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    • Rachael Kilgour
    Artist Spotlight Series Live and Virtual

    Rachael Kilgour

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Rachael Kilgour is a Minnesotan songwriter and performing artist whose sincere, lyric-driven work has been called both brave and humane. The 2015 grand prize winner of the international NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition and winner of the 2017 Kerrville New Folk Contest, Rachael has been featured at NYC’s Lincoln Center, at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and by the ASCAP Music Cafe at the Sundance Film Festival.

    Free, Donations accepted for Food Gatherers
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    Ark Entry

    The Ark’s Open Stage

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Whether you're looking for your big break, want to perfect your live performance skills, or just want to perform live for the sheer fun of it, Open Stage nights offer supportive audiences and a terrific space. Performers have eight minutes (or two songs) each to do their thing. Doors open at 7:30, and names are drawn at 7:55 and 8:30. If your name isn't chosen, bring your raffle ticket with you next time, and you'll double your chances.

    $3, $2 members, seniors, students free with student ID
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    The Steel Wheels

    The Steel Wheels

    Opener: Griffin William Sherry from Ghost of Paul Revere

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    The Steel Wheels have long been at home in the creative space between tradition and innovation, informed by the familiar sounds of the Virginia mountains where the band was formed, but always moving forward with insightful lyrics and an evolving sound. Having gained the experience of thousands of shows, festivals and many miles on the road, the stubbornly independent band has formed deep bonds with each other and the audience that sustains them.

    $30
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    • Enter the Haggis

    Enter The Haggis

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    A haggis is a tasty Scottish dish consisting of sheep heart, liver, and lungs, mixed with oatmeal, onion, suet, and spices, and then boiled inside the sheep's stomach. The Canadian-Scots band Enter the Haggis (bagpiper Craig Downie is from Scotland) has just about as much variety in their style, a high-speed collision of Celtic music, rock, bluegrass, funk, and world music. An Enter the Haggis live show is a musical feast—dynamic and emotionally uplifting. Alternating between upbeat rock numbers with sing-along choruses and slower, more introspective alt pop songs, the band plays progressive and lyrically driven music that's strongly rooted in Celtic tradition—from the storytelling to the bagpipes.

    $25
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    Daniel Ho
    Special Event

    Daniel Ho ‘Ukulele Workshop

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Six-time Grammy winner, Daniel Ho, will be teaching techniques and singing in the Hawaiian language using his original song, Aloha Pumehana, co-written by Hawaiian Music scholar and University of Michigan professor Amy Kuʻuleialoha Stillman!

    $40
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    George Kahumoku and Tia Carrere

    Masters of Hawaiian Music

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Three masters, featured regularly at Maui’s renowned “Slack Key Show®” share the uniquely Hawaiian styles of slack key guitar and ‘ukulele, with origins in the early 19th century when Portuguese immigrants introduced the ‘ukulele to Hawai‘i and Mexican cowboys brought guitars along with their ranching knowledge. Ever since, Hawaiians have made these instruments their own.

    $30
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    John Gorka

    John Gorka

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    The modern renaissance of folk music began when John Gorka won the Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk award in 1984, and it grew to maturity when he released his debut album, "I Know," three years later. Here was a singer-songwriter with a striking baritone voice that made you feel like you'd been hearing it all your life, with the songwriting chops to take on and see into nearly every type of song—from personal pieces about love and sadness, to bemused observations about daily life, political thinking-aloud, and sheer unmitigated whimsy. Almost four decades later, John still calls himself an aspiring folksinger, and his music has just kept getting deeper and better over his more than 15 critically acclaimed albums.

    $25
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    Lunasa

    Lunasa

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Lúnasa is an Irish traditional band with a rhythmic difference. Rhythm—their ingenious application of it, and their clear mastery of it—has made Lúnasa one of the most influential and innovative bands performing Irish instrumental music today. What Lúnasa has accomplished in their decade-and-a-half career has deep precedents in jazz and progressive bluegrass, and has made them unique in Celtic circles.

    $25
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    Madi Diaz

    Madi Diaz

    Opener: Jack Van Cleaf

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Madi Diaz has been making records and writing songs professionally since the late 2000s, but it wasn’t until she released 2021’s “History Of A Feeling” that she felt the glare of wider notoriety. It wasn’t her debut album, but it certainly felt like it. She made her daytime and nighttime television debuts, embarked on her first solo tour since 2014, supported Waxahatchee and Angel Olsen on tour, and collaborated with them on record. After touring internationally, Madi is taking her new album, “Weird Faith,” on the road. When Madi started writing “Weird Faith,” she knew it would be bigger than a love story. She didn’t yet know that she was rendering a self-portrait, one that captures the Madi Diaz of a fleeting moment in time, hungrily alive and forever searching.

    $25
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    Seth Glier Crys Matthews

    Crys Matthews // Seth Glier

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Grammy-nominated Seth Glier and New Song Music and Performance Competition grand prize winner, Crys Matthews, are artists committed to using songwriting as a tool for positive change.

    $25
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    Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet

    Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    The Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet masterfully blends rhythms, sounds, and textures from across the globe with world music–inspired original compositions. Featuring oud, violin, electric bass, synthesizer and world percussion, the Worlds Quartet is fueled by the spirit of jazz, world music and dynamic exploratory improvisation. Bassist, composer, and bandleader Dave Sharp leads the Worlds Quartet to explore music traditions from Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine, India, Bulgaria and Greece.

    $20
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    Glen Phillips photo by Chris Orwig
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    Glen Phillips of Toad The Wet Sprocket

    Opener: Chris Pureka

    The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Glen Phillips is the lead singer and main songwriter for the band Toad the Wet Sprocket, which he joined when he was only 14. In the words of James Christopher Monger, "Phillips has matured into . . . a quiet storm that dutifully blends Cat Stevens' confident huskiness and Jackson Browne's weary but warm observer of all things broken." Glen has evolved into one of the great folk-rock songwriters of our time, still staying true to his Toad-like roots, and The Ark is the place to hear him!

    $30
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