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Tommy Prine

Tommy Prine

Special Guest: Jordan Smart

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI

Tommy Prine picked up a guitar at age ten and started picking melodies. Though he has crafted his own unique sound over the years, he learned from observing one of the best. He is the son of the late legendary multi Grammy award-winning artist, John Prine. And there is a certain physical resemblance! The hallmarks of Tommy’s sound come from his unique finger-picking style combined with soul-stirring songwriting. His songs pull inspiration from childhood adventures in the creek with his big brother, to losing his father at the beginning of the pandemic, falling in love, and everything in between. Tommy’s debut album, “This Far South,” was recorded during the pandemic in 2021 and has just been released. We are excited to present Tommy Prine in his Ark debut! Kentucky singer-songwriter Jordan Smart opens.

$20
Jerry Douglas Band

The Jerry Douglas Band

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI

Dobro master and 14-time Grammy winner Jerry Douglas is a bandleader, producer, session musician, instructor, and a very funny guy! He’s produced over a hundred albums, and he’s featured on over 1,600 studio albums. He’s a member of Alison Kraus & Union Station, co-bandleader for Transatlantic Sessions in the United Kingdom, founder for the Grammy winner bluegrass supergroup The Earls of Leicester, and he leads The Jerry Douglas Band. Since 2017, The Jerry Douglas Band has been forging new paths into the musical horizon with deep roots in bluegrass and folk that spreads out into the Americana and jazz landscapes. In 2021, The Jerry Douglas Band released an album, “Leftover Feelings,” with legendary singer songwriter John Hiatt. The album was nominated for a 2022 Grammy for Best Americana Album, and their previous record, “What If, “also received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. The group performs at some of the top U.S. festivals such as Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Pilgrimage Music Festival, Big Ears Festival, DelFest, FreshGrass, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Merlefest, and many others. In addition to Douglas, The Jerry Douglas Band includes Daniel Kimbro on bass, Christian Sedelmyer on fiddle, and Mike Seal on guitar.

$30
Jenny Lewis
Special Event

Jenny Lewis

Special Guest: Jenny O

Opener: Hayden Pedigo

The Majestic Theatre 4140 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan

Presented by The Ark and AEG Jenny Lewis released her fourth and most critically acclaimed solo album to date, On The Line (Warner Records), on March 22, 2019. Recorded at the distinguished Capitol Studios, the album features a who’s who of supporting players including Beck, Don Was, Benmont Tench, Jim Keltner, Ringo Starr, Beck sidemen Jason Falkner and Smokey Hormel among others. On The Line continues to generate rave reviews, with Vulture declaring it her “best work to date,” and top spots on Best of 2019 (So Far) lists including Rolling Stone, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today and AV Club.

$32.50, $35, $40 day of
High Kings
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The High Kings

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI

Named Ireland's Folk Band of the Year, The High Kings all grew up in households soaked in the Irish musical tradition, and each member of the band witnessed firsthand the power of well-crafted Irish music on an audience. They have sold out hundreds of shows, in Ireland and the U.S., made numerous TV appearances, and achieved platinum status twice. The High Kings showcase their incredible versatility and skills as multi-instrumentalists, playing 13 instruments between them bringing a rousing acoustic flavor to brand-new songs as well as some old favorites. The High Kings are continuing to live up to their reputation as a phenomenal live band, serving up laughter, good times, and even the odd sing-along. They are, quite simply, one of the great bands in Celtic music.

$35
Special Event

Sierra Ferrell

The Majestic Theatre 4140 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan

With her spellbinding voice and time-bending sensibilities, Sierra Ferrell makes music that's as fantastically vagabond as the artist herself. Growing up in small-town West Virginia, the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist left home in […]

$27.50, $30 day of show
Joe Jencks

Joe Jencks

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI

Chicago-based singer and activist Joe Jencks (you may remember him from the fine trio act Brother Sun) has performed with such artists as Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, Joe Glazer, and Charlie King. A Joe Jencks concert, says the Seattle Folklore Society's Brad Warren, is "an occasion for singing, a contagious rising up of voices, an act of joy and defiance." Joe's songs have traveled to every continent via his own performances, radio, CDs, webcasts, and other musicians. He is noted for his unique merging of musical beauty, social consciousness, and spiritual exploration. Joe Jencks weaves a diverse web of stories with brilliant musical skill, ensnaring even the most rigid of hearts, inviting them to open. His songs invite us to live inside of our passions and our beliefs.

