Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Caitlin Canty (May 24, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48985 48985-11342270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 24, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Caitlin Canty is an American singer/songwriter whose music carves a line through folk, blues, and country ballads. Her voice was called “casually devastating” by the San Francisco Chronicle and NPR Music describes her songs as having a “haunting urgency.”

This show is free to Ark members at the solo level and above.

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Performance Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:30:18 -0500 2018-05-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Caitlin Canty
The Decemberists (May 25, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48881 48881-11320048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 25, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Decemberists explore a new sound with a new producer on their inspired eighth studio album I’ll Be Your Girl, which will be released March 16 on Capitol Records. The acclaimed Portland, Oregon-based band worked with producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Lana del Rey) and embraced influences such as Roxy Music and New Order to spark a new creative path, as can be heard on the synth-driven lead single “Severed,” which is available today to stream or download.

Presented by The Ark and AEG Presents.

VIP on sale now. Regular tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, January 18th at 10 am.

VIP1: SUPER RADICAL ACTION CONCERT GOER ($202 including fees)
• 1 premium reserved ticket in the first 7 rows to see The Decemberists live in concert (all tickets include a digital download of The Decemberists' new album, I’ll Be Your Girl)
• Choice of 1 autographed Illimat board game, co-developed By The Decemberists, with the Crane Wife Expansion Pack -OR- 1 autographed bottle of band-blended ‘Bandit Queen’ Willamette Valley Pinot Noir (wine shipped to your home)*
• 1 exclusive canvas tote bag
• Invitation to a pre-show event in the venue, feat. a 2-song performance by The Decemberists and Q&A session
• 1 limited-edition tour poster, signed by The Decemberists
• 1 collectible patch
• Crowd-free merchandise shopping
• On-site concert host

VIP2: RADICAL ACTION CONCERT GOER level ($132 including fees)
• One (1) premium reserved ticket in the first (15) rows to see The Decemberists live in concert (all tickets include a digital download of The Decemberists' new album, I’ll Be Your Girl)
• Invitation to a pre-show event in the venue, featuring a 2-song performance by The Decemberists and Q&A session
• One (1) limited-edition tour poster, signed by The Decemberists
• One (1) collectible patch
• Crowd-free merchandise shopping
• On-site concert host

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Performance Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:32:25 -0400 2018-05-25T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Decemberists
The Gothard Sisters (May 29, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50086 50086-11633623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Gothard Sisters are a dynamic group of three sisters, whose impressive array of talents have set them apart as one of the most refreshing and compelling acts in Celtic music today. The sisters' unpredictable and theatrical flair brings a youthful splash to the time-honored tradition of Celtic folk music, bridging the gap between modern Pop and Folk-Rock with a sunny, optimistic style that has been described as "beautifully-arranged, melodic-minded Celtic Folk-Pop."

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Performance Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:36:03 -0500 2018-05-29T20:00:00-04:00 2018-05-29T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Gothard Sisters
Open Stage Showcase featuring Ali McManus & Eric Moore (May 30, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51911 51911-12285989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Each year, the organizers of The Ark's monthly Open Stage pick one or two artists who they feel have really honed their stuff and are ready for prime time. This year's Open Stage Showcase features Ali McManus and Eric Moore. Eric is a familiar face on the southeast Michigan music scene. The Pittsburgh native has been a human jukebox in dive bars and a songsmith on festival stages. He takes his singing cues from blue-eyed soul masters like Van Morrison and John Martyn while pursuing songwriting inspired by Paul Simon and fingerstyle guitar work in the vein of Leo Kottke and Bert Jansch. He has released two CDs of original material, "Picture Frame" and "Songdog." Bloomfield Hills teen Ali McManus says: "My journey has been a series of twists and turns … and I mean that literally. Life—and my body itself—have thrown me some serious curves. But music saved my life. One song means three minutes
of no pain, and I can say things with song that I can’t speak in words alone."

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 09:51:15 -0400 2018-05-30T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Ali McManus
The Lucky Nows - CD Release Party! (May 31, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51233 51233-12021445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 31, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Lucky Nows play high-energy Americana folk-rock with echoes of Isbell and Isakov and a bluesy center. Their music draws from every genre, delivering a wide range of lyric-driven originals with intricate arrangements and gorgeous harmonies. If Steve Earle had a love-child with Lucinda Williams, and that child was raised by Kris Delmhorst and Jeffrey Foucault, and frequently visited by Shovels & Rope and the ghost of Townes Van Zandt, their debut CD would sound eerily similar to The Lucky Nows' "Rise." Trust us!

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Performance Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:52:42 -0400 2018-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Lucky Nows
Al Bettis (June 1, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51913 51913-12285991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 1, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Some label him as acoustic soul, others as indie folk, but what all can agree on is the undeniable gifting that's displayed once Al Bettis hits the stage. His style is soothing yet polished ,which makes it hard to believe he began singing and writing music at age 30. "I felt a call to begin to write music but I was confused because I'd never done that before. When I said, 'I can't play an instrument, Lord,' He said, 'Get a guitar...' and here we are today!" Al says. Originating from Detroit, Al Bettis has opened for such artists as Valerie June (at The Ark last summer), Dwele, and Leon Timbo. He has also been featured at the acclaimed Ford Arts, Beats and Eats, Detroit River Days, Radio One, The Michigan State Fair, and the Meridian Winter Blast, to name a few, and he cites He cites artists like Ed Sheeran, Leon Timbo, Passenger, City and Colour, and Jason Mraz among his list of musical influences.

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 09:55:13 -0400 2018-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Al
Paul McCandless w/Charged Particles (June 2, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49244 49244-11397830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

During a distinguished career spanning over four decades, Paul McCandless has brought the soaring lyricism in his playing and composing to the ensemble sound of two iconic bands of jazz: the original Paul Winter Consort and the relentlessly innovative quartet Oregon. A gifted multi-instrumentalist and composer, Paul specializes in the oboe, English horn, bass clarinet, soprano and sopranino saxophones and a collection of folk flutes reflecting his grounding in both classical and jazz disciplines. He has performed on more than 200 albums and appeared with such renowned all-star musicians as Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Wynton Marsalis, Lyle Mays, Mark Isham, Steve Reich, Al Jarreau, Bruce Hornsby, Art Lande, Carla Bley, Tony Furtado, the String Cheese Incident, Nguyen Le, Proteus 7, Fred Simon, and many more. In 1996, Paul won a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He also won Grammys in 2007 and 2011 with the Paul Winter Consort.

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Performance Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:02:57 -0400 2018-06-02T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Paul
Red Wanting Blue: "The Wanting" Spring Tour 2018 w/sg Liz Brasher (June 6, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49996 49996-11611140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Hailed as “Midwestern rock heroes” by American Songwriter, Red Wanting Blue has spent the last twenty years establishing themselves as one of the indie world’s most enduring and self-sufficient acts, notching appearances everywhere from Letterman to NPR and reaching #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, all while operating largely outside the confines of the traditional music industry. For their powerful new album, ‘The Wanting,’ the band handed production duties over to acclaimed singer/songwriter Will Hoge, who helped them create their most ambitious, fully realized collection yet. Recorded in Nashville, TN, the record draws on many of the group’s traditional strengths—indelible melodies, infectious hooks, explosive performances—even as the making of it pushed them far outside their comfort zone and forced them to take an unprecedented, nearly year-long break from touring.

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Performance Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:09:34 -0400 2018-06-06T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance RWB
Paul Thorn (June 7, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49253 49253-11397833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 7, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Paul Thorn has created an innovative and impressive career, pleasing crowds with his muscular brand of roots music – bluesy, rocking and thoroughly Southern American, yet also speaking universal truths. Among those who value originality, inspiration, eccentricity and character – as well as talent that hovers somewhere on the outskirts of genius, the story of Paul Thorn is already familiar. 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 and jumped out of airplanes, worked for years in a furniture factory, 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 fully accessible music of our time. He’s also appeared on major television shows such as Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel Live, been the subject of numerous National Public Radio (NPR) features and charted multiple times on the Billboard Top 100 and Americana Radioi Charts. This year, Paul will be releasing an album titled Don’t Let the Devil Ride, which he describes as “the culmination of my whole life in music, coming back to my roots.” It marks his first time recording gospel music - featuring guests such as the Blind Boys of Alabama, the McCrary Sisters, and Preservation Hall Horns - and his creation of a body of strikingly original songs that address the foibles of human relationships without necessarily favoring the sacred over the profane.

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Performance Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:21:18 -0400 2018-06-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance PaulThorn
Al Stewart “Year of the Cat” Classic Album Concert (June 10, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51228 51228-12021441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 10, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

w/sg The Empty Pockets

"Year of the Cat-A Classic Album Live!" Al Stewart and a full backing band, The Empty Pockets, re-create the iconic platinum album “Year Of The Cat” from start to finish, plus there will be a bonus set of the many hits from his other albums including the platinum-selling “Time Passages.” This show sold out two days at London’s Royal Albert Hall and is selling out theaters across North America. Says the Miami Herald: "This venerable singer/songwriter is still doing what he does best, and clearly his best is as good as ever.”

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 09:46:45 -0400 2018-06-10T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Al
An Evening with Andy McKee (June 12, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51626 51626-12173410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Topeka-born Andy McKee has made the cover of both Acoustic Guitar and Britain's Acoustic magazine. He's a virtuoso to beat the band! Andy entertains both the eye and the ear with his use of altered tunings, tapping, partial capos, percussive hits, and with his signature two-handed technique. His guitar performance videos have received hundreds of millions of views on the Internet, and at one point he held the top three positions on YouTube's list of top-rated videos of all time. After starting out on electric guitar, Andy switched as a teen to acoustic and began studying the music of Michael Hedges, Don Ross, Billy McLaughlin, and Preston Reed. To this day he still cites those four musicians as primary influences. Master craftsman and innovator at the same time, Andy McKee is a virtuoso for our time, and his live shows are absolutely legendary.

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Performance Wed, 16 May 2018 16:44:24 -0400 2018-06-12T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Andy McKee
Ken Yates (June 14, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51914 51914-12285992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 14, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Since first planting roots within the Canadian music scene in 2011, Ken Yates has steadily grown a reputation as one of the country’s brightest singer/songwriters. His sound offers the complete package—unforgettable melodies, emotionally charged storytelling, and top-notch guitar chops—all gloriously displayed on his new album, "Huntsville." Everywhere on the album, echoes of the Canadian songwriting tradition, from Gordon Lightfoot to Bruce Cockburn to Ron Sexsmith, are apparent, proving that with "Huntsville," Ken Yates is ready to join that exalted company. A native of London, Ontario (a few hours’ drive south of Huntsville), Ken studied at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. “At this point, touring still feels fresh to me, and at least half the songs on 'Huntsville' came out of experiences I’d had on the road,” he says. Ken Yates is a rare example of someone who, from the beginning, had clear intentions when he embraced the troubadour life, and the combined drive and talent to make it a reality. He was named Songwriter of the Year at the 2017 Canadian Folk Music Awards.

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 10:03:34 -0400 2018-06-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Ken
Slambovian Circus of Dreams (June 15, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49238 49238-11397808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 15, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The music of The Slambovian Circus of Dreams has been variously described as "hillbilly-Floyd," "folk-pop," "alt-country, roots-rock," and "surreal Americana;" a clear indicator of its singularly indescribable uniqueness. Dancing freely between all existing religious and philosophical mythologies, the music is uplifting, empowering, and a lot of fun. The Slambovians have drawn comparisons to Petty, The Decemberists, Dylan, and Bowie as they feature an otherworldly slide mandolin, accordion, cello and styles ranging from dusty Americana ballads to Pink Floyd-esque cinematic anthems. Frontman Joziah Longo (vocals, guitar and harmonica) has drawn praise for a voice that is "soothing and bewitching as a snake oil tonic," and "the entire root system of the Rock Family Tree is embedded in his voice," says The Big Issue UK). This band has been together since the late 1990s; they settled in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and began developing unique shows that have surprised and delighted Ark audiences every time.

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Performance Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:04:59 -0400 2018-06-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Slambovian
The Iguanas (June 17, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50755 50755-11861934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 17, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

What if Americana actually encompassed ALL of North America? You'd have the Franco Acadian inflections of Canada, as best exemplified by the accordion, blues and jazz, the only truly indigenous music the US has ever produced, and the lilting grace and fiery passion of the music of Mexico. You'd also have New Orleans' premiere distillers of this continental musical melange, The Iguanas, and their new album, "Juarez."

Taking their cues from all of the above influences and then some, "Juarez," the band's first studio album since 2012’s "Sin to Sin," redefines the notion of Americana, crossing cultures, styles, eras ... and even languages. It's as if Rue Bourbon, Muscle Shoals and Plaza México were all within earshot of each other and The Iguanas were the musical conduit between them. Based out of New Orleans for the past couple of decades save for a short, Katrina imposed exile in Austin the members of the Iguanas have (collectively or individually) played or recorded with everyone from Charlie Rich, Alex Chilton, and Willie DeVille to Emmylou Harris, Allen Toussaint, and Pretty Lights.

Their two-decade ride has taken them all over the map musically and geographically, yet the inescapable patina of their hometown infuses every note they play. Through eight studio albums, countless tours and Jazz Fest appearances, and a flood that did its best to take their adopted city with it, it's a testament to the band's endurance that the same four guys that started playing in the early 1990s are still together. Joe Cabral is philosophical about the band's persistence in the face of challenges that would have felled indeed have felled lesser bands. “First of all, this is all we know how to do; we're musicians. But more than that,” he continues, “we respect the power of the band as an entity, and each individual in the band steps up to play his part. When it's good, that's really what it's all about.”

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Performance Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:31:39 -0400 2018-06-17T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Iguanas
Mike Farris Band (June 19, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51627 51627-12173411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Mike Farris fronted the Nashville band Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies in the 1990s and went solo in 2001. Mike's spirited, soul-gospel fusion found an enthusiastic audience, but life has a way of biting back: he's been through a lot since then, including a stint of addiction to pain medication. With the help of support groups at AA and NA, Mike bounced back and released the album "Shine for All the People," which put his blues-drenched sound at the service of recovery, his own and others'. Says Mary Gauthier (who ought to know, and whose great "Mercy Now" Mike recorded on the album): "Out of the arms of defeat Mike Farris has done a victory lap ... He takes people who are hurting, who are broken, who think they are alone and through just the sound of his voice he lets them know that they're not ... that's magic.” "Shine for All the People" won the Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album.

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Performance Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:38:41 -0400 2018-06-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mike Farris
David Ramirez: Bootleg Tour (Live Album Recording) (June 20, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52198 52198-12528872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

David Ramirez is breaking out of the pack among the new generation of Austin songwriters with his starkly beautiful baritone, which The New York Times once described as full of "haggard loneliness." He's paid his dues on the road, once putting more than 260,000 miles on a 2006 Kia Rio, and he's grown as a songwriter every time out. This fall, David is releasing a new album, " We’re Not Going Anywhere," of which he has this to say: "At a historical moment of immense political, social, and ecological uncertainty, those four simple words comprise both a promise and a protest, a comforting reassurance of inclusion as well as a hearty cry of defiance. It’s a statement that offers no small sense of hope, in that sense matching the music contained on the album." In the run-up, he's mounting his Live Bootleg tour, on which every show is a live recording!

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 10:06:31 -0400 2018-06-20T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance David Ramirez
Shawn Mullins (June 21, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51912 51912-12285990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 21, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Atlanta singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins has had major adult alternative radio hits with "Lullaby and "Beautiful Wreck," and he writes introspective original songs in an Americana framework that sound great either solo or with a band. He's been called Jewel with a Y chromosome, and he's looking like he's going to match her career staying power. Shawn's music is overflowing with perfect rhymes, telling detail and underlying glimpses of truth. This is uncommonly literate stuff, striking in its insightfulness and compassion, all delivered in a companionable baritone. Shawn comes to Michigan with an album of new versions of his classic "Soul's Core" album (which included "Lullaby") and a whole set of songs drawing from his unusually deep catalog. Taos, New Mexico, songwriter Max Gomez is special guest.

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 10:08:43 -0400 2018-06-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Shawn
22nd Fall Fundraiser: An Evening with The Taj Mahal Trio (June 23, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52716 52716-12969912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 23, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:45:41 -0400 2018-06-23T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Matthew Sweet (June 23, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51422 51422-12101066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 23, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"When I was young, the artists that I really admired were the ones who always found a way to keep making music and expressing themselves," Matthew Sweet says on the occasion of the release of his 13th solo album, "Tomorrow's Daughter." "To me, those guys were the real artists, and I've tried to hold on to that attitude in my own work." The seasoned singer/songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist is currently in the midst of a personal musical renaissance that's seen him produce some of the most compelling and ambitious music of his three-decade career. That description applies to Tomorrow's Daughter, on which such instantly memorable new tunes as "Belong," "Run Away," "Lady Frankenstein" and "Out of My Misery" demonstrate his uncanny ability to tap into a bottomless well of pop history to craft music that's effortlessly catchy yet deeply personal. And he's got more new music in the pipeline, including a vinyl-only EP for this November's Record Store Day. Not to be missed!

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Performance Fri, 11 May 2018 11:45:03 -0400 2018-06-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Matthew Sweet
Michael McDermott (June 24, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51423 51423-12101068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 24, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Michael McDermott burst onto the scene in his early 20s with his exceptional debut, "620 W. Surf," and subsequently found himself touted as Rock’s Next Big Thing. The missteps and failures that followed, the collapse of an industry that once embraced him as its next sensation, are troubles and travails that either ruin a person completely, or force a change of attitude and staunch determination to gather one’s resolve to not only survive, but overcome. Michael's 11th studio album, "Out From Under," brims with richly autobiographical songs that mix stunning frankness with wicked, idiosyncratic humor. It’s the sound of a clear-eyed, dedicated artist, now a contented husband and father, giving in to his heart’s most urgent commands and trusting his instincts in ways he never thought possible.

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 10:10:24 -0400 2018-06-24T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mi
Sam Lewis (June 30, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51920 51920-12288830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 30, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Sam Lewis has collaborated with everyone from Leon Russell to The Wood Brothers. Chris Stapleton, with whom Sam toured for several months, dubbed him "a modern Townes Van Zandt," And while he’s often labeled with some form of the word ‘soulful’ (some have even compared his voice to molasses), Sam’s style meets at a juncture of many different genres. There’s something about Sam Lewis that is indescribably different—and with his newest project, he’s discovered what most musicians spend lifetimes working for—the place where feel-good music meets vital social commentary. Sam comes to Michigan with his much-awaited new album, "Loversity."

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 10:12:09 -0400 2018-06-30T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Sam
Johnny Nicholas and Friends (July 1, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51915 51915-12285993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 1, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Make no mistake: Johnny Nicholas knows the blues. His credentials? Impeccable. Conviction? Immeasurable. And chops? If an instrument’s got strings, keys, or reeds he can play the hell out of it. He’s also a consummate songwriter and a great singer blessed with a warm, toasty growl of a voice that can roll from rumble to croon and back again with seductive ease. Marcia Ball calls Johnny "an extremely engaging innovative traditionalist" who "writes instant classics and sings them to break your heart and rock your soul." But the key word there is "innovative," because as deep as his roots go—and we’re talking about a guy who learned firsthand from the likes of Robert Lockwood Jr., Howlin’ Wolf, Big Walter Horton, and Johnny Shines (to name but a few of the legends he studied under early in his five-decade career)—Johnny Nicholas does not paint in one color. Johnny comes to Michigan with a new release, "Too Many Bad Habits."

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 10:14:10 -0400 2018-07-01T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance John
Marcia Ball (July 2, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51628 51628-12173412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 2, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

They call her Long Tall Marcia Ball, and she's one of a kind! Marcia Ball grew up in Vinton, Louisiana, in the heart of an area overflowing with blues, zydeco, and swamp rock. All the female members of her family played the piano. In 1970 Marcia and her first husband were heading for San Francisco, but their car broke down in Austin, and that's where she stayed. She put together a trio of talents: piano playing, songwriting, and vocals. In 1983 Marcia released her first solo album, "Soulful Dress," and ever since then she's been letting the good times roll at The Ark and other clubs around the country where a corps of devoted fans has watched her evolved into a true legend of the piano blues. Marcia has won nine Blues Music Awards, and she was recently inducted into the Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame. Marcia comes to town with a brand new album, "Shine Bright"!

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Performance Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:40:11 -0400 2018-07-02T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Marcia Ball
Kubat, Finlay & Rose (July 6, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52115 52115-12441232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 6, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Kubat, Finlay, & Rose are a collective of independent songwriters who sometimes perform solo, but have come together to offer lush harmonies and rich instrumentation to songs by each member. This edition includes Tamara Finlay, Emily Rose, and Audra Kubat. Tonight's opener is Andru Bemis, whose music is known for "straddling the boundary between punk rock and mountain music" (Isthmus)

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 10:17:00 -0400 2018-07-06T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance KubatFinlayRose
Mary Fahl (July 7, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51229 51229-12021442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 7, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"Sounding like no other singer of her generation" (Allmusic.com), Mary Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the mid-1990s NYC-based chamber-pop group October Project. The hallmark of their sound was Mary Fahl's awe-inspiring power vocals over gorgeous melodies played with passion and sophistication. Since the band disbanded, Mary has released several compelling albums, including the fantastic reworking of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" for V2 Records. She has also written and performed songs for several major motion pictures, including the lead song ("Going Home") for the Civil War epic "Gods and Generals." Mary's elegant, cinematic songs draw on classical and world music sources, American art song, as well as thinking man’s folk-pop she performs with an earthy, viscerally powerful contralto. Mary's popular Ark shows include October Project songs as well as her strong and growing corpus of originals. Come and pick up a copy of Mary's new double album, "Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House"!

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 10:19:29 -0400 2018-07-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance M
The Kruger Brothers (July 8, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51629 51629-12173413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 8, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Some call it jazz. Some call it classical. Some call it bluegrass. Certainly the music of The Kruger Brothers is all of that and more. Experience what happens when these innovative and soulful world-class virtuosos put on one-of-a-kind performance that audiences find breathtaking and unforgettable. When you listen to the music of The Kruger Brothers, you can't help but be amazed by the sheer depth of their artistry. Originally from Europe, now living in North Carolina, they were first introduced to American audiences in 1997, quickly gaining the attention of fans and the music industry alike. Drawing on a rich cultural palette, theirs is a music that celebrates the best of what music can be: exciting, engaging, intelligent, and delightful. Brother Jens Kruger is a recent recipient of the Steve Martin Bluegrass Prize. The Kruger Brothers come to Michigan with a new album, "Roan Mountain Suite,' recorded with a string quartet, and a new book, "Simple Truths in Music and Life," recording Jens' wit and wisdom.

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 10:21:55 -0400 2018-07-08T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Kruger Brothers
Mike Gentry // Mike Vial (July 10, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52204 52204-12528877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Michigan songwriter Mike Vial writes songs about love and life's transitions, and his vocal style shows the influence of James Taylor and Ari Hest. But his accomplished guitar playing has a voice of its own, mixing elements of jazz, folk, and rock. Out on the road once more, Mike is taking Mike Gentry along for the ride. Mike started out playing guitar at Dexter High School, worked for years at A&M in Los Angeles, and came home to Michigan. He's appeared at Plymouth Coffee Bean, Black Fire Winery, Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room, Dearborn Brewing, and many other venues. "I pitched to him the idea to tour together this summer like old folk artists did in the 60s!" Vial says. The Mikes will complete a tour of one-night stands with suitcases and guitars in hand, performing as solo artists and ending shows as a duo. Their musical partnership feels fated, since Gentry produced Vial’s latest record, the ambitious "A World That’s Bigger."

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Performance Wed, 16 May 2018 15:45:31 -0400 2018-07-10T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mike Gentry
Antigone Rising (July 11, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52269 52269-12579995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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This all-female New York City quartet cultivates an amazing mixture of three-part harmony singing, original country-flavored songwriting, and rock intensity. They've toured the Middle East as ambassadors of the U.S. State Department, and their videos have appeared on both VH1 and CMT. The band has appeared on has also appeared The Today Show, The Tonight Show, Emeril Live, and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts. Each of their albums since they came on the scene in 2005 has outdone the previous one, Guitarist, songwriter, and group co-founder Kristen Ellis-Henderson and wife Sarah Kate Ellis were featured on the cover of a Time magazine issue marking the advance of gay marriage, and a recent NYC performance, noted Curve, "stoked the predominately lesbian crowd already burning with music-lust and the desire for more, more, more of Antigone Rising."

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Performance Tue, 15 May 2018 16:12:36 -0400 2018-07-11T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Antigone Rising
Bossa Blue's Tribute to The James Taylor Song Book (July 12, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52203 52203-12528876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 12, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Award-winning singer-songwriter and band leader Brad Cole’s most recent project, Bossa Blue, has created quite a buzz with their multi-genre mash-ups of contemporary and classic rock tunes. Their latest endeavor is their new set of James Taylor songs infused with bossa nova rhythms, Samba grooves and intriguing vocal interplay. Hear the classics remixed like you have never heard them before.

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Performance Thu, 10 May 2018 10:27:27 -0400 2018-07-12T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Boss
Haley Heynderickx (July 13, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52573 52573-12857348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 13, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Songwriter Haley Heynderickx grew up in a religious household in Oregon, closely identifying with her Filipino roots, but also straddling multiple cultural identities—her name is not Dutch but is a tribute to Jimi Hendrix. Now she lives in Portland, and her faith is not overt, but her introspection and continued struggle for self­actualization are easily accessible and relatable. The tracks on her debut album, "I Need to Start a Garden," reflect seemingly disparate elements. Through soft acoustic guitar picking and deftly accented trombone sighs, Haley’s music immediately recalls the folk scene of the '60s and '70s, mixed with a love of jazz radio. But her singing—her vocals that range from sultry to operatic—reveals a tenacity in her soul. Aware of the birds, the garden, and anyone listening acutely, Haley Heynderickx's music serves as an invitation for all to join her. Because the beauty of a garden is that while it’s often started for deeply personal reasons, its bounty is best consumed and shared with others. Haley opened for Ani DiFranco at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, and now she's back for a full show of her own.

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Performance Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:21:41 -0400 2018-07-13T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Haley Heynderickx
Junior Brown (July 14, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51916 51916-12285994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 14, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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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, 10 May 2018 10:29:46 -0400 2018-07-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Jun
Bebel Gilberto (July 25, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51226 51226-12021438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Brazilian legend Bebel Gilberto inherited the traditions of bossa nova and samba from her family—her father is João Gilberto, mother Miúcha, stepmother Astrud Gilberto, and uncle Chico Buarque. She has built on those traditions, adding subtle electronics and American pop influences (she spent much of her early career in New York) to create a bland that's all her own. Call it Bossa 2.0, or just call it an ethereal evening of tropical sounds for a summer's night—this is Bebel Gilberto's Ark debut, and we're sure you're going to love her.

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Performance Thu, 17 May 2018 09:05:59 -0400 2018-07-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Bebl
Mustard's Retreat (July 26, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50995 50995-11939128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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From their start at an open mic at the Ark in the summer of 1974, this award-winning duo consisting of David Tamulevich and Michael Hough has become a perennial favorite, not only here in southeastern Michigan but all over the folk singer-songwriter circuit. Their songwriting and recordings have received consistently high praise, and their live performances even more so. Their songs are touching, humorous, insightful, and intelligent, and their music is always revealing something new‑lately they've become a key presence in the consistently high-quality local songwriting collective the Yellow Room Gang. Mustard's Retreat recently celebrated their 40th anniversary as a duo, and they're still creating "music to cure what ails you" anew!

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Performance Thu, 17 May 2018 09:07:32 -0400 2018-07-26T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mustards Retreat
Greg Brown (July 27, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50998 50998-11939130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 27, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Greg Brown's mother played electric guitar, his grandfather played banjo, and his father was a Holy Roller preacher in the Hacklebarney section of Iowa. Maybe that last item explains some of his amazing charisma! Greg's first professional singing job came at age 18 in New York City, running hootenannies at the legendary Gerdes Folk City. After a year, Greg moved west to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where he was a ghostwriter for Buck Ram of the Platters. Over more than four decades on the road, Greg has developed into the essential Midwestern songwriter, with a deep feeling for what makes people and communities hang together. He's a compelling performer, aware that in folk music less is usually more and that the intimate musical detail communicates as well as the grand gesture. It's not so often that we see Greg Brown in southeastern Michigan, so this could be a very scarce ticket!

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Performance Thu, 17 May 2018 09:10:48 -0400 2018-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Greg Brown
Lori McKenna (August 3, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52116 52116-12441233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 3, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Home and the people who make it have captivated Lori McKenna for years. Over the last three decades, as she became a wife and mother of five, she has also emerged as one of the most respected, prolific singer-songwriters in popular music. Her 2016 release The Bird and the Rifle netted three Grammy nominations, along with Americana Music Association nods––all firsts for McKenna as an artist. Then, she made history: In 2016, she became the first woman ever to win the Country Music Association’s Song of the Year two years in a row thanks to co-writing Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush” and penning Tim McGraw’s no. 1 “Humble and Kind” solo. Both songs also clinched back-to-back Grammy wins for Best Country Song. In 2017, she became the Academy of Country Music’s first female Songwriter of the Year. McKenna’s much-anticipated eleventh studio album, produced by Dave Cobb, takes one of McKenna’s signature themes––family––and builds a tapestry of experiences she has lived and overheard, been told and dreamed up, to create a stunning ode to life’s defining relationships.

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Performance Wed, 16 May 2018 16:12:04 -0400 2018-08-03T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Lori McKenna
Hawktail (August 4, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52329 52329-12639132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 4, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Hawktail (formerly Haas Kowert Tice) brings together musicians you've heard in a dozen other places into an exciting new combination! Fiddler Brittany Haas was a member of Crooked Still and is a fixture on Chris Thile's "Live from Here" radio shows. Bassist Paul Kowert is a longtime member of Punch Brothers and has also been active in classical music. Guitarist Jordan Tice grew up in bluegrass and has played with The Dave Rawlings Music Machine. And mandolinist Dominick Leslie has studied with Thile, Mike Marshall, and David Grisman, and has performed with Noam Pikelny & Friends and other bands. Put it together, and you have a band that can range across genres and recombine them with ease, imagination, and brilliant virtuosity.

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Performance Wed, 23 May 2018 11:14:45 -0400 2018-08-04T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Hawk
Young Dubliners (August 6, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50756 50756-11861935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 6, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Although The Young Dubliners' sound is most commonly called Celtic Rock, that label, as labels can often be, is misleading. The Irish influence is there, certainly, but it's not the only influence heard on their albums, or in live shows. After all, several of the band members have no Irish roots of any kind. "That was always the idea," vocalist Keith Roberts explains. "The sound was always intended to be a hybrid because we all come from different backgrounds. Even though two of us are from Ireland, a lot of the music we listened to growing up wasn't Irish at all, but when we got here, we got homesick and developed a new appreciation for Irish music. In truth the Celtic riffs can just as easily come from the American band members. Everyone writes now, so you never know what you'll end up with when we write." The Young Dubliners come to The Ark just back from taking their Irish and American sound to Ireland itself.

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Performance Thu, 17 May 2018 09:13:57 -0400 2018-08-06T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Young Dubliners
The Tannahill Weavers 50th Anniversary Tour (August 7, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50758 50758-11861938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Named for Scottish poet Robert Tannahill, the Tannahill Weavers create music that is steeped in history yet brings the Scottish musical tradition forward into the present day. With innovative arrangements blending the beauty of traditional melodies with the power of modern rhythms, the group embraces the rollicking, even brawling qualities of Lowland Anglo-Scots tunes but never loses sight of the almost mystical Highland Celtic core. "The penetrating sound of the Highland bagpipes is a thread of ancient memory running through it all," say the Tannahill Weavers, widely acclaimed as Scotland's finest traditional band. The band's diverse repertoire spans the centuries with fiery instrumentals, topical songs, and original ballads. The Tannahill Weavers have been on the road for 50 years, and they're celebrating with—what else?—a new album, "Orach."

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Performance Thu, 17 May 2018 09:16:23 -0400 2018-08-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Tannahill Weavers
David Bromberg Quintet (August 8, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51917 51917-12285995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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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 band, with whom he recently recorded a new album, "The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing But the Blues."

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Performance Thu, 17 May 2018 09:23:43 -0400 2018-08-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Dave
Smooth Hound Smith w/sg Olivia Millerschin (August 9, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51719 51719-12205477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Says No Depression: "In the case of Smooth Hound Smith, two is all that’s needed to brew a raucous clash of backwoods folk, raw blues, and underground rock." Smooth Hound Smith is the foot-stompin’ American roots duo of one-man band Zack Smith (guitars/vocals/foot drums/harmonicas/banjo) and Caitlin Doyle (vocals/percussion). Established in 2012, and currently based in East Nashville, they record and perform a varied and unique style of folky, garage-infused rhythm & blues. Using primal foot percussion, complex, fuzzed-out, finger-picked guitar patterns, warbled harmonicas, tasty harmonies and a lot of tambourine, they are able to create something rugged and visceral—a modern interpretation of early blues, soul, and rock ‘n’ roll music that harks back to the traditions of hazy front porch folk songs as well as raucous back-alley juke joints. They’ve shared the stage with artists such as Justin Townes Earle, Robert Earl Keen, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, The David Mayfield Parade, Matthew Perryman Jones, Charlie Parr, Possessed By Paul James, Shawn Mullins, and more. They're coming to Michigan with music from their as-yet-untitled but much-awaited third album. Ann Arbor singer-songwriter Olivia Millerschin is special guest.

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Performance Wed, 16 May 2018 16:53:02 -0400 2018-08-09T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Smooth Hound Smith
Daniel Washington with the River Raisin Ragtime Revue (August 11, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51424 51424-12101069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 11, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Talent abounds as celebrated bass-baritone opera singer Daniel Washington partners with the acclaimed River Raisin Ragtime Revue orchestra to celebrate the release of their new album. Special guest and rising blues star Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton will join the party, making his Ann Arbor debut. The program consists of beautiful spirituals, joyous ragtime, poignant African American popular song and early blues and jazz tunes. Daniel Washington is currently Professor of Voice at the University of Michigan School of Music Theatre, and Dance and enjoys a distinguished career that brings him to the world’s major opera houses and concert stages. Although still in his 20s, Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton has earned a reputation for transporting audiences back to the 1920's and making them wish they could stay there for good. The River Raisin Ragtime Revue, or R4, is a 13-piece orchestra that educates and entertains audiences of all ages through the performance and preservation of the 20th century's exuberant original style of popular music.

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Performance Wed, 23 May 2018 11:18:49 -0400 2018-08-11T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Dan
Jan Krist & Jim Bizer (August 12, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51630 51630-12173414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 12, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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A longtime Detroit-area songwriter who has garnered lots of national attention, Jan Krist has been a four-time Detroit Music Award winner and a finalist at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas. Entertainment Weekly praised the "breathtaking leaps" of Jan's voice and opined that she "makes soul-searching more enjoyable than it has any right to be." Her songs over ten CDs take on big themes, including religious ones, yet her way with a hook is second to none. If you've never heard Jan Krist, check her out—her songwriting voice is serious, completely Midwestern, and unafraid of depth. Sharing tonight's bill is Michigan songwriter Jim Bizer, who sings about faith, rivers, insanity and a few things you've probably never heard before in a song--like a romance that got started with a man falling off of a 30-story building. A member of the Yellow Room Gang and a three-time finalist in the New Folk Songwriting Competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival, Jim won the grand prize in the Great American Song Contest for his September 11 reflection, "We Are All Connected."

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Performance Wed, 23 May 2018 11:20:53 -0400 2018-08-12T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance KristBizer
Nicole Atkins (August 14, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51721 51721-12205479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins has a golden voice and a set of life experiences that have put her through the wringer. Raised in New Jersey, she's recorded in Charlotte, Brooklyn, Malmö, Sweden, and Nashville. Her vocals have drawn comparisons with no less than Roy Orbison, and she shapes soul, psychedelia, Brill Building pop, and more 1960s styles into a mix that's totally contemporary and totally her own. In the midst of a serious struggle with addiction and the illness of a close family member, she reconnected with friend Chris Isaak, who told her, "Atkins, you have a very special thing in your voice that a lot of people can’t or don’t do. You need to stop staying away from that thing and let people hear it." The result is Nicole's latest, "Goodnight Rhonda Lee" (in which Isaak had a songwriting hand), and some career-making music. Australian singer-songwriter Ruby Boots is special guest.

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Performance Tue, 29 May 2018 11:49:45 -0400 2018-08-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Nicole Atkins
Robben Ford (August 15, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51720 51720-12205478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Guitar virtuoso Robben Ford’s latest album, "Into The Sun," debuted at #2 on blues charts and shines a bright light on his artful, contemporary songwriting and stunning playing. The five-time Grammy nominee describes the 11-song set as “one of the top recordings I’ve ever done” and Guitar Player asserts that it “explores the breadth of Ford’s sophisticated, visionary writing and playing, creating a new chapter in his brilliant musical history.” Robben has recorded more than 35 albums under his own name and with various bands. There’s also his session and sideman work, which included hundreds of concert appearances and albums by Miles Davis, George Harrison, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Barbara Streisand, Charlie Musselwhite, KISS, Ruthie Foster, Warren Haynes, Jimmy Witherspoon, Larry Carlton, Brad Paisley, Gregg Allman, Phil Lesh and Rickie Lee Jones. Robben continues to tour heavily and teach master classes in the U.S. and worldwide.

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Performance Tue, 29 May 2018 11:51:20 -0400 2018-08-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Rob
Judy Collins (August 17, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52608 52608-12899828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 17, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Performance Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:11:12 -0400 2018-08-17T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Delhi 2 Dublin (August 18, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52201 52201-12528874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 18, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Delhi 2 Dublin is a live-electronic, bhangra, hip-hop, world-pop, hybrid act whose concerts have been likened to "90 minutes of freebasing joy". Famous for their energy onstage, the five member crew has played over 100 shows a year for the last decade at festivals like Electric Forest (USA), Woodford Folk (Australia) and Bali Spirit Festival (Indonesia)

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Performance Tue, 15 May 2018 17:11:03 -0400 2018-08-18T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Delhi2Dublin
Neil Woodward (August 19, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51716 51716-12205474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 19, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Neil Woodward's musical performances bring to life the Michigan Experience for Great Lakes audiences and visitors from around the world. Neil's first time to play at The Ark was 1975. He is recipient of Michigan State University's Michigan Traditional Arts 2018 Heritage Award for leadership and artistry in folk music. In 2003 the State of Michigan Legislature officially designated Neil “Michigan’s Troubadour” in recognition of his life-long commitment to preservation of Great Lakes folk music and culture. Historical settings: Greenfield Village/Henry Ford and Crossroads Village/Huckleberry Railroad; and modern: schools, libraries, parks, festivals, lighthouses, theaters, and homes present Neil's award-winning instrumental skills and storytelling.

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Performance Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:53:53 -0400 2018-08-19T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Neil Woodward
Shelby Lynne (August 21, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52636 52636-12910444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The voice of Alabama songstress Shelby Lynne is an addictive thing, whether applied to classic or contemporary country, pop, R&B, or any other style she's favored since coming on the scene in Nashville in the 1980s. Shelby has sung with bands of various kinds, and a few years back she did a legendary Ark show that proved she was one of the very few artists who should be permitted to cover the songs of Dusty Springfield. Over the years, her music has become steadily more personal and more committed as she has exerted greater control over its sound and distribution. Join us for this intimate evening with a major artist in the field of American roots music who has followed her instincts and forged her own brilliant path.

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Performance Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:15:55 -0400 2018-08-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Shelby Lynne
Eilen Jewell (August 22, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51717 51717-12205475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Eilen Jewell laughs when told her label’s president called her a musicologist. But she confirms she and her husband and bandmate, Jason Beek, have a passion for studying American music. “We really love to uncover the past. It’s almost like digging for buried treasure,” she says. “For me, that’s where music is at. I like all kinds of music as long as there’s the word early in front of it.” For her latest album, "Down Hearted Blues," they unearthed 12 vintage gems written or made famous by an array of artists both renowned and obscure, from Willie Dixon and Memphis Minnie to Charles Sheffield and Betty James. Then, like expert stonecutters, they chiseled them into exciting new shapes and forms, honoring history while breathing new life into each discovery.

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Performance Tue, 29 May 2018 11:57:00 -0400 2018-08-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Eilen Jewell
An Evening with Alejandro Escovedo & Joe Ely (August 23, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52601 52601-12876521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 23, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Tonight's show brings together two Texas legends and Ark favorites! Joe Ely was born between Route 66 and the Rock Island Line in Amarillo, Texas, and he saw Jerry Lee Lewis playing on a flatbed trailer in an Amarillo dust storm when he was six years old. Since then he's had a career than can fairly be called mythic. His songs about the geographic and romantic landscapes of the Lone Star State are pure poetry, but there's no other Texas songwriter on whom rock has left a stronger mark, and he's true pioneer of Americana and progressive Texas music. Alejandro Escovedo's life reads like a primer in renewal. He was around at the dawn of American punk rock in his band the Nuns, which opened the last Sex Pistols show. His next band, Rank and File, marked a key stage in the early evolution of what became known as alternative country. Since then he's been a solo songwriter full of amazing stories, a full-blast rocker, and a survivor back from the brink of death.

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Performance Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:47:24 -0400 2018-08-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Alejandro Escovedo
Cúig (August 24, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52347 52347-12641715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 24, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

This Irish five-piece band, with members from Armagh and Tyrone, are tearing up the rule book with their bold approach to their native musical tradition. Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut album, "New Landscapes," Cúig was named Best New Irish Band 2016 by the Irish American News. Since then, they have added vocals to their performances, creating a dynamic and powerful live show that has left audiences on their feet in Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Luxembourg, and most recently the U.S.—and not only have they achieved success as a band, individually these multi-talented musicians can lay claim to several All Ireland titles.

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Performance Tue, 29 May 2018 11:59:09 -0400 2018-08-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Cuig
George Bedard (August 25, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50762 50762-11861945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 25, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

For his sixth annual journey through American roots music, Bedard will be joined by two former bandmates, pianist Mark “Mr. B” Braun and guitarist Steve Nardella. Bedard and Mr. B will start out with some small band swing, including tunes from Bedard’s acclaimed instrumental CD “Pickin’ Apart the Past”, before moving on to R & B with a tribute to the late Fats Domino. Bedard and Nardella will explore the world of guitar instrumentals, from Freddie King to Dick Dale, hitting the mid-'60s running with some unabashed surf guitar.

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Performance Tue, 29 May 2018 12:01:43 -0400 2018-08-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance George Bedard
Peter Bradley Adams (August 26, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51231 51231-12021443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 26, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

There's a confidence, a completeness in the song cycle that listeners have gleaned throughout songwriter Peter Bradley Adams' illustrious career, but "A Face Like Mine," his sixth solo effort, brings it all into sharp focus. Peter's brand of Americana nestles his often delicate, always heartfelt voice in the warm embrace of gentle guitar, tasteful dobro, subtle banjo, supportive bass, and unhurried percussion. The result is a soundscape that, in turn, wraps itself around the listener like a soft blanket on a cold day. With "A Face Like Mine," Peter Bradley Adams further refines the simple musical sophistication that has become his trademark.

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Performance Tue, 29 May 2018 12:04:57 -0400 2018-08-26T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Peter
Katie Geddes (August 30, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52119 52119-12441236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 30, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Washtenaw County's own Katie Geddes sings traditional and contemporary folk, country-folk, and folk-pop tunes. A deft interpreter of familiar songs, she brings something new to songs in which you think you've heard it all. Katie's captivating voice and velvety-smooth delivery bring new insight to the compositions of writers such as John Prine, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Michael Nesmith, and Lennon and McCartney. Her CD "We Are Each Other's Angels" featured an inspired roster of guest artists including Michael Johnson, Mary McCaslin, Don Henry, and Small Potatoes, and has received extensive airplay around the country and around the world. When not doing her own gigs, Katie has been known to moonlight singing harmony for folk-rock legend Melanie and local favorite Matt Watroba, and unannounced special guests at her shows are always a possibility.

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Performance Tue, 29 May 2018 12:06:22 -0400 2018-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Katie Geddes
Tartan Terrors (September 4, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52270 52270-12579996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Tartan Terrors are not a band but, in the words of the organizers, "North America’s premiere Celtic Event, featuring the best in music, comedy and dance." Amazed by the blistering chops of a two-time world champion bagpiper, the driving tones of drums from around the world, and a guitar played unlike any you’ve ever heard, standing-room-only audiences come to understand why Dig This magazine declares the Terrors "one act to keep an eye on!" Combine all the music with championship-caliber Highland Dancers and internationally recognized comedic performers, and this Celtic group goes beyond the ordinary. Members of The Tartan Terrors have performed on four different continents; in some of the most prestigious festivals, Highland Games, and theaters in North America, for a U.S. president and Britain's Queen, and on Good Morning America. Experience the phenomenon of the Tartan Terrors and see why Celtic Beat hails them as "the heirs apparent to the mayhem"!

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Performance Tue, 29 May 2018 12:08:02 -0400 2018-09-04T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Tartan Terrors
The Ark's Student Welcome Show Michigan Rattlers (September 6, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53738 53738-13453010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 6, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Students: welcome to Ann Arbor and The Ark, a world-class listening room with music for all ages and tastes. Tonight's show is FREE with any student ID. Lifelong friends and deep-north natives, Michigan Rattlers play "heavy-hearted folk-rock with an aching dose of Midwestern nice." Graham Young (guitar), Adam Reed (upright bass), and Christian Wilder (piano) began writing music and performing together in their Petoskey high school. "etoskey is a small place. Beautiful, but secluded. It’s hard to start a musical career in a place where there are more deer than people," they say. Still, they regularly played every bar, cafe, and stage in town, developing a musical chemistry informed by the likes of AC/DC, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Seger, and more. Their debut EP, recorded in Los Angeles, attracted glowing reviews from No Depression, Bluegrass Situation, B3 Science, and Rolling Stone, who named the band one of their “Ten New Country Artists You Need To Know” in 2016.

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Performance Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:37:01 -0400 2018-09-06T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance MI
Mason Jennings (September 7, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53040 53040-13211450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Minneapolis singer-songwriter Mason Jennings started writing music when his six-year-old son saw an electric guitar ornament on the family Christmas tree and asked what it was. Since the late 1990s he's accumulated a songbag of consistently high quality, covering themes from personal to political to historical. A staple of outdoor festivals from the Midwest to California, Mason has toured with surfer-songwriter Jack Johnson and has recorded for his Brushfire label. His dozen-plus consistently fine albums place his experiences of love and family against the geography of the place where he lives. Mason comes to Michigan with a new album, "Songs from When We Met," about his partner, Josie. He calls it "a love record, a record about healing," and it's sure to please his many local fans.

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Performance Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:38:31 -0400 2018-09-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mason Jennings
Amanda Shires w/sg Leah Blevins (September 8, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52355 52355-12641899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 8, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"It’s all rock & roll—no golf!" is how acclaimed singer/songwriter/violinist Amanda Shires describes her electrifying fifth album, To The Sunset. She’s borrowed a lyric from the effervescent track “Break Out the Champagne,” one of ten deftly crafted songs that comprise her powerful new recording. The Texas-born road warrior, new mom, and recently minted MFA in creative writing has mined a range of musical influences to reveal an Amanda Shires many didn’t know existed. “Isn’t it refreshing?” Amanda asks. Indeed. Distorted electric guitars, effects pedals, swirling keys and synths, and rockin’ rhythms certainly suit Shires’ visceral songcraft and lilting soprano. Amanda is renowned for her carefully crafted, evocative songs. Her influences include Leonard Cohen and John Prine, the latter a mentor. Amanda says she also uses songwriting as a way to "get through my own emotional stuff, which is cheaper than a therapist." Kentucky-born songwriter Leah Blevins is special guest.

VIP Meet & Greet Package: $85

Package includes:
One general admission ticket
Early entry into the venue
Exclusive preshow meet & greet with Amanda Shires
Personal (instax) photo with Amanda Shires
Collectible tour poster autographed by Amanda Shires
Limited availability

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Performance Tue, 29 May 2018 12:10:10 -0400 2018-09-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Amanda Shires
Corn Potato String Band (September 9, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51000 51000-11939131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 9, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Corn Potato String Band plays authentic American Appalachian folk music, with a few twists that keep the music from a one-way trip to the dustbins of history. Theirs is a story of struggle, hard knocks, and triumph. Essentially unable to cope with modern life, the members of this band are outcasts of society who survive by playing the lost music of the flatlands where they were raised. They've delighted audiences with their driving fiddle tunes and harmonious singing across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and India. Aaron Jonah Goldberg, Lindsay McCaw, and Ben Belcher are multi-instrumentalists dedicated to continuing the traditional fiddle and banjo music and dance of the central Southern U.S. In addition to being champion fiddlers, they play banjo, guitar, bass and mandolin and cover many different old-time styles including ballads, "ho-downs," country rags, and Southern gospel, specializing in twin fiddling and double banjo tunes. Says Marc Griffiths of Global Texan Chronicles: "They can take a forgotten or just plain underplayed tune and make it beautiful and relevant once again." The Corn Potato String Band comes to Michigan with a new album, "Good Job Everybody."

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Performance Tue, 29 May 2018 12:13:16 -0400 2018-09-09T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Corn Potato String Band
Che Apalache (September 10, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52602 52602-12876522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Che Apalache (roughly "Appalachian homeboy") is a four-man string band based in Buenos Aires with members from Argentina, Mexico and the United States. The group’s founder is Joe Troop (fiddle), a North Carolinian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and composer who moved to Argentina in 2010. While patiently carving out a niche in the local music scene, Joe taught bluegrass and old-time music for a living. That’s how he met Pau Barjau (banjo), Franco Martino (guitar) and Martin Bobrik (mandolin), his most dedicated students. They quickly became picking buddies and in 2013 decided to hit the stage. Che Apalache began as a bluegrass band, but eventually incorporated Latin American styles into their repertoire. Combining instrumental prowess with tight vocal harmonies, they have created an authentic blend of genres to reflect the nature of their lives. Evoking images from Appalachia to the Andes, their debut album, “Latingrass,” is a testament to a powerful cultural and musical exchange. At the prestigious Appalachian String Band Music Festival in Clifftop, WV, they were awarded first place in the Neo-Traditional band competition. The momentum is growing for Che Apalache, and the future looks promising in both South and North America.

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Performance Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:44:35 -0400 2018-09-10T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Che Apalache
Lipbone (September 11, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53733 53733-13453005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

It’s a human voice. Former subway musician Lipbone Redding makes lots of sounds with only his lips. He not only imitates a trombone, he's an accomplished soloist, songwriter, guitarist and entertainer. He's the jazz, blues, jam, and soul version of a human beat-box .. make that a "Human Sweet Box." Lipbone creates original songs that effervesce with New Orleans swing, Memphis grooves, and New York City style. Storyteller, songwriter, guitarist and "voice-stramentalist" Lipbone Redding has spent the last 25 years traveling the world collecting and recounting exotic tales through music and performance art. With humble beginnings as a New York City subway singer, Lipbone now performs in festivals, theaters and concert halls across America and Europe. Lipbone comes to Michigan with a new album, "Return of the Beautiful."

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Performance Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:40:28 -0400 2018-09-11T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Lip
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore (September 12, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51718 51718-12205476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Roots music legends Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, have been friends for 30 years, but only recently realized they had never played music with each other before. So they decided in 2017 to hit the highway to swap songs, tell stories, and share their life experiences. They discovered that their musical roots in old blues and folk music are exactly the same. In these spontaneous shows, audiences have enjoyed classic original compositions from the two, and also songs from a wide spectrum of songwriters and styles— from Merle Haggard to Sam Cooke to the Youngbloods. Mutually energized and inspired by these performances, Dave and Jimmie agreed to hit the road again in 2018 ... this time with a full band and some new stories to share.

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Performance Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:49:25 -0400 2018-09-12T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance AlvinGilmore
Davina and The Vagabonds (September 13, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52120 52120-12441237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
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Davina Lozier and the Vagabonds offer "a modern take on old-time blues and jazz" (PennLive). They've created a stir on the national music scene with their high-energy live shows, level A musicianship, sharp-dressed professionalism, and Lozier’s commanding stage presence. With influences ranging from Fats Domino and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Aretha Franklin and Tom Waits, the band is converting audiences one show at a time, from Vancouver to Miami and across Europe. In 2011 Davina released her first full-length, all-original album, "Black Cloud." It was awarded 4 1/2 stars from Downbeat. Their next release in 2014, "Sunshine," hit number 13 on the Billboard blues chart. DATV’s shows are filled with New Orleans charm, Memphis soul swagger, dark theatrical moments that evoke Kurt Weill, and tender gospel passages, and Davina herself has been compared to Etta James, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, and Betty Boop, but comparisons don’t suffice: she's a true original. Davina & The Vagabonds have become Ark favorites—they tore up the stage at the 2017 Ann Arbor Folk Festival, and their third album, "Nicollet and Tenth," is their best yet.

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Performance Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:51:17 -0400 2018-09-13T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Davina
The Second City (September 14, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52656 52656-12925292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

A certified American comedy institution since 1959, The Second City’s laughs are 100% USA-made in this latest take on our great, big dysfunctional nation! The lauded company is sending satire down the conveyor belt and celebrating what makes us all tick in a hilarious revue that will leave you breathlessly ready to face the future ... and all its loose screws. Fresh, fast and always spectacularly funny​,​ The Second City is celebrating nearly sixty years of producing cutting-edge satirical revues and launching the careers of generation after generation of comedy’s best and brightest.

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Performance Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:03:52 -0400 2018-09-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Second City
The Second City (September 15, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52656 52656-12925291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 15, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

A certified American comedy institution since 1959, The Second City’s laughs are 100% USA-made in this latest take on our great, big dysfunctional nation! The lauded company is sending satire down the conveyor belt and celebrating what makes us all tick in a hilarious revue that will leave you breathlessly ready to face the future ... and all its loose screws. Fresh, fast and always spectacularly funny​,​ The Second City is celebrating nearly sixty years of producing cutting-edge satirical revues and launching the careers of generation after generation of comedy’s best and brightest.

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Performance Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:03:52 -0400 2018-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Second City
Riders In The Sky (September 16, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52603 52603-12876523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 16, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Forty years ago. No laptops, no cellular phones, no Google, no downloads, no Skype, no Tweets, no Apple, no Microsoft, no texting, no electric cars, no Uber. A different world. But there were three young men with drive and wit who wanted to keep a special music alive. They believed in preserving the heritage of Western Music and presenting it to a new generation. They believed in entertaining, and they did so … entertaining themselves as well as the audience! And they believed in creating original Western Music to continue the tradition, not just seal it in amber as a museum piece. What they did not realize at the time was that they would be doing the same thing 40 years later. Ranger Doug, Too Slim and the late Windy Bill Collins played that first date on the bitter cold evening of November 11, 1977, at Herr Harry’s Frank N’ Stein Rathskeller in Nashville, and small listening room dates followed. By August of the following year demand was building, and while Windy Bill left, Woody Paul joined, and the true professional beginnings of the band began at the Kentucky State Fair, where the trio played 10 days for $2500—and bought their own rooms and meals out of that!

A first wave followed, including appearances on Austin City Limits; recording contracts with Rounder, then MCA, then Columbia; guest appearances on the Grand Ole Opry leading to membership in 1982; and a three-year run on The Nashville Network with a TV show called “Tumbleweed Theater,” which yet in turn led to a seven-year run on public radio with “Riders Radio Theater. People Magazine, interested in the Riders phenomenon, ran a story which happy caught the eye of a Hollywood producer.

And so the second wave broke, sending the boys to Hollywood to star in “Riders In The Sky” on CBS for a year on Saturday mornings, introducing them to yet another generation. More recordings, endless show dates, and television appearances followed for a decade before the fine folks at Pixar called and asked the quartet—by this time they had been joined by Joey the Cowpolka King—to sing a tune called “Woody’s Roundup” in the movie “Toy Story 2.” Thus, the third wave began, highlighted by a number of projects for Disney, including two albums, both of which won GRAMMY Awards! The creation of satellite radio has recently given them a new platform, as they continue to produce episodes of the award winning “Classic Cowboy Corral” on Sirius/XM.

Still more road dates and recordings (several on their own Riders Radio Records label) and other film and television projects have filled the days and weeks and years, and since the quartet has slowed up very little, the numbers begin to add up: an astonishing 7,200+ appearances, 35 years on the Grand Ole Opry, 40 records albums (well, now CDs,) and tours of all 50 states and all over the world. Honors accumulated as well. In addition to the two Grammy Awards, Riders received numerous awards from the Western Music Association, including the highest: membership in the Western Music Hall of Fame; numerous Wrangler awards from the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Museum; awards from the Academy of Western Artists; enshrinement in the Walkway of Western Stars, and more. What began as a celebration of classic Western Music and an evening of hilarity has become a career, and that career has become a legend, one which, 40 years on, shows no signs of stopping or even slowing down much.

Ranger Doug, Too Slim, Woody Paul and Joey the Cowpolka King … 40 years on, “The Cowboy Way."

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Performance Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:49:47 -0400 2018-09-16T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Riders In The Sky
3rd Annual Ark Community Sing (September 16, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52117 52117-12441234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 16, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Ark is widely known to have one of the best singing audiences in the country. For the third year running, we celebrate that with a full night devoted to songs that everyone can sing. Michigan’s own Matt Watroba has devoted the last few years of his musical work to spreading community singing throughout the country. Matt will transform the audience into a spontaneous choir. Says Matt: "Community singing is not performing. It exists so that all willing singers, at all levels of skill, can experience the power of song and musical participation. Performing choruses and musical groups often spring out of the community singing experience, but that is not the purpose—it’s just a welcomed consequence!"

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Performance Tue, 29 May 2018 11:54:34 -0400 2018-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Matt Watroba
Deidre McCalla & Dianne Davidson (September 18, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52773 52773-13036488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Deidre McCalla came of age in the fiery blaze of NYC's folk heyday - a time when Greenwich Village clubs were filled with the likes of Dylan, Baez, and Ochs; a time when Motown ruled the top of the charts and the streets of America screamed with anger and civil unrest. Her first album, "Fur Coats and Blue Jeans," was released when Deidre was 19 and a student at Vassar College. With a theater degree tucked under her belt and an acoustic guitar tossed in the back of a battered Buick station wagon, releasing three albums with the pioneering women's music label Olivia Records/ The Miami Herald affectionately dubs her a "dreadlocked troubadour," and she shared the stage with a long list of notables that includes Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Holly Near, Odetta, Cris Williamson, and Sweet Honey in the Rock. Deidre comes to Michigan with a new album, "Playing for Keeps."

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Performance Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:43:16 -0400 2018-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Deidre McCallay
Lindi Ortega (September 19, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52350 52350-12641718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Lindi Ortega gives fair warning: "Don’t come any closer to my heart /If you’re afraid of the dark." However, that shroud is slowly lifted in her new album, "Liberty." As the narrative unfolds in this concept album, a central character emerges—one who finally sheds the darkness of her past and emerges into the light. As melodies and tempos change, her journey carries her steadily forward. "I think the most important thing for me was that I ended on a very positive note because I've had so many people tell me that my songs helped them through really hard times in their life," Lindi says. "That struck a chord for me, because just like everybody else, I have had hard times in my life, and continue to have pockets of difficult moments here and there. If I can provide some sort of solace with my music, then that gives me every reason to make music. I wanted this record to be all about helping people through the darkness."

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Performance Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:10:09 -0400 2018-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Lindi
Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers (September 20, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51002 51002-11939148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Tonight's concert brings original songwriters who work within deep traditions of place and song. Scottish folk master Archie Fisher is well known all over the British Isles as host of his own BBC radio show, but his appearances stateside are to be cherished. Archie's most recent collection of songs "Windward Away," on which he worked for more than ten years. It's a gem—a haunting collection of introspective ballads, evoking the wild and rough beauty of the Scottish Border country. One of a pair of brothers who spearheaded a tremendous renaissance in Canadian songwriting in the 1970s and 1980s, Garnet Rogers tells detailed stories of people from all walks of life and their small, everyday victories. He can shift from seriousness to razor-sharp wit in a heartbeat, and no two of his shows are the same.

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Performance Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:12:09 -0400 2018-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Garnet Rogers
Jill Sobule (September 21, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53346 53346-13349489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Jill Sobule - Nostalgia Kills

“Nostalgia can be wonderful and amazing. It’s OK to look back. But then you gotta get the fuck out of there.” So says singer-songwriter Jill Sobule, explaining the theme of her new album, Nostalgia Kills.



On Nostalgia Kills (out September 14 on Jill’s own Pinko Records), the woman hailed by The New York Times for making “grown-up music for an adolescent age” turns her warm wit and poet’s eye on herself more than ever before, revisiting moments from throughout her life that made her into the person she is today. It’s an especially poignant look back at childhood — “exorcising some junior high school demons,” as she puts it.


Looking back is a new experience for Jill Sobule. Ever since she first caught mainstream attention with her 1995 song “I Kissed a Girl” — the first song about same-sex romance ever to crack the Billboard Top 20 (and no relation to the later Katy Perry tune) — she’s always pushed forward, exploring new sounds and subject matter with each passing album and refusing to be pigeonholed by her early hits (which also include the ‘90s alt-rock anthem “Supermodel,” featured in an iconic scene in the film Clueless).



Along the way, Jill has shared stages with the likes of Billy Bragg, Cyndi Lauper and Warren Zevon, written music for TV and theater, and been a pioneer in the art of crowdfunding, raising so much money for her 2009 album California Years that a then-unknown startup called Kickstarter came to her for advice. She’s also been active in numerous social and political causes, performing at prisons as part of Wayne Kramer’s Jail Guitar Doors project, playing dates with Lady Parts Justice’s “Vagical Mystery Tour,” and curating Monster Protest Jams Vol. 1, featuring protest songs by Tom Morello, Billy Bragg, Boots Riley, Amanda Palmer, Jackson Browne and many other great artists — including Jill’s own “When They Say We Want Our America Back, What the F#@k Do They Mean?”, which traces the history of anti-immigrant sentiment in America.



For Nostalgia Kills, Jill worked with her good friend, Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee, to cull the album’s 11 songs from a collection of over 100, representing nearly a decade’s worth of material accumulated since the release of California Years. In turning those songs into an album, she received a little extra motivation from an unlikely source.



“I was at an industry party,” she recalls. “And I heard this total douche saying, you know, once someone reaches the age of 40, they can’t write a good song. And I went up to him and I was like, ‘You don’t know me, but you’re an idiot.’”



Making it her mission to prove her new nemesis wrong, Jill took the songs into Lee’s home studio in Los Angeles with a supporting cast of players that included John Doe (X), Wayne Kramer (The MC5), Petra Haden (That Dog), Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Jellyfish), and Richard Barone (The Bongos). “This was done with a lot of friends,” she says. “It was very organic.” Many of the final mixes even contain elements of the original demos, recorded with various apps on Jill’s iPad.



Right from the jump, Nostalgia Kills proves that this songwriter, despite being a few years north of 40, is still at the peak of her powers. How many artists of any age can write a song like “I Don’t Wanna Wake Up,” an Old Testament head trip inspired by a bad breakup, the death of a parent, and microdosing mushrooms? Let alone have the nerve to make it their album’s opening track?



From there, Nostalgia Kills explores its titular theme through a collection of songs that ponder the past without ever lapsing into easy sentimentality. “I Put My Headphones On,” as catchy as anything in Jill’s catalog, captures the cozy feeling of tuning out the outside world with a favorite record. “Almost Great” is a ukulele-laced ode to youthful brushes with success and adult battles with procrastination. “Forbidden Thoughts of Youth” is a beautifully rendered portrait of adolescent unrequited love, as Jill looks back at her first gay crush (“an incredible combination of Marcia Brady and future meth-smoking biker chick”).



“Headphones” and “Forbidden Thoughts” will be part of #Fuck7thGrade, a one-woman show about “the worst year of my life,” and just the latest of Jill’s many forays into theater. Nostalgia Kills features new versions of several of Jill’s best songs for the stage: “There’s Nothing I Can Do” is a defiant breakup anthem from the off-off-Broadway musical Prozak and the Platypus, sung from the perspective of a rebellious 17-year-old girl. “25 Cents” is from Times Square, a new musical based on the 1980 cult film of the same name — and Jill’s own memories of visiting New York City as a teenager, back when the city was still “scary and fascinating and full of junkies.” And the gorgeous ballad “Tomorrow Is Breaking My Heart” is one of several original songs Jill wrote for a new adaptation of Yentl, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s tale of gender-bending romance later made famous by Barbra Streisand’s film adaptation.



There are two versions of “Tomorrow Is Breaking” on Nostalgia Kills — a mournful duet with John Doe, and a special bonus track version featuring an amateur musician named Nicholas Ford, who made a pledge to the Nostalgia Kills Kickstarter campaign in which the prize was to sing a duet with Jill. “I decided to do it in a different style with a piano and he kicked ass,” she says proudly of Nicholas’ crooning accompaniment.



Nostalgia Kills’ bonus tracks also include “The Donor Song,” on which Jill gives shout-outs to her Kickstarter backers (including Avengers director and Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, whom Jill calls “my personal lord and savior” because he donated at the highest level), as well as lovely covers of The Stairsteps’ soul classic “O-o-h Child” and “Don’t Let Us Get Sick,” a heartbreakingly beautiful, late-career ballad by Jill’s friend and mentor, Warren Zevon, with whom she tour shortly before his death in 2003. “He used to come out during my set to sing ‘I Kissed a Girl’ with me,” Jill remembers. “He would always wink at me when we would sing ‘They can have their diamonds and we’ll have are pearls’ to let me know he got the clitoral reference.”



For all its graceful, funny and heartbreaking explorations of awkward youth and grown-up regrets, Nostalgia Kills is as of-the-moment as anything in Jill Sobule’s catalog. Through her own experiences, she explores issues our society still collectively struggles with (LGBTQ rights, teen mental health, our unhealthy obsession with staying forever young) and gently skewers our tendency to dwell on the past at the expense of addressing the present. As she sings on the title track: “We look at ourselves in a long row of mirrors/We get smaller and smaller with each passing year/We have to keep moving or die.”

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Performance Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:46:46 -0400 2018-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Jill Sobule
John Popper (September 22, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52939 52939-13150958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 22, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

One of the most phenomenal harmonica players in history, John Popper formed his band, Blues Traveler, with his high school friends Brendan Hill (drums), Chan Kinchla (guitar) and Bobby Sheehan (bass), in the late 80s, in New York City. They released their debut album in 1990 and hit the billboards with 1994's “Four." Following Blues Traveler's mainstream success, Popper was able to release a solo album, Zygote, in 1999 and toured with his own John Popper Band. Zygote was produced by Terry Manning with the background band consisting of longtime friends Dave Ares, Crugie Riccio, and Rob Clores of Cycomotogoat, and Carter Beauford, the drummer of Dave Matthews Band. The album's release came only less than three months after his heart surgery, and days after the death of Bobby Sheehan, Popper's best friend and band mate. Unfortunately, The subsequent tour was canceled midway due to poor ticket sales. Although his stage performances were becoming fewer, he made a major appearance on the big screen taking his first actual role in a movie, Just for the Time Being (2000), with supermodel Eva Herzigova. Soon after, Blues Traveler rejoined forces with two new members, and they have been touring and releasing albums ever since. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Blue Traveler as a band.

Popper has co-written songs with Trey Anastasio, Warren Haynes, Chris Barron, and Jonny Lang. He also frequently appears as a guest performer with musicians both famous and obscure, from a diverse variety of genres. He has performed with, among others, jam bands Spin Doctors, Dave Matthews Band, Phish, The Allman Brothers Band, bluesmen Eric Clapton and B.B. King; singer-songwriters Jason Mraz and John Mayer; saxophonist Karl Denson; San Francisco's Culann's Hounds; heavy metal band Metallica; rock trio ZO2 and even with the Hungarian Ambassador to the United States, András Simonyi and then-vice-presidential-candidate Tim Kaine.

In addition to Popper’s musical accomplishments, he has appeared in a cameo in several films: the Farrelly Brothers' Kingpin (1996) (which included a Blues Traveler performance at the end), Howard Stern's Private Parts (1997), Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), and The Meddler (2016).

Los Angeles songwriter Katrina Woolverton opens.

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Performance Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:16:30 -0400 2018-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance John Popper
An Evening with The Taj Mahal Trio (September 23, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52783 52783-13055849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 23, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

We are excited to announce that The Taj Mahal Trio will join us Sunday, September 23 for our 22nd Annual Fall Fundraiser at The Ark!

A buffet dinner will be provided by Zingerman's Roadhouse for Platinum, Gold and Silver level ticket holders. The evening will also feature a Silent Auction for your bidding pleasure and an afterglow dessert reception.

Our schedule for the evening:

5:00 Doors open for Platinum, Gold and Silver level ticket holders
5:00 Buffet Dinner (until 6:45)
7:15 Doors open for Bronze ticket holders
7:30 The music begins

A dessert after-glow reception follows the performance for all ticket holders.

Proceeds from the evening will benefit The Ark, helping us continue to present the best folk and roots music to be heard anywhere in the world, over 300 nights a year.

Tickets are on sale to the public on Monday, June 18 at 9am.



Ticket levels:

$500 Platinum ($425 tax-deductible). Includes dinner, valet parking, table seating during dinner, converting to front and center seating on the dance floor during the show.
$250 Gold ($175 tax-deductible). Includes dinner, valet parking, table seating during dinner, converting to reserved seating on the dance floor during the show.
$150 Silver ($75 tax-deductible). Includes dinner, valet parking and reserved seating in the drink rail areas (best available; location will vary).
$75 Bronze ($25 tax-deductible). Includes only the show and dessert reception. General admission seating in remaining seats.

Tickets are available by calling The Ark's business office at 734-761-1800. Bronze ($50) tickets are also available online, in person, and by phone through MUTO at the Michigan League Underground at 734-763-8587.

Thank you to our Presenting Sponsor: Merrill Lynch and to our Media Partners: WEMU, ann arbor's 107one and MetroTimes. And thank YOU for supporting The Ark!

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Performance Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:36:38 -0400 2018-09-23T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Taj Mahal
Johnny Irion (September 24, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53170 53170-13269770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Now and then in American culture, the written word fuses the worlds of music and literature. Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize is only the most obvious example. An individual singer-songwriter can sometimes embody that fusion in his life and work. An example Johnny Irion (EYE-ree-on), great-nephew of John Steinbeck and grandson-in-law of Woody Guthrie. Johnny's new solo album, "Driving Friend," includes members of Dawes, Wilco and the Mother Hips and ranges across a wide expanse of roots genres, from blues and gospel to folk and country. Whether Johnny Irion is singing about Santa Barbara, Pittsfield or the Rapture, his sharp wit, telling description, and sharp character studies take us to a musical hometown of his own.

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Performance Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:48:50 -0400 2018-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Johnny
Donovan Woods (September 27, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54206 54206-13539458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Donovan Woods's work is guided by a mantra that only sounds simple: Good songs win. Donovan, a Juno Award nominee, was raised in the small city of Sarnia, Ontario, to the sounds of country music, with a healthy dose of folk and pop, a combination that instilled in him a strong belief in the power of a good melody, the importance of everyday language, and the potential of a carefully crafted song. While amassing a catalogue of rousing and acclaimed music of his own, he has worked with some of the top songwriters in North America to craft cuts for performers ranging from Alan Doyle to Billy Currington. It’s not that Woods makes music that is a product of both country and folk; it’s that he makes music that shows how distracting the line separating the two can be. Like with so many songwriters of note, what matters isn’t what you call it, or where it comes from, but the stories you tell, and the voice you use. Woods's is a voice that demands attention, and that attention has been quick in coming, bringing international accolades, a growing number of fans inside and outside the music industry, and proclamations like "Canada’s best-kept secret," "piercingly honest," and "quietly anthemic." He comes to Michigan with a new album, "Both Ways."

This show is free at the door to Ark members at the Solo level and above.

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Performance Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:07:38 -0400 2018-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Donovan Woods
Holly Near (September 29, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51003 51003-11939149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Holly Near invites audience members to find their best selves. Almost singlehandedly Holly created a whole slice of today's folk and acoustic music scene: politically engaged female songwriters who have spoken out for gender equality and for the freedom to love whomever we choose, and who have created new, independent ways of distributing their music—well, these numerous artists all have Holly Near to thank for blazing the way. In 1972, Holly was one of the first women to create an independent record company, paving the way for women like Ani DiFranco and others.

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Performance Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:14:06 -0400 2018-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Holly Near
Seth Walker w/sg The Zindles (September 30, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52774 52774-13036489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 30, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Over the past ten years, Seth Walker has become recognized as one of the most revered modern roots artists in the United States; a three-dimensional talent comprising a gift for combining melody and lyric alongside a rich, gospel-drenched, Southern-inflected voice, with a true-blue knack for getting around on the guitar. Seth's latest studio album, "Gotta Get Back," is produced by Jano Rix of The Wood Brothers. Seth Walker splits his time between New Orleans and New York City after previously residing in Austin and Nashville. He’s used those experiences wisely, soaking up the sounds and absorbing the musical lineage of these varied places.

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Performance Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:50:37 -0400 2018-09-30T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Seth
Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket with Steelism (October 1, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53250 53250-13321612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Carl Broemel has appeared on Rolling Stone's list of 20 New Guitar Gods, but that doesn't cover his divine presence. A linchpin of the phenomenally successful Louisville neo-psychedelic rock band My Morning Jacket, he has released three solo albums, including the new "Wished Out." Solo, he plays acoustic instruments and takes an introspective approach. "It takes a lot of time to know your mind," Carl says and that Zen-like statement informs his intimate musings on life, reflecting on things as they are and making no judgment on how they should be. The music of Carl Broemel gives pause for thought but stops well short of preaching. It inhabits little fractured moments that invite the listener into thoughtful contemplation that in turn gives rise to epiphanies on larger themes.

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Performance Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:52:06 -0400 2018-10-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Carl Broemel
The Revelers (October 2, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52352 52352-12641730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"If you've ever been nagged by the feeling that all Cajun and zydeco music was starting to sound a bit too much like the same old thing," writes the UK's Songlines, "The Revelers will toss that notion back on your ears." This Louisiana band has been called an Eastern U.S. counterpart to Los Lobos, and they punch up Cajun and swamp rock classics with a dose of contemporary rock and R&B. The Revelers are a sextet of veteran musicians from Cajun country and beyond who combine crack musicianship with sheer infectious joy in playing together. And if you're hanging on to the last vestiges of summer, well, we've got a jolt of warmth for you, straight from Lafayette, Louisiana. This band contains several former members of The Pine Leaf Boys and of The Red Stick Ramblers, who did some legendary Michigan shows back in the day.

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Performance Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:34:59 -0400 2018-10-02T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Revelers
Matt Andersen (October 3, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52708 52708-12969903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

New Brunswick might not be the first place you would think to look for the blues, but forget your presumptions! Matt Andersen won the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge in Memphis, and his soulful voice is matched in intensity by his brittle, captivating acoustic guitar style. Matt does what we guarantee is the greatest version of "Ain't No Sunshine" since the days of Bill Withers. He's opened for Little Feat, Bo Diddley, Randy Bachman, and David "Honeyboy" Edwards in between about 250 annual headliner dates of his own all over Canada, the U.S., and the UK. Matt's unique blues sound incorporates elements of rock and other roots traditions, and pickers of any instrument are sure to learn a thing or two on the way to a great time. Tonight, for the first time at The Ark, Matt plays a solo show.

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Performance Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:33:47 -0400 2018-10-03T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Matt
Los Lonely Boys (October 4, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52775 52775-13036490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The abiding sense of family unity and creative rapport that has produced two decades of great music has been built into Los Lonely Boys from the beginning. Indeed, Henry, Jojo, and Ringo Garza have been making music together for their entire lives. Their father, Ringo Garza Sr., was a member of another sibling band, the Falcones, which played throughout southern Texas in the ’70s and ’80s. The family relocated to Nashville in the ’90s, and soon Henry, Jojo, and Ringo Jr. began writing and performing their own material as a trio.

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Performance Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:37:05 -0400 2018-10-04T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Los
Trace Bundy & Sungha Junga (October 5, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52576 52576-12857425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

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. Trace’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 125,000 albums on his record label, Honest Ninja Music. His video clips circulate virally at astonishing speed, with over 40 million YouTube views to date. Jimmy Leslie at Guitar Player 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.” Audiocast from Austin, TX agrees: "Bundy's live show is without a doubt an event that needs to be witnessed rather than told about. With such a jaw-dropping performance, Bundy's live concert is a slap in the face that would leave a palm print on the memory of everyone in the audience."

One of the most sought-after young artists in the world today, Sungha Jung began playing the guitar at the age of 10 and learned his exceptional guitar skills solely from watching other musicians on the Internet. Sungha Jung’s YouTube channel ‘jwcfree’ has garnered a phenomenal 1.5 billion views with over 5 million subscribers worldwide since its launch in 2006. Since the release of his debut album "Perfect Blue{ in 2010, the aspiring young musician has now had 8 solo albums out and tours all over the world every year as a professional fingerstyle guitar player.

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Performance Fri, 08 Jun 2018 17:26:44 -0400 2018-10-05T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Trace Sungha
Carbon Leaf (October 6, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52013 52013-12351782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 6, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Carbon Leaf is celebrating its Silver Anniversary in 2018 behind a new album and extensive touring. Through 25 years together, the group’s independent music and spirit continue to resonate with its fans, and an authentic bond between the band members and their audience is evident.

Blending rock, folk, Celtic, bluegrass and Americana 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.

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Performance Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:17:19 -0400 2018-10-06T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Carbon
Josh White Jr (October 7, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52776 52776-13038641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 7, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Josh White Jr. describes himself as a secular, folk/blues, pop, jazz vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, actor, adult and children's concert performer and recording artist, teacher, and social activist. He carries forward the musical legacy of his father, who brought a taste of the blues to New York's folk scene and then to the whole world in the 1930s and 1940s. Josh Jr. grew up performing on stage with his father, and he can take you back to personal encounters with the likes of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Bojangles, Leadbelly, Joe Louis, Woody Guthrie, Billie Holiday, Pete Seeger, Dorothy Gish, Burl Ives, Odetta, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone. He has continued to record music ranging from folk to country to kids' music, and he comes to The Ark with a new album, "Spiritual Side," recorded with Richard Smerin.

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Performance Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:39:44 -0400 2018-10-07T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Josh
The Western Den (October 9, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53171 53171-13269771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

To find a musical soulmate, someone with whom to explore your innermost feelings, unite artistic languages, and craft a shared voice is a daunting, even mysterious, undertaking. Some writers spend years searching and never uncover the other half they seek; for others, a partnership just flicks on like a light. The origin story of the hauntingly beautiful duo The Western Den is wonderfully curious in just this way: Deni Hlavinka, an introspective pianist from small-town Virginia, posted a song idea on a college forum for accepted students. Chris West, a bright-eyed guitarist from Bermuda, sent back the song the following day in finished form. Upon meeting in person, they discovered their musical—and personal—bond was eerily close; there was never a discussion of forming a band, never a conscious choice, it just happened, fueled by a sheer desire, a necessity to pursue what felt right.

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Performance Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:54:19 -0400 2018-10-09T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance West
Veterans for Peace John Lennon Birthday Concert (October 11, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53247 53247-13321608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

This eleventh annual concert benefits the Veterans for Peace Chapter 93 Peace Scholarship Fund and the Wayne State University Center for Peace and Conflict Studies. 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, Chris Buhalis, John Latini, FUBAR, San & Emily Slomovitz, Dave Boutette, 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, Sophia Hanifi, and Jason Dennie. All artists will be performing works of John Lennon as well as other peace-themed songs.

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Performance Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:41:19 -0400 2018-10-11T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Ark
Arturo Sandoval (October 12, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53449 53449-13383536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

A protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small town in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on November 6, 1949, just two years after Gillespie became the first musician to bring Latin influences into American Jazz. Arturo began studying classical trumpet at the age of twelve, but it didn’t take him long to catch the excitement of the jazz world. He has since evolved into one of the world’s most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a renowned classical artist, pianist and composer. Arturo Sandoval reaches beyond the scope of mere effort. His struggles while in Cuba and since his defection have given him more energy and strength, urging him to accomplish and surpass his childhood dreams.

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Performance Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:29:23 -0400 2018-10-12T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Art
The Okee Dokee Brothers (October 14, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53362 53362-13349560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 14, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

As childhood friends growing up in Denver, Colorado, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing were always exploring the outdoors. Whether it was rafting down their neighborhood creek or discovering hiking trails through the Rocky Mountains, Joe and Justin were born adventurers. Now, as the Grammy Award–winning Okee Dokee Brothers, they have put this passion for the outdoors at the heart of their Americana Folk music. Joe and Justin record and perform family music with a goal to inspire children and their parents to get outside and get creative! They believe this can motivate kids to gain a greater respect for the natural world, their communities and themselves. The four-time Parents’ Choice Award winners have garnered praise from the likes of NPR’s All Things Considered and USA Today, and have been called “two of family music’s best songwriters.”

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Performance Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:37:53 -0400 2018-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Okee Dokee Brothers
The Saline Fiddlers (October 14, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53366 53366-13349563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 14, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Saline's nationally significant high school fiddle ensemble

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Performance Tue, 07 Aug 2018 16:37:05 -0400 2018-10-14T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Saline Fiddlers
In the Round w/Megan Slankard, Alex Wong, Chris DuPont & Anne Heaton (October 15, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53735 53735-13453007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 15, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:36:53 -0400 2018-10-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Slankard
Dougie MacLean (October 16, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52205 52205-12528878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Singer, songwriter and fiddler Dougie MacLean, OBE, is a Celtic institution, and he's been called Scotland's greatest living songwriter. His composition "Caledonia" has been called an alternative anthem of Scotland, and it's a glorious, bittersweet piece of music that gets down to the heart of Scotland's soul. For many years Dougie has been at the forefront of the development of Scottish music and song. But he's an artist of international repute as well, with a rabid American fan base that fills houses wherever he goes, and collaborations with country star Kathy Mattea (and even Jennifer Lopez) to his credit. A performer with a gift for making something universal of his own experiences and of the sheer beauty of his native land, Dougie MacLean has been lauded by Time Out UK for songs that are "hauntingly evocative yet contemporary in feel." Dougie is coming to Michigan with a new album, "New Tomorrow."

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Performance Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:13:39 -0400 2018-10-16T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Dougie MacLean
Scythian (October 17, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53504 53504-13392468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:55:32 -0400 2018-10-17T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance scythian
The Weight Band (October 18, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52202 52202-12528875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 04 May 2018 14:39:54 -0400 2018-10-18T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
The Weight Band (October 18, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52356 52356-12641900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Inspired to carry on the legacy of the unforgettable rock group, Weider (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Ciarlante and Isaacs began performing fan favorites from The Band catalog to audiences across the country, inviting Marty Grebb (keyboards, organ, horns, vocals) and Brian Mitchell (keyboards, organ, accordion, vocals) to complete their sound. The Weight Band later added Albert Rogers (bass, vocals) and Michael Bram (drums, vocals) to make up their current lineup with Weider, Mitchell and Grebb. Together, after four years of touring, The Weight Band has recorded a new album of original material, capturing The Band’s musical tradition and packaged for today’s vibrant Americana base.

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Performance Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:15:35 -0400 2018-10-18T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Weight Band
Great Lakes Swimmers (October 19, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52709 52709-12969905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The year 2018 marks the 15th anniversary of Great Lake Swimmers. Over seven albums, multiple EPs, live broadcasts, and reissues, the Toronto-based project led by singer-songwriter Tony Dekker has established itself as a beloved indie folk act in their native Canada and beyond. The CBC has called them "a national treasure," and their music has taken them around the world, sharing a sound that is at once familiar and distinct, using the tools of folk music as the starting point to delve deeper. Great Lake Swimmers have twice been nominated for Juno Awards, and they have shared stages with Robert Plant, Feist, and Calexico, and have appeared as headliners for many of Canada’s major folk festivals. They come to Michigan with a new release, "The Waves."

Native Harrow will open.

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Performance Wed, 03 Oct 2018 13:10:16 -0400 2018-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Great
Heaven For Me: An Evening with Jay Stielstra and Friends (October 21, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52635 52635-12910443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Michigan songwriting and playwright treasure Jay Stielstra returns to The Ark to perform his iconic songs about love, loss, friendship, war and the wonders of fly fishing with his longtime musical partners Judy Banker and Dave Roof, special guest Peter Madcat Ruth, and more!

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Performance Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:19:41 -0400 2018-10-21T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Jay
Bruce Cockburn (October 22, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51625 51625-12173409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The great Bruce Cockburn, who won the inaugural People’s Voice Award at the Folk Alliance International conference in February and is being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in September, continues to find inspiration in the world around him and channel those ideas into songs. “My job is to try and trap the spirits of things in the scratches of pen on paper and the pulling of notes out of metal,” he once noted. More than forty years after embarking on his singer-songwriting career, Bruce Cockburn keeps kicking at the darkness so that it might bleed daylight. He's a Canadian legend, and, word to the wise, his Ark shows generally sell out. Bruce comes to Michigan with a new release, "Bone on Bone."

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Performance Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:21:37 -0400 2018-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Bruce Cockburn
The Brother Brothers (October 24, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53350 53350-13349544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"The tight harmonies are enough to send shivers down anyone's spine."

Sarah Jarosz

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Performance Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:54:49 -0400 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Brother Brothers
In the Round w/Don White, Lynn Adler, Lindy Hearne & Amilia K Spicer (October 25, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53736 53736-13453008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:40:11 -0400 2018-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance adler
The Verve Pipe (October 26, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54118 54118-13530637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:21:51 -0400 2018-10-26T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Chris Buhalis (October 27, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52349 52349-12641717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Chris Buhalis was born and raised on Detroit's east side, but his songs come from places you can only find if you stick out your thumb and follow fate's lead. Covering territory from Alaska's whiskey-soaked bars to the spark- and steel-filled auto plants of Detroit, Chris writes songs that speak of real people in real situations. Chris has appeared on radio's "Acoustic Cafe" and shared stages with the likes of David Bromberg, Catie Curtis, and Dave Van Ronk. Current praises Chris Buhalis for "beautiful, effortless Americana as honest and gently insightful as any you've heard," and if you haven't heard this institution of Michigan songwriting yet, tonight would be a great time!

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Performance Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:27:27 -0400 2018-10-27T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Chris
Steve Poltz (October 28, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52604 52604-12876524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Steve Poltz is not normal. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada), but has lived most of his life in southern California, and those geographic poles are quite likely responsible for his unhinged genius. Over the course of his life he’s met Elvis Presley (who hugged his sister for far too long), trick-or-treated at Liberace’s house (each finger had a diamond ring), was Bob Hope’s favorite altar boy (according to him), bravely traveled the world busking before he knew how to do it, famously co-wrote “You Were Meant For Me” with Jewel, pissed off David Cassidy, and can count some of the world’s coolest people as fans. He’s also an ex–high school wrestler (98-pound class), an obsessed baseball fan, a yoga practitioner, a hopeless romantic, a smart-ass philosopher and a child-like adventurer/observer with an absurdist’s view of this crazy world and the various life-forms that inhabit it.

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Performance Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:29:14 -0400 2018-10-28T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Steve Poltz
Mountain Man WSG The Dead Tongues (October 29, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53739 53739-13453011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Tue, 14 Aug 2018 17:55:39 -0400 2018-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
The Quebe Sisters (November 1, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53172 53172-13271922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

New Texas fiddle and Americana music from a sister trio

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Performance Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:35:03 -0400 2018-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Quebe Sisters
Jeremy Kittel's Kittel & Co. (November 2, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52968 52968-13159598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Previously of the Grammy-winning Turtle Island Quartet, Jeremy Kittel has been a composer-arranger-collaborator for such diverse artists as My Morning Jacket, Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble, and Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn. He blazes through a Bach violin partita as easily as a Scottish reel, bringing the same intense focus and precision to both. For the last few years the Michigan native, now based in Brooklyn, has been diligently building his own repertoire of music for a wholly original new group.

This Kittel and Co. show features mandolin phenom Josh Pinkham (named “the future of the mandolin” by Mandolin Magazine), guitarist Quinn Bachand (who's toured with fiddling icons Ashley MacIsaac and Natalie MacMaster), and hammer-dulcimer wizard Simon Chrisman (acclaimed for bringing a new tonal flexibility to the instrument).

Kittel & Co’s highly anticipated new album Whorls was just released June 29.

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Performance Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:52:10 -0400 2018-11-02T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Jeremy Kittel
David Cook (November 3, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53156 53156-13263292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 3, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

David immediately launched to stardom following his Season 7 American Idol title. He broke several Billboard chart records when 14 of his songs debuted on the Hot Digital Songs chart and 11 of his songs debuted on the Hot 100, and went on to sell more than 2 million albums, including his certified platinum eponymous album. Collectively, David has sold over 5 million tracks worldwide. Based out of Nashville, TN, he has not only found success as a writer for other artists, his 2015 studio album, “Digital Vein” debuted in the top 5 on the Billboard Pop Chart. Cook continues to tour throughout the world in support of his multiple hits. 2018 has brought an exciting new EP from Cook. "Chromance” is available now via all digital platforms. This year also brought David’s Broadway debut as Charlie Price in the Tony Award–winning Broadway hit, “Kinky Boots."

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Performance Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:12:12 -0400 2018-11-03T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance David Cook
Peter Asher & Jeremy Clyde (November 4, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55390 55390-13725243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 4, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Peter Asher of Peter & Gordon joins forces on stage with Jeremy Clyde of Chad & Jeremy for an evening of music and stories! You'll hear not only songs, and the stories behind the songs from the 1960s heyday of these two British Invasion giants, but also tales of their later careers—Jeremy has gone on to successes on television ("Downton Abbey") and film ("The Iron Lady"), and Peter has worked as producer and manager to James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, and other members of the next folk generation. Together, Peter Asher and Jeremy Clyde were responsible for 30 Billboard chart hits. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to relive the folk-pop of the 1960s with the people who made it!

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Performance Thu, 25 Oct 2018 17:16:04 -0400 2018-11-04T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Asher & Clyde
The Dustbowl Revival (November 5, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55400 55400-13725256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 5, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Dustbowl Revival is a Venice, California-based collective that merges old-school bluegrass, gospel, jug-band, swamp blues, and the hot swing of the 1930’s to form a spicy roots cocktail. Known for their inspired live sets, The Dustbowl Revival boldly brings together many styles of traditional American music. Imagine Old Crow Medicine Show meeting Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven Band in New Orleans or Bob Dylan and Fats Waller jamming with Mumford & Sons on a front porch in 1938. Growing steadily from a small string band playing up and down the West Coast (hundreds shows in the last two years), DBR has blossomed into a traveling collective featuring instrumentation that often includes fiddle, mandolin, trombone, clarinet, trumpet, banjo, accordion, tuba, pedal steel, drums, guitars, a bass made from a canoe oar, harmonica, and plenty of washboard and kazoo for luck. Nashville (not Roanoke) Americana-folk band Roanoke opens.

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Performance Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:52:02 -0400 2018-11-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Dustbowl Revival
Adrian Legg (November 6, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53737 53737-13453009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:38:52 -0400 2018-11-06T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Adrian Legg
The War and Treaty (November 7, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57229 57229-14130955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

As The War and Treaty, Michael and Tanya Trotter serve up healing and pain robbing with freewheeling joy on their new full-length album, "Healing Tide." Funky bass lines, keys, lap steel, acoustic strings, and stripped-down percussion create a swampy Southern soul bed for the couple’s transcendent vocals. A tour-de-force produced by Buddy Miller, the collection swaggers with confidence only gained by artists who are wholly, proudly, themselves. Michael is a wounded warrior who found his voice while serving in Iraq, when he was pulled from the frontlines to write songs for the fallen. Tanya is a lifelong artist, drawn to singing’s power to take another’s pain away. “You have to have a deep place of love within yourself to be vulnerable,” Tanya says. “With The War and Treaty, we allow people to see two people that are not perfect. We get on stage. We sweat. We’re overweight. We yell. We get ugly, we scream! My hair comes loose. We’re vulnerable––naked––in front of people, and it’s a chain reaction. It allows them to be vulnerable, too.” The War and Treaty’s music and stories bring tears and goosebumps, but ultimately, more is at work. “I want people to feel like we care,” Michael says. “When you think about artists, you don’t think about that.” He pauses and grins broadly. “But that’s the way I want the world to feel about The War and Treaty.” Songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews opens the show.

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Performance Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:37:13 -0400 2018-11-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance War and Treaty
The War and Treaty (November 8, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57229 57229-14130956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

As The War and Treaty, Michael and Tanya Trotter serve up healing and pain robbing with freewheeling joy on their new full-length album, "Healing Tide." Funky bass lines, keys, lap steel, acoustic strings, and stripped-down percussion create a swampy Southern soul bed for the couple’s transcendent vocals. A tour-de-force produced by Buddy Miller, the collection swaggers with confidence only gained by artists who are wholly, proudly, themselves. Michael is a wounded warrior who found his voice while serving in Iraq, when he was pulled from the frontlines to write songs for the fallen. Tanya is a lifelong artist, drawn to singing’s power to take another’s pain away. “You have to have a deep place of love within yourself to be vulnerable,” Tanya says. “With The War and Treaty, we allow people to see two people that are not perfect. We get on stage. We sweat. We’re overweight. We yell. We get ugly, we scream! My hair comes loose. We’re vulnerable––naked––in front of people, and it’s a chain reaction. It allows them to be vulnerable, too.” The War and Treaty’s music and stories bring tears and goosebumps, but ultimately, more is at work. “I want people to feel like we care,” Michael says. “When you think about artists, you don’t think about that.” He pauses and grins broadly. “But that’s the way I want the world to feel about The War and Treaty.” Songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews opens the show.

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Performance Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:37:13 -0400 2018-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance War and Treaty
Delta Rae (November 9, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53248 53248-13321610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Six-piece band Delta Rae hails from Durham, NC with Liz Hopkins and Brittany Holljes fronting the robust group with sultry harmonies rounