Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Mira Awad: A Concert / Conversation (March 7, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82235 82235-21058470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

No cost to attend.
Streaming on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EasternMichU
and YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/emichigan08

Israeli/Palestinian singer, songwriter, actress, artist, and content creator Mira Awad has been a forceful activist for women's rights, for equal citizenship for Palestinians living in Israel, for a two-state solution, and for environmental awareness. Her powerful advocacy for dialogue and co-existence, for peace and solidarity, has brought her considerable praise (and some criticism) across the political spectrum.

Ms. Awad competed in the 2009 Eurovision song contest alongside Israeli singer, Noa (Achinoam Nini). The duo won the NIF Human Rights for Arts and Culture award in 2010. She continues to work in collaboration with a multitude of artists, including guitarist Shay Alon, with whom she will perform this concert.

This lecture is co-sponsored by Hillel at Eastern Michigan University, EMU Campus Life, the Academic Engagement Network, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan, the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, and the Gayle & Larry Weiseneck Symposium Fund.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:51:55 -0500 2021-03-07T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Performance Mira Awad: A Concert / Conversation flier
THE G—RAY AREA (March 13, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82199 82199-21052532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 4:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

These performances by Ava Ansari are part of the Institute for the Humanities exhibition "For Your Eyes Only." Intended to activate the space, the performances bring to life the installation by further exploring the positioning of the body and the viewer.

Both the exhibition and the performances are designed to be viewed from the Thayer St. windows of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Performance Times: March 13: 4:30-5pm, 6-6:30pm, 7:30-8pm.

From the artist:
"If you come by, make it soft and slow, don’t break my glassy agility."*

The G—ray Area is the isolation and expansion of skin-depth in close proximity celebrations. Working with The G—ray Area, prepares us for removing and releasing public pains accumulated through insensitive norms of togetherness. The heterotopic transmedia space is an open journal of personal and familial celebrations of the sensual body by Ava Ansari. It chooses Yasmine Diaz’s For Your Eyes Only as a safe space for revisiting Ava’s somatic, sonic, and scenic celebratory memories from the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) airstrikes, bedroom shadow dances, underground rules of thumb, a party arrest in Tehran, her planet IranUS, and a recent visit to Saturn. Borderline Knowledge will be the guardians.

1. Ava Ansari’s interpretation of an exerpt from a Persian poem by Sohrab Sepehri (1928-80, Iran). The poem is carved on Sepehri’s gravestone: به سراغ من اگر می آیید, نرم و آهسته بیایید, مبادا که ترک بردارد, چینی نازک تنهائی من

Ava Ansari is a transmedia poet, transcultural curator, and yogi (She/They). Ava is the Founding Director of Poetic Societies Global Network for the Somatic, Sonic, and Scenic Liberation in Detroit.

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:04:30 -0500 2021-03-13T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-13T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Performance The Grey Area
THE G—RAY AREA (March 13, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82199 82199-21052533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 6:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

These performances by Ava Ansari are part of the Institute for the Humanities exhibition "For Your Eyes Only." Intended to activate the space, the performances bring to life the installation by further exploring the positioning of the body and the viewer.

Both the exhibition and the performances are designed to be viewed from the Thayer St. windows of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Performance Times: March 13: 4:30-5pm, 6-6:30pm, 7:30-8pm.

From the artist:
"If you come by, make it soft and slow, don’t break my glassy agility."*

The G—ray Area is the isolation and expansion of skin-depth in close proximity celebrations. Working with The G—ray Area, prepares us for removing and releasing public pains accumulated through insensitive norms of togetherness. The heterotopic transmedia space is an open journal of personal and familial celebrations of the sensual body by Ava Ansari. It chooses Yasmine Diaz’s For Your Eyes Only as a safe space for revisiting Ava’s somatic, sonic, and scenic celebratory memories from the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) airstrikes, bedroom shadow dances, underground rules of thumb, a party arrest in Tehran, her planet IranUS, and a recent visit to Saturn. Borderline Knowledge will be the guardians.

1. Ava Ansari’s interpretation of an exerpt from a Persian poem by Sohrab Sepehri (1928-80, Iran). The poem is carved on Sepehri’s gravestone: به سراغ من اگر می آیید, نرم و آهسته بیایید, مبادا که ترک بردارد, چینی نازک تنهائی من

Ava Ansari is a transmedia poet, transcultural curator, and yogi (She/They). Ava is the Founding Director of Poetic Societies Global Network for the Somatic, Sonic, and Scenic Liberation in Detroit.

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:04:30 -0500 2021-03-13T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-13T18:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Performance The Grey Area
Faculty Recital: Matthew Bengtson, piano (March 13, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81766 81766-20953358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Iberia, Book 1 and 2 Isaac Albeniz
12 Estudios ritmicos y sonoros (world premiere) Roberto Sierra

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Performance Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-03-13T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
THE G—RAY AREA (March 13, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82199 82199-21052534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 7:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

These performances by Ava Ansari are part of the Institute for the Humanities exhibition "For Your Eyes Only." Intended to activate the space, the performances bring to life the installation by further exploring the positioning of the body and the viewer.

Both the exhibition and the performances are designed to be viewed from the Thayer St. windows of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Performance Times: March 13: 4:30-5pm, 6-6:30pm, 7:30-8pm.

From the artist:
"If you come by, make it soft and slow, don’t break my glassy agility."*

The G—ray Area is the isolation and expansion of skin-depth in close proximity celebrations. Working with The G—ray Area, prepares us for removing and releasing public pains accumulated through insensitive norms of togetherness. The heterotopic transmedia space is an open journal of personal and familial celebrations of the sensual body by Ava Ansari. It chooses Yasmine Diaz’s For Your Eyes Only as a safe space for revisiting Ava’s somatic, sonic, and scenic celebratory memories from the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) airstrikes, bedroom shadow dances, underground rules of thumb, a party arrest in Tehran, her planet IranUS, and a recent visit to Saturn. Borderline Knowledge will be the guardians.

1. Ava Ansari’s interpretation of an exerpt from a Persian poem by Sohrab Sepehri (1928-80, Iran). The poem is carved on Sepehri’s gravestone: به سراغ من اگر می آیید, نرم و آهسته بیایید, مبادا که ترک بردارد, چینی نازک تنهائی من

Ava Ansari is a transmedia poet, transcultural curator, and yogi (She/They). Ava is the Founding Director of Poetic Societies Global Network for the Somatic, Sonic, and Scenic Liberation in Detroit.

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:04:30 -0500 2021-03-13T19:30:00-05:00 2021-03-13T20:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Performance The Grey Area
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, Vol.12 Launch Party (March 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82501 82501-21110107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively.

The pandemic halted events days before Songs Unsung: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, volume 12 was scheduled to debut in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you a reading of selections from Songs Unsung.

This publication is made possible in part by Jackson Social Welfare Fund and the Department of English Language and Literature.

This event is part of the 25th Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

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Performance Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:27:38 -0500 2021-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, volume 12
​Ayoinmotion = Music to move you! (March 26, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82756 82756-21173592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

register here.

Wind down your week with the funky afrobeats of Ayoinmotion and chat about his music, his time at U-M, and his activism on important issues like #BLM and #EndSARS.

Pulsating  Afrobeats, hip-hop, spoken-word, a hard-driving band, and dancers make Ayoinmotion in concert a captivating experience. Essence magazine said the Nigeria-born performer and U-M alumni creates “unforgettable music that leaves a lasting impression on any audience.” He has made his name opening for such superstars as Davido, Teni The Entertainer and Talib Kweli, electrifying audiences at the Apollo Theater, collaborating with Apple, headlining Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concerts and was recently spotlighted by the GRAMMYs. A powerful artist passionately committed to social justice & activism, Ayoinmotion reflects his inspiring life story into a unique, adventurous, and vibrant sound. 

Live Q&A with Ayoinmotion at 4:30 p.m. followed by his performance.

This event will be livestreamed on YouTube. If you would like to receive a reminder, please register here.

This program is organized and presented by the African Graduate Student Association and UMMA with support from the African Studies Center.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Performance Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:15:40 -0400 2021-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
(CANCELLED) Parsonsfield - Rescheduled from April 27 (March 27, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72458 72458-18009350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Tickets on sale April 24!

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Performance Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:44:12 -0500 2021-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 2021-03-27T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Parsonsfield presented by The Ark
(CANCELLED) Brandy Clark: Who You Thought I Was Tour - Rescheduled from August 18, 2020 (April 7, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71694 71694-17862151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"Ain't we all the stars playing the leading part in our own soap opera?" Brandy Clark belts out that question to kick off Big Day in a Small Town, positing the premise of not just the opening track ("Soap Opera"), but all 10 songs that follow it. The towns that anchor Clark's new album may be small enough to warrant only a single blinking light, but the lives lived in them are anything but... and neither are the hopes and dreams that rise from their backroads and bedrooms.

When you grow up in a small town, oftentimes, your dreams are all you have. Whether it's to become a football star or a father, a homecoming queen or a hairdresser, your dreams might be the only thing that keep you going. For Clark, the dream she harbored in her small hometown of Morton, Washington, was to be a country singer. Sure, once she moved to Nashville, she had successful cuts as a songwriter [The Band Perry's "Better Dig Two," Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart," and Kacey Musgraves' "Follow Your Arrow" which won the CMA Song of the Year Award in 2014], but being an artist in her own right was a dream she had stopped dreaming until three years ago when her first album, the stunning 12 Stories, debuted.

At the time, it was a passion project, more than anything... a passion project that went on to become a GRAMMY- and CMA-nominated release that topped a myriad of "Best Albums of 2013" lists; earn her opening slots on tours with Eric Church, Jennifer Nettles, and Alan Jackson; land her performances onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show , Good Morning America, The Late Show with David Letterman, and a much-talked about collaboration with Dwight Yoakam on the 2015 GRAMMY Awards in recognition of her nomination in the all-genre Best New Artist category; and win her a Warner Records deal. Now, as she gears up for her sophomore set, the alternately feisty and poignant Big Day in a Small Town, Clark has much higher hopes.

"When I made 12 Stories, I think my dreams were a lot more realistic, in that I didn't expect a lot to happen... then it did," she says. "This time, my dreams are very much what they were when I was going to Vince Gill and Patty Loveless concerts and decided I was going to move to Nashville. Right now, my dreams are as big as when I was naïve enough to really dream them."

Produced by Jay Joyce [Little Big Town, Eric Church], Big Day in a Small Town tells the stories of the football star, the father, the homecoming queen, and the hairdresser because those are the stories and people that Clark grew up knowing. "All these songs, there's some little truth in them, somewhere, that resonates with me or that is about me," she confesses. Explaining the genesis of "Soap Opera," she offers, "When I would get worried about what people thought of me or what was going on with me, my mom would always say, 'You know, we're all the star of our daytime drama. We're just bit players in someone else's. Nobody cares that much about what's going on with you. They'll only care until there's something juicier going on with somebody else two weeks later.'"

But Clark cares enough about all of these characters to tell their stories: the aging beauty of "Homecoming Queen" who wonders what happened to the life she always wanted... the tempted exes of "You Can Come Over" who do all they can to not get burned by the flame that flickers between them... the heartbroken heroine of "Daughter" who wishes a bit of karmic justice on her ex in the form of a daughter who's "just as sweet as she is hot"... the defiant wild child of "Girl Next Door" who refuses to fit her lover's misguided notion of womanhood.

"'Homecoming Queen' is really real for me — I know that girl. 'You Can Come Over' is very real for me and 'Daughter' and 'Soap Opera'..." Clark's voice trails off as she thinks about the tales she tells. What about "Drinkin' Smokin' Cheatin'" with its pondering of ways to navigate the sometimes rocky waters of a relationship? Game plan? Wish list? "That's a total daydream," she says with a laugh. "I think we all have that daydream."

One of the most heartfelt moments on Big Day in a Small Town is the one that closes it, "Since You've Gone to Heaven." The song addresses the aftermath of losing someone close to you and it's one that Clark has wanted — and attempted — to write for years. "My dad was killed in a work accident the July before 9/11," she says. "When all that 9/11 stuff was going on and everyone was glued to the TV ... I thought right then, 'Since you've gone to heaven, the whole world has gone to hell.' But I sat on it for years and years because it seemed so bleak." As with all of Clark's compositions, there's some truth in it, just not necessarily the whole truth. "It's definitely not the story of my family in that song. I'll stress that," she says. "But I do think, a lot of times, when somebody dies, it blows things apart more than it brings things together."

While the lyrical themes echo those of 12 Stories, Clark pushed her vocal and musical boundaries on Big Day in a Small Town. Instead of building the songs from a simple guitar/vocal performance, Joyce brought the players in for five days of rehearsals before tracking live with the band. "A lot of those rehearsals became what the record was," Clark says, explaining that the recorded version of "You Can Come Over" includes her one-take, scratch vocal. "I wanted to fix a few things, but Jay wouldn't let me because he felt like it would lose emotion. He's about the heart of music. He's not about making it perfect."

"He is out to serve the artist and the song," she adds. Throughout the process, Joyce insisted that this be a "Brandy Clark record" not a "Jay Joyce record" because she was the one who would be performing it night-after-night even as he moved on to his next project. "If I didn't like something, he'd be the first person to change it. I think this project means nearly as much to him as it does to me."

Though Neil Young's Harvest was the only musical reference point the two discussed before heading into Neon Cross Studios, Clark and Joyce each brought their influences along — including Clark's long-standing love of classic country and Joyce's well-documented affinity for edgier rock. "He and I definitely come from different places, musically, which I think is probably good," she offers. "On 'Daughter,' he started to play an organ part and I said, 'That sounds like [Patsy Cline's] "Back in Baby's Arms."' He said, 'What's that?' He didn't know it."

Along with Sturgill Simpson, Ashley Monroe, Chris Stapleton, and Kacey Musgraves (who provides guest vocals on "Daughter"), Clark is part of a new vanguard in country music — one that tips a hat to tradition, while not eschewing its evolution. "I see what's happening right now and I feel this groundswell of people who love... I would say 'country' music, but I'll take it a step further and say 'real' music. I feel like there are people who are starved for that," she says. "The only music I've ever made is country music. The only music I've ever really listened to consistently is country music. And I want to keep that alive, so there's a responsibility in that, for me."

But, for Brandy Clark, that responsibility is a dream come true.

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Performance Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:47:24 -0500 2021-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Brandy Clark: Who I Thought I Was Tour presented by The Ark
Mapping without Boundaries: A collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and U-M (April 15, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83546 83546-21420817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Maps are used to represent physical topographies of land or borders between nations, and to assist with directing us to a desired destination. But can they also be used to represent emotions? To make unseen connections? Or to understand the past or move forward into a new future? Can the arts help to shape a new kind of map?

International performing artist Yo-Yo Ma will be joined by U-M President Mark Schlissel and a newly formed Steering Committee of U-M students and Michigan-based artists to kick-off a 6-month artist residency project that explores these questions. They will reflect on the challenges of the past year, and how the pandemic has radically altered educational modes and dispersed the university's students, faculty and staff on all three campuses. The event will also incorporate performance and outline ways the audience can get involved in the residency project as it develops.

Registration required to attend the event:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YOx3HPGiSbyspNS29bH-gw

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Performance Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:26:32 -0400 2021-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Performance Mapping without Boundaries
The Human Voice in Virtual Concert (April 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83620 83620-21438457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Enjoy fabulous performances by students from Dr. Jennifer Goltz-Taylor's Residential College Human Voice class from the comfort of your couch!

Listen to lovingly crafted, thoughtfully delivered songs from Western classical repertoire, the Duke Ellington songbook, and contemporary popular music.

Don't miss this one-time streaming concert. Register to attend at https://myumi.ch/zx93x

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Performance Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:14:35 -0400 2021-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Flier
(CANCELLED) John Moreland - Rescheduled from August 7, 2020 (April 25, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73604 73604-18269829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 25, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

John Moreland started writing when he was ten years old, the same year his family moved from Kentucky, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he still lives today. He's been slinging songs for more than half his life. He started fronting local punk and hardcore bands in high school. After graduation, he had an epiphany. "I'd just overexposed myself to punk and hardcore to the point that it just didn't do anything for me anymore," he says. The remedy? Americana songwriting. "I was 19 in 2004, and Steve Earle had put out 'The Revolution Starts Now,' and I remember hearing the song 'Rich Man's War' and totally feeling like somebody just punched me in the chest. Over the last half a dozen years or so, John's honesty has stunned us––and stung. As he put hurts we didn’t even realize we had or shared into his songs, we sang along. And we felt better. But there has always been far more to John Moreland than sad songs. Today, his earthbound poetry remains potent, but in addition to his world-weary candor, John's music smolders with gentle wisdom, flashes of wit and joy, and compassion. "I can’t dress myself up and be some folk singer character that I’m not really," John says. "I figured, I can’t dress up these songs and try to sell them that way. All I can do is be me." He returns from the 2020 Folk Festival with a new album, "LP5."

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Performance Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:44:55 -0500 2021-04-25T19:30:00-04:00 2021-04-25T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance John Moreland presented by The Ark
HOME (April 29, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83862 83862-21555876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 29, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: ArtsEngine

HOME is a filmed cabaret show that showcases BIPOC students at The University of Michigan sharing what ‘home’ means to them. Through performative art, these students of various diverse backgrounds tell their stories of joy, faith, and sorrow as they navigate what it feels like to be home.

Premiering on Youtube on Thursday, April 29th at http://bit.ly/watchHOME
Produced by Kaitlyn Tom and Christian Kassab
Directed by Chloe Cuff
Music Directed by Caleb Middleton

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Performance Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:23:28 -0400 2021-04-29T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location ArtsEngine Performance HOME
Cox and Box & Trial By Jury (April 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83221 83221-21314489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society proudly presents its first online productions, a double bill of Cox and Box, written by F.C. Burnand and Sir Arthur Sullivan, and Trial By Jury, by Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. The productions feature amazing casts of international performers. The ticket date purchased will grant access to a unique YouTube link which will be available for viewing from 12:00 p.m.-11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Be a part of a groundbreaking new performance endeavor by the oldest student run Gilbert & Sullivan Society in the U.S.

IMPORTANT: A private YouTube access link will be emailed to you before the performance via Michigan Union Ticket Office through EventBrite.
For orders placed after 8 p.m. of your show date, you must email
muto-tix@umich.edu for your link.Otherwise, for purchases less than 24 hours prior to the show, your link will be emailed at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. the day of the show,
and for purchases for a later date, your link will be emailed to you 1 day prior to the show date.

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Performance Wed, 05 May 2021 09:38:28 -0400 2021-04-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance UMGASS presents Cox and Box & Trial By Jury
CANCELLED - Shawn Mullins (Rescheduled from 10/31/2020) (April 30, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74464 74464-18738460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 30, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Tickets on sale May 1!

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Performance Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:18:38 -0400 2021-04-30T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-30T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Shawn Mullins presented by The Ark, photo by David McClister
Cox and Box & Trial By Jury (May 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83221 83221-21314490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society proudly presents its first online productions, a double bill of Cox and Box, written by F.C. Burnand and Sir Arthur Sullivan, and Trial By Jury, by Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. The productions feature amazing casts of international performers. The ticket date purchased will grant access to a unique YouTube link which will be available for viewing from 12:00 p.m.-11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Be a part of a groundbreaking new performance endeavor by the oldest student run Gilbert & Sullivan Society in the U.S.

IMPORTANT: A private YouTube access link will be emailed to you before the performance via Michigan Union Ticket Office through EventBrite.
For orders placed after 8 p.m. of your show date, you must email
muto-tix@umich.edu for your link.Otherwise, for purchases less than 24 hours prior to the show, your link will be emailed at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. the day of the show,
and for purchases for a later date, your link will be emailed to you 1 day prior to the show date.

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Performance Wed, 05 May 2021 09:38:28 -0400 2021-05-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-01T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance UMGASS presents Cox and Box & Trial By Jury
Cox and Box & Trial By Jury (May 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83221 83221-21314491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society proudly presents its first online productions, a double bill of Cox and Box, written by F.C. Burnand and Sir Arthur Sullivan, and Trial By Jury, by Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. The productions feature amazing casts of international performers. The ticket date purchased will grant access to a unique YouTube link which will be available for viewing from 12:00 p.m.-11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Be a part of a groundbreaking new performance endeavor by the oldest student run Gilbert & Sullivan Society in the U.S.

IMPORTANT: A private YouTube access link will be emailed to you before the performance via Michigan Union Ticket Office through EventBrite.
For orders placed after 8 p.m. of your show date, you must email
muto-tix@umich.edu for your link.Otherwise, for purchases less than 24 hours prior to the show, your link will be emailed at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. the day of the show,
and for purchases for a later date, your link will be emailed to you 1 day prior to the show date.

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Performance Wed, 05 May 2021 09:38:28 -0400 2021-05-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-02T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance UMGASS presents Cox and Box & Trial By Jury
Cox and Box & Trial By Jury (May 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83221 83221-21314496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society proudly presents its first online productions, a double bill of Cox and Box, written by F.C. Burnand and Sir Arthur Sullivan, and Trial By Jury, by Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. The productions feature amazing casts of international performers. The ticket date purchased will grant access to a unique YouTube link which will be available for viewing from 12:00 p.m.-11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Be a part of a groundbreaking new performance endeavor by the oldest student run Gilbert & Sullivan Society in the U.S.

IMPORTANT: A private YouTube access link will be emailed to you before the performance via Michigan Union Ticket Office through EventBrite.
For orders placed after 8 p.m. of your show date, you must email
muto-tix@umich.edu for your link.Otherwise, for purchases less than 24 hours prior to the show, your link will be emailed at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. the day of the show,
and for purchases for a later date, your link will be emailed to you 1 day prior to the show date.

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Performance Wed, 05 May 2021 09:38:28 -0400 2021-05-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-07T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance UMGASS presents Cox and Box & Trial By Jury
Cox and Box & Trial By Jury (May 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83221 83221-21314497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society proudly presents its first online productions, a double bill of Cox and Box, written by F.C. Burnand and Sir Arthur Sullivan, and Trial By Jury, by Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. The productions feature amazing casts of international performers. The ticket date purchased will grant access to a unique YouTube link which will be available for viewing from 12:00 p.m.-11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Be a part of a groundbreaking new performance endeavor by the oldest student run Gilbert & Sullivan Society in the U.S.

IMPORTANT: A private YouTube access link will be emailed to you before the performance via Michigan Union Ticket Office through EventBrite.
For orders placed after 8 p.m. of your show date, you must email
muto-tix@umich.edu for your link.Otherwise, for purchases less than 24 hours prior to the show, your link will be emailed at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. the day of the show,
and for purchases for a later date, your link will be emailed to you 1 day prior to the show date.

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Performance Wed, 05 May 2021 09:38:28 -0400 2021-05-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance UMGASS presents Cox and Box & Trial By Jury
Cox and Box & Trial By Jury (May 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83221 83221-21314498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society proudly presents its first online productions, a double bill of Cox and Box, written by F.C. Burnand and Sir Arthur Sullivan, and Trial By Jury, by Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. The productions feature amazing casts of international performers. The ticket date purchased will grant access to a unique YouTube link which will be available for viewing from 12:00 p.m.-11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Be a part of a groundbreaking new performance endeavor by the oldest student run Gilbert & Sullivan Society in the U.S.

IMPORTANT: A private YouTube access link will be emailed to you before the performance via Michigan Union Ticket Office through EventBrite.
For orders placed after 8 p.m. of your show date, you must email
muto-tix@umich.edu for your link.Otherwise, for purchases less than 24 hours prior to the show, your link will be emailed at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. the day of the show,
and for purchases for a later date, your link will be emailed to you 1 day prior to the show date.

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Performance Wed, 05 May 2021 09:38:28 -0400 2021-05-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-09T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance UMGASS presents Cox and Box & Trial By Jury
(CANCELLED) Duo Duo - Rescheduled from 5/28 (May 27, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74552 74552-18795313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 27, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Tickets on sale May 8!

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Performance Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:17:37 -0400 2021-05-27T20:00:00-04:00 2021-05-27T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Duo Duo presented by The Ark
A Celebration of Black Music I (June 2, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84065 84065-21619786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

*I am America too.* With these powerful words, Afro-American poet Langston Hughes expressed the right of coloured people to be an equal part of American culture and society. As a member of the »Harlem Renaissance«, a dynamic movement initiated by Afro-American artists in the 1920s, Hughes became a true classic. With his deeply humanistic attitude, his intellect, sense of humour and incorruptible integrity, he produced works that remain timeless and touching to this day. The concert programme *Langston Hughes: Singing Harlem in Europe* features musical settings of his texts by composers like Wilhelm Grosz, Florence Price and Leonard Bernstein, showing that humanity and truthfulness know no bounds – neither then, nor now.

*Note: All Hamburg International Music Festival 2021 concerts are available to stream free of charge. Once premiered, each concert stream can be accessed for the whole festival period.*

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Performance Mon, 17 May 2021 14:20:54 -0400 2021-06-02T14:00:00-04:00 2021-06-02T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Performance
(CANCELLED)San Fermin: The Cormorant I + II Voices Tour - Rescheduled from 6/1/20 (June 3, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74858 74858-19018184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 3, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

A huge part of The Cormorant is the lush vocal texture throughout, from our singers Allen Tate, Claire Wellin, and Karlie Bruce, as well as guests like Samia, Eliza Bagg (Lisel), and Sarah Pedinotti (Lip Talk). In planning this tour, San Fermin thought it would be cool to highlight this aspect of the music, stripping down the instrumental arrangements and allowing the singers to take center stage. You’ll see a different, quieter side of San Fermin, more vulnerable and intimate.

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Performance Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:15:14 -0400 2021-06-03T20:00:00-04:00 2021-06-03T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance San Fermin: The Cormorant I + II Voices Tour presented by The Ark
A Celebration of Black Music II (June 4, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84066 84066-21619787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 4, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

»I know why the caged bird sings« – it sings of freedom in order not to lose hope. It sings in order to feel the life beyond the bars of its cage. To encourage itself and others. And this is how American composers and authors with African roots sing and write to this day: their subject matter is discrimination and injustice, pride and dignity – but love and separation as well, mourning and joy, belief and hope.

In the second part of the Celebration of Black Music, several generations of these artists have their say: from Florence Price and William Grant Still to Tyshawn Sorey and B. E. Boykin. The concert presents a many-voiced panorama of black music in its countless and fascinating facets.

*Note: All Hamburg International Music Festival 2021 concerts are available to stream free of charge. Once premiered, each concert stream can be accessed for the whole festival period.*

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Performance Tue, 18 May 2021 16:14:13 -0400 2021-06-04T14:00:00-04:00 2021-06-04T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Performance
CANCELLED - Tinsley Ellis - Rescheduled from 6/5/2020 (June 4, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73504 73504-18252267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 4, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Tickets on sale now!

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Performance Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:13:00 -0400 2021-06-04T20:00:00-04:00 2021-06-04T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Tinsley Ellis presented by The Ark
A Celebration of Black Music III (June 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84074 84074-21619816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The final concert, *Hope in the Night,* offers us messages of strength and resilience through operatic excerpts, spirituals, and instrumental music by composers William Grant Still, Valerie Coleman, George Walker, Margaret Bonds, Hale Smith, and William Dawson. Lush and vibrant or soft and warm, these compositions present exquisite musical moments of hope and joy.

*Note: All Hamburg International Music Festival 2021 concerts are available to stream free of charge. Once premiered, each concert stream can be accessed for the whole festival period.*

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Performance Tue, 18 May 2021 15:48:07 -0400 2021-06-06T14:00:00-04:00 2021-06-06T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Performance
Postponed: An Evening with Rob Massard (June 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74465 74465-18738461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Tickets on sale May 1!

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Performance Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:12:06 -0400 2021-06-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Rob Massard presented by The Ark
Grace Pettis and Rachel Kilgour (June 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84293 84293-21623266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

VACCINATION PROOF AND MASKS REQUIRED.
*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

As a card-carrying member of the south Austin scene, Grace Pettis has amassed bragging rights to spare. She is the winner of many of the nation’s most prestigious songwriting contests, including NPR's Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, and has received grants from the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation. Grace’s songs have been recorded by other esteemed artists, including Sara Hickman and Ruthie Foster and she added to her songwriting accomplishments in 2019 by signing a publishing deal with BMG. Catch her with her band at an Austin club, headlining a festival with her trio Nobody's Girl, or on her own, trying out new songs in a little gem of a listening room, somewhere in America.

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 esteemed 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. Married in her early twenties, Rachael chronicled her life as a young parent in a same-sex partnership and addressed sociopolitical issues from government corruption to income inequality and religious hypocrisy. In 2014, divorce brought an unwanted end to her role as a member of the family she had helped to grow. In the aftermath, Kilgour found solace in songwriting. Rachael was awarded a 2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant to focus on a songwriting project about the life and recent death of her father.

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Performance Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:45:09 -0400 2021-06-17T16:00:00-04:00 2021-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Grace Pettis & Rachael Kilgour at The Ark
Carillon Student & Alumni Showcase (June 21, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84274 84274-21620839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 21, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students and recent alumni Kevin Lieberman, Abigail Findley, and Xiaoying Pu perform the first summer concert of 2021 to kick off the 2021 concert series, held this year in memory of Ray McLellan. Bring your picnic blanket to Ingalls Mall!

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:

Abigail Findley grew up in San Diego, California and the Houston, Texas area, where she began playing piano and clarinet. In 2020, she began taking carillon lessons at the University of Michigan, from which she graduated in 2021 with a B.A. in Biopsychology, Cognition, & Neuroscience, and a minor in Music.

Kevin Lieberman is a Robotics PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan. He has studied carillon for three semesters and is a member of the Carillon Guild at U-M. A past leader of Michigan's Jewish graduate student community, Kevin received the University of Michigan's Graduate Student of the Year Student Leadership Award and the College of Engineering Harry B. Benford Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership. His carillon arrangement of the Yiddish song "Zog Nit Keyn Mol" was published in the book "Global Rings" (CHI Press, 2020).

Xiaoying Pu is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, with a research interest in visually communicating uncertainty and data analyses. She has been taking carillon since Fall 2018, under Drs. Tiffany Ng and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra. In addition to playing weekly noontime concerts, Xiaoying has also arranged classical pieces for carillon and was featured in Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out at Michigan, performing a nature-themed arrangement of a Native American medicine song.

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Performance Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:15:04 -0400 2021-06-21T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Burton Memorial Tower
Theater in Quarantine (June 21, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84062 84062-21619783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 21, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9cnNfbie_4MmQPE8BDIbxm8wqpWIlz6F5yeE2zqNC9GuRHg/viewform.

Tune in for a mind-blowing exploration of the live theatrical experience in the digital space from one of the most creative artistic endeavors to emerge from the pandemic. Stuck in his East Village apartment, Joshua William Gelb discovered his closet to be a unique and creative performance space. Called “Virtuosic” by Jesse Green in the New York Times, who wrote, “The closet has produced some of the new medium’s most imaginative work.”

Theater in Quarantine (TiQ) is a performance laboratory dedicated to the exploration of the live theatrical experience in the digital space. Developed  by Founder/Co-Creative Director Gelb and Co-Creative Director Katie Rose McLaughlin, TiQ has created and live streamed over 25 new, original works of performance. TiQ has worked with an array of remote collaborators (including Raja Feather Kelly, Heather Christian, Karen Olivo, and Underground Railroad Game’s Scott R. Sheppard); and partnered with The Invisible Dog, LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club, CultureHub and Theater Mitu.

In their first year, TiQ has been established as one of the most consistent makers of digital performance, having been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, on NPR’s All Things Considered; and reached audiences across the globe. Helen Shaw in Vulture wrote that the closet “makes confinement a virtue, a prompt to imagination.”

A2SF is thrilled to commission a new piece in which TiQ will partner with musician Ki5 who will perform live from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) while TiQ performs simultaneously over a live stream from New York City.

About Ki5: Vocalist, songwriter, and producer Kyler Wilkins from Ann Arbor, Michigan has been performing as Ki5 using nothing but a loop station and a simple effects unit since 2017. His vibrant composition style – influenced by his time in a cappella groups – explores every crevice of the human voice meshed with beatboxing and delivers familiar genres such as R&B, pop, and soul to name a few. His honest, empathetic, and freeing style has been influenced by Reggie Watts, and Bon Iver.

NPR’s All Songs Considered says this about Ki5’s 2019 live-looping performance of “Honey” off his first EP Looking for the Sun: “Like honey, [his] falsetto is sweet; the layers of loops are sticky and soothing, building to a celebratory bridge, then melting back down to calming waves.”

Leading up to summer 2021, Ki5 has been focused on studio recording and collaborating with fellow artists around the U.S. and Canada to expand upon his vocal-driven style and push himself into new, intriguing territory involving more instrumentation. Recent songs such as “Sunny Days (Remix),” “Made of Stars,” and “Show Me Freedom” are expressions of his musical and personal growth and he hopes his practice of empathy is on display at every performance.

TiQ’s full archive can be found and streamed anytime on their YouTube channel at youtube.com/theaterinquarantine.

TiQ will premiere on Youtube on June 21 at 7pm & 9pm EDT. The performance will be livestreamed from UMMA.



 

Theater in Quarantine is presented by the Ann Arbor Summer Festival in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Performance Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:15:19 -0400 2021-06-21T19:00:00-04:00 2021-06-21T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Theater in Quarantine (June 21, 2021 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84063 84063-21619784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 21, 2021 9:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9cnNfbie_4MmQPE8BDIbxm8wqpWIlz6F5yeE2zqNC9GuRHg/viewform.

Tune in for a mind-blowing exploration of the live theatrical experience in the digital space from one of the most creative artistic endeavors to emerge from the pandemic. Stuck in his East Village apartment, Joshua William Gelb discovered his closet to be a unique and creative performance space. Called “Virtuosic” by Jesse Green in the New York Times, who wrote, “The closet has produced some of the new medium’s most imaginative work.”

Theater in Quarantine (TiQ) is a performance laboratory dedicated to the exploration of the live theatrical experience in the digital space. Developed  by Founder/Co-Creative Director Gelb and Co-Creative Director Katie Rose McLaughlin, TiQ has created and live streamed over 25 new, original works of performance. TiQ has worked with an array of remote collaborators (including Raja Feather Kelly, Heather Christian, Karen Olivo, and Underground Railroad Game’s Scott R. Sheppard); and partnered with The Invisible Dog, LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club, CultureHub and Theater Mitu.

In their first year, TiQ has been established as one of the most consistent makers of digital performance, having been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, on NPR’s All Things Considered; and reached audiences across the globe. Helen Shaw in Vulture wrote that the closet “makes confinement a virtue, a prompt to imagination.”

A2SF is thrilled to commission a new piece in which TiQ will partner with musician Ki5 who will perform live from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) while TiQ performs simultaneously over a live stream from New York City.

About Ki5: Vocalist, songwriter, and producer Kyler Wilkins from Ann Arbor, Michigan has been performing as Ki5 using nothing but a loop station and a simple effects unit since 2017. His vibrant composition style – influenced by his time in a cappella groups – explores every crevice of the human voice meshed with beatboxing and delivers familiar genres such as R&B, pop, and soul to name a few. His honest, empathetic, and freeing style has been influenced by Reggie Watts, and Bon Iver.

NPR’s All Songs Considered says this about Ki5’s 2019 live-looping performance of “Honey” off his first EP Looking for the Sun: “Like honey, [his] falsetto is sweet; the layers of loops are sticky and soothing, building to a celebratory bridge, then melting back down to calming waves.”

Leading up to summer 2021, Ki5 has been focused on studio recording and collaborating with fellow artists around the U.S. and Canada to expand upon his vocal-driven style and push himself into new, intriguing territory involving more instrumentation. Recent songs such as “Sunny Days (Remix),” “Made of Stars,” and “Show Me Freedom” are expressions of his musical and personal growth and he hopes his practice of empathy is on display at every performance.

TiQ’s full archive can be found and streamed anytime on their YouTube channel at youtube.com/theaterinquarantine.

TiQ will premiere on Youtube on June 21 at 7pm & 9pm EDT. The performance will be livestreamed from UMMA.



 

Theater in Quarantine is presented by the Ann Arbor Summer Festival in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Performance Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:15:18 -0400 2021-06-21T21:00:00-04:00 2021-06-21T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
LIVESTREAM DUE TO RAIN - Kishi Bashi (duo) SOLD OUT (June 25, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84078 84078-21619847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 25, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

***This in-person event at Fuller Park has been cancelled due to inclement
weather. Please look for an email from info@noonchorus.com at the email
address you used to purchase your tickets. The Noonchorus email will include
your unique link to the livestream broadcast.***

A2SF and The Ark look forward to seeing you this weekend at our outdoor concert series at Fuller Park. You can find event information and FAQ here. A few things to note as you get ready to attend:

Health Screening:
We ask you and your guests to review these questions and only attend if you answer NO to all them the day of the event:
Are you exhibiting any symptoms of Covid-19? (e.g., fever, cough, shortness of breath/difficulty breathing, loss of taste or smell)
Have you tested positive for Covid-19 within the last 14 days?
Have been exposed to anyone who is known to have tested positive COVID-19?
Have you been advised to quarantine?

Weather-related Livestream
A reminder that if weather prevents us from gathering in-person, we’ll switch to a remote livestream broadcast. Notice of a switch to live broadcast will be posted on The Ark’s event FAQ page here, and on the A2SF website. We plan to post any change in event status by 4:30 prior to the Kishi Bashi (duo) and The War and Treaty evening shows Friday/Saturday, and by 1:30 on Saturday for the Laith Al Saadi Trio show.

If we switch to live online broadcast, ticket purchasers will receive an email from info@noonchorus.com with unique links for each ticket purchased that you can forward to your guests. Follow the instructions in the email to get set up. You can watch live and also view the concert for up to 72 hours after the show. If you need help with your livestream, contact help@noonchorus.com or (716) 880-9734. For FAQ and other information from NoonChorus, visit www.noonchorus.com/techfaq/

Final Reminders
Primary parking for concert-goers is lot M-71 on the south side of Fuller Road opposite Fuller Park. Parking for those requiring handicap access is lot M-78 adjacent to Fuller Pool. Additional overflow parking may be available in other nearby lots including Island Park. See the parking map for more information.

Remember to bring lawn chairs.

When arriving at Fuller Park, follow wayfinding signage to the performance venue on Field #3 that will begin near the pool building.

Enjoy the show!


ABOUT THE KISHI BASHI (duo):
Kishi Bashi is the pseudonym of singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi. Born in Seattle, Washington, Ishibashi grew up in Norfolk, Virginia where both of his parents were professors at Old Dominion University. As a 1994 graduate of Matthew Fontaine Maury High School, he went on to study film scoring at Berklee College of Music before becoming a renowned violinist. Ishibashi has recorded and toured internationally as a violinist with diverse artists such as Regina Spektor, Sondre Lerche, and most recently, the Athens, Georgia-based indie rock band, of Montreal. He remains based in Athens.

MORE ABOUT THE EVENT:
By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with health and safety
laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance
adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and the
event organizers -including any face mask and social distancing
guidelines in place at the time of the shows. Attendees who do not
comply will be asked to leave. Event guidelines will be updated as circumstances and requirements
change in our community. Please check back for updated information
and be sure to review before attending a show.





Gates open one hour before show time


All Ages (everyone 1 year and up needs a ticket)


Please bring your own chairs or blankets.


Maximum 6 tickets per purchaser.





Event seating will be in socially distanced pods of up to 6 people. All tickets for a pod must be purchased in one transaction.


You will be emailed a Registration Form closer to the event to collect contact information for all attendees in your pod.


No refunds or exchanges


No pets


No smoking


Program subject to change


Should weather force a cancellation, concert will be broadcast live from The Ark with an exclusive streaming link provided to ticket-holders.


$75 and $125 tickets include a tax-deductible contribution in support of both The Ark and A2SF. You will receive two receipts to document your contribution—one from each organization.


Click for Event FAQ: https://theark.org/faq-a2sf-ark-present

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Performance Fri, 25 Jun 2021 14:45:06 -0400 2021-06-25T20:00:00-04:00 2021-06-25T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Kishi Bashi (duo) at Fuller Park
LIVESTREAM DUE TO RAIN - Laith Al-Saadi Trio (June 26, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84079 84079-21619848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 26, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

WEATHER ANNOUNCEMENT:
The Laith Al Saadi Trio fundraising concert scheduled for in-person at Fuller Park has been changed to a live stream format due to risk of spontaneous thunderstorms and lightning. Please look for an email from info@noonchorus.com at the email address you used to purchase your tickets. The NoonChorus email will include your unique link to the live stream broadcast. There are no refunds or exchanges available.
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A2SF and The Ark look forward to seeing you this weekend at our outdoor concert series at Fuller Park. You can find event information and FAQ here. A few things to note as you get ready to attend:

Health Screening:
We ask you and your guests to review these questions and only attend if you answer NO to all them the day of the event:
Are you exhibiting any symptoms of Covid-19? (e.g., fever, cough, shortness of breath/difficulty breathing, loss of taste or smell)
Have you tested positive for Covid-19 within the last 14 days?
Have been exposed to anyone who is known to have tested positive COVID-19?
Have you been advised to quarantine?

Weather-related Livestream
A reminder that if weather prevents us from gathering in-person, we’ll switch to a remote livestream broadcast. Notice of a switch to live broadcast will be posted on The Ark’s event FAQ page here, and on the A2SF website. We plan to post any change in event status by 4:30 prior to the Kishi Bashi (duo) and The War and Treaty evening shows Friday/Saturday, and by 1:30 on Saturday for the Laith Al Saadi Trio show.

If we switch to live online broadcast, ticket purchasers will receive an email from info@noonchorus.com with unique links for each ticket purchased that you can forward to your guests. Follow the instructions in the email to get set up. You can watch live and also view the concert for up to 72 hours after the show. If you need help with your livestream, contact help@noonchorus.com or (716) 880-9734. For FAQ and other information from NoonChorus, visit www.noonchorus.com/techfaq/

Final Reminders
Primary parking for concert-goers is lot M-71 on the south side of Fuller Road opposite Fuller Park. Parking for those requiring handicap access is lot M-78 adjacent to Fuller Pool. Additional overflow parking may be available in other nearby lots including Island Park. See the parking map for more information.

Remember to bring lawn chairs.

When arriving at Fuller Park, follow wayfinding signage to the performance venue on Field #3 that will begin near the pool building.

Enjoy the show!


ABOUT THE ARTIST:
In 2016, Laith Al-Saadi won America’s hearts and a spot in the Season 10 finale of NBC’s “The Voice.” Now he’s poised to bring his authentic blend of blues, soul and classic rock to audiences around the nation and the world.

Laith Al-Saadi has always had the perfect combination of Midwestern hustle and incredible musical chops – honed at the University of Michigan school of music in his hometown of Ann Arbor, and on stages across the country working with legends like Taj Mahal, Luther Allison, Buddy Guy, Son Seals, Gregg Allman, B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, Paul Rodgers and recently opened for Bob Seger on his farewell tour in January, 2019.

For this special fundraising event, Laith will appear with his trio.

MORE ABOUT THE EVENT:
By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with health and safety
laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance
adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and the
event organizers -including any face mask and social distancing
guidelines in place at the time of the shows. Attendees who do not
comply will be asked to leave. Event guidelines will be updated as circumstances and requirements
change in our community. Please check back for updated information
and be sure to review before attending a show.





Gates open one hour before show time


All Ages (everyone 1 year and up needs a ticket)


Please bring your own chairs or blankets.


Maximum 6 tickets per purchaser.





Event seating will be in socially distanced pods of up to 6 people. All tickets for a pod must be purchased in one transaction.


You will be emailed a Registration Form closer to the event to collect contact information for all attendees in your pod.


No refunds or exchanges


No pets


No smoking


Program subject to change


Should weather force a cancellation, concert will be broadcast live from The Ark with an exclusive streaming link provided to ticket-holders.


$75 and $125 tickets include a tax-deductible contribution in support of both The Ark and A2SF. You will receive two receipts to document your contribution—one from each organization.


Click for Event FAQ: https://theark.org/faq-a2sf-ark-present

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Performance Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:48:53 -0400 2021-06-26T16:00:00-04:00 2021-06-26T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Laith Al-Saadi Trio at Fuller Park
LIVESTREAM DUE TO RAIN - The War & Treaty (SOLDOUT) (June 26, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84080 84080-21619849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 26, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Laith Al Saadi Trio fundraising concert scheduled for in-person at Fuller Park has been changed to a live stream format due to risk of spontaneous thunderstorms and lightning. Please look for an email from info@noonchorus.com at the email address you used to purchase your tickets. The NoonChorus email will include your unique link to the live stream broadcast.

A2SF and The Ark look forward to seeing you this weekend at our outdoor concert series at Fuller Park. You can find event information and FAQ here. A few things to note as you get ready to attend:

Health Screening:
We ask you and your guests to review these questions and only attend if you answer NO to all them the day of the event:
Are you exhibiting any symptoms of Covid-19? (e.g., fever, cough, shortness of breath/difficulty breathing, loss of taste or smell)
Have you tested positive for Covid-19 within the last 14 days?
Have been exposed to anyone who is known to have tested positive COVID-19?
Have you been advised to quarantine?

Weather-related Livestream
A reminder that if weather prevents us from gathering in-person, we’ll switch to a remote livestream broadcast. Notice of a switch to live broadcast will be posted on The Ark’s event FAQ page here, and on the A2SF website. We plan to post any change in event status by 4:30 prior to the Kishi Bashi (duo) and The War and Treaty evening shows Friday/Saturday, and by 1:30 on Saturday for the Laith Al Saadi Trio show.

If we switch to live online broadcast, ticket purchasers will receive an email from info@noonchorus.com with unique links for each ticket purchased that you can forward to your guests. Follow the instructions in the email to get set up. You can watch live and also view the concert for up to 72 hours after the show. If you need help with your livestream, contact help@noonchorus.com or (716) 880-9734. For FAQ and other information from NoonChorus, visit www.noonchorus.com/techfaq/

Final Reminders
Primary parking for concert-goers is lot M-71 on the south side of Fuller Road opposite Fuller Park. Parking for those requiring handicap access is lot M-78 adjacent to Fuller Pool. Additional overflow parking may be available in other nearby lots including Island Park. See the parking map for more information.

Remember to bring lawn chairs.

When arriving at Fuller Park, follow wayfinding signage to the performance venue on Field #3 that will begin near the pool building.

Enjoy the show!


ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Since forming in 2014, The War And Treaty have amassed a following as eclectic as their sound itself, a bluesy but joyful fusion of Southern soul, gospel, country, and rock-and-roll. Known for a live show nearly revival-like in intensity, the husband-and-wife team of Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Blount-Trotter endlessly create an exhilarating exchange of energy with their audience, a dynamic they’ve brought to the stage in opening for the legendary Al Green and touring with the likes of Brandi Carlile and Jason Isbell.

MORE ABOUT THE EVENT:
By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with health and safety
laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance
adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and the
event organizers -including any face mask and social distancing
guidelines in place at the time of the shows. Attendees who do not
comply will be asked to leave. Event guidelines will be updated as circumstances and requirements
change in our community. Please check back for updated information
and be sure to review before attending a show.





Gates open one hour before show time


All Ages (everyone 1 year and up needs a ticket)


Please bring your own chairs or blankets.


Maximum 6 tickets per purchaser.





Event seating will be in socially distanced pods of up to 6 people. All tickets for a pod must be purchased in one transaction.


You will be emailed a Registration Form closer to the event to collect contact information for all attendees in your pod.


No refunds or exchanges


No pets


No smoking


Program subject to change


Should weather force a cancellation, concert will be broadcast live from The Ark with an exclusive streaming link provided to ticket-holders.


$75 and $125 tickets include a tax-deductible contribution in support of both The Ark and A2SF. You will receive two receipts to document your contribution—one from each organization.


Click for Event FAQ: https://theark.org/faq-a2sf-ark-present

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Performance Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:15:19 -0400 2021-06-26T20:00:00-04:00 2021-06-26T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The War & Treaty at Fuller Park
Summer Carillon Concert: Dr. Linda Dzuris (June 28, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84267 84267-21620832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 28, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dr. Linda Dzuris (BM '92, MM '93, DMA '98), performs the first of our "7 at 7" Monday night carillon concerts at Burton Memorial Tower. Her program ranges from Argentine tango to Gershwin to pop hits from multiple decades.

The annual series takes place at 7 PM on Mondays from June 21 to August 9, featuring performers from Michigan and around the U.S. playing either Burton or Lurie Tower. The carillon is an outdoor instrument, and attendees are requested to maintain social distance in the outdoor listening areas surrounding the towers. Attendees are required to follow the University of Michigan, Washtenaw County, Michigan state, and federal guidelines for large outdoor gatherings.

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Linda Dzuris became Clemson’s first University Carillonneur in 1999 and is a Professor of Music in the Department of Performing Arts. Additionally, Dzuris is a performance instructor of the North American Carillon School, which was established in 2013 as affiliate and American representative of the Royal Carillon School ‘Jef Denyn’ in Mechelen, Belgium. She received her B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees in organ performance and church music from the University of Michigan. Carillon study was also done in Ann Arbor, MI, with additional study at The Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort, NL.  Dzuris is a former board member, a current adjudicator on the Associate Carillonneur Evaluation Committee, and a juror on the Carillonneur Exam Committee for the GCNA.  She has been a featured guest artist in carillon concert series throughout the United States, The Netherlands, France, and Switzerland. In 2017, Dzuris performed concerts on behalf of the GCNA at the 19th World Carillon Federation Congress held in Barcelona, Spain. American Carillon Music Editions and the Yale Guild of Carillonneurs publish her original carillon compositions.

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Performance Wed, 16 Jun 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-06-28T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Burton Memorial Tower
Summer Carillon Concert: Tom Gurin (Duke University) (July 5, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84268 84268-21620833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 5, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Tom Gurin performs the second of our "7 at 7" Monday night carillon concerts at Lurie Tower in the Eda U. Gerstacker Grove on North Campus. His program ranges from Broadway and film tunes to his own award-winning compositions.

The annual series takes place at 7 PM on Mondays from June 21 to August 9, featuring performers from Michigan and around the U.S. playing either Burton or Lurie Tower. The carillon is an outdoor instrument, and attendees are requested to maintain social distance in the outdoor listening areas surrounding the towers. Attendees are required to follow the University of Michigan, Washtenaw County, Michigan state, and federal guidelines for large outdoor gatherings.

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

BIOGRAPHY: Tom Gurin (b. 1995) is Duke University Chapel Carillonneur. In May 2021, he performed the inaugural carillon recital at North Carolina State University. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in music composition in 2018. At Yale, he studied composition with Kathryn Alexander and was President of the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs. In 2019, he graduated with great distinction from the Royal Carillon School 'Jef Denyn' in Mechelen, Belgium. There, he studied carillon performance with Eddy Mariën and composition with Erik Vandevoort and Rachel Perfecto. During his studies in Mechelen, he was a United States Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. He has been a member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America since 2017.

In addition to his carillon music, Gurin is an active composer for orchestras, chamber concerts, films, and other settings. He has contributed to numerous international festivals, including highSCORE New Music Festival in Pavia, Italy, and the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival at Mannes School of Music in New York City, where he was an Emerging Composer Fellow. The Yale Symphony Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra of China, the Sonus Foundation for New Music and Contemporary Performing Arts, and other ensembles and organizations have performed his compositions. In fall 2021, he will begin a year-long artist residency at the United States Foundation in Paris as a Fulbright Scholar. A recipient of the joint Fulbright-Harriet Hale Woolley Award, he will study in the music composition studio at the École Normale de Musique de Paris while on leave from Duke. His published carillon works include "At Rain-Starred Windows" (2021), which received a performance award from the Johan Franco Composition Contest, "Things with Feathers" (2019), and "Air"; which was selected as a winner of the Twilight Composition Contest at the 74th Congress of the GCNA.

For more information, please visit https://tomgurin.com.

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Performance Wed, 16 Jun 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-07-05T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Pride on the Diag (July 10, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84256 84256-21623497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 10, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Queer Advocacy Coalition

Queer Advocacy Coalition, in collaboration with Rackham Graduate School and the Spectrum Center, are so excited to be hosting Pride on the Diag on July 10th from 1-3pm on The Diag! At the event, you’ll find performances from local queer musicians, poets, and drag performers, as well as interactive tables from campus and community organizations providing resources about the LGBTQIA+ community and LGBTQIA+ safe sex practices. There will be games and cute photo booth opportunities, so grab your friends and family, and come out to celebrate! 🏳️‍🌈

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Performance Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:46:11 -0400 2021-07-10T13:00:00-04:00 2021-07-10T15:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Queer Advocacy Coalition Performance Pride on the Diag, 2021. Postponed to July 10th, 1 to 3pm. Presented by Queer Advocacy Coalition, Rackham Graduate School, and the Spectrum Center. The flyer has a light blue background with hands of all different races holding a variety of pride flags.
Summer Carillon Concert: Eva Albalghiti (July 12, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84269 84269-21620834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 12, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Eva Albalghiti performs the third of our "7 at 7" Monday night carillon concerts at Lurie Tower on the Eda U. Gerstacker Grove on North Campus. Bring a picnic!

The annual series takes place at 7 PM on Mondays from June 21 to August 9, featuring performers from Michigan and around the U.S. playing either Burton or Lurie Tower. Concerts are free and family-friendly. The carillon is an outdoor instrument, and attendees are requested to maintain social distance in the outdoor listening areas surrounding the towers. Attendees are required to follow the University of Michigan, Washtenaw County, Michigan state, and federal guidelines for large outdoor gatherings.

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

BIOGRAPHY: Eva Albalghiti is originally from Silver Spring, MD. She began playing carillon at Yale University, where she took lessons with Ellen Dickinson and was a member of the Yale Guild of Carillonneurs for three years. In 2018, she became a Carillonneur Member of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America. After taking a two-year break from carillon to pursue a research opportunity in Beijing, China, she came to the University of Michigan in 2020 to pursue her PhD in Environmental Engineering.

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Performance Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-07-12T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Summer Carillon Concert: Eva Albalghiti
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 13, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84141 84141-21620446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:15:26 -0400 2021-07-13T17:30:00-04:00 2021-07-13T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 13, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84142 84142-21620447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:15:26 -0400 2021-07-13T19:00:00-04:00 2021-07-13T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 13, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84143 84143-21620448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:15:19 -0400 2021-07-13T20:30:00-04:00 2021-07-13T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 14, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84144 84144-21620449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:15:19 -0400 2021-07-14T17:30:00-04:00 2021-07-14T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 14, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84145 84145-21620450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:15:19 -0400 2021-07-14T19:00:00-04:00 2021-07-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 14, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84146 84146-21620451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:15:18 -0400 2021-07-14T20:30:00-04:00 2021-07-14T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 15, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84147 84147-21620452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 15, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Fri, 16 Jul 2021 06:15:17 -0400 2021-07-15T17:30:00-04:00 2021-07-15T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 15, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84149 84149-21620454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 15, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Fri, 16 Jul 2021 06:15:18 -0400 2021-07-15T19:00:00-04:00 2021-07-15T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 15, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84148 84148-21620453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 15, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Fri, 16 Jul 2021 06:15:17 -0400 2021-07-15T20:30:00-04:00 2021-07-15T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 16, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84150 84150-21620455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 16, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:15:21 -0400 2021-07-16T17:30:00-04:00 2021-07-16T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84158 84158-21620463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:15:22 -0400 2021-07-16T19:00:00-04:00 2021-07-16T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 16, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84159 84159-21620464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 16, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:15:21 -0400 2021-07-16T20:30:00-04:00 2021-07-16T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 17, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84151 84151-21620456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 17, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sat, 17 Jul 2021 18:15:20 -0400 2021-07-17T14:30:00-04:00 2021-07-17T15:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84160 84160-21620465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sat, 17 Jul 2021 18:15:21 -0400 2021-07-17T16:00:00-04:00 2021-07-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 17, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84152 84152-21620457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 17, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sat, 17 Jul 2021 18:15:20 -0400 2021-07-17T17:30:00-04:00 2021-07-17T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84155 84155-21620460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sat, 17 Jul 2021 18:15:20 -0400 2021-07-17T19:00:00-04:00 2021-07-17T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 18, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84153 84153-21620458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 18, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:15:20 -0400 2021-07-18T14:30:00-04:00 2021-07-18T15:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84154 84154-21620459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:15:20 -0400 2021-07-18T16:00:00-04:00 2021-07-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 18, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84156 84156-21620461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 18, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:15:20 -0400 2021-07-18T17:30:00-04:00 2021-07-18T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (July 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84157 84157-21620462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://a2sf.ticketleap.com/a-thousand-ways/.

This summer, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

$10 / $5 for students with the code STUDENTATW For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:15:20 -0400 2021-07-18T19:00:00-04:00 2021-07-18T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
CANCELLED: Junior Brown - Rescheduled from 7/12/2020 (July 18, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71689 71689-17862145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 18, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

If you haven't seen Junior Brown yet, you need to "guit with it"! Junior Brown is a one-man musical hot fusion machine, and he's coming to town with his guit-steel, a unique hybrid contraption that's part electric guitar and part country steel guitar. People call him a cross between Jimi Hendrix and Ernest Tubb. But there's a lot more to say about Junior Brown. There's the fact that he's just about the best surf guitarist around, for example. Or that he's a wonderful composer of traditional country songs, the kind in which each outrageous pun leads you deeper into an emotional blind alley. Come check out the performer voted #1 House Rocker by the readers of Guitar Player! Come pick up a copy of Junior's recent album "Deep in the Heart of Me."

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Performance Thu, 01 Jul 2021 14:24:43 -0400 2021-07-18T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-18T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Junior Brown presented by The Ark
Postponed - Electric Hot Tuna: 50 Years - Rescheduled from 7/22 and 7/23/20 (July 20, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74054 74054-18500000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Hot Tuna, the duo of Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, perform with a well-honed and solid power—always in the groove from their years of experience and mutual inspiration. Started as a side project during Jefferson Airplane days, the constant, the very definition of Hot Tuna, has always been Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. The two boyhood pals have never wavered in one of the most enduring friendships in rock history. From their days playing together as teenagers in the Washington, DC, area, through years in San Francisco (they're 1996 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees), to their current acoustic and electric blues sound, no one has more consistently led American music for the last 50 years. At the 2016 Grammys, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards, and they're still coming up with new ideas. Hot Tuna performs an electric show tonight in observance of the band's 50th anniversary, with drummer Justin Guip.

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Performance Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:29:13 -0400 2021-07-20T20:00:00-04:00 2021-07-20T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Electric Hot Tuna presented by The Ark
Postponed - Electric Hot Tuna: 50 Years - Rescheduled from 7/22 and 7/23/20 (July 21, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74054 74054-18500001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Hot Tuna, the duo of Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, perform with a well-honed and solid power—always in the groove from their years of experience and mutual inspiration. Started as a side project during Jefferson Airplane days, the constant, the very definition of Hot Tuna, has always been Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. The two boyhood pals have never wavered in one of the most enduring friendships in rock history. From their days playing together as teenagers in the Washington, DC, area, through years in San Francisco (they're 1996 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees), to their current acoustic and electric blues sound, no one has more consistently led American music for the last 50 years. At the 2016 Grammys, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards, and they're still coming up with new ideas. Hot Tuna performs an electric show tonight in observance of the band's 50th anniversary, with drummer Justin Guip.

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Performance Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:29:13 -0400 2021-07-21T20:00:00-04:00 2021-07-21T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Electric Hot Tuna presented by The Ark
Summer Carillon Concert: John Widmann (July 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84270 84270-21620835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Date change from July 17

John Widmann, City Carillonneur of the City of Frederick, MD, performs the fourth of our "7 at 7" Monday night carillon concerts at Burton Memorial Tower. His program ranges from original compositions for carillon to classical transcriptions to movie themes.

The annual series takes place at 7 PM on Mondays from June 21 to August 9, featuring performers from Michigan and around the U.S. playing either Burton or Lurie Tower. Concerts are free and family-friendly. The carillon is an outdoor instrument, and attendees are requested to maintain social distance in the outdoor listening areas surrounding the towers. Attendees are required to follow the University of Michigan, Washtenaw County, Michigan state, and federal guidelines for large outdoor gatherings.

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

BIOGRAPHY: John Widmann is the City Carillonneur for the City of Frederick, Maryland, where he plays recitals every Sunday at 12:30, year-round, on the Joseph Dill Baker Carillon in Baker Park. He has now held that position for twenty-nine years. Mr. Widmann graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and completed in his Master of Music degree from Towson University in 2011. In addition to his Sunday recitals, he recently retired from Frederick County Public Schools where he was a General/Vocal Music teacher. He is also a freelance organist and conductor. Mr. Widmann became a Carillonneur Member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America in 1996, and is a past member of the national board of that organization. He maintains an active concert schedule, and has played frequently in the U.S., along with recitals in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, England, Canada, and the Netherlands Antilles. He lives in Frederick with his wife and sometimes their two grown children.

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Performance Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-07-26T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Summer Carillon Concert: John Widmann
Postponed: The High Kings - Rescheduled from 7/27/20 (July 28, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73511 73511-18252282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Tickets on sale May 8!

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Performance Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:55:32 -0400 2021-07-28T20:00:00-04:00 2021-07-28T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The High Kings presented by The Ark
Kim Richey (Rescheduled from 8/17/20) (July 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72463 72463-18009366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Tonight Kim Richey revisits her classic 1999 album "Glimmer"! “I started off that record scared to death,” Kim recalls of making Glimmer with producer Hugh Padgham back in 1999 in New York and London. A disastrous haircut, unfamiliar musicians, and oversized budgets didn't help matters. “It wasn’t the way I was used to making records.” The way Richey was used to making records was with friends in a vibed-out, low-key setting. That's how she made her debut album with Richard Bennett, and it's how she made her new album, "Long Way Back ... The Songs of Glimmer," with Doug Lancio. So "Glimmer" was different, and not just on the production side. Then, as now, the compositions that make up "Glimmer" were the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter's first collection of true confessionals. Prior to that she'd been a staff writer at Blue Water Music writing from a more arm's-length vantage point for her first two releases, 1995's "Kim Richey" and 1997's "Bitter Sweet." But "Glimmer" was all her. Come and experience this classic of American songwriting anew.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:55:10 -0400 2021-07-29T20:00:00-04:00 2021-07-29T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Kim Richey presented by The Ark
(CANCELLED) Gina Chavez & Carrie Rodriguez - Rescheduled from 7/31/2020 (July 30, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74169 74169-18557776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 30, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Tickets on sale July 24!

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Performance Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:15:50 -0400 2021-07-30T20:00:00-04:00 2021-07-30T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Carrie Rodriguez presented by The Ark
The Steel Wheels (August 1, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84213 84213-21620767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 1, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Simultaneously familiar and fresh, the Steel Wheels bring a singular energy to every note they play and sparkling craft to each song. This potent combination, paired with a robust tour calendar, have made the veteran band hands-down favorites of fans and peers alike. From their base in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, TSW have played the most prestigious festivals, listening rooms, and clubs in the world, cementing a reputation as one of the top independent bands on the scene today.

With their 2020 release, Everyone A Song, Vol. 1, The Steel Wheels demonstrate the humanizing power of honest storytelling, setting the personal experiences of their supporters to song.

What started as a ruined touring season turned into a time of great creativity, as the band devised a new model of writing and recording. With the 5 members isolated from each other and their listeners, they quickly shifted from veteran touring outfit to home recording gurus. Songwriter and lead singer Trent Wagler conceived of a project entitled Distance Together, an avenue for fans of the band to commission works and send musical greetings to their loved ones. The initiative sparked a surprisingly impactful and intimate songwriting process, with Wagler setting the personal stories of fans to song and verse. Songs were written for individuals, friends, and families, many specific to a time and place. Some have been commissioned for weddings and anniversaries, or to commemorate a lost loved one or the completion of a life's work.

In "My Name is Sharon", Wagler was tasked with memorializing a young woman and friend of the band, lost at the age of 35. The resulting song remembers details of Sharon's life, in all it's profundity and mundanity, and demonstrates the power of remembrance held in saying someone's name.

Album ender “Family is Power” follows the matriarch of a large family, as she looks back on her long life and the family she loves, now spread across the country. “She’s gonna see the truth in me, in the golden hour. Come to the table one and all, Family is Power.” In “The Healer,” buoyant banjo and fiddle lines drive the story of a magnetic personality who, after a lifetime of work and service is denied the opportunity to say goodbye to colleagues in the midst of the pandemic. “Water and Sky”, a tribute to John Prine in its simplicity and depth, paints pictures of a dreamy Kansas landscape, and the strong personalities who hold witness to the ebb and flow of life.

The Steel Wheels have always been fiercely independent, releasing albums under their own label, with recording locations varying from a Virginia cabin, to a rural Maine studio to various home studios. Now spread across 3 states with many miles between, The Steel Wheels have invented an entirely new way of collaborating. Fortunately two of the members, multi-instrumentalist Jay Lapp and percussionist Kevin Garcia were already skilled audio engineers with home studios at the ready. Others, such as fiddle player Eric Brubaker, who had to scrounge together a few mics from the touring van and an old laptop, learning the ropes of digital audio recording on the fly.

According to Brubaker, "Process has a great deal to do with the outcome of a creative undertaking. Some of the pressure is off when you are just at home, instead of at an expensive studio, so you might take some risks that you wouldn’t usually. Also, we were working at a pretty fast pace, so you just had to trust your first instinct and not overthink it.”

During the first few months of the pandemic and cessation of all touring, The Steel Wheels recorded over 60 songs in their isolated studios. Some covers, some new editions of their own songs, and some newly penned, the creations generally started with Wagler recording a single instrument and vocals. The tracks were emailed to Garcia, who layered in a backbone of percussion. Next in line was usually Brian Dickel who rounded out the rhythm section with upright and electric bass parts.

Part by part, the songs were arranged and recorded, often with little discussion as to who was providing which part, or even what instruments should be included. The band relied on their years of musical camaraderie and intuition to imagine the whole, adding their voices while being careful to leave room for the next in line. The process yielded some exciting new sounds, from the neo soul vocals and punchy bass lines of “Florida Girl” to the second line swagger of Garcia’s drums on “The Man Who Holds Up the World."

The Steel Wheels have been a band marked by their road tested friendship and desire to build community. 2020 would have marked their 8th year as hosts and curators of their Red Wing Roots Music Festival. Always a high-water mark of the year, the 3 day festival brings together thousands of fans and friends every July to sing and sweat together in the Virginia sun.

Everyone A Song, Vol. 1 was born out of a desire to close the distance created in the midst of the Covid-19 shutdown. “Maybe I was dreaming of being an essential worker,” says Wagler. “It made me ask the question: what’s essential about music? It’s the connection. The understanding. The beauty and magic of melodies that transcend us with the words that say, ‘You there, I see you, and you see me, and doesn’t it feel good to not be alone in the world?’ That’s what art has to offer. Especially right now. And planting real stories right in the middle of it kind of pushed aside any other pretense or distraction about being cool or whatever.”

This project has been further documented in an accompanying podcast, We Made You a Song. Each episode dives into the creation of a single song on the album, serving as an in-depth audio liner note. Wagler interviews the band as well as the actual subjects of each song to give a rare glimpse into the creative process, and what it means for someone to have their experience distilled into melody and rhyme.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:03:20 -0400 2021-08-01T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-01T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Steel Wheels presented by The Ark
Summer Carillon Concert: Keiran Cantilina (August 2, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84272 84272-21620837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 2, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

At Lurie Tower, Keiran Cantilina (McGaffin Carillon, Cleveland, OH) performs the sixth of our "7 at 7" Monday night carillon concerts. Bring your picnic blanket to the Eda U. Gerstacker Grove on North Campus!

The annual series takes place at 7 PM on Mondays from June 21 to August 9, featuring performers from Michigan and around the U.S. playing either Burton or Lurie Tower. Concerts are free and family-friendly. The carillon is an outdoor instrument, and attendees are requested to maintain social distance in the outdoor listening areas surrounding the towers. Attendees are required to follow the University of Michigan, Washtenaw County, Michigan state, and federal guidelines for large outdoor gatherings.

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

BIOGRAPHY:
Keiran Cantilina hails from Stewartsville, NJ. He graduated from the Royal Carillon School 'Jef Denyn' in Mechelen in 2019 and was a finalist in the Queen Fabiola International Carillon Competition held that same year. Cantilina was introduced to bells during his university years, when he played Cornell University's twenty-one bell chime. In graduate school, Cantilina studied with Dave Johnson at the House of Hope carillon in St. Paul, MN. In 2018-2019, he studied carillon in Belgium with Koen Van Assche with financial support from the Belgian American Education Foundation. Cantilina lives in Cleveland, OH, where he performs frequently on the Alexander McGaffin Carillon.

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Performance Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-08-02T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Summer Carillon Concert: Keiran Cantilina
Adam Ezra Group (August 4, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84209 84209-21620765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Adam Ezra felt alone. It was March of 2020, and as the COVID-19 pandemic began tightening its deadly grip across the United States, the roots rock stalwart found himself forced off the road for the first time in years, stuck at home with a calendar full of cancelled tour dates and no one to perform for. Concerned by the chaos unfolding around him but certain he wasn’t the only one in search of some kind of solace, Ezra decided to pick up his guitar, turn on his phone, and do what he’d always done in times of worry or doubt: play a show.

“I just started livestreaming from my house,” Ezra recalls. “It was a way to connect with people, to feel a little less lost, a little less scared. I played and talked for about an hour, and then at the end of the stream, I told everybody, ‘I’ll come back tomorrow if you come back tomorrow.’”

Ezra kept his promise and then some, returning every single night after that for what he and his fans would eventually come to call The Gathering Series. Interactive and improvisatory, the shows took shape on the fly, drawing on daily life and frequently featuring newly written material and never performed songs from Ezra’s extensive back catalog. Through his own harrowing battle with COVID, a move to the Mojave Desert, a socially distanced summer tour, and even his wedding day, Ezra never missed a performance, broadcasting without fail from wherever he found himself each night at 7pm Eastern. Driven by a belief that small grassroots communities have the power to impact the world, Ezra - who has gone live daily since March 13th 2020 - has reached a cumulative audience of well over 15 million viewers worldwide, a staggering feat for any artist that stands as a testament, not only to his artistic endurance, but also his ability to provide an accepting and supportive space for newcomers joining his tight-knit community of fans during a time when it’s needed more than ever.

“The people who watch every night, they’re tuning in for me, but they’re also tuning in for each other,” says Ezra. “They’re tuning in for comfort and compassion and connection, but maybe also a sense of normalcy and grounding during this time that seems to be shaking the very foundations of who we’ve always thought we were. As special as The Gathering Series is, I don’t think it could have achieved this kind of success if we didn’t have this incredible fan community around us that is inspired by engagement and activism.”

Working outside the confines of the traditional music industry, Ezra and his band, the Adam Ezra Group, built that foundation through sheer grit and determination, regularly performing hundreds of shows a year for the past two decades without any major label or mainstream radio support. Fusing folk intimacy and rock energy with soul power and pop charm, the band first emerged from Boston in the early 2000s and quickly garnered widespread acclaim for their bold, insightful songwriting and interactive, euphoric performances. From hole in the wall bars and house concerts to sold-out headline shows and dates with the likes of Little Big Town, The Wallflowers, Gavin DeGraw, Train, and The Wailers, Ezra and his bandmates treated every single gig like their last, attracting a die-hard following that believed not just in the music, but in their commitment to activism and social change, as well. Charity events and fundraisers were a regular part of the group’s touring schedule, and each year, thousands of Adam Ezra Group fans would gather in Boston for the band’s homegrown festival, The Ramble, which raised money and marshaled resources to help homeless veterans find safe and dignified housing.

“With the pandemic raging, 2020 was going to be the first time in ten years that we couldn’t host a Ramble,” says Ezra, “so we decided to incorporate it into The Gathering Series and put on a 24-hour, non-stop livestream. It was a crazy idea, but by the end of it, we had tens of thousands of people rambling with us from around the world and we’d broken our previous fundraising record, collecting enough money to help 64 of our veteran heroes off the streets.”

While that 24-hour livestream was undoubtedly the most taxing installment of The Gathering Series, finding ways to broadcast a new, unscripted hour of live music every night for a year was rarely easy. In April, Ezra came down with COVID and found himself so weak he could barely get out of bed to perform. In May, he and his wife traded Massachusetts for the Mojave, setting up a temporary home base in a cabin outside Joshua Tree, where Ezra would continue to stream daily from the desert. Over the summer, he and the band cooked up a way to bring The Gathering Series to the real world, performing nearly 50 safe, socially distanced shows in parks and backyards around the country while still managing to go live every night at 7pm.

Apart from the emotional and physical commitment, playing every night hasn’t been without its logistical challenges as well. “I remember one night I was in a hotel, and the WiFi went out,” says Ezra. “I jumped in the van and just started driving until I found service, and then I pulled over and played the show right there on the side of the road from the driver’s seat. Turned out to be one of my favorite memories looking back on the year.”

As if over 425 shows since the pandemic started isn’t enough to keep them busy, Ezra and his bandmates—fiddler Corinna Smith, drummer Alex Martin, and bassist Poche Ponce—also embarked on an ambitious new recording series in 2020. Dubbed The Album Project, the endeavor will see the band releasing at least 19 new singles over the next few years, trading in the traditional LP format for a steady flow of fresh material designed to keep their ever-expanding community active and engaged even beyond the pandemic. The series opened up, fittingly enough, with “All Right Today,” an effervescent, feel-good ode to putting one foot in front of the other, to living in the moment and leaning on one another to get through our hardest times.

“I wrote that song years before COVID,” says Ezra, “but that line, ‘We will be all right today,’ kept coming back to me through this whole experience. It felt like a mantra I continue to lean on right now and the right way to kick this whole thing off.”

In celebration of their 365th Gathering show, Ezra and the band followed that release up with The Album Project’s second installment, “Switching To Whiskey,” which hints at old-school country and Appalachian folk as it meditates on the power of heartbreak and memory. Like much of Ezra’s catalog, the bittersweet track is intimate and organic, fueled by stripped-down, acoustic instrumentation and the kind of raw, honest vocals that cut straight to the heart of things. “Switching to Whiskey” has well over 225K streams on Spotify, and a new music video on YouTube.

“As soon as we started playing that one live, it became one of our most-requested,” says Ezra. “And the beauty of The Album Project is that when our fans are really connecting to something, we can just record it and get it right out to them, because they’re truly the engine behind everything we do.”

The third release from the project “Devil’s Kiss” released in May 2021, and focuses on Ezra’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic, and all of the challenges everyone has faced over the past year.

What comes next for the Adam Ezra Group? They have started another socially distanced tour and have geared up to start a full routed tour again in June 2021. Perhaps another 24-hour livestream will be in the works? Perhaps something even crazier. The future is anyone’s guess right now, and the only thing the Adam Ezra Group knows for sure, is they’ll be out there making music however and whenever they can.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:08:39 -0400 2021-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 2021-08-04T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Adam Ezra Group presented by The Ark
CANCELLED: Robbie Fulks, Jack Lawrence & David Grier (August 6, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74168 74168-18557775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 6, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Doc and Cover! The Music of Doc Watson

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Performance Thu, 20 May 2021 13:42:41 -0400 2021-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 2021-08-06T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Robbie Fulks presented by The Ark
CANCELLED: Trout Fishing in America - Rescheduled from August 14, 2020 (August 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73573 73573-18261087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Trout Fishing in America is Keith Grimwood (electric bass/upright bass and vocals) and Ezra Idlet (guitar/bouzouki/banjo and vocals). For over 40 years, they have entertained and engaged audiences of all ages with their clever lyrics, genre-defying musical style, and inimitable stage presence. Trout Fishing in America was in the first wave of artist-owned labels (Trout Records) to successfully record and market their music. Drawing inspiration from childhoods spent listening to top-40 AM radio, the two songwriters season their music with stylings from rock and roll, blues, folk, country, bluegrass, funk, Latin, and reggae.whatever sound best brings out the flavor of their lyrics. Their recordings have garnered three National Indie Awards, multiple Parents Choice and NAPPA Gold awards, the American Library Award, as well as four Grammy nominations. In April 2019, they released their 26th album, "Live At The Epic Theater". It is not unusual for three or four generations of a family to show up at a Trout performance and this is a point of pride for both Keith and Ezra. It may be impossible to categorize what kind of music they play, but after attending a Trout show, you'll know exactly what you've witnessed: two guys who still love what they do and are excited to share it with you.

You can find them online at troutmusic.com, on their of-FISH-ial Facebook page, and on their MusicByTroutFishing YouTube channel.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:08:23 -0400 2021-08-08T19:00:00-04:00 2021-08-08T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Trout Fishing in America presented by The Ark
Summer Carillon Concert: Annette Wright (August 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84273 84273-21620838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 9, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

At Lurie Tower, Annette Wright (St. Mary of Redford Catholic Church, Detroit) performs the seventh and last of our "7 at 7" Monday night carillon concerts. Bring your picnic blanket to Eda U. Gerstacker Grove on North Campus!

The annual series takes place at 7 PM on Mondays from June 21 to August 9, featuring performers from Michigan and around the U.S. playing either Burton or Lurie Tower. Concerts are free and family-friendly. The carillon is an outdoor instrument, and attendees are requested to maintain social distance in the outdoor listening areas surrounding the towers. Attendees are required to follow the University of Michigan, Washtenaw County, Michigan state, and federal guidelines for large outdoor gatherings.

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

BIOGRAPHY:
Annette Wright has been a pastoral musician for over 40 years, most recently serving as organist and carillonist at St. Mary of Redford Catholic Church in Detroit. She attended Oakland University and Marygrove College, graduating Magna cum laude with a Bachelors
Degree in Sacred Music in 2004. She is currently back at Oakland University for continuing studies on the carillon with Dennis Curry, associate professor and carillonneur at Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian Church.

Annette served as chapter director for the Detroit Chapter – National Association of Musicians for seven years, as well as several years on the Chorister’s Guild Board – Detroit, and is a member of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America and the American Guild of Organists. In her free time, Annette loves to travel the world and has been to 17 different countries. She also loves to knit, read, and enjoys time with her family.

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Performance Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:15:04 -0400 2021-08-09T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Summer Carillon Concert: Annette Wright
Summer Carillon Concert: HyoJin Jenna Moon (August 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84271 84271-21620836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

date change from July 26

HyoJin (Jenna) Moon (DMA '21) performs the fifth of our "7 at 7" Monday night carillon concerts. Her program "Classic and New Voices" foregrounds music by women composers from Florence Price to Hyo Won Woo to her own Korean-inspired compositions. Moon is the author of U-M's Korean-language carillon FAQ: https://wp.me/p7VjVq-bj

The annual series takes place at 7 PM on Mondays from June 21 to August 9, featuring performers from Michigan and around the U.S. playing either Burton or Lurie Tower. The carillon is an outdoor instrument, and attendees are requested to maintain social distance in the outdoor listening areas surrounding the towers. Attendees are required to follow the University of Michigan, Washtenaw County, Michigan state, and federal guidelines for large outdoor gatherings.

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

BIOGRAPHY: Hyojin (Jenna) Moon is a doctoral candidate in Sacred Music at the University of Michigan where she studies with Dr. James Kibbie (organ), Dr. Tiffany Ng (carillon), and Dr. Kola Owolabi (sacred music). Moon received her master’s degree from U-M with the Michele Johns Scholarship, and her bachelor’s degree from Trinity Christian College (organ and music education).

Moon has performed over 100 weekday carillon recitals at U-M. An avid carillon ambassador for diversity, she programmed her dissertation recital with an inclusive repertoire to celebrate carillon music by people of color and women. Moon organized a student carillon concert series, including “New Perspective & Inclusivity on Digital Carillon Concert,” collaborating with the Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Career Empowerment & Leadership Enterprise Fund), and a new Augmented Reality carillon performance with Architecture students (supported by a Sonic Scenographies Research Grant). She published her carillon works, 'Sae-Ta-Ryung (Birdsong)' and 'Parang-Sae (Bluebird),' in "Global Rings" (CHI Press, 2020). She was Vice President of the University of Michigan Carillon Guild.

Moon has extensive experience playing organ at churches throughout North America, the U-M Annual Organ Conferences, the AGO Lenten Recital Series, and the Brown Bag Recital Series on the Letourneau organ at the U-M. In 2019, Moon received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to participate in the Netherlands and Germany U-M organ tour to perform in masterclasses at thirteen historic organs in Europe, including Amsterdam, Norden, Cappel, Hamburg, Leipzig, Rötha, Dresden, and Waltershausen.

Moon’s awards include the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award, Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, Rackham Doctoral Fellowship, a Sonic Scenographies research grant, and the Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Career Empowerment & Leadership Enterprise Fund. Moon has worked as U-M summer carillon concert series manager, social media specialist, and cataloguing assistant under Dr. Ng's direction.

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Performance Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-08-16T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Summer Carillon Concert: HyoJin Jenna Moon
POSTPONED - Marc Cohn - Rescheduled from 5/22/20 (August 22, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74034 74034-18493762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 22, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

After winning a Grammy for his soulful ballad "Walking in Memphis," Marc Cohn solidified his place as one of this generation's most compelling singer/songwriters, combining the precision of a brilliant tunesmith with the passion of a great soul man. He's a natural storyteller, balancing the exuberant with the poignant, and able to distill universal truth out of his often romantic, drawn-from-life tales. Marc has become an Ark favorite, one of those artists who form a unique bond with audiences in the special Ark space, and his shows sell out early. Come by and pick up a copy of Marc's latest release, "Work to Do," recorded with the famed Blind Boys of Alabama.

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Performance Thu, 19 Aug 2021 10:45:26 -0400 2021-08-22T19:00:00-04:00 2021-08-22T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Marc Cohn presented by The Ark
Crys Matthews and Heather Mae (August 23, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84294 84294-21621068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 23, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

VACCINATION PROOF AND MASKS REQUIRED.
*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Crys and Heather have been doing their show “in the round”, so they are on stage together and do their own songs as well as songs together.

HEATHER MAE

“Plus-size pop-singer, Mae, has no use for old-fashioned stereotypes about what a protest singer should look like.” -- NPR-All Things Considered

Unfazed by what a typical pop artist today is “supposed” to look or sound like, Heather Mae, an award-winning songwriter whose evocative vocals and rhythmic piano style call to mind artists like Stevie Nicks and Sara Bareilles, creates intoxicating music that tackles complex topics surrounding mental health, LGBTQ+ issues, self-love, racial injustice, social inequality, and women’s rights. Inspired by her own personal experiences and identities - a queer, plus size woman living with Bipolar Disorder - Mae is an on-fire musical and emotional experience. In her most sonically adventurous project yet, GLIMMER (Sept 2019) - her second produced record and first full length album - breaks the stigma surrounding mental health, reminding us all that we are not alone.

CRYS MATTHEWS

“By wrapping honest emotions around her socially conscious messages and dynamically delivering them with a warm heart and a strong voice, she lifted our spirits just when we need it most in these troubled times.”--Erik Philbrook, ASCAP VP/Creative Director

A prolific lyricist and composer, Matthews has found inspiration in her surroundings; from driving through the Blue Ridge Mountains to the compelling and heart-breaking love story of Richard and Mildred Loving. Thoughtful, realistic and emotional, Matthews’ songs speak to the voice of our generation and remind us why music indeed soothes the soul.

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Performance Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:44:17 -0400 2021-08-23T20:00:00-04:00 2021-08-23T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Crys Matthews and Heather Mae at The Ark
Grace Pettis and Rachel Kilgour (August 24, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84293 84293-21621067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 24, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

VACCINATION PROOF AND MASKS REQUIRED.
*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

As a card-carrying member of the south Austin scene, Grace Pettis has amassed bragging rights to spare. She is the winner of many of the nation’s most prestigious songwriting contests, including NPR's Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, and has received grants from the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation. Grace’s songs have been recorded by other esteemed artists, including Sara Hickman and Ruthie Foster and she added to her songwriting accomplishments in 2019 by signing a publishing deal with BMG. Catch her with her band at an Austin club, headlining a festival with her trio Nobody's Girl, or on her own, trying out new songs in a little gem of a listening room, somewhere in America.

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 esteemed 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. Married in her early twenties, Rachael chronicled her life as a young parent in a same-sex partnership and addressed sociopolitical issues from government corruption to income inequality and religious hypocrisy. In 2014, divorce brought an unwanted end to her role as a member of the family she had helped to grow. In the aftermath, Kilgour found solace in songwriting. Rachael was awarded a 2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant to focus on a songwriting project about the life and recent death of her father.

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Performance Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:45:09 -0400 2021-08-24T20:00:00-04:00 2021-08-24T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Grace Pettis & Rachael Kilgour at The Ark
Molly Tuttle - Rescheduled from 9/27 and 9/28/20 (August 26, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80198 80198-20596096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

VACCINATION PROOF AND MASKS REQUIRED.
*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Molly Tuttle, says Paul Zollo of American Songwriter, "sings with the gentle authority of Gillian Welch, yet plays astoundingly fleet flat-picking guitar like Chet Atkins on superdrive." The first woman ever to win the International Bluegrass Music Association's Guitar Player of the Year award, Molly has been the talk of bluegrass circles of the past year and is rapidly gaining fans from all the spheres of the roots music universe as well. On her debut solo EP Rise, Molly reveals the rich new ground she’s discovered. Produced by Kai Welch (Abigail Washburn, Bobby Bare, Jr., the Greencards), the seven-song collection relies on a rock-solid bluegrass foundation as Molly breaks free without breaking ties, singing and exploring what her six-string acoustic guitar can do. A rising star if there ever was one!

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Performance Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:46:40 -0400 2021-08-26T20:00:00-04:00 2021-08-26T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Molly Tuttle presented by The Ark
Lee DeWyze (August 27, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75692 75692-19566709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 27, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

VACCINATION PROOF AND MASKS REQUIRED.
*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Ghost Stories 2021 TOUR / VIP
Please arrive at least 45 min prior to DOORS
** Early entry into venue
** 2 song acoustic private soundcheck event
** 1 specialty merch item (ONLY available to VIP)
** due to touring restrictions, it is possible there will be NO MNG

Please check back regularly to see if restrictions have eased

With an earnest ability to create a delicate balance of harmony, melody, deep emotion and subtlety, Lee DeWyze’s depth as a songwriter call to mind some of his earliest influences like Simon and Garfunkel, Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) and Johnny Cash.

His last 4 releases Victims Of The Night (April 2020), and the EP Castles (Oct 2019), have garnered over 1M streams, while his latest 2 singles, Weeds (Oct 2020) is currently highlighted on the largest folk playlist Chill Folk, streaming 3500x per day, and Horizon (Apr 2021) was featured in the motion picture The Secret: Dare To Dream starring Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas.

Over the last 10 years, Lee has released five albums, including his critically lauded Frames (Vanguard Records, 2013), which included the top 40 Billboard Hot AC hit “Fight.” In 2014, his song “Blackbird Song” (20M streams + ) was placed in the show “The Walking Dead.” After signing with Shanachie Records in 2016, Lee released the album Oil and Water, which hit Number One on the iTunes folk and singer/songwriter chart, followed by Paranoia (2018), which hit Number One on the Alternative chart. As the winner of American Idol Season 9 in 2010, he made his major label debut with Live It Up (RCA).

Lee’s songs have appeared in over 70 movies, TV shows, and commercials. His latest synch was for his song Castles, which highlighted the season finale of Station 19 (#1 show on ABC). His video for Castles won 11 awards world-wide (Los Angeles, NY, and London) for best animated video with TIFF (The International Film Festival).

Lee is embarking on a summer/fall 2021 US tour called Ghost Stories.

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Performance Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:48:59 -0400 2021-08-27T20:00:00-04:00 2021-08-27T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Lee DeWyze presented by The Ark
George Bedard - Rescheduled from 8/29/20 (August 28, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74059 74059-18500006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 28, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

VACCINATION PROOF AND MASKS REQUIRED
*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

George Bedard presents “Jump Blues – Big Brother to Rock ‘n Roll," the eighth installment of his History of American Music series.  “The small combo jump blues of the ‘40s and early ‘50s was, along with country, one of the main tributaries leading to rock ‘n roll”, says Bedard. “We will thread the show through Big Joe Turner, whose career spanned the boogie-woogie and Kansas City jazz of the ‘30s to the early rock ‘n roll era, and whom I had the honor to play with”.

This show will feature Mark “Mr. B” Braun on piano, a horn section led by Chris Smith, and of course Rich Dishman on drums and Pat Prouty on bass.

Rescheduled from August 29, 2020. Online tickets reissued automatically.

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Performance Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:49:36 -0400 2021-08-28T20:00:00-04:00 2021-08-28T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance George Bedard presented by The Ark
Paul Thorn - Rescheduled from 3/19/2021 (August 29, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73572 73572-18261086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 29, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

VACCINATION PROOF AND MASKS REQUIRED
*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Raised in Tupelo, Mississippi, among the same spirits (and some of the actual people) who nurtured the young Elvis generations before, Paul Thorn has rambled down back roads, battled four-time world champion boxer Roberto Duran on national television, signed with and been dropped by a major label, performed on stages with Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, Sting, and John Prine among many others, and made some of the most emotionally restless yet relatable music of our time. With 20 years of writing, touring, and entertaining under his belt, he shows no sign of slowing down with his somewhat-gospel recording "Don't Let the Devil Ride," still breaking genre barriers and topping charts, putting a new twist on his already entertaining live show. Paul is an Ark favorite who never fails to connect with Michigan audiences.

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Performance Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:50:07 -0400 2021-08-29T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-29T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Paul Thorn presented by The Ark
Faculty Recital: Nicholas Walker, bass (August 31, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85765 85765-21628806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

with Kristen Docter, viola and Nick Weiser, piano

PROGRAM
Chorale - Nicholas Walker
Zugzwang - Nicholas Walker
Sonata - Nicholas Walker

livestream link - https://myumi.ch/BrittonWatch

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Performance Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:15:04 -0400 2021-08-31T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Faculty Recital: Nicholas Walker, bass
Loudon Wainwright III (Rescheduled from 3/30/20 & 9/4/20) (September 3, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69661 69661-17376513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 3, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information and policies before purchasing a ticket and again before attending a show. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave.

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Louden Wainwright III, or LW3 for short, is a cherished icon of American folk music, a darkly witty and touchingly personal songwriter and storyteller. He started out in the folk clubs of New York and Boston before going on to a long career that's encompassed both music and acting. He has given birth to over 20 albums (as well as fathering some very successful musical offspring), written folk classics including "Dead Skunk" and "The Man Who Couldn't Cry," and created music for film and theater. Loudon comes to Michigan with a recent compilation, "Years in the Making," which includes songs for a film produced by Judd Apatow, "Surviving Twin."

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Performance Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:27:20 -0400 2021-09-03T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-03T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Loudon Wainwright III
CANCELLED - Mick Flannery & Susan O’Neill (September 7, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84657 84657-21624398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

In a first for Mick Flannery, he and Irish newcomer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Susan O’Neill have come together on a collaboration album ‘In The Game’. In The Game is a themed collection of songs about a couple’s coming together and falling apart, a journey familiar to most. The highs and lows of the game of love, that raw space that the human condition can leave one most vulnerable. This record is as nostalgic as it is a fresh wound, it’s so familiar yet a stranger. 13 songs in a timeless capsule, the songs on In The Game will resonate for a long time after.

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Performance Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:20:04 -0400 2021-09-07T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-07T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mick Flannery and Susan O'Neill at The Ark
Guest Performance: “Together is Close Enough” - Vim Vigor Dance Company (September 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85993 85993-21630740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bring a smart phone and earbud/ear phones for the best experience.

Under the open sky, four performers will enter a space of intimacy - where the desire to be close to one another after a year of distance propels their bodies into wild action and joyous abandon. Created against the backdrop of nature, audiences will experience a 25-minute immersive, outdoor performance with
four dancers and an original symphonic score by Scott Li, that catapults gorgeous melodic lines of longing into the intimacy of your earbuds. Linking topography, human form in movement, and the audience’s individual perspectives, TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH will lead each participant to a cathartic experience of closeness within our pandemic-induced seclusion. With daredevil physicality, VIM VIGOR communicates the complexity of human relationships through their signature dance-theater aesthetic, bodies will flare, emotions will flood, and the sharp urgency of our deepest feelings will rocket through space.

Shannon Gillen is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Concept, Direction: Shannon Gillen
Choreography: Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli
Choreographic Collaboartors: Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Performance: Jason Cianciulli, Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Sound Score: Scott Li
Costume Design: VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY

VIM VIGOR is one of the US’s most exciting, highly physical, dance-theater companies. Following a successful run in Germany as both a choreographer and dancer, Shannon Gillen returned to New York City to form VIM VIGOR. Interested in founding a collaborative think tank, where the most innovative and profoundly gifted artists could come together to create cutting edge dance theater, VIM VIGOR represents a paradigm shift in the creative process, with all original music, writing, set, media and movement created collaboratively by the company and wit ongoing creative relationships. Through its signature combination of bombastic contemporary movement with cinematic dreamscapes, VIM VIGOR aims to engage and galvanize audiences from all walks of life. www.vimvigordance.com.

TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH was made possible by a generous UMOR Grant from The University of Michigan and through a partnership with The Community Ballet School of Ann Arbor.

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Performance Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-09-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Guest Performance: “Together is Close Enough” - Vim Vigor Dance Company (September 8, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85993 85993-21630741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bring a smart phone and earbud/ear phones for the best experience.

Under the open sky, four performers will enter a space of intimacy - where the desire to be close to one another after a year of distance propels their bodies into wild action and joyous abandon. Created against the backdrop of nature, audiences will experience a 25-minute immersive, outdoor performance with
four dancers and an original symphonic score by Scott Li, that catapults gorgeous melodic lines of longing into the intimacy of your earbuds. Linking topography, human form in movement, and the audience’s individual perspectives, TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH will lead each participant to a cathartic experience of closeness within our pandemic-induced seclusion. With daredevil physicality, VIM VIGOR communicates the complexity of human relationships through their signature dance-theater aesthetic, bodies will flare, emotions will flood, and the sharp urgency of our deepest feelings will rocket through space.

Shannon Gillen is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Concept, Direction: Shannon Gillen
Choreography: Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli
Choreographic Collaboartors: Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Performance: Jason Cianciulli, Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Sound Score: Scott Li
Costume Design: VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY

VIM VIGOR is one of the US’s most exciting, highly physical, dance-theater companies. Following a successful run in Germany as both a choreographer and dancer, Shannon Gillen returned to New York City to form VIM VIGOR. Interested in founding a collaborative think tank, where the most innovative and profoundly gifted artists could come together to create cutting edge dance theater, VIM VIGOR represents a paradigm shift in the creative process, with all original music, writing, set, media and movement created collaboratively by the company and wit ongoing creative relationships. Through its signature combination of bombastic contemporary movement with cinematic dreamscapes, VIM VIGOR aims to engage and galvanize audiences from all walks of life. www.vimvigordance.com.

TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH was made possible by a generous UMOR Grant from The University of Michigan and through a partnership with The Community Ballet School of Ann Arbor.

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Performance Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-09-08T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Guest Performance: “Together is Close Enough” - Vim Vigor Dance Company (September 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85993 85993-21630742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bring a smart phone and earbud/ear phones for the best experience.

Under the open sky, four performers will enter a space of intimacy - where the desire to be close to one another after a year of distance propels their bodies into wild action and joyous abandon. Created against the backdrop of nature, audiences will experience a 25-minute immersive, outdoor performance with
four dancers and an original symphonic score by Scott Li, that catapults gorgeous melodic lines of longing into the intimacy of your earbuds. Linking topography, human form in movement, and the audience’s individual perspectives, TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH will lead each participant to a cathartic experience of closeness within our pandemic-induced seclusion. With daredevil physicality, VIM VIGOR communicates the complexity of human relationships through their signature dance-theater aesthetic, bodies will flare, emotions will flood, and the sharp urgency of our deepest feelings will rocket through space.

Shannon Gillen is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Concept, Direction: Shannon Gillen
Choreography: Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli
Choreographic Collaboartors: Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Performance: Jason Cianciulli, Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Sound Score: Scott Li
Costume Design: VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY

VIM VIGOR is one of the US’s most exciting, highly physical, dance-theater companies. Following a successful run in Germany as both a choreographer and dancer, Shannon Gillen returned to New York City to form VIM VIGOR. Interested in founding a collaborative think tank, where the most innovative and profoundly gifted artists could come together to create cutting edge dance theater, VIM VIGOR represents a paradigm shift in the creative process, with all original music, writing, set, media and movement created collaboratively by the company and wit ongoing creative relationships. Through its signature combination of bombastic contemporary movement with cinematic dreamscapes, VIM VIGOR aims to engage and galvanize audiences from all walks of life. www.vimvigordance.com.

TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH was made possible by a generous UMOR Grant from The University of Michigan and through a partnership with The Community Ballet School of Ann Arbor.

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Performance Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Guest Performance: “Together is Close Enough” - Vim Vigor Dance Company (September 9, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85993 85993-21630743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 9, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bring a smart phone and earbud/ear phones for the best experience.

Under the open sky, four performers will enter a space of intimacy - where the desire to be close to one another after a year of distance propels their bodies into wild action and joyous abandon. Created against the backdrop of nature, audiences will experience a 25-minute immersive, outdoor performance with
four dancers and an original symphonic score by Scott Li, that catapults gorgeous melodic lines of longing into the intimacy of your earbuds. Linking topography, human form in movement, and the audience’s individual perspectives, TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH will lead each participant to a cathartic experience of closeness within our pandemic-induced seclusion. With daredevil physicality, VIM VIGOR communicates the complexity of human relationships through their signature dance-theater aesthetic, bodies will flare, emotions will flood, and the sharp urgency of our deepest feelings will rocket through space.

Shannon Gillen is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Concept, Direction: Shannon Gillen
Choreography: Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli
Choreographic Collaboartors: Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Performance: Jason Cianciulli, Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Sound Score: Scott Li
Costume Design: VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY

VIM VIGOR is one of the US’s most exciting, highly physical, dance-theater companies. Following a successful run in Germany as both a choreographer and dancer, Shannon Gillen returned to New York City to form VIM VIGOR. Interested in founding a collaborative think tank, where the most innovative and profoundly gifted artists could come together to create cutting edge dance theater, VIM VIGOR represents a paradigm shift in the creative process, with all original music, writing, set, media and movement created collaboratively by the company and wit ongoing creative relationships. Through its signature combination of bombastic contemporary movement with cinematic dreamscapes, VIM VIGOR aims to engage and galvanize audiences from all walks of life. www.vimvigordance.com.

TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH was made possible by a generous UMOR Grant from The University of Michigan and through a partnership with The Community Ballet School of Ann Arbor.

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Performance Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-09-09T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
CANCELLED - The Ark's Student Welcome Show with Elliott BROOD (September 9, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84349 84349-21623457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 9, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Students: Welcome to Ann Arbor and to The Ark, a world-class club with music for all ages and tastes!

Tickets on sale 6/25, and show is free at the door with any student ID.

From the mountains of Utah to the trenches of Vimy Ridge, Elliott BROOD’s songs have travelled the gore and glory of history in equal measure for nearly a decade. With the stomp and thrash of their early albums, Elliott BROOD carved their niche drawing from the darker corners of history and memory. As heavy and harrowing the past can be, for Elliott BROOD, it is also a generous companion, giving the gift of appreciation for times of peace and grace. With Keeper, Elliott BROOD’s seventh album, the trio deals with the past in more personal terms. The title, which speaks to loyalty and longevity, sets the tone for an album that explores the strength of conviction, and how that strength is tested, again and again, over time. Thoughts of worthiness and dedication, and their emotional flip sides, inform a collection that sees the band exploring those battlefields much closer to home. For the first taste of Keeper, a bright acoustic intro bursts into the buoyant, carefree chorus of “Stay Out,” a song about when and why we find our ways home. Mixed by Ryan Hadlock (The Lumineers), “Stay Out” is all blue sky and sunshine even while it revels in the night. The song weighs the fleeting elation of recklessness against the deeper ties that bind. The subject of family relationships, the push and pull of gratitude and conflict, reappears in more complicated forms with “Full of Wires,” a song about not leaving things unsaid, and “A Month of Sundays,” the fallout after too much is said. Keeper is especially focused on enduring, complex, long-term relationships, those into which we are born, those in which we grow older. With dips into 50s slapback throwback in “No Way Out,” the metallic edges of “Bird Dog,” one of two songs mixed by Tool/ Johnny Cash producer Sylvia Massy, and the splashes of synth on “The Coast,” Elliott BROOD continue to expand their sound beyond their acoustic origins. Keeper, created during mini writing and recording retreats while hopping across the summer festival circuit, marks another satisfying chapter in the ongoing evolution of Elliott BROOD. From the Polaris Music Prize short listed breakout album Mountain Meadows to the JUNO Award winning Days Into Years, the well-traveled trio of Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet and Stephen Pitkin have created a body of work that is at once meticulous and boisterous, substantial and entertaining.

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Performance Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:20:49 -0400 2021-09-09T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-09T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Elliott BROOD presented by The Ark
Guest Performance: “Together is Close Enough” - Vim Vigor Dance Company (September 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85993 85993-21630744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bring a smart phone and earbud/ear phones for the best experience.

Under the open sky, four performers will enter a space of intimacy - where the desire to be close to one another after a year of distance propels their bodies into wild action and joyous abandon. Created against the backdrop of nature, audiences will experience a 25-minute immersive, outdoor performance with
four dancers and an original symphonic score by Scott Li, that catapults gorgeous melodic lines of longing into the intimacy of your earbuds. Linking topography, human form in movement, and the audience’s individual perspectives, TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH will lead each participant to a cathartic experience of closeness within our pandemic-induced seclusion. With daredevil physicality, VIM VIGOR communicates the complexity of human relationships through their signature dance-theater aesthetic, bodies will flare, emotions will flood, and the sharp urgency of our deepest feelings will rocket through space.

Shannon Gillen is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Concept, Direction: Shannon Gillen
Choreography: Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli
Choreographic Collaboartors: Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Performance: Jason Cianciulli, Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Sound Score: Scott Li
Costume Design: VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY

VIM VIGOR is one of the US’s most exciting, highly physical, dance-theater companies. Following a successful run in Germany as both a choreographer and dancer, Shannon Gillen returned to New York City to form VIM VIGOR. Interested in founding a collaborative think tank, where the most innovative and profoundly gifted artists could come together to create cutting edge dance theater, VIM VIGOR represents a paradigm shift in the creative process, with all original music, writing, set, media and movement created collaboratively by the company and wit ongoing creative relationships. Through its signature combination of bombastic contemporary movement with cinematic dreamscapes, VIM VIGOR aims to engage and galvanize audiences from all walks of life. www.vimvigordance.com.

TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH was made possible by a generous UMOR Grant from The University of Michigan and through a partnership with The Community Ballet School of Ann Arbor.

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Performance Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Guest Performance: “Together is Close Enough” - Vim Vigor Dance Company (September 10, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85993 85993-21630745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bring a smart phone and earbud/ear phones for the best experience.

Under the open sky, four performers will enter a space of intimacy - where the desire to be close to one another after a year of distance propels their bodies into wild action and joyous abandon. Created against the backdrop of nature, audiences will experience a 25-minute immersive, outdoor performance with
four dancers and an original symphonic score by Scott Li, that catapults gorgeous melodic lines of longing into the intimacy of your earbuds. Linking topography, human form in movement, and the audience’s individual perspectives, TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH will lead each participant to a cathartic experience of closeness within our pandemic-induced seclusion. With daredevil physicality, VIM VIGOR communicates the complexity of human relationships through their signature dance-theater aesthetic, bodies will flare, emotions will flood, and the sharp urgency of our deepest feelings will rocket through space.

Shannon Gillen is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Concept, Direction: Shannon Gillen
Choreography: Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli
Choreographic Collaboartors: Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Performance: Jason Cianciulli, Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Sound Score: Scott Li
Costume Design: VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY

VIM VIGOR is one of the US’s most exciting, highly physical, dance-theater companies. Following a successful run in Germany as both a choreographer and dancer, Shannon Gillen returned to New York City to form VIM VIGOR. Interested in founding a collaborative think tank, where the most innovative and profoundly gifted artists could come together to create cutting edge dance theater, VIM VIGOR represents a paradigm shift in the creative process, with all original music, writing, set, media and movement created collaboratively by the company and wit ongoing creative relationships. Through its signature combination of bombastic contemporary movement with cinematic dreamscapes, VIM VIGOR aims to engage and galvanize audiences from all walks of life. www.vimvigordance.com.

TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH was made possible by a generous UMOR Grant from The University of Michigan and through a partnership with The Community Ballet School of Ann Arbor.

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Performance Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-09-10T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Guest Performance: “Together is Close Enough” - Vim Vigor Dance Company (September 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85993 85993-21630746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bring a smart phone and earbud/ear phones for the best experience.

Under the open sky, four performers will enter a space of intimacy - where the desire to be close to one another after a year of distance propels their bodies into wild action and joyous abandon. Created against the backdrop of nature, audiences will experience a 25-minute immersive, outdoor performance with
four dancers and an original symphonic score by Scott Li, that catapults gorgeous melodic lines of longing into the intimacy of your earbuds. Linking topography, human form in movement, and the audience’s individual perspectives, TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH will lead each participant to a cathartic experience of closeness within our pandemic-induced seclusion. With daredevil physicality, VIM VIGOR communicates the complexity of human relationships through their signature dance-theater aesthetic, bodies will flare, emotions will flood, and the sharp urgency of our deepest feelings will rocket through space.

Shannon Gillen is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Concept, Direction: Shannon Gillen
Choreography: Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli
Choreographic Collaboartors: Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Performance: Jason Cianciulli, Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Sound Score: Scott Li
Costume Design: VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY

VIM VIGOR is one of the US’s most exciting, highly physical, dance-theater companies. Following a successful run in Germany as both a choreographer and dancer, Shannon Gillen returned to New York City to form VIM VIGOR. Interested in founding a collaborative think tank, where the most innovative and profoundly gifted artists could come together to create cutting edge dance theater, VIM VIGOR represents a paradigm shift in the creative process, with all original music, writing, set, media and movement created collaboratively by the company and wit ongoing creative relationships. Through its signature combination of bombastic contemporary movement with cinematic dreamscapes, VIM VIGOR aims to engage and galvanize audiences from all walks of life. www.vimvigordance.com.

TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH was made possible by a generous UMOR Grant from The University of Michigan and through a partnership with The Community Ballet School of Ann Arbor.

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Performance Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Guest Performance: “Together is Close Enough” - Vim Vigor Dance Company (September 11, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85993 85993-21630747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 11, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bring a smart phone and earbud/ear phones for the best experience.

Under the open sky, four performers will enter a space of intimacy - where the desire to be close to one another after a year of distance propels their bodies into wild action and joyous abandon. Created against the backdrop of nature, audiences will experience a 25-minute immersive, outdoor performance with
four dancers and an original symphonic score by Scott Li, that catapults gorgeous melodic lines of longing into the intimacy of your earbuds. Linking topography, human form in movement, and the audience’s individual perspectives, TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH will lead each participant to a cathartic experience of closeness within our pandemic-induced seclusion. With daredevil physicality, VIM VIGOR communicates the complexity of human relationships through their signature dance-theater aesthetic, bodies will flare, emotions will flood, and the sharp urgency of our deepest feelings will rocket through space.

Shannon Gillen is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Concept, Direction: Shannon Gillen
Choreography: Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli
Choreographic Collaboartors: Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Performance: Jason Cianciulli, Kiley Dolaway, Marija Obradovic, Jovick Pavajeau
Sound Score: Scott Li
Costume Design: VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY

VIM VIGOR is one of the US’s most exciting, highly physical, dance-theater companies. Following a successful run in Germany as both a choreographer and dancer, Shannon Gillen returned to New York City to form VIM VIGOR. Interested in founding a collaborative think tank, where the most innovative and profoundly gifted artists could come together to create cutting edge dance theater, VIM VIGOR represents a paradigm shift in the creative process, with all original music, writing, set, media and movement created collaboratively by the company and wit ongoing creative relationships. Through its signature combination of bombastic contemporary movement with cinematic dreamscapes, VIM VIGOR aims to engage and galvanize audiences from all walks of life. www.vimvigordance.com.

TOGETHER IS CLOSE ENOUGH was made possible by a generous UMOR Grant from The University of Michigan and through a partnership with The Community Ballet School of Ann Arbor.

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Performance Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-09-11T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Masters Recital: Tzu Kuang Tan, piano (September 11, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86493 86493-21634732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 11, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Poulenc - Quatre poème de Guillaume Apollinaire; Debussy - Ariettes oubliées; Rachmaninoff - Sonata in G Minor, op. 19.

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Performance Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:15:09 -0400 2021-09-11T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
Asleep at the Wheel (September 12, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84206 84206-21620763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 12, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information and policies before purchasing a ticket and again before attending a show. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave.



In the words of Billboard, "Everything this act has ever released is simply spectacular." In Texas they say Bob Wills is still the king. But Asleep at the Wheel is the official heir apparent, a perennial Ark favorite well into a fourth decade of fabulous Western swing dance rhythms and artful country songwriting. More than 80 members have passed through Asleep at the Wheel since the band's beginnings, but founder and frontman Ray Benson's vision of an ongoing and constantly growing tribute to the giants of Western swing, with generous helpings of country and jump blues, has stayed fresh. Asleep at the Wheel has won nine Grammy awards and counting, and they deliver a high-energy show every time they come to The Ark.

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Performance Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:35:21 -0400 2021-09-12T19:30:00-04:00 2021-09-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Asleep at the Wheel at The Ark
Leo Kottke (September 13, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84135 84135-21620388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information and policies before purchasing a ticket and again before attending a show. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave.



Acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens, Georgia, but left town after a year and a half. Raised in 12 different states, he absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child, flirting with both violin and trombone, before abandoning Stravinsky for the guitar at age 11.

After adding a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hurt to the music of John Phillip Sousa and Preston Epps, Kottke joined the Navy underage, to be underwater, and eventually lost some hearing shooting at lightbulbs in the Atlantic while serving on the USS Halfbeak, a diesel submarine.

Kottke had previously entered college at the U of Missouri, dropping out after a year to hitchhike across the country to South Carolina, then to New London and into the Navy, with his twelve string. "The trip was not something I enjoyed," he has said, "I was broke and met too many interesting people."

Discharged in 1964, he settled in the Twin Cities area and became a fixture at Minneapolis' Scholar Coffeehouse, which had been home to Bob Dylan and John Koerner. He issued his 1968 recording debut LP Twelve String Blues, recorded on a Viking quarter-inch tape recorder, for the Scholar's tiny Oblivion label. (The label released one other LP by The Langston Hughes Memorial Eclectic Jazz Band.)

After sending tapes to guitarist John Fahey, Kottke was signed to Fahey's Takoma label, releasing what has come to be called the Armadillo record. Fahey and his manager Denny Bruce soon secured a production deal for Kottke with Capitol Records.

Kottke's 1971 major-label debut, "Mudlark," positioned him somewhat uneasily in the singer/songwriter vein, despite his own wishes to remain an instrumental performer. Still, despite arguments with label heads as well as with Bruce, Kottke flourished during his tenure on Capitol, as records like 1972's "Greenhouse" and 1973's live "My Feet Are Smiling" and "Ice Water" found him branching out with guest musicians and honing his guitar technique.

With 1975's Chewing Pine, Kottke reached the U.S. Top 30 for the second time; he also gained an international following thanks to his continuing tours in Europe and Australia.

His collaboration with Phish bassist Mike Gordon, "Clone," caught audiences' attention in 2002. Kottke and Gordon followed with a recording in the Bahamas called "Sixty Six Steps," produced by Leo's old friend and Prince producer David Z.

Kottke has been awarded two Grammy nominations; a Doctorate in Music Performance by the Peck School of Music at the U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and a Certificate of Significant Achievement in Not Playing the Trombone from the U of Texas at Brownsville with Texas Southmost College.

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Performance Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:34:22 -0400 2021-09-13T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Leo Kottke presented by The Ark, photo by Amy Kerwin
Michael McDermott (September 15, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84208 84208-21620764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Michael McDermott’s brand of rock and roll brims with the kind of well-honed style and wisdom that can only come from a career on the road and a pedigree in the studio. Effortlessly blending natural folk sensibility, pop hooks, and honest rock, Michael's music is as much for the outcast as the congregation. It’s an exploration of the dark corners of life’s journey and it resonates middle class truths through the passionate filter of a kid that grew up on Chicago’s Irish South Side. If you are a fan of Springsteen, Van Morrison, John Steinbeck, Patti Smith, Michael McDermott's inspirational rock is in your wheelhouse, waiting late night with a guitar, spare smokes and stories of the American heart.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:01:35 -0400 2021-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Michael McDermott presented by the Ark
Seth Glier (September 16, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84250 84250-21620808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

The Coronation is Grammy® Nominee Seth Glier’s 6th album on MPress Records, following Birds (2017), If I Could Change One Thing (2015), Things I Should Let You Know (2013), The Next Right Thing (2011), and The Trouble With People (2009). An acclaimed singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, he is the winner of five Independent Music Awards. His music has taken him around the world, including to China where he participated in a U.S. State Department-sponsored cultural diplomacy tour as international ambassador. He has shared stages with a diverse list of artists including Ani DiFranco, James Taylor, Lisa Marie Presley, Martin Sexton, Ronnie Spector, Marc Cohn and more, and recorded a duet with American Idol alum Crystal Bowersox. A tireless activist, Seth has worked with The Parkland Project, ChildFund International, Rock The Vote, and has also been a TEDx Speaker.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:13:57 -0400 2021-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Seth Glier at The Ark
Carbon Leaf (September 17, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84068 84068-21619804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Blending rock, folk, Celtic, bluegrass and Americana traditions into a high-energy style the group calls ether-electrified porch music, the Virginia quintet’s poetic songs are brought to life with acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, fiddle, bass, drums, cello, banjo, penny whistle, pedal steel, accordion and rich vocal harmony.

Carbon Leaf writes, records and produces its music independently from their studio in Richmond, VA, and has performed over 2,400 lives shows across 17 albums in their long career.

The group’s independent music and spirit continue to resonate with its fans.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:31:07 -0400 2021-09-17T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Carbon Leaf presented by The Ark
University Symphony Orchestra (September 17, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85572 85572-21626940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Kenneth Kiesler, conductor

PROGRAM
“Running” from A Joyous Trilogy - Quinn Mason
Five Sacred Trees - John Williams
Symphony No. 7 - Ludwig van Beethoven

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Performance Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-09-17T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Hill Auditorium
Eddie from Ohio (Rescheduled from 9/18/20) (September 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73576 73576-18261090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Eddie from Ohio, actually a quartet from Virginia, offers lyrically driven and often humorous original music, sung in four-part harmonies over a background of acoustic strings and hand and stick percussion. Their vocal blend, rhythmic vigor, and prolific original material combine to make music unlike anything else on the market—sort of like Peter, Paul & Mary on high-octane French roast, they say. "The manic strumminess recalls Ani DiFranco or Dave Matthews," says Performing Songwriter, "but there's also a deep undercurrent of high, lonesome mountain harmony that should appeal to fans of Alison Krauss and Union Station." The Edheads will be out in force for this show (get tickets early), because Eddie from Ohio isn't on the road as often as they used to be. Whenever and wherever the four convene on stage, an Eddie from Ohio show is an experience to remember.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:46:50 -0400 2021-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-18T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Eddie from Ohio presented by The Ark
Grand Night for Singing (September 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85573 85573-21626941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Tickets on sale September 1, 2021

Showcase of all things vocal at SMTD from choirs to musical theatre, opera to art song. Hosted Michael McElroy, the new chair of musical theatre.

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Performance Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:15:05 -0400 2021-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Hill Auditorium
Riders in the Sky (September 19, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73577 73577-18261091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 19, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Riders in the Sky, recently celebrated their 40th anniversary, but they're not slowing down—that wouldn't be the Cowboy Way! The Riders roll on with their mix of Western song classics and zany send-ups of these. What sometimes gets overlooked amid the hilarity is that Ranger Doug (Idol of American Youth), Woody Paul (King of the Cowboy Fiddlers), Joey (the Cowpolka King), and Too Slim (Licensed Driver) are matchless musicians, with a huge and growing stock of old and new songs to draw on as they deepen a great American tradition. And can Keith Urban do rope tricks on stage? Ranger Doug was an Ann Arborite once upon a time, and the group's Ark shows have been uniformly terrific. Riders In The Sky are the only exclusively Western artist to have won a Grammy (twice). That the band was even formed is a feat of improbable likelihood. What are the odds that a theoretical plasma physicist, a wildlife manager–galvanizer–Life Scout, an English major–shot putter–Bluegrass Boy, and a Polka Hall of Fame member would collectively become "America's Favorite Cowboys"?

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:10:12 -0400 2021-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-19T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Riders in the Sky at The Ark
Joe Troop (from Che Apalache) (September 21, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84660 84660-21624400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Joe Troop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. During his decade in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he formed the group Che Apalache with three of his students. The band’s second album, Rearrange My Heart, was produced by legendary genre-bender, banjoist Béla Fleck and received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Folk Album in 2020. Unfortunately, the pandemic has made international touring all but impossible, forcing Che Apalache into hiatus.

Working in a style dubbed “latingrass,” Joe melds music from the Appalachian foothills with traditional soundscapes from across Latin American. He composes wry and well-traveled acoustic music, sung in English and Spanish. Wrenching old-time music into the world of contemporary global politics, Joe creates spaces for sympathy, solidarity, and a little humor. His new solo album featuring Charlie Hunter, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Tim O’Brien and many more superb musicians will be released in late summer.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:52:24 -0400 2021-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Joe Troop (from Che Apalache) at The Ark
University Philharmonia Orchestra (September 22, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85574 85574-21626942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slywotzky, conductor
Sua Lee, piano soloist

Pre-concert lecture 7:15pm

PROGRAM
Visions of a Renaissance - Chad “Sir Wick” Hughes
Piano Concerto No. 1 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 6 - Ludwig van Beethoven

watch online at https://myumi.ch/HillWatch

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Performance Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:15:11 -0400 2021-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Hill Auditorium
A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts (September 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85888 85888-21629516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

How would you map what you have felt and experienced over the last 18 months? Join Yo-Yo Ma, Michigan artists Nour Ballout, Tunde Olaniran, and Avery Williamson, and four U-M students on a journey into our hearts. They will guide you on a journey using the travel guides they have created for this project – find out how to create your own heartmap, marking the grief and the isolation, as well as the rituals, relationships, and rhythms that are getting us through.

The event will not be available after the livestream, so please join us live!

Registration: https://universitymusicalsociety.activehosted.com/f/32

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Performance Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:46:59 -0400 2021-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Performance A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts
Welcome Concert - SOLD OUT (September 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86622 86622-21635236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Crisler Arena
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Take a trip to “Dreamland” with Glass Animals! We’re excited to announce that U-M is officially a stop on the Glass Animals “Dreamland” Tour -- and it’s FREE for all UM Students! Enjoy a night of live music, and good times at a very special Welcome to Michigan Concert! We hope you'll join us for a high-energy, safe return to live music in the Crisler Center on Thursday, September 23.

9/15 Update: Tickets have all been claimed. More information about attending this concert can be found at https://campusinvolvement.umich.edu/concert.

Masks will be required and ResponsiBLUE screening will be checked at the door.

This concert is presented by the Office of the President, Center for Campus Involvement, University Activities Center & Big Ticket Productions.

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Performance Wed, 15 Sep 2021 10:02:04 -0400 2021-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T23:00:00-04:00 Crisler Arena Center for Campus Involvement Performance Glass Animals
Masters Recital: Leonard Bopp & Robert Meese, conductors (September 23, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87286 87286-21640820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Owens - Fields of Wonder; Debussy - Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune; Mahler - Rückert Lieder.

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Performance Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:15:15 -0400 2021-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
Michigan Marching Band Open Rehearsal (September 24, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87402 87402-21641891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Stadium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch the MMB rehearsal for their September 25 halftime show.

Our Homecoming halftime show “Spectrum” honors the 50th anniversary of the Spectrum Center. The Spectrum Center at University of Michigan is a collaborative space in which all members of the University and local community are welcome. The Spectrum Center supports students so they can thrive in a diverse society and world. The Spectrum Center works toward enhancing the campus climate and support services for LGBTQ+ students, staff, and faculty at the University through education, advocacy, and community building. It is the nation’s first LGBTQ+ support center to be formed on a college campus.


Stadium entry is through Gate 1; ADA Entry through Jack Roth.  All fans will sit in sections 1,2, and 44.

"Spectrum"
I’m Coming Out - Diana Ross
Born This Way - Lady Gaga
I’m Every Woman - Whitney Houston
Vogue - Madonna
Heart to Break - Kim Petras
Thank You For Being a Friend (Golden Girls theme) - Andrew Gold
We Are Family - Sister Sledge
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper

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Performance Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:15:18 -0400 2021-09-24T18:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Stadium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Webster Reading Series (September 24, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. MFA second-year students in fiction and poetry, each introduced by a peer, will share a sample of their work. Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/WebsterSeries

This series is organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts Jen Galvao (jgalvao@umich.edu) or Uri Kumbhat (urvik@umich.edu).

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

*September 24th:* David Joez Villaverde (poetry) and Matthew Del Busto (poetry)

*October 8th:* Richard Stock (fiction), Dasha Sikmashvili (fiction), and Olivia Brown (poetry)

*October 29th: *Bridgette Brados (poetry) and Thomas Boos (fiction)

*November 12th: *Molly Gott (fiction) and Chloe Alberta (fiction)-- DUE TO A COVID RISK, THE NOV. 12TH EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED SOON.

*December 3rd:* Caroline Harper New (poetry) and Julie Cadman-Kim (fiction)

*January 28th:* Abigail McFee (poetry) and Eva Warrick (fiction)

*February 11th:* Robert Laidler (poetry) and Afarin Allabakhshizadeh (fiction)

*March 11th:* Mollie Traver (fiction) and Austin Farrell (poetry)

*March 18th: *Urvi Kumbhat (fiction) and Jennifer Galvão (fiction)

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:27:45 -0500 2021-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance .
Talking Hearts Happening: Dani Darling (September 24, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86950 86950-21637620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Ingalls Mall
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Dani Darling responds through performance to a set of questions that help us think through the emotional journey the past 18 months. She is an Ann Arbor-based chanteuse, guitarist, producer and songwriter whose musical influences range from Erykah Badu and Radiohead, to Nat King Cole and Old Hollywood movie scores. She was named a Detroit Metro Times "Artist to Watch” in 2020 and for this special performance she’ll be joined by three other instrumentalists as well as dancers for an ethereal twilight set.

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Performance Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:20:55 -0400 2021-09-24T19:30:00-04:00 2021-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Ingalls Mall Arts Initiative Performance Dani Darling
Okkervil River (solo) & Damien Jurado (September 24, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84013 84013-21619402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Over the course of their career, Okkervil River has released nine albums that have given front man Will Sheff a reputation as one of the greatest working songwriters in the country. As Sheff and his shifting lineup of players have traveled the world many times over, they’ve made fans ranging from Lou Reed to Barack Obama and been praised by outlets from the New York Times to NPR to Pitchfork, who called Sheff “One of indie rock’s most ambitious thinkers”.

Last year saw Okkervil River’s two-decades-plus trek around the globe captured in A Dream in the Dark, an expansive release anthologizing 20 years of live performance, spanning from pin- drop listening rooms to stadium stages - released on ATO Records.

In addition to his work with Okkervil River, Sheff composes for film and television, has written for the Times, McSweeney’s, Gawker and Rolling Stone, worked as a producer on psych-rock legend Roky Erickson’s critically-acclaimed comeback album True Love Cast Out All Evil, and released his directorial film debut Down Down the Deep River in 2015.



On The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, Damien Jurado gathers up ten stories of people determined not to be broken by their dire circumstances. “The world is a liar, the stars are a must,” he sings over brushed drums, a circling bassline, and acoustic guitar on “Helena,” which opens his 17th album, the first release from Damien’s own Maraqopa Records. Dire circumstances have long been fixtures of Jurado’s songs, which are filled with ghosts, killers, cruel lovers, and the occasional UFO cult or false messiah. But here, the scenes are earthy, drawn from ordinary but no less immense calamities: hurricanes moving toward town, strained connections, amnesiacs in the front yard. On The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, Jurado pulls the curtains shut, blocking out “the light now embarrassed and afraid of the dark,” as he sings on “Tom,” one of the album’s haunting numbers, only to throw them open the exact moment sunshine needs to come flooding in.

Jurado has certainly made sparser records than The Monster, but sonically it is among his most exposed, stripping away the cosmic gloss that defined his trio of albums with the late Richard Swift in favor of dry, homespun ambiance. “In a lot of ways, it’s a continuation of the work I did with Swift,” Jurado says. Had the producer not passed away in 2018—he’s been memorialized in a number of Damien’s recent songs—it’s likely the duo would have found themselves drawn in this direction too, Damien suspects, noting that the addition by subtraction approach imbued the new album with a certain quality of “emptiness,” creating the feel of a sort of spiritual karaoke track, tailor made for personal projection. “I wanted to leave space for the listener,” Jurado says.

Known for working fast—he’s usually got a handful of finished albums at the ready at any given time—the compositions here are uncluttered, but not slight, decorated by Beatles-esque bass-lines, drums, and strings. Inspired by the sound of records like Lou Reed’s The Bells and Paul McCartney’s Ram, Jurado produced the new album himself, employing “a certain dryness,” which allowed the songs to feel cavernous, even “after spending so long in reverb land,” Jurado laughs.

Jurado’s discography is full of detours—from answering machine collages to full-on electric rock band outings— but there’s a through line connecting it all, evidence of an almost oracular or prophetic unease that lurks in Jurado’s headspace. Listening to The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, you can still hear that young man living within these songs, speaking as if from the other side, about the circumstances that crush people or leave them vexed. “The loneliest place I’ve ever been is in your arms,” he sings on the ghostly, Jason Molina-evoking “Male Customer #1”; “I hadn’t been in a car yet/Hearing the world through your eyes,” he sings on the quixotic “Jennifer.”

On the album’s most harrowing and gripping song “Johnny Caravella,” he dreams up an epic of American strangeness in the vein of Springsteen’s “State Trooper” or Suicide’s “Frankie Teardrop.” His voice cracking over a distorted maw of guitars, Jurado narrates a frantic drive west, tuned into the sound of prophecy coming over the radio: “All is not lost/Even if you’re without a direction.” “Just stick around till the light pushes into the darkness,” Damien promises - or admits - at the burned-out husk of the song’s conclusion. Jurado’s best songs have long concerned inevitabilities. On The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, he offers up his own Twilight Zone, “a middle ground between light and shadow”…a dimension of imagination, of half-remembered dreams and people reaching out to cross into that liminal space between heartbreak and wholeness. Jurado knows the territory well. He knows the secret words to whisper at the right time. Press your eye to the speaker, tune your ear to the horizon.

-Jason P. Woodbury Aquarium Drunkard

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:04:43 -0400 2021-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Okkervill River (solo) & Damien Jurado at The Ark
Symphony Band (September 24, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85575 85575-21626943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Haithcock, conductor
David Jackson, trombone soloist

Pre-concert lecture at 7:15

PROGRAM:
Fanfare pour preceder “La Peri” - Paul Dukas
Flourishes and Meditations on a Renaissance Theme - Michael Gandolfi
Red Sky - Anthony Barfield
Kung Fu - Shuying Li
Children's March, Colonial Song, Shepherd's Hey - Percy Grainger

watch online at https://myumi.ch/HillWatch

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:15:11 -0400 2021-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Hill Auditorium
Susan Werner - Rescheduled from 5/9 (September 25, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68373 68373-21312497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 25, 2021 8:00pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

NPR has called Susan Werner "folk's empress of the unexpected." Susan is a triple threat at folk awards ceremonies with her luxuriously smooth and strong voice (she's a former opera singer), riveting lyrics, and haunting melodies. "When it comes to crafting a song, Ms. Werner's only peers are Jimmy Webb and Paul Simon," raves No Depression. Susan can do it all! She's a virtuoso on both piano and guitar, and her recordings have ranged from hardcore folk to Broadway music, humorous songs, a skeptical yet sympathetic take on gospel, songs of farming, and even classical arrangements of classic rock. Susan has a way of reinventing herself for each new project, but there's a core of humor sophistication, and musical craft that endures. Her latest album is "NOLA: Susan Werner Goes to New Orleans," and, well, New Orleans may never be the same.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:17:55 -0400 2021-09-25T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-25T22:00:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Susan Werner
SoniCelegans - and Beyond! (September 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86934 86934-21637598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: ArtsEngine

This is a milestone in a journey that brings together music and neurobiology. Through a collaboration among musicians, neurobiologists, sound engineers, composers, scientists, humans, and nematodes, we explore questions inspired by neurobiology experiments with the invertebrate model organism Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). How does memory sound? What constitutes the musical background of a memory? How is a maze represented musically? What is the relationship between stochasticity in spatial navigation and improvisation in musical navigation? How can a human performer converse with a tiny invertebrate animal lost in space? How can we learn to create music guided by an experimental animal? How can an invertebrate creature learn to navigate guided by music? And, ultimately, how do the founding definitions of our certainties shape up when we shift our frame of thought into a new paradigm?

Sunday, September 26 | 2-3pm & 3-4pm (each show is a 30-minute installation followed by a 30-minute performance)
Admission is free but RSVP is required at https://forms.gle/AXorZMAZartHizHF8

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Performance Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:09:39 -0400 2021-09-26T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-26T15:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building ArtsEngine Performance SoniCelegans
Masterclass: Sunny Wilkinson, vocal jazz (September 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85576 85576-21626944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Stearns Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

part of the Don Chisholm Vocal Jazz Series

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:15:11 -0400 2021-09-26T15:00:00-04:00 Stearns Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Stearns Building
SoniCelegans - and Beyond! (September 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86934 86934-21637599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: ArtsEngine

This is a milestone in a journey that brings together music and neurobiology. Through a collaboration among musicians, neurobiologists, sound engineers, composers, scientists, humans, and nematodes, we explore questions inspired by neurobiology experiments with the invertebrate model organism Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). How does memory sound? What constitutes the musical background of a memory? How is a maze represented musically? What is the relationship between stochasticity in spatial navigation and improvisation in musical navigation? How can a human performer converse with a tiny invertebrate animal lost in space? How can we learn to create music guided by an experimental animal? How can an invertebrate creature learn to navigate guided by music? And, ultimately, how do the founding definitions of our certainties shape up when we shift our frame of thought into a new paradigm?

Sunday, September 26 | 2-3pm & 3-4pm (each show is a 30-minute installation followed by a 30-minute performance)
Admission is free but RSVP is required at https://forms.gle/AXorZMAZartHizHF8

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Performance Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:09:39 -0400 2021-09-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building ArtsEngine Performance SoniCelegans
May Erlewine & The Motivations (September 26, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84865 84865-21625211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 26, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

On a few special dates each year, singer-songwriter May Erlewine breaks from her Americana and folk roots to front The Motivations: a seven-piece dance party funk band that dishes up boogie jams and classic soul cuts and features vocals, guitar, keys, bass, organ, trumpet, saxophone, drums and percussion. Expect a retro-groove dance party meant to get you moving, make you feel connected, and help you celebrate the moment. We'll set aside the dance floor on either side of the stage, so you can look forward to feel-good fun and small revolutions to shake things up, just enough.

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Performance Mon, 02 Aug 2021 15:43:05 -0400 2021-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-26T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance May Erlewine & The Motivations at The Ark
Voice Department Student Recital (September 29, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88088 88088-21650279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Voice students present their latest repertoire.

attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/BrittonWatch

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Performance Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:15:13 -0400 2021-09-29T16:30:00-04:00 2021-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
CANCELLED - Choir! Choir! Choir! (September 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84655 84655-21624392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Choir! Choir! Choir! is a Toronto-based singing group led by creative directors Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman. The duo takes a non-traditional approach; there are no auditions, and the audience is the choir. Just show up and they'll teach you an original arrangement to a song you love. Founded in 2011, Choir! Choir! Choir! has amassed a dedicated and passionate community of singers and a thriving international fan base on YouTube. The group has performed with renowned artists such as Patti Smith, Tegan and Sara, David Byrne, Rick Astley, and Rufus Wainwright, and onstage at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall with the likes of Debbie Harry and The Flaming Lips. Choir! Choir! Choir! exists to celebrate music and push the boundaries between practice and performance, artist and audience, offering therapeutic benefits with the ultimate side effect: a powerful community.

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Performance Fri, 03 Sep 2021 12:00:54 -0400 2021-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Choir! Choir! Choir! at The Ark, photo by Vanessa Heins
Concert Band (September 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85577 85577-21626945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Courtney Snyder, conductor
Kimberly Fleming and JoAnn Wieszczyk, graduate conductors
Carrie Koffman, saxophone soloist

PROGRAM
Fanfare Ritmico - Jennifer Higdon
Here We Rest - Anthony Barfield
Second Suite in F - Gustav Holst
Suite Française - Guy Woolfenden
Negative Split (world premiere) - Roshanne Etezady
Huapango - José Pablo Moncayo

watch online at https://myumi.ch/HillWatch

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Performance Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:15:09 -0400 2021-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Hill Auditorium
Nora: A Doll’s House (September 30, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86176 86176-21631857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama

Written by Stef Smith
After the classic play by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

Nora Helmer has been a feminist icon since her first appearance in 1879 as the lead character in Henrik Ibsen’s then-controversial A Doll’s House. 140 years later, Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith has reshaped Nora’s singular struggle for financial and emotional independence into three characters, setting three Noras on parallel paths in different time periods. As their stories unfold, shifting cultural expectations exert their pressure on each Nora as what it means to be a feminist changes.

Nora: A Doll’s House received its premiere at Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow in 2019 before moving to the Young Vic in early 2020.

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:11 -0400 2021-09-30T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Nora: A Doll’s House
CANCELLED - Iris DeMent - Rescheduled from 3/18/21 (September 30, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68372 68372-18493764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

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 is "The Trackless Woods," featuring settings of texts by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.

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Performance Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:09:35 -0400 2021-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Iris DeMent
Faculty Recital: Kathryn Votapek, violin and Amy I. Cheng, piano (September 30, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87232 87232-21640651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM
...in dulcet tones - Jesse Jones
Sonata no. 3 in C Minor, op. 45 - Edvard Grieg
Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821 - Franz Schubert

watch online at https://myumi.ch/StampsWatch

Due to other activities at the Walgreen Drama Center, the parking lot will be staffed with an attendant and parking will be $5. For additional parking options, please visit https://myumi.ch/r8Drr

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Performance Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:15:11 -0400 2021-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Faculty Recital: Kathryn Votapek, violin and Amy I. Cheng, piano
Nora: A Doll’s House (October 1, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86176 86176-21631858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama

Written by Stef Smith
After the classic play by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

Nora Helmer has been a feminist icon since her first appearance in 1879 as the lead character in Henrik Ibsen’s then-controversial A Doll’s House. 140 years later, Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith has reshaped Nora’s singular struggle for financial and emotional independence into three characters, setting three Noras on parallel paths in different time periods. As their stories unfold, shifting cultural expectations exert their pressure on each Nora as what it means to be a feminist changes.

Nora: A Doll’s House received its premiere at Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow in 2019 before moving to the Young Vic in early 2020.

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:11 -0400 2021-10-01T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Nora: A Doll’s House
Symphony Band Chamber Winds (October 1, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86419 86419-21634278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Nick Balla, Kimberly Fleming, Daniel Johnson, JoAnn Wieszczyk, Graduate Student Conductors

The full complement of Symphony Band musicians is transformed into ensembles of 8 to 12 performers to present this evening of stylistically diverse repertoire.

PROGRAM:
Invictus - Anthony Barfield
Theme and Variations - Verne Reynolds
Passing Through - Kimberly Osberg
Choros No. 7 - Heitor Villa-Lobos
Torn Canvases - Matthew Tommasini
Partita in E-flat Major - Franz Vinzenz Krommer

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:15:13 -0400 2021-10-01T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Symphony Band Chamber Winds
Tom Rush (October 1, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84330 84330-21623345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Tom Rush may not be as well known as some fellow veterans of Club 47 in 1960s Cambridge, Massachusetts—people like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Judy Collins. Yet he's second to none in terms of his impact down through the years. Rush's three albums for Elektra in the 1960s were key founding documents of the entire singer-songwriter concept, and he's influenced everyone from James Taylor to Garth Brooks. A performer with an abiding love of being in front of an audience, Rush is a rib-tickling storyteller, an expressive singer, and a guitarist capable of real melancholy. He's an Ark favorite, and, says the Chicago Tribune, he's "probably the only man alive who should be allowed to sing Joni Mitchell songs." Tom Rush is, in short, folk royalty. And on top of all this, he's coming to Michigan with a new album, "Voices."

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:06:36 -0400 2021-10-01T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Tom Rush at The Ark
The Accidentals and Sawyer Fredericks (October 2, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84204 84204-21620760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 2, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

The Accidentals are a multi-instrumental songwriting power trio. They kicked off 2018 with the release of their debut album on Sony Masterworks. And now, after countless festivals and more than 200 days of touring, The Accidentals are busy working on a much anticipated 2020 release. Composing, arranging, and playing tracks for bands like BTS, Keller Williams, and Flint Eastwood, while also scoring an indie film, teaching workshops across the country, and playing alongside symphonies, this band is only just getting started.

With his deep, beyond-his-years original lyrics and melodies, raw, soulful vocals, and powerful live performances, Sawyer seems an unlikely match for reality tv. Still he won Season 8 of NBC’s The Voice and hasn’t stopped his journey since.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:29:18 -0400 2021-10-02T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-02T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Accidentals and Sawyer Fredericks at The Ark
Chamber Choir: Door Out of the Fire (October 2, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86463 86463-21634436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 2, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Eugene Rogers, conductor
Scott VanOrnum, pianist
Nicolò Spera, acoustic guitar soloist
Aria Minasian, mezzo-soprano soloist


PROGRAM:
Cliff Notes - Carol Barnett, composer, Marg Walker, poet (midwest premiere)
My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land - Edward Elgar
Jeremiah’s Fire - Rollo Dilworth
Door Out of the Fire - Christopher Theofanidis, composer, Melissa Studdard, poet (world premiere)

watch online at https://myumi.ch/HillWatch

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Performance Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:15:13 -0400 2021-10-02T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Hill Auditorium
Nora: A Doll’s House (October 2, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86176 86176-21631859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 2, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama

Written by Stef Smith
After the classic play by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

Nora Helmer has been a feminist icon since her first appearance in 1879 as the lead character in Henrik Ibsen’s then-controversial A Doll’s House. 140 years later, Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith has reshaped Nora’s singular struggle for financial and emotional independence into three characters, setting three Noras on parallel paths in different time periods. As their stories unfold, shifting cultural expectations exert their pressure on each Nora as what it means to be a feminist changes.

Nora: A Doll’s House received its premiere at Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow in 2019 before moving to the Young Vic in early 2020.

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:11 -0400 2021-10-02T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Nora: A Doll’s House
The Accidentals and Sawyer Fredericks (October 2, 2021 9:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84204 84204-21620761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 2, 2021 9:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

The Accidentals are a multi-instrumental songwriting power trio. They kicked off 2018 with the release of their debut album on Sony Masterworks. And now, after countless festivals and more than 200 days of touring, The Accidentals are busy working on a much anticipated 2020 release. Composing, arranging, and playing tracks for bands like BTS, Keller Williams, and Flint Eastwood, while also scoring an indie film, teaching workshops across the country, and playing alongside symphonies, this band is only just getting started.

With his deep, beyond-his-years original lyrics and melodies, raw, soulful vocals, and powerful live performances, Sawyer seems an unlikely match for reality tv. Still he won Season 8 of NBC’s The Voice and hasn’t stopped his journey since.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:29:18 -0400 2021-10-02T21:30:00-04:00 2021-10-02T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Accidentals and Sawyer Fredericks at The Ark
Nora: A Doll’s House (October 3, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86176 86176-21631860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 3, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama

Written by Stef Smith
After the classic play by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

Nora Helmer has been a feminist icon since her first appearance in 1879 as the lead character in Henrik Ibsen’s then-controversial A Doll’s House. 140 years later, Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith has reshaped Nora’s singular struggle for financial and emotional independence into three characters, setting three Noras on parallel paths in different time periods. As their stories unfold, shifting cultural expectations exert their pressure on each Nora as what it means to be a feminist changes.

Nora: A Doll’s House received its premiere at Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow in 2019 before moving to the Young Vic in early 2020.

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:11 -0400 2021-10-03T14:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Nora: A Doll’s House
Recital:  Works of Charles Tournemire and Improvisations Based on Gregorian Chant 2021 Organ Conference (October 3, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87243 87243-21640663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 3, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Joseph Balistreri, Musician in Residence, Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Watch Hill livestream at https://myumi.ch/yK1g3

2021 Organ Conference
More information at https://myumi.ch/zxzOO

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Performance Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:15:19 -0400 2021-10-03T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Recital:  Works of Charles Tournemire and Improvisations Based on Gregorian Chant 2021 Organ Conference
Imprint Concert Series (October 4, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87449 87449-21642259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Works by students in the Department of Composition.

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:15:17 -0400 2021-10-04T19:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
Dan Bern w/sg Randy Kaplan (October 5, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86597 86597-21635114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information and policies before purchasing a ticket and again before attending a show. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave.

Dan Bern has released 25 albums and EPs, and played thousands of shows across North America and Europe. Bern’s songs have appeared in numerous films and TV shows, and he has written original songs for the films Walk Hard — The Dewey Cox Story and Get Him to the Greek, as well as songs for the Amazon Prime kids program, “The Stinky and Dirty Show.” He recently released the album “Ivan’s Barbershop,” following his release of “Regent Street” in 2019. During the 2020 Quarantine, Bern has been doing a series of shows on FB Live, “Hunkered in the Bunker.”

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Performance Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:07:59 -0400 2021-10-05T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Dan Bern at The Ark
Faculty Recital: Works of Widor, Hancock, Bizet, Conte, and Reubke 2021 Organ Conference (October 5, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87253 87253-21640673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Todd Wilson, Visiting Professor of Organ and Sacred Music, University of Michigan

Watch the Hill Auditorium livestream https://myumi.ch/yK1g3

2021 Organ Conference
More information at https://myumi.ch/zxzOO

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Performance Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:15:18 -0400 2021-10-05T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Faculty Recital: Works of Widor, Hancock, Bizet, Conte, and Reubke 2021 Organ Conference
The Mersey Beatles (October 6, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84295 84295-21621069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

DIRECT FROM THE GREAT CITY OF LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND!

The Mersey Beatles!! The world’s most Authentic and only LIVERPOOL born Beatles Tribute Band was the resident band for over a decade at the world famous CAVERN CLUB, where The Beatles got their start. These childhood friends have played in 20 countries, selling out shows worldwide.

Don’t miss this ALL NEW show as the band performs all 20 USA #1 HITS!!!.....plus many more fab favorites. Experience their natural Liverpool accents, wit, and charm. With no rehearsed scripts, their crowd banter truly captures the original spirit of the Beatles. These talented musicians appear with beautifully designed costumes and replica guitars from all eras.

“The Mersey Beatles have been playing the Cavern Club for over 15 years and are one of the best you will ever see!” Julia Baird-(John Lennon’s sister)

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Performance Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:59:16 -0400 2021-10-06T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-06T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Mersey Beatles at The Ark
Contemporary Directions Ensemble (October 6, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87236 87236-21640655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slywotzky, conductor

PROGRAM
Les moutons de Panurge - Frederic Rzewski
Oceania - Leaha Maria Villarreal
Workers Union - Louis Andriessen

attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/StampsWatch

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Performance Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:15:13 -0400 2021-10-06T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Faculty Recital: Solo and Chamber Works of Arne, Handel, and Purcell 2021 Organ Conference (October 6, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87257 87257-21640677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Joseph Gascho, Associate Professor of Harpsichord and Early Music, University of Michigan

with SMTD faculty and student collaborators, featuring harpsichords from the Charles Wilson Collection


2021 Organ Conference
More information at https://myumi.ch/zxzOO

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:15:18 -0400 2021-10-06T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Faculty Recital: Solo and Chamber Works of Arne, Handel, and Purcell 2021 Organ Conference
Nora: A Doll’s House (October 7, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86176 86176-21631861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama

Written by Stef Smith
After the classic play by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

Nora Helmer has been a feminist icon since her first appearance in 1879 as the lead character in Henrik Ibsen’s then-controversial A Doll’s House. 140 years later, Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith has reshaped Nora’s singular struggle for financial and emotional independence into three characters, setting three Noras on parallel paths in different time periods. As their stories unfold, shifting cultural expectations exert their pressure on each Nora as what it means to be a feminist changes.

Nora: A Doll’s House received its premiere at Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow in 2019 before moving to the Young Vic in early 2020.

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:11 -0400 2021-10-07T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Nora: A Doll’s House
The Wild Party (October 7, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86177 86177-21631865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa (BM ‵87, music education and voice)
Directed by MiMi Scardulla
Music Direction by Jason DeBord

The setting is the roaring 1920s. Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the arrival of a slew of colorful guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eye lands on a striking man named Mr. Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy, which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned, Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who's been shot?

A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written, courtesy of SMTD alumnus Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family, Big Fish).

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:12 -0400 2021-10-07T19:30:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance The Wild Party
Jazz Ensemble (October 7, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86459 86459-21634432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Ellen Rowe, director
Eric Banitt, guest conductor

Music composed and arranged by John Clayton, Fred Sturm, Mike Holober, John Coltrane, Nikki Iles, Bill Holman, student Eric Banitt and recent alumni Mohan Ritsema. Guest vocalist Allie Taylor will sing on Eric Banitt's arrangement of "Cloudy Morning"

Attend in person or watch at https://myumi.ch/HankinsonWatch

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Performance Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:15:16 -0400 2021-10-07T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
Veterans For Peace John Lennon Birthday Concert (October 7, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84249 84249-21620807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

This fourteenth annual concert benefits the Veterans for Peace Chapter 93 Peace Scholarship Fund. Proceeds will go to scholarships for college students enrolled in an accredited peace studies program and for Iraq Veterans Against The War (IVAW) programs to assist combat veterans suffering from serious trauma. Musical artists to be announced, but past concerts have featured Dick Siegel, David Roof, Chris Buhalis, John Latini, FUBAR, San, Emily & Jacob, Dave Boutette & Kristi Lynn Davis, Jen Sygit, Shari Kane & Dave Steele, Paul Tinkerhess, Wire in the Wood, Dave Keeney, Jo Serrapere, Annie & Rod Capps, Danny Kline, Rollie Tussing, Tim Monger, Dave Keeney & Sophia Hanifi, Rochelle Clark & Jason Dennie, Judy Banker, Rachael Davis & Dominic Davis, and Laith Al-Saadi.

Note special start time!

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:09:03 -0400 2021-10-07T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Veterans for Peace John Lennon Birthday Concert at The Ark
Latinx Heritage Month 2021: Closing Ceremony (October 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87722 87722-21645202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

We invite you to join us at the Closing Ceremony, as we unite around this year’s theme, share our narratives, and begin closing out our month-long celebration! The Closing Ceremony will kick off with a keynote from Norman Antonio Zelaya. Our keynote will be followed up with a wonderful lineup of U of M community member performances, music, food, and more! Registration is now open! https://myumi.ch/PlMDj

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Performance Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:53:58 -0400 2021-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Performance Closing Ceremony flyer. Flowers and leaves entering image from top corners. In dark green font, from top-to-bottom: Florecemos de nuestras raices symbol; “Florecemos de Nuestras Raices”; “We Bloom from our Roots”; LATINX HERITAGE MONTH; CLOSING CEREMONY; Friday, October 8th; 6-8 PM; 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; Michigan League Ballroom
Webster Reading Series (October 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. MFA second-year students in fiction and poetry, each introduced by a peer, will share a sample of their work. Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/WebsterSeries

This series is organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts Jen Galvao (jgalvao@umich.edu) or Uri Kumbhat (urvik@umich.edu).

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

*September 24th:* David Joez Villaverde (poetry) and Matthew Del Busto (poetry)

*October 8th:* Richard Stock (fiction), Dasha Sikmashvili (fiction), and Olivia Brown (poetry)

*October 29th: *Bridgette Brados (poetry) and Thomas Boos (fiction)

*November 12th: *Molly Gott (fiction) and Chloe Alberta (fiction)-- DUE TO A COVID RISK, THE NOV. 12TH EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED SOON.

*December 3rd:* Caroline Harper New (poetry) and Julie Cadman-Kim (fiction)

*January 28th:* Abigail McFee (poetry) and Eva Warrick (fiction)

*February 11th:* Robert Laidler (poetry) and Afarin Allabakhshizadeh (fiction)

*March 11th:* Mollie Traver (fiction) and Austin Farrell (poetry)

*March 18th: *Urvi Kumbhat (fiction) and Jennifer Galvão (fiction)

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:27:45 -0500 2021-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T20:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance .
Guest Recital: Norman Krieger, piano (October 8, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87731 87731-21645499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Norman Krieger is professor of piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
A native of Los Angeles, he is one of the most acclaimed pianists of his generation and is highly regarded as an artist of depth, sensitivity, and virtuosic flair. He previously served as professor of keyboard studies at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music since 1997.

PROGRAM
Liminal Spaces - Stephen Mitton
Isabella Amador, violin I
Xenia St. Charles Gilbert, violin II
HeeJo Yang, viola
Maxwell Remmer, cello
Allison Shinnick, piano
*work commissioned for the 2021 Michigan Music Teachers Association (MMTA) conference


Sonata in C Major, K. 330 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata Op. 31, No. 2 “Tempest - Ludwig van Beethoven
Prelude 2020 “The Strangest Year” - Don Freund
2 Preludes - Henri Lazarof
Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 1 - Frédéric Chopin
Etudes
Op. 25, No. 1 “Aeolian Harp”
Op. 10, No. 12 “Revolutionary”
Norman Krieger, piano

attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/BrittonWatch

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Performance Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:15:16 -0400 2021-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Guest Recital: Norman Krieger, piano
Nora: A Doll’s House (October 8, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86176 86176-21631862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama

Written by Stef Smith
After the classic play by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

Nora Helmer has been a feminist icon since her first appearance in 1879 as the lead character in Henrik Ibsen’s then-controversial A Doll’s House. 140 years later, Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith has reshaped Nora’s singular struggle for financial and emotional independence into three characters, setting three Noras on parallel paths in different time periods. As their stories unfold, shifting cultural expectations exert their pressure on each Nora as what it means to be a feminist changes.

Nora: A Doll’s House received its premiere at Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow in 2019 before moving to the Young Vic in early 2020.

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:11 -0400 2021-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Nora: A Doll’s House
The Wild Party (October 8, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86177 86177-21631866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa (BM ‵87, music education and voice)
Directed by MiMi Scardulla
Music Direction by Jason DeBord

The setting is the roaring 1920s. Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the arrival of a slew of colorful guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eye lands on a striking man named Mr. Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy, which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned, Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who's been shot?

A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written, courtesy of SMTD alumnus Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family, Big Fish).

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:12 -0400 2021-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance The Wild Party
University Symphony Orchestra (October 8, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86415 86415-21634274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Kenneth Kiesler, conductor

Pre-concert lecture at 7:15

PROGRAM:
Russian Overture - Sergei Prokofiev
Death and Transfiguration - Richard Strauss
Rainbow Body - Christopher Theofanidis

attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/HillWatch

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Performance Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:15:12 -0400 2021-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Hill Auditorium
Modern Percussion Lab (October 9, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87370 87370-21641627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 9, 2021 11:00am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The University of Michigan's Modern Percussion Lab presents a series of works that explore the somewhat illusory concept of "sustain", making use of experimental techniques and improvised structures. This meditative concert will feature the following works:

Flourish - Sarah Hennies
Immersion - Annea Lockwood

What is any ocean but a collection of drops? - Johannes Fischer

Chris Sies, Graduate Student Instructor
Gavin Ryan, Visuals
Nolan Ehlers, Percussion
Karina Howey, Percussion
Reed Puleo, Percussion
Sui Lin Tam, Percussion

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Performance Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:15:17 -0400 2021-10-09T11:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Modern Percussion Lab
Faculty & Guest Recital: Harmonious Blacksmith Ensemble (October 9, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87371 87371-21641628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 9, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Aaron Berofsky, Baroque Violin
Joseph Gascho, Harpsichord
Kathie Stewart, Traverso & Recorder
Jaap ter Linden, Baroque Cello & VioladaGamba
Catherine Moss, Soprano

Works by Corelli, Buxtehude, De La Guerre, Cesti, Pasquini, and Scarlatti.

Attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/BrittonWatch

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Performance Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:15:17 -0400 2021-10-09T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
Nora: A Doll’s House (October 9, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86176 86176-21631863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 9, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama

Written by Stef Smith
After the classic play by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

Nora Helmer has been a feminist icon since her first appearance in 1879 as the lead character in Henrik Ibsen’s then-controversial A Doll’s House. 140 years later, Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith has reshaped Nora’s singular struggle for financial and emotional independence into three characters, setting three Noras on parallel paths in different time periods. As their stories unfold, shifting cultural expectations exert their pressure on each Nora as what it means to be a feminist changes.

Nora: A Doll’s House received its premiere at Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow in 2019 before moving to the Young Vic in early 2020.

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:11 -0400 2021-10-09T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Nora: A Doll’s House
The Verve Pipe (October 9, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84299 84299-21621073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 9, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

With sales of more than three million albums worldwide, the Verve Pipe was one of Michigan rock and roll's great success stories of the 1990s. Formed in East Lansing, the band gained a following for its textured rock songs distinguished by inventive arrangements, soul-searching lyrics and layered vocals. Lead singer Brian Vander Ark has gone onto a solo career and become an Ark favorite with his songs of family, love, and loss. But after being approached to submit a song for a compilation album called "Calling All Kids," the Verve Pipe reunited to record their award-nominated kids' CD, "A Family Album." Now the creative spark touched off by those sessions has led to more Verve Pipe music for adults as well. The Verve Pipe has had a reputation for great, fan-friendly live shows from the start, and now they're back, up close and personal, at The Ark.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:05:39 -0400 2021-10-09T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-09T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Verve Pipe at The Ark
The Wild Party (October 9, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86177 86177-21631867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 9, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa (BM ‵87, music education and voice)
Directed by MiMi Scardulla
Music Direction by Jason DeBord

The setting is the roaring 1920s. Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the arrival of a slew of colorful guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eye lands on a striking man named Mr. Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy, which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned, Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who's been shot?

A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written, courtesy of SMTD alumnus Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family, Big Fish).

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:12 -0400 2021-10-09T20:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance The Wild Party
Nora: A Doll’s House (October 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86176 86176-21631864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama

Written by Stef Smith
After the classic play by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

Nora Helmer has been a feminist icon since her first appearance in 1879 as the lead character in Henrik Ibsen’s then-controversial A Doll’s House. 140 years later, Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith has reshaped Nora’s singular struggle for financial and emotional independence into three characters, setting three Noras on parallel paths in different time periods. As their stories unfold, shifting cultural expectations exert their pressure on each Nora as what it means to be a feminist changes.

Nora: A Doll’s House received its premiere at Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow in 2019 before moving to the Young Vic in early 2020.

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:11 -0400 2021-10-10T14:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Nora: A Doll’s House
Nora: A Doll’s House - CANCELLED (October 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88079 88079-21649915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama

Written by Stef Smith
After the classic play by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

Nora Helmer has been a feminist icon since her first appearance in 1879 as the lead character in Henrik Ibsen’s then-controversial A Doll’s House. 140 years later, Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith has reshaped Nora’s singular struggle for financial and emotional independence into three characters, setting three Noras on parallel paths in different time periods. As their stories unfold, shifting cultural expectations exert their pressure on each Nora as what it means to be a feminist changes.

Nora: A Doll’s House received its premiere at Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow in 2019 before moving to the Young Vic in early 2020.

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Performance Sun, 10 Oct 2021 12:15:17 -0400 2021-10-10T14:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Nora: A Doll’s House - CANCELLED
Senior Recital: Connor Higley, tuba (October 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87997 87997-21648331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Barat - Introduction and Dance for Tuba and Piano; Galliard - Sonata no. 5 for Bassoon or Violoncello and Harpsichord; Bach - Cello Suite no. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011; Schumann - Adagio and Allegro for Horn and Piano; Raum - Sweet Dances.

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Performance Wed, 06 Oct 2021 18:15:26 -0400 2021-10-10T14:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
The Wild Party (October 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86177 86177-21631868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa (BM ‵87, music education and voice)
Directed by MiMi Scardulla
Music Direction by Jason DeBord

The setting is the roaring 1920s. Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the arrival of a slew of colorful guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eye lands on a striking man named Mr. Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy, which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned, Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who's been shot?

A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written, courtesy of SMTD alumnus Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family, Big Fish).

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:12 -0400 2021-10-10T14:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance The Wild Party
Michigan Chamber Players (October 10, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87366 87366-21641623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 10, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/StampsWatch

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Performance Fri, 08 Oct 2021 18:15:14 -0400 2021-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Guest Recital: Svetozar Ivanov, piano (October 10, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87369 87369-21641626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 10, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Mystery of Stillness
(nine vignettes inspired by poetry)

Svetozar Ivanov, University of South Florida

attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/BrittonWatch

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Performance Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:15:21 -0400 2021-10-10T19:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Guest Recital: Svetozar Ivanov, piano
The David Bromberg Quintet (Rescheduled from 5/1/20 & 9/25/20) (October 10, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74135 74135-18543394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 10, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Ticketholders from the 9/25/20 will automatically have print at home tickets for the new show on October 21, 2021.

A legend of the folk scene, David Bromberg got his start in the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene in the mid-1960s. His extraordinary guitar picking and exceptional stylistic range developed over the next decade. David's live shows, rarer since he took up violin-making full time, range from Texas swing to bluegrass, blues, classical music, and anything else that might cross his mind. In the words of the New York Times, he "has such control of his audience that he can, at one moment, hold it in his hand with a tender, touching yet funny anecdotal song, and then set it romping and stomping with a raucous bit of raunch. He is electrifying." We might add that he picked up on the humor in country and classic blues as well as anyone else in the folk revival scene, making his shows a great deal of fun. David appears tonight with his quintet, with whom he recently recorded a new album, "Big Road."

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:42:54 -0400 2021-10-10T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-10T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance David Bromberg
Rainbow Girls - CANCELLED (October 11, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84656 84656-21624393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Rainbow Girls are an eclectic folk trio hailing from the golden countryside just north of California’s Bay Area. Vanessa May, Erin Chapin, and Caitlin Gowdey seamlessly combine soul-touching harmonies, varitextured instrumentals, and poignant lyrical content into a beautiful sonic tapestry. Throughout their performance, voices are paired with an ever-changing amalgamation of acoustic and slide guitar, keys, upright bass, harmonica, and an array of vocal techniques creating an engaging and often emotionally moving live show.

Their music delves deeply into themes of the human experience: hopeful love, honest self-reflection, and pursuits of social justice. Their latest album, “American Dream,” crystallizes these ideas in acoustic amber, encapsulating a beautiful new direction for their ever evolving sound.

Originally formed in Santa Barbara, CA in 2010, the Rainbow Girls have spread their musical wings both internationally and domestically, from busking on the streets of Europe to playing pubs and theaters in the UK, to house concerts, festivals, and shows in the US.

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Performance Tue, 05 Oct 2021 11:47:24 -0400 2021-10-11T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Rainbow Girls at The Ark
Student Chamber Ensemble Recital (October 11, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87936 87936-21647909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM:
Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor - Felix Mendelssohn
Emily Hauer, Violin
Andres Ayerbe, Cello
Sarah Jin, piano

Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67. - Maurice Ravel
Kisa Uradomo, violin
Adalus Low-Manzini, cello
Peter Smith, piano


Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major Op. 81 - Antonin Dvořák
Olivia Taylor and Annamaria Vasmatzidis, violins
Margot Cunningham, viola
Grace Mockus, cello
Forrest Howell, piano

attend in person - no tickets/reservations required
watch online at http:/myumi.ch/StampsWatch

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Performance Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:15:15 -0400 2021-10-11T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Percussion Ensemble (October 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87603 87603-21644313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Ian Antonio and Doug Perkins Co-Directors

The Percussion Ensemble will kick off the 2021 concert season performing music by Devonte Hynes, Kyle Krause, Marc Mellits, Angelica Negron, Tawnie Olson, and Anthony Pateras.

Attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/BrittonWatch

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Performance Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:15:23 -0400 2021-10-12T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Percussion Ensemble
Willie Watson (October 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84658 84658-21624399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

In the exploding world of acoustic music, Willie Watson hardly needs an introduction. During his decade-plus tenure with Old Crow Medicine Show, Willie’s driving rhythm guitar, transcendent lead vocals and pure tenor were an essential part of the band’s success (over 600,000 records sold, not to mention the platinum-selling single "Wagon Wheel"), but nowhere in OCMS’s catalog does his instrumental artistry and vocal prowess shine through as in his solo incarnation. Reaching back for inspiration to such artists as Utah Phillips, Leadbelly, and even the 1930s folk-country crossover artist Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Willie reinterprets and gives new life to a vast catalog of traditional songs that fit seamlessly beside self-penned classics cut from the very same cloth, creating a rich new patchwork of Americana. He comes to The Ark hot on the heels of his acting debut in the Netflix film "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs."

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Performance Mon, 26 Jul 2021 12:40:18 -0400 2021-10-12T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Willie Watson at The Ark
Second Dissertation Recital: Kimberly Fleming, conductor (October 13, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87754 87754-21645627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Marvin - Octet for Winds; Piazzolla - Libertango.

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Performance Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:15:19 -0400 2021-10-13T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche (October 13, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84251 84251-21620809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

After a lifetime of performing and recording with The Roches and as a solo performer these days Suzzy enjoys singing on the road with her daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche. Suzzy also performs with The Wooster Group (thewoostergroup.org) most recently in: A Pink Chair (in place of a fake antique), Early Shaker Spirituals ~ a record album interpretation , and The Room by Harold Pinter

Suzzy is a founding member of the singing group The Roches. She has written two books; a novel Wayward Saints and The Town Crazy, and a children's book Want To Be in a Band?

In addition to recording numerous albums with The Roches, Suzzy has recorded two solo albums, and an unusual collection of musical prayers, Zero Church (with Maggie Roche), which was developed at the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University

Suzzy has taught performance at NYU graduate and undergraduate schools and at Princeton University in the Atelier Program

Those familiar with Lucy Wainwright Roche are aware of her bell tone voice, her unshakable melodies, and her knack for wise, wry lyrics that clench the heart. It’s no surprise that Wainwright Roche is the daughter of Suzzy Roche (The Roches) and Loudon Wainwright III, half sibling to Rufus and Martha Wainwright. She grew up steeped in music.

But Lucy has carved out her own career as a touring singer/songwriter and recording artist, having sold over 50 thousand copies of her four critically acclaimed solo recordings released on her own label: Eight Songs, Eight More, Lucy, and There’s a Last Time for Everything. Other recordings include a collaboration with her sister Martha Wainwright on Songs In the Dark, a collection of lullabies, and two duet recordings with her mother Suzzy Roche: Fairytale and Myth (winner of Vox Pop Independent Music Awards), Mud and Apples, and most recently I Can Still Hear You released in October 2020.

For over a decade, as a solo act, armed with a guitar, a deadpan sense of humor, killer songs, and a voice that makes tough guys cry, she’s built a solid following across the US and Europe. As an opening act she has often appeared with such luminaries as The Indigo Girls, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Neko Case, and she’s one of a few who can step out alone in front of a thousand strangers and play an entire set to a rapt audience.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:19:15 -0400 2021-10-13T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche at The Ark, photo by Shervin Lainez
The Wild Party (October 14, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86177 86177-21631869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa (BM ‵87, music education and voice)
Directed by MiMi Scardulla
Music Direction by Jason DeBord

The setting is the roaring 1920s. Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the arrival of a slew of colorful guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eye lands on a striking man named Mr. Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy, which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned, Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who's been shot?

A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written, courtesy of SMTD alumnus Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family, Big Fish).

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:12 -0400 2021-10-14T19:30:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance The Wild Party
David Wilcox (Rescheduled from October 25, 2020) (October 14, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74039 74039-18493767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

"An eager, unapologetic sincerity flows from the heart of David Wilcox's acoustic music," says Rolling Stone. David Wilcox is a singer-songwriter whose music navigates a path through the confusion and pain, the emotional static of modern life. "I'm drawn to artists who disclose something about themselves and let you in their world," David says, and to a large extent he's one of them—yet contained within his warm voice and effortless guitar playing is a more general kind of hope, a life-affirming message that anyone can understand. David Wilcox believes that the right song at the right time changes people's lives. Since we saw him last, David has a new album, "The View from the Edge"

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:43:36 -0400 2021-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance David Wilcox presented by The Ark
Jazz Lab Ensemble (October 14, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87404 87404-21641893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dennis Wilson, director

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Performance Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:15:18 -0400 2021-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
Jazz Lab Ensemble (October 14, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87408 87408-21641897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dennis Wilson, director

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Performance Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:15:18 -0400 2021-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
Orpheus Singers (October 14, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86464 86464-21634437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM:
Hark, I hear the harps eternal - Traditional
Op. 92, # 2 O Schöne Nacthe, #4 Der Abend - Johannes Brahms
Orpheus with his lute - MacFarran
My Bonny Lass - Morley
As vesta was from Latmos - Weelkes
The silver swan - Gibbons
Hence, care, thou art too cruel - Weelkes
Esperaré - Morales
Pirekura por la Paz - José Galván
Unclouded Day - Traditional arr. Shawn Kirchner

attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/StampsWatch

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Performance Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:15:17 -0400 2021-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
University Philharmonia Orchestra (October 14, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86418 86418-21634277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slywotzky, conductor
James Kibbie, organ soloist

Pre-concert lecture at 7:15pm

As Dancing is to Architecture - Christopher Theofanidis
Czech Suite - Antonín Dvořák
Toccata Festiva - Samuel Barber
Variations on a Theme by Haydn - Johannes Brahms

attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/HillWatch

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Performance Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:15:13 -0400 2021-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Hill Auditorium
String Showcase (October 15, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86341 86341-21632937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Series featuring the finest among our outstanding SMTD string students performing solos and chamber music.

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Performance Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:15:08 -0400 2021-10-15T15:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance String Showcase
George Batyi and the Gypsy Stringz (October 15, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87482 87482-21642400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Gypsy Stringz has been performing all over the United States for over 25 years. Their repertoire consists of a wide range of Gypsy, Eastern European, and Continental music. They perform regularly at numerous festivals, concerts, and various other venues. The Gypsy Stringz has seen many amazing musicians come and go through the years. Gypsy Stringz is headed by violinist George Batyi, who will be joined tonight by Dwayne Dorich (Brac and vocals), Kristofer Vucelich (Brac), Brock Belich (Tambura bass), Ben Wagner (Kontra), Alex Udvary (Cimbalom) and special guest Billy Rose (vocal guitar). Gypsystringz.com

Part of the American Liszt Society Festival

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Performance Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:15:24 -0400 2021-10-15T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T22:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance George Batyi and the Gypsy Stringz
Masters Recital: Reed Puleo, percussion (October 15, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87964 87964-21648027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Manoury - Le Livre des Clavier; Marinissen - Four Gardens; Saunders - dust; Silva - Your Trash.

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Performance Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:15:19 -0400 2021-10-15T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
The Wild Party (October 15, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86177 86177-21631870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa (BM ‵87, music education and voice)
Directed by MiMi Scardulla
Music Direction by Jason DeBord

The setting is the roaring 1920s. Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the arrival of a slew of colorful guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eye lands on a striking man named Mr. Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy, which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned, Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who's been shot?

A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written, courtesy of SMTD alumnus Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family, Big Fish).

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:12 -0400 2021-10-15T20:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance The Wild Party
Trace Bundy (October 15, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84298 84298-21621072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Internationally-acclaimed guitar virtuoso Trace Bundy must be seen, not just heard. His music is poetry in motion, using harmonics, looping, multiple capos, and his unique banter and stage presence to deliver an unforgettable live concert experience. Listening to his intricate arrangements is one thing, but seeing the fan-dubbed “Acoustic Ninja” play live confounds even the most accomplished music lovers as to how one person can do all that with just two hands and ten fingers.

Bundy’s unique career has brought him across the world, with concerts in 28 countries and counting – from high-tech performance halls in South Korea and Italy, to remote villages in Zimbabwe and Guatemala. He has independently sold over 110,000 albums on his record label, Honest Ninja Music. His video clips circulate virally at astonishing speed, with over 36,000,000 YouTube views to date.

Jimmy Leslie at Guitar Player Magazine blogs “It was easy to see why Bundy plays bigger venues on each tour. In his hands, the acoustic guitar is an imagination station, and there was no telling where he is going take the audience at any given turn. Thrilling stuff.”

Dave Kirby from the Boulder Weekly says “Possessing a staggering acoustic technique, on both right and left sides, Bundy has made his reputation as a next generation solo guitarist of serious repute.”

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:07:03 -0400 2021-10-15T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Trace Bundy at The Ark
Joshua Davis (October 16, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84297 84297-21621071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 16, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Over the past twenty years, Michigan-based Joshua Davis has honed an impressive range of skills – songwriter, bandleader, guitarist, and vocalist among them – in the most honest possible fashion: night after night, song after song, show after show Davis simply delivered every performance as though his life depended on it. Investing himself in the American musical diaspora, he has explored the common thread connecting folk, blues, jazz, ragtime, and country forms – discovering his personal perspective as a composer in the process. “My sound is rooted in the folk tradition,” Joshua explains, “but it’s not folk music. Terms like Americana, roots rock, and heartland rock come up, but there’s so much more to it than that. I’m not a purist: I play with that American folk lineage, I play with those metaphors.” His versatility and ravenous musical curiosity has resulted in a divergent and fervent output. Since his appearance as a finalist on Season 8 of NBC’s “The Voice”, Davis has been churning out an album a year and has plans to continue to do so. His sensibilities shine brightest on his latest trio of solo releases, each a thoughtful dispatch on life, love, change, and growth.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:53:35 -0400 2021-10-16T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-16T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Joshua Davis at The Ark
Piano Recital: Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies 1-15 (October 16, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87431 87431-21642025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 16, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

American Liszt Society Festival

No. 1 in C-sharp minor - Joseph Kingma
No. 2 in C-sharp minor - Alexandre Dossin (Cadenza: Dossin)
No. 3 in B-flat Major - Lori Piitz
No. 4 in E-flat Major - Yuting Ma
No. 5 in E minor - Forrest Howell
No. 6 in D-flat - Caroline Hong
No. 7 in D minor - Yixuan Han
No. 8 in F-sharp minor - Shun Fu Chang
No. 9 in E-flat Major “Carnival in Pest” - Grigor Khachatryan
No. 10 in E Major - Ji-hyang Gwak
No. 11 in A minor, first version
Magyar Rapszódia S. 242 No. 14 (1846-47) - Tomasz Kamieniak
No. 12 in C-sharp minor - Andrew Le
No. 13 in A minor - Louis Nagel
No. 14 in F minor - Eric Ruple
No. 15 in A minor “Rákóczi March,” (after Vladimir Horowitz) - Michael Boyd

For further information and to register for the Festival, please visit smtd.umich.edu/liszt2021

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Performance Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:15:24 -0400 2021-10-16T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Piano Recital: Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies 1-15
The Wild Party (October 16, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86177 86177-21631871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 16, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa (BM ‵87, music education and voice)
Directed by MiMi Scardulla
Music Direction by Jason DeBord

The setting is the roaring 1920s. Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the arrival of a slew of colorful guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eye lands on a striking man named Mr. Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy, which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned, Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who's been shot?

A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written, courtesy of SMTD alumnus Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family, Big Fish).

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:12 -0400 2021-10-16T20:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance The Wild Party
The Wild Party (October 17, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86177 86177-21631872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 17, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Book, Music, & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa (BM ‵87, music education and voice)
Directed by MiMi Scardulla
Music Direction by Jason DeBord

The setting is the roaring 1920s. Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the arrival of a slew of colorful guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eye lands on a striking man named Mr. Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy, which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned, Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who's been shot?

A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, The Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written, courtesy of SMTD alumnus Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family, Big Fish).

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:12 -0400 2021-10-17T14:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance The Wild Party
Cowboy Junkies (October 17, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84604 84604-21624203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 17, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Sometimes revolutions begin quietly. In 1988, Cowboy Junkies proved that there was an audience waiting for something quiet, beautiful and reflective. "The Trinity Session" was like a whisper that cut through the noise -- and it was compelling. It stood out in the midst of the flash and bombast that came to define the late 1980s. The now classic recording combined folk, blues, and rock in a way that had never been heard before and went on to sell more than a million copies.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:39:47 -0400 2021-10-17T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-17T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Cowboy Junkies at The Ark
Faculty Chamber Music Recital - American Liszt Society Festival (October 17, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87259 87259-21640682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 17, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

University of Michigan faculty

PROGRAM:
Rapsodia for Trombone, Piano, and Percussion - Miklós Kocsár
David Jackson, trombone
Ian Antonio, percussion
Matthew Bengtson, piano

Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115 - Béla Bartók
Logan Skelton and Amy I-Lin Cheng, pianos
Ian Antonio and Douglas Perkins, percussion

Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25 - Johannes Brahms
Aaron Berofsky, violin
Kathryn Votapek, violin
Amir Eldan, cello
Christopher Harding, piano

part of the American Liszt Society Festival
For further information and to register for the Festival, please visit smtd.umich.edu/liszt2021

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:19 -0400 2021-10-17T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Faculty Chamber Music Recital - American Liszt Society Festival
Guest Recital: Contemporary Piano Music - Works of Danielpour, Kocsár, Fekete, and Dubrovay (October 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87432 87432-21642026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

from Seven Mysteries - Richard Danielpour
No. 1, Annunciation                                                                            (b. 1956)
No. 2, The King’s Wrath
No. 5, Shepherds and Angels
No. 6, The Slaughter of the Innocents
No. 7, Mother and Child
Daniel Horn, piano
 
Improvvisazioni - Miklós Kocsár
May Phang, piano
 
Zsarnokság "Tyranny" (2021) - Gyula Fekete
Richard Shuster, piano
 
Hommage à Fellini (The Last Dream of the Clown) (2014) - László Dubrovay
Éva Polgár, piano  

part of the American Liszt Society Festival
For further information and to register for the Festival, please visit smtd.umich.edu/liszt2021

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:12:31 -0400 2021-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Guest Recital: Contemporary Piano Music - Works of Danielpour, Kocsár, Fekete, and Dubrovay
Willie Nile (October 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84252 84252-21620810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

The New York Times called Willie Nile “one of the most gifted singer-songwriters to emerge from the New York scene in years.” His album Streets Of New York was hailed as “a platter for the ages” by UNCUT magazine. Rolling Stone listed The Innocent Ones as one of the “Top Ten Best Under-The-Radar Albums of 2011” and BBC Radio called it “THE rock ‘n’ roll album of the year.”

Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Jim Jarmusch, and Little Steven are among those who have sung his praises. His album, American Ride, won “Best Rock Album of the Year” at the Independent Music Awards. It appeared on over one hundred year-end Top Ten lists for 2013 and Bono called it, “One of the great guides to unraveling the mystery that is the troubled beauty of America.”

In November 2014 he released an album of piano-based songs, If I Was A River, to universal critical acclaim. “One of the most brilliant singer-songwriters of the past thirty years” said The New Yorker. No Depression raved “Willie Nile’s artistic renaissance continues unabated.”

His 2016 album World War Willie appeared on numerous year end top ten lists as did hid his live shows. As American Songwriter said “Nile cranks up the volume and tears into these tunes with the same hunger, passion and exuberance he displays in his legendary sweat-soaked shows.” World War Willie was voted “Album Of The Year” by Twangville Magazine and the song Forever Wild was named “Coolest Song In The World” by Little Steven’s Underground Garage.

Willie has toured across the U.S. with The Who and has sung with Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. As the induction program from the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame says: “His live performances are legendary.” In the summer of 2017 Willie Nile released his 11th studio album Positively Bob – Willie Nile Sings Bob Dylan to rave reviews. He is currently bringing his electrifying live show to audiences worldwide.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:09:48 -0400 2021-10-18T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-18T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Willie Nile at The Ark
David Ramirez // Matt Costa (October 19, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85731 85731-21628570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Proof of Vaccination and Mask is required for admission. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.

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Performance Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:07:18 -0400 2021-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance David Ramirez and Matt Costa at The Ark!
Ron Pope (opener J.M. Clifford) (October 20, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84646 84646-21654242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

In the months following the release of his critically acclaimed album “Bone Structure,” Nashville-based singer-songwriter, Ron Pope, felt lost. A hometown tornado and a pandemic will do that to a person. Unfortunately for Pope, tangled amongst the rubble was an album release and months of touring that abruptly came to a halt. For an album that he penned while reflecting on his own mortality, it seemed almost apropos.

While his career was put on pause, he effectively became a stay-at-home dad. Slowly, his priorities shifted as he realized that not only could this time be looked at as a gift, but it could be used as an opportunity to reimagine what his life could look like in the future. Why sit in the same formulaic cycle? Why seek validation from places that didn’t care to give it?

In asking these questions of himself, he realized that the community his music created was also seeking answers to similar questions. Weekly online shows allowed free conversations and inspired creativity. Pulling from unreleased songs and reimagined fan favorites, Pope decided to embark on a year of connecting and leaning into the community that has supported him all along.

It was time to let go of preconceived notions about what was expected of him. It was time to take a step back and focus on what really mattered. It was time to rebuild.

After completely scrapping early recording sessions for his album Bone Structure (March 6, 2020), Pope set out on a new path, crafting incredibly candid songs directed squarely at his newborn daughter. Some songs speak to her directly and muse on the experience of fatherhood, while others reflect on a personal experience that has a lesson or a moral. Pope's 2017 release, "Work," drew comparisons to Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, while also refusing to put him squarely into one category. Uncompromising and relentless, Pope has evolved into one of the top grossing independent acts in the business while garnering a legion of devoted fans the world over. Taking the industry-road-less-traveled and holding fiercely to his independence has proven fruitful for Pope; to date, he has sold out shows on three continents and in more than 20 countries, sold over 2 million digital tracks, has nearly half a billion streams on Spotify, 880 million plays on Pandora, 150 million views on YouTube, and has generally crushed every metric used to measure what is possible for most independent artists.

Pope is currently in the studio recording his next album, which is set to be released in the spring of 2022.

*Ron Pope – Meet & Greet Package *
-One ticket
-VIP early entry into the venue
-Exclusive meet & greet with Ron Pope
-Personal photograph with Ron Pope
-Private and intimate pre-show acoustic performance by Ron Pope
-Limited edition, tour poster autographed by Ron Pope
-Specially designed tote bag
-Official meet & greet laminate

Limited availability

For questions regarding the VIP packages, please reach out to info@future-beat.com.

VIP merchandise will be distributed at the show.

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Performance Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:47:24 -0500 2021-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Ron Pope at The Ark
Erin McKeown (October 20, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84245 84245-21620805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Erin McKeown is a musician, writer, and producer known internationally for her prolific disregard of stylistic boundaries. Her brash and clever electric guitar playing is something to see. Her singing voice is truly unique —clear, cool, and collected. Over the last 20 years, she has performed around the world, released 10 full length albums, and written for film, television, and theater, all the while refining her distinctive and challenging mix of American musical forms.

Her first musical, Miss You Like Hell, written with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in 2018. It was nominated for 5 Drama Desk Awards, including Best Lyrics, Best Music and Best Orchestrations, and The Wall Street Journal named it Best Musical of 2018.
Leading her own band, she has performed at Bonnaroo, Glastonbury, and the Newport Folk Festivals. A familiar presence on NPR and the BBC, McKeown’s songs have also appeared in numerous commercials and television shows.

While a student at Brown University, Erin was a resident artist at Providence, RI’s revolutionary community arts organization AS220. A 2011-2012 fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center For Internet & Society, she is also the recipient of a 2016 writing fellowship from The Studios of Key West and a 2018 residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

McKeown is a 2020-21 Professor of the Practice at Brown University.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:48:21 -0400 2021-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Erin McKeown at The Ark, photo by Shervin Lainez
CANCELLED - The Small Glories (October 21, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84801 84801-21625001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Roots powerhouse duo The Small Glories are Cara Luft & JD Edwards, a musical tour-de-force partnership planted on the Canadian Prairies. Thrown together purely by accident for an anniversary show at Winnipeg’s venerable West End Cultural Centre, The Small Glories could almost make you believe in fate.

With a stage banter striking a unique balance between slapstick and sermon, these veteran singer-songwriters have a way of making time disappear, rooms shrink, and audiences feel as they are right there on the stage with the band — writing the songs, living the songs, performing the songs. It’s not uncommon for listeners to find themselves laughing, dancing, crying, or caught up in a good ol’ fashioned sing-along. “We’re folk singers, we try to write stuff that people can relate to,” says Edwards, whose looming stage presence and penetrating eyes find him the yin to Luft’s petite, snort-laughing yang. The material of a Small Glories concert is welcoming in terms of subject, folk-pop melody and instrumentation — songs of love, loss, and environment, delivered with soaring, interwoven vocals on various combinations of stomping clawhammer banjo, guitar and harmonica. However, a Small Glories performance is really about what happens in-between the songs. “The feedback we get from a lot of audiences is that it’s not just about the music for them,” Luft says. “It’s the whole package.”

On record, The Small Glories take the musical synergy honed from hundreds of shows together, and expand it into a new soundscape amplified by pounding drums and other textural embellishments which only reinforce the magic of Luft and Edwards’ innate chemistry — a chemistry labeled the “Lennon-McCartney syndrome,” by Americana UK, writing, “Some things just work together… to witness a performance by The Small Glories is a rare opportunity to experience that indefinable quality that creates perfection.” But don’t just take a European reviewer’s word for it — the band’s debut album, 2016’s Wondrous Traveler was also praised in Pitchfork by legendary American rock critic Greil Marcus, who wrote, “…in moments (The Small Glories) find the darkening chord change the best bluegrass — from the Stanley Brothers to Be Good Tanyas — has always hidden in the sweet slide of the rhythm, the tiny shift where the person telling the story suddenly understands it.”

It’s this yearning for understanding which finds the band often taking more time to introduce a song than it actually takes to play it. Luft, an original member of harmony sweethearts The Wailin' Jennys and whose parents were folksingers influenced by the great activist Pete Seeger, knows that sometimes a song is all you need to bring people together. But often, it is more. “(Seeger) was the king of uniting people through singing,” Luft says. “There’s so much animosity and divisiveness in our world these days… as artists, part of our job is to somehow create unity.”

The Small Glories duplicate and reinforce each others’ many strengths and yet allow their distinct personalities to shine through, resulting in a live show that is as heartwarming as it is hilarious, as finger-picking proficient as it is relatable, and as Canadian as, well… it’s very Canadian. But that hasn’t stopped them from winning over audiences from Nashville to the Australian outback. Their highly anticipated sophomore album “Assiniboine & the Red” was released the summer of 2019 on Compass/Red House Records.

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Performance Tue, 28 Sep 2021 12:34:01 -0400 2021-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Small Glories at The Ark, photo by Aaron Ives
Faculty Recital: Erik Santos, voice and guitar (October 21, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87840 87840-21647146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Original Songs by Erik Santos

attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/BrittonWatch

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Performance Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:15:14 -0400 2021-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Faculty Recital: Erik Santos, voice and guitar
Jazz Lab Ensemble (October 21, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86462 86462-21634435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dennis Wilson, Jazz Lab Ensemble director

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Performance Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:15:13 -0400 2021-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Student Chamber Music Series (October 21, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87937 87937-21647910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Chamber music groups of all combinations present programs featuring music from old to new for strings, woodwinds, brass, and piano.

attend in person - no tickets/reservations required
watch online at http:/myumi.ch/StampsWatch

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Performance Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:15:17 -0400 2021-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Dance Concert: The Size of Darkness - VIM VIGOR (October 22, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87797 87797-21646059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Size of Darkness aka The Light We Cannot See - VIM VIGOR DANCE
and an excerpt from the work to be performed by students at the Power Center in 2022.

VIM VIGOR, founded and directed by U-M Department of Dance associate professor Shannon Gillen, presents a work-in-progress showing of their latest research, THE SIZE OF DARKNESS.

As audiences and performers re-enter the intimacy of theater spaces, a place where our expectations and opinions are exposed to new and freshly realized experience, we are again cohabitating the unknown. THE SIZE OF DARKNESS dives headlong into states of unknowing, catapulting performers through wild physicality and heroic abandon. Audiences will ride with three performers on a journey of becoming, as the ephemeral nature of dance swallows the past and flows into the future. This work will be set to an original electronic score by Marshall Chadbourne, where sounds of lightness and darkness, density and nothingness, effort and release converge.

With daredevil physicality, VIM VIGOR communicates the complexity of human relationships through their signature dance-theater aesthetic, bodies will flare, emotions will flood, and the sharp urgency of our deepest feelings will rocket through space.

Concept, Direction: Shannon Gillen
Choreography: Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli
Choreographic Collaborators: Kiley Dolaway, Logan Hernandez
Performance: Jason Cianciulli, Kiley Dolaway, Logan Hernandez
Sound Score: Marshall Chadbourne
Costume Design: VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY

attend in person or watch livestream at https://myumi.ch/R5gQM

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Performance Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:15:13 -0400 2021-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Dance Concert: The Size of Darkness - VIM VIGOR
Cold Tone Harvest (October 22, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74606 74606-18851155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Bonded together by the members' common interest in a musically historical and honest sound, Cold Tone Harvest formed in southeast Michigan in late 2008. The band comprises singer/songwriter Andrew Sigworth, bassist Ozzie Andrews, drummer/banjo player Brian Williams, and guitarist Anthony Pace. Their union came to fruition much like the music itself did: formulated with patience and mixed with a rugged determination. The paradoxical name proves itself uncannily fitting, as expertly delivered Americana tropes and soundscapes gradually crack at the seams, revealing a shimmering sliver of something else entirely. Country-infused melodies and rhythms lace with a lush ambience often reserved for the loneliest of instrumental compositions. Rich and rugged baritone vocals, clearly suited to whiskey songs and heartache anthems, instead turn their howls and growls towards brave and poetic lyric territory rarely found in a common folk or bluegrass outing. Cold Tone Harvest rides a rare and beautiful line, delivering a wall of sound that will grab the ear of the rowdiest music festival enthusiasts, partnered with the textual eloquence and deeply layered arrangement that begs for solitary repeat listens.

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Performance Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:38:57 -0400 2021-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Cold Tone Harvest presented by The Ark
Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home (October 22, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86615 86615-21635223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home written and performed by Breeda Kelly Miller, directed by Brian Cox. A Pencilpoint Theatre Production. A one woman show filled with laughs, tears and lots of tea. Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home is a moving, joyous exploration of love, roots and family with Breeda Miller employing heart and humor to bring multiple characters to vivid life.

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Performance Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:41:42 -0400 2021-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T22:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home
Symphony Band (October 22, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86420 86420-21634279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Haithcock, conductor
Amy Porter, flute soloist
Pre-concert lecture at 7:15pm

The Symphony Band celebrates anniversaries and notable occasions as well as more poignant moments in the human experience through the theme of "Points in Time." Flute Professor Amy Porter's stunning virtuosity is brilliantly displayed in UM alum Joel Puckett's "Shadow of Sirius."

Repertoire:
Dmitri Shostakovich, Festive Overture (1954)

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Variations on “Mein junges Leben hat ein End” (c. 1603)

Augusta Read Thomas, Crackle (2021) Premiere Performance

Joel Puckett, The Shadow of Sirius (2009)
Amy Porter, flute soloist

Omar Thomas, Come Sunday (2018)


attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/HillWatch

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Performance Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:15:12 -0400 2021-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Symphony Band
Guest Recital: Stijn DeCock, piano (October 23, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88040 88040-21648734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Solo piano recital of works by Mendelssohn, Bach-Busoni, Liszt, Copland and Scriabin. Stijn DeCock is Assistant Professor of Piano at Florida State University.

attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/BrittonWatch

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Performance Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:15:15 -0400 2021-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Guest Recital: Stijn DeCock, piano
Cancelled - Alejandro Escovedo (October 23, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84348 84348-21623424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

A Note from Alejandro



Dear Friends,

It pains me to write this letter. On March 12, 2020, my band and I received word that our tour was to be postponed until further notice due to the Covid pandemic, I remember that day vividly. We had been rehearsing and preparing to tour behind the release of La Cruzada, the Spanish version of The Crossing, Don Antonio was to play guitar on that tour, but was detained because of the outbreak of Covid in Italy. Upon being informed that the tour was postponed, we decided to phone a friend in Milan to hear what effect the virus was having on their lives; what he told us was frightening and truly drove home the severity and danger of contracting the virus.

We said goodbye without shaking hands or abrazos, we were in shock from the news from Italy. That was roughly 17 months ago. I have not played a show since February 2020. When news of a vaccine was announced, I like many of us began to feel a sense that we might get back to a safe and healthy world in which we might gather and celebrate music once again. I wanted nothing more than to return to doing what I’ve been doing for the last 45 years, which is singing songs, playing with good friends and rocking to the beat of the drums.

With the delta variant rearing its ugly head, I’ve come to a very difficult decision and that is that I am not touring this year, and will focus on writing my memoir, writing new songs and working on a screenplay based on The Crossing. I feel I have a responsibility to not put you, the audience, in danger. If even one of you became ill as a result of attending my shows, it would bear heavy on my soul. I’ve always felt rock n roll was a contact sport played in sweaty little clubs with loud guitars, and the abandon that comes from the freedom and buzz of energy blasting from the stage until the wee hours of the morning. Until we can share those moments again without fear I’ll be listening to the birds sing with Nancy and the dogs. Please be safe and love one another.

Crossing borders, jumping barriers, taking risks, betting it all: that’s the path Alejandro Escovedo has been taking in his lifelong search for the heart of rock and roll.

The epic 17 song suite comprising The Crossing is about that journey: searching, but not necessarily finding, eyes and ears open all the way. Ranging from sweeping orchestral numbers to classic rock to bursts of 70s punk, the collection finds Escovedo delving further into his lifelong musical journey across his most sonically diverse work yet.

“This says more about me than any of my records without it being a record about me,” Alejandro Escovedo , “The Crossing”

The Crossing tells the tale of two boys, one from Mexico, one from Italy, who meet in Texas to chase their American rock and roll dreams. They discover a not-so-welcoming, very different place from the Promised Land they imagined, with cameos from the likes of Wayne Kramer of the MC5 and James Williamson of the Stooges to show the boys the way.

A Mexican-American kid with Texas roots and California raising taking on immigration issues in two continents with an Italian band, no less, makes perfect sense — if you know Alejandro Escovedo. Forever the curious explorer, he’s been a punk of the rebel kind in The Nuns, a cowpunk of the non-Western variety in Rank and File, commander of a guitar army in The True Believers, an orchestral conductor in his solo work, and a sensitive boy who has outrun death, demons, lust, and lost love in his songs. He has collaborated with Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Los Lobos, Peter Buck & Scott McCaughey, Tony Visconti, and Chuck Prophet. No Depression magazine declared him the Artist of the Decade.

Two years ago, with a string of European tour dates booked, he went looking for a band from the Continent to back him up. Don Antonio, a seasoned, all-instrumental band from Modigliana , in the northern Italian province of Emilia-Romagna, came highly recommended, but Alejandro wasn’t so sure at first. “They didn’t look like a rock and roll band,” he says. Then he started asking around. Their reputation sealed the deal. “Turns out they’d played with all my friends – Dan Stuart, Howe Gelb, Steve Wynn. Everybody knew them. Apparently, at one time or another, everybody toured with them as a band, made friends with them, or played the festival they put on every year.”

He sent the band a list of thirty songs before meeting up in Modigliana . “We had dinner,” Alejandro says. “We rehearsed a day and a half, then did 35 gigs in 40 days in ten different countries across Europe.

“I fell in love with them.”

Two months later, he was back for more tour dates including the south of Italy.

“That’s when it hit me how similar Mexican culture and Italian culture can be, especially in the south where the food is very spicy, the language is very different, and the desert meets the ocean.”

He learned about a deeper history. His new bandmates teased him for thinking 200 years was a long time.

The stories Alejandro Escovedo has been telling about the great migration across North America over the past 150 years mirrors stories that have been playing out for centuries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. “It’s ancient,” he says. “It’s been going on for centuries. It’s encoded in the DNA of all of us.”

The stories and the melding of music led the band and the artist to extend the collaboration into the studio. “I started developing this idea where a young boy from southern Italy named Salvo and a young boy from Mexico named Diego would meet in South Texas,” Alejandro says. “They were looking for the America they had heard about, seen in films, heard on records,” he says. “They go looking for the MC5, the Stooges, the Dolls, the Ramones, all the American bands that they love. They go looking for the authors, Kerouac and Ginsberg.” Without saying it, they come across a very conservative America. “They find they are in a different America, one that wasn’t as open and free as they had believed it was going to be.” But the story is not just that of Diego and Salvo, it also mirrors that of Alejandro and the co-writer of his songs Antonio Gramentieri.

Antonio, Don Antonio’s guitarist and leader, “speaks very good English, he’s well read, an ex-music journalist” Alejandro says. “He was easy to communicate with.” The album was recorded in a month at a farmhouse in Villafranca, Italy with Brian Deck co-producing (Modest Mouse, Gomez, Iron & Wine). “Playing with these guys, it came out naturally, it was coming out without any thought at all. The things with Italians and their music is, they’re always reaching for melody. It’s always very romantic, even when it’s tragic.” The band also features Denis Valentini on bass, Matteo Monti on drums, Franz Valtieri and Gianni Perinelli on horns plus Nicola Peruch on keyboards.

“My thoughts seem to fit very well with their kind of playing, the instrumentation we had, and the way they approach it,” Alejandro says. “They’re not a rock band. They aren’t a band that grew up playing New York Dolls covers. They grew up playing their own cinematic music. When we get into this orchestral thing, they totally embrace it.”

Keeping the Escovedo edge sharp on The Crossing are his personal heroes Williamson and Kramer. Additional guests include Peter Perrett and John Perry from UK cult band The Only Ones, recording together for the first time since 1980. Joe Ely features on both his own track, “Silver City,” as well as the title track. Rio Navidad – a spoken word track about a Texan ranger – was written by novelist and bandleader Willy Vlautin, and read by his bandmate Freddy Trujillo from Richmond Fontaine and The Delines.

“I wanted them in there because Salvo and Diego were looking for that attitude, that kind of perspective in rock and roll,” Alejandro says. “There’s a line in ‘Sonica USA:’ “I saw the Zeroes and they looked like me/This is the America I want to be/Anarchy in Hollywood/land of the free.’

“When we were playing as the True Believers early on [in the 1980s] we’d play San Marcos, San Antonio [Texas] and get all these Chicano kids in denim vests and Iron Maiden patches. I remember thinking they were into us, not necessarily for the music, but for the fact we were there on stage. They loved that we were doing what we were doing. I wanted to bring the Zeros into it because to me the Zeros were so different than any other band that was happening at the time.

“Salvo and Diego see the Plugz at Larchmont Hall, Cypress Hill – they love everything that has something they can relate to,” says Escovedo. “Seeing Love, the band, was like that to me. They were Chicano, black, white – there weren’t a lot of bands like that. Sam the Sham, Thee Midnighters, the Sir Douglas Quintet. All of that is what I experienced as a kid.

“The Crossing has parts of everything I’ve done and everything I want to do,” Alejandro says. “Lyrically, I say a lot of things I’ve never said, that I held back on. ‘Teenage Luggage’ is about the racism in music and things I’ve encountered along the way, the kinds of things I grew up with as a kid in Orange County, trying to be a surfer. Surfers hated Mexicans.”

Alejandro has lived The Crossing. Now he invites you to join Salvo and Diego as they blaze their trail across America. It’s a journey like none you’ve experienced before

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Performance Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:02:29 -0400 2021-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Alejandro Escovedo at The Ark
Dick Siegel with bassist Dave Roof “When the Sumac is on Fire!” (October 23, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86196 86196-21632079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information and policies before purchasing a ticket and again before attending a show. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave.*

One of America’s great songwriters, Michigan legend, Dick Siegel teams up with upright bassist Dave Roof to bring his irresistible and exuberant music to life. Strains of American folk, blues, jazz and R&B weave through Dick’s songs in classics like “Angelo’s” and “What Would Brando Do?” Sometimes there’s a hint of Hank Williams … a bit of Louis Jordan, Bob Dylan … the zaniness of Spike Jones... even a little T.S. Elliot meets the Beatles. It’s all Dick Siegel music - served up hot and fresh.

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Performance Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:46:23 -0400 2021-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Dick Siegel at The Ark
Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home (October 23, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86615 86615-21635224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 23, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home written and performed by Breeda Kelly Miller, directed by Brian Cox. A Pencilpoint Theatre Production. A one woman show filled with laughs, tears and lots of tea. Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home is a moving, joyous exploration of love, roots and family with Breeda Miller employing heart and humor to bring multiple characters to vivid life.

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Performance Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:41:42 -0400 2021-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 2021-10-23T22:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home
Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home (October 24, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86615 86615-21635225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 24, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home written and performed by Breeda Kelly Miller, directed by Brian Cox. A Pencilpoint Theatre Production. A one woman show filled with laughs, tears and lots of tea. Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home is a moving, joyous exploration of love, roots and family with Breeda Miller employing heart and humor to bring multiple characters to vivid life.

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Performance Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:41:42 -0400 2021-10-24T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mrs. Kelly's Journey Home