$20
Iris DeMent

Iris DeMent

Special Guest: Ana Egge

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI

The youngest of 14 children, Iris DeMent was born in Paragould, Arkansas, and moved to California with her devoutly religious family when she was three. As a teenager she absorbed the country music of Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and Johnny Cash, as well as the folk classics of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. Her 1992 debut album, "Infamous Angel," distilled these influences into a poetic yet down-to-earth songwriting style. With a heartfelt, homespun voice that listeners recognize instantly, Iris released some of the most powerful roots albums of the 1990s with the beautifully sparse "My Life" and the harder-edged "The Way I Should." She has continued to make powerful and distinctive albums on her own schedule, and her latest, just out, is “Workin’ on a World.” This striking collection of songs faces the modern world—as it is right now—with its climate catastrophe, pandemic illness, and epidemic of violence and social injustice. The album not only asks us how we can keep working towards a better world, but implores us to love each other, despite our very different ways of seeing. Her songs are her way of healing our broken inner and outer spaces.

$35
The Tillers

The Tillers

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI

The Tillers are Mike Oberst, Sean Geil, Aaron Geil & Joe Macheret. The Tillers arose out of Cincinnati’s West Side punk scene and have been thumping their own distinctive sound of string band style folk music for a decade, riding it all over the country and across the sea. Four studio albums and one live record have won them praise as modern folk storytellers of the national soundscape. Their shows attract an assortment of gray-haired mechanics, neo-hippies, farmers, punkers, professors, and random strays all stomping, clapping, singing, and belting outbursts of “John Henry!” and “Darlin’ Corey.” Check out the Ark debut of this unique Ohio group!

$20
Marshall Crenshaw

Marshall Crenshaw

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI

Can anyone who was listening to new music in the 1980s forget the songs of Michigan’s own Marshall Crenshaw? To New Wave pop they brought country and R&B elements, they brought romantic yearning, they brought the craft of a true songwriter. Says Trouser Press: “Although he was seen as a latter-day Buddy Holly at the outset, he soon proved too talented and original to be anyone but himself.” Unlike most of the acts of that era of youthful musical attitude, Marshall Crenshaw is still going strong. These days the bespectacled romantic fool of the early 1980s is all grown up, but with his fabulous songwriting chops undiminished--and even augmented a bit by jazz harmonies on occasion. "Mixing old hits like "Someday Someway" and "Whenever You're On My Mind" with new songs, Crenshaw showed that …he still has 'it,'” wrote Roger Friedman of Fox News after attending a recent Crenshaw show. Come by and pick up a copy of Marshall’s new expanded reissue of the album “Miracle of Science”!

$30
Nickel Creek
Special Event

Nickel Creek

Special Guest: Aoife O'Donovan

Masonic Cathedral Theatre 500 Temple Street, Detroit, MI

Grammy Award-winning trio, Nickel Creek—mandolinist Chris Thile, violinist Sara Watkins and guitarist Sean Watkins—will continue their extensive headline tour this summer with a newly confirmed show at Detroit's Masonic Cathedral Theatre with special guest Aoife O'Donovan.

$46, $56, and $69.99
Natalie Mae
Special Event

Summer Sounds at the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair

The Stage on Main 353 S. Main St, Ann Arbor, MI

Featuring: Natalie Mae and Sons of The Never Wrong We are excited to once again partner with the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair to bring live music each evening of the art fairs to the Stage on Main at the corner of Main and William in the Palio lot.  Stop by and join one of our favorite street parties of the year!

Free
Special Event

Summer Sounds at the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair

The Stage on Main 353 S. Main St, Ann Arbor, MI

Featuring: Ki5; Jeffrey Martin with Anna Tivel We are excited to once again partner with the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair to bring live music each evening of the art fairs to the Stage on Main at the corner of Main and William in the Palio lot.  Stop by and join one of our favorite street parties of the year!

Free