music fan who grew up in the ‘90s\, before the rise of streaming platforms\, will tell you that when a record store clerk made a music recommendation\, you took it seriously. Often well-studied music nerds\, these unsung tastemakers had their finger on the pulse of lesser-known\, excellent bands. So it speaks volumes that many of Toad the Wet Sprocket’s earliest champions were record store clerks who put the Santa Barbara quartet’s early albums into unsuspecting listeners’ hands\, convincing them to overlook their unusual band name and give them a shot.   \nAnd that’s all it took. Lead singer Glen Phillips’ heartfelt\, introspective lyrics expressed in his deep\, buttery croon backed by the earnest instrumentation\, catchy melodies and vocal harmonies of guitarist Todd Nichols\, bassist Dean Dinning and drummer Randy Guss had fans hooked from the outset. \nToad’s third full-length album\, Fear\, went platinum after its 1991 release and spawned hits “All I Want” and “Walk on the Ocean\,” both of which made it to the top 20 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. And let’s not forget all the quintessential ‘90s shows and movies that featured Toad songs including Buffy the Vampire Slayer\, Dawson’s Creek\, I Know What You Did Last Summer\, Empire Records\, and the platinum-selling Friends soundtrack (“Good Intentions”). Toad released Dulcinea in 1994\, giving the band its second platinum album in a row. Recorded almost entirely live in a studio in the woods in Marin County in a room lit by hundreds of candles\, the album features fan favorites “Fall Down” and “Windmills.” The band took a break in the late ‘90s\, and the members left to pursue solo projects. They reunited in 2006\, maintaining the original lineup for the next 15 years until drummer Randy Guss departed in 2020 due to health concerns. After reuniting\, the band released New Constellation in 2013. Critics praised it for being an evolution for the band while still maintaining their signature sound and songcraft. \nEven with everything that’s changed over the last few decades\, one of the band’s main drivers has remained the same since they first started performing together in high school: bringing people together to experience music as a binding force and to help them feel like they belong. \nSince their pure DIY beginnings in 1981\, Osaka\, Japan’s Shonen Knife have been building a faithful following of music enthusiasts and the alternative rock elite. Their relentless journey secured the band’s place as one of the pioneer ambassadors of Japanese rock music and culture on the international stage.
URL:https://theark.org/event/men-at-work-toad-the-wet-sprocket-shonen-knife/
LOCATION:Masonic Temple Theatre\, 500 Temple St\, Detroit\, MI\, 48201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass & Other Delights
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Herb Alpert and his brand new Tijuana Brass! Herb along with his 6 great musicians\, Bill Cantos (piano & marimba)\, Kerry Marx (guitar)\, Ryan Dragon (trombone)\, Kris Bergh (trumpet)\, Ray Brinker (Drums) and Hussain Jiffry (bass)\, will be playing all of your favorite TJB hit songs just as you remember hearing them while growing up.  \n2025 was the 60th anniversary of the iconic album\, “Whipped Cream & Other Delights.” Herb and the band will be performing many of those great songs in addition to many other hit songs that we all know: The Lonely Bull\, Spanish Flea\, Taste of Honey\, Mexican Shuffle\, Tijuana Taxi\, This Guy’s In Love With You\, What Now My Love\, Zorba the Greek\, Ladyfingers\, Rise\, Route 101\, and many other delights.
URL:https://theark.org/event/herb-alpert-the-tijuana-brass-other-delights/
LOCATION:Michigan Theater\, 603 East Liberty\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Low Ticket Alert,Special Event
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