Event Types
Location
Contra Dance
UMS at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse
This traditional social dance has its roots in English and Scottish country dance, featuring live music, gender-neutral calling, and line...
Beautiful Noise
UMS at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse
If you know you know, and if you don’t know, come find out. These Michigan-based musicians are bringing sounds from the underground to the...
Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet
UMS at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse
The Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet masterfully blends rhythms, sounds, and textures from across the globe with world music-inspired original...
Las Guaracheras
UMS at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse
Las Guaracheras is an all-women salsa sextet that started the city of Cali, Colombia in 2017. The ensemble’s cultural and artistic...
Open Mic Night
UMS at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse
Calling all singers, poets, jugglers, storytellers, and rappers of Ypsilanti! Open Mic Night at the Freighthouse is back for the fourth...
House of Jit
UMS at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse
Come see Detroit Jit at its finest, up close and personal in Rhythm of the Feet, an evening-length dance piece written by House of Jit...
For Families: Dance Party for Kids with House of Jit
UMS at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse
Kicks, wiggles, spinning on the floor, plus fancy footwork paired with the music of Funk and Techno give us Detroit’s native dance style...
Fight Night | Ontroerend Goed
(Presented by UMS)
Five candidates. One winner. You decide who survives....
Fight Night | Ontroerend Goed
(Presented by UMS)
Five candidates. One winner. You decide who survives....
Kittel & Co. with special guest artist Nic Gareiss
UMS at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse
Led by Grammy-nominated violinist and composer Jeremy Kittel, Kittel & Co. inhabits the space between classical and acoustic roots,...
Fight Night | Ontroerend Goed
(Presented by UMS)
Five candidates. One winner. You decide who survives....
For Families Jazzy Ash & The Leaping Lizards
UMS at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse
Vocalist, writer, and arts educator Jazzy Ash invites you to come along on a pizzazzy, energetic musical adventure. This interactive concert...
For Families Jazzy Ash & The Leaping Lizards
UMS at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse
Vocalist, writer, and arts educator Jazzy Ash invites you to come along on a pizzazzy, energetic musical adventure. This interactive concert...
Fight Night | Ontroerend Goed
(Presented by UMS)
Five candidates. One winner. You decide who survives....
Fight Night | Ontroerend Goed
(Presented by UMS)
Five candidates. One winner. You decide who survives....
Fight Night | Ontroerend Goed
(Presented by UMS)
Five candidates. One winner. You decide who survives....
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
(Presented by UMS)
Isata Kanneh-Mason, who has performed at UMS twice in partnership with her younger brother, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, presents a...
Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Elevator Repair Service
Ulysses
James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and/or defeated readers for over a century. Building on a rich history of...
London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Presented by UMS)
This uniquely groundbreaking and exhilarating ensemble has been celebrated as one of the world’s great orchestras since its 1932 founding...
Ulysses | Elevator Repair Service
(Presented by UMS)
James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and even defeated readers for over a century....
Ulysses | Elevator Repair Service
(Presented by UMS)
James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and even defeated readers for over a century....
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan | 13 Tongues
(Presented by UMS)
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre returns to Ann Arbor for the first time since 2011 with a “sensationally big, indulgent, and visually arresting...
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan | 13 Tongues
(Presented by UMS)
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre returns to Ann Arbor for the first time since 2011 with a “sensationally big, indulgent, and visually arresting...
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens | American Railroad
(Presented by UMS)
After the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, a trip from coast to coast that used to take months was shortened to just under a...
Escher Quartet
(Presented by UMS)
The Escher Quartet takes its name from the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, inspired by his method of interplay between individual...
Performance Berliner Philharmoniker with Hilary Hahn
(Presented by UMS)
The Berliner Philharmoniker returns to Hill Auditorium the weekend before Thanksgiving for two concerts. In the first of two concerts,...
Berliner Philharmoniker
(Presented by UMS)
Listening to conductor Kirill Petrenko’s interpretation of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5 with the Berliner Philharmoniker promises to be a...
Handel’s Messiah
Handel composed his oratorio Messiah over the course of a single month in 1741, six months before its triumphant premiere at a new concert...
Handel’s Messiah
Handel composed his oratorio Messiah over the course of a single month in 1741, six months before its triumphant premiere at a new concert...
Ariel Quartet with Alisa Weilerstein, cello | Folk•lore
(Presented by UMS)
For centuries and across continents, folk music has influenced art music. The lines separating the two genres are often blurred, resulting...
Etienne Charles | Earth Tones
(Presented by UMS)
Trinidad-born jazz musician, composer, and storyteller Etienne Charles continuously searches for untold stories and the sounds with which to...
Etienne Charles | Earth Tones
(Presented by UMS)
Trinidad-born jazz musician, composer, and storyteller Etienne Charles continuously searches for untold stories and the sounds with which to...
Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane
(Presented by UMS)
Both Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane are respected as performers and contemporary composers whose work exists at the intersection of art...
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
(Presented by UMS)
Wynton Marsalis and the 15-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra return to Hill Auditorium....
Nate — A One Man Show
Written by and starring Natalie Palamides
Natalie Palamides premiered her show Nate to wide acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won a Total Theatre Award for...
Nate — A One Man Show
Written by and starring Natalie Palamides
Natalie Palamides premiered her show Nate to wide acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won a Total Theatre Award for...
Nate — A One Man Show
Written by and starring Natalie Palamides
Natalie Palamides premiered her show Nate to wide acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won a Total Theatre Award for...
Seong-Jin Cho, piano
(Presented by UMS)
“Cho has been elevated straight to the big time.” (The New York Times)...
Nate — A One Man Show
Written by and starring Natalie Palamides
Natalie Palamides premiered her show Nate to wide acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won a Total Theatre Award for...
Nate — A One Man Show
Written by and starring Natalie Palamides
Natalie Palamides premiered her show Nate to wide acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won a Total Theatre Award for...
Nate — A One Man Show
Written by and starring Natalie Palamides
Natalie Palamides premiered her show Nate to wide acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won a Total Theatre Award for...
Branford Marsalis Quartet
(Presented by UMS)
One of the most influential and revered figures in contemporary music for over four decades, three-time Grammy Award-winning saxophonist...
Branford Marsalis Chamber Project
(Presented by UMS)
Two nights after the Branford Marsalis Quartet’s UMS debut, Branford brings his classical chops to Rackham Auditorium in a chamber music...
Third Coast Percussion and Zakir Hussain
(Presented by UMS)
For nearly 20 years, Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion has forged a unique path in the musical landscape with virtuosic, energetic...
La Santa Cecilia
with Sonia De Los Santos
Named for the patron saint of music, La Santa Cecilia exemplifies the modern-day creative hybrid of Latin culture, rock, and global music....
Rosamunde String Quartet
(Presented by UMS)
Founded in 2015, the Rosamunde String Quartet is composed of members from three of the world’s greatest orchestras....
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
BLACK HOLE: Trilogy and Triathlon
Founded in 2019 by American choreographer and performer Shamel Pitts, an alumnus of Batsheva Dance Company, TRIBE is an arts collective...
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
BLACK HOLE: Trilogy and Triathlon
Founded in 2019 by American choreographer and performer Shamel Pitts, an alumnus of Batsheva Dance Company, TRIBE is an arts collective...
Film with Live Music: Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky
(Presented by UMS)
Although known more for his ballet music, symphonies, and concertos, Sergei Prokofiev wrote several film scores: Lieutenant Kijé, The Queen...
Peeping Tom | TRIPTYCH
(Presented by UMS)
As the lights come on, the audience is plunged into a man’s mind: his life is passing before him like a film, or perhaps it’s a film of...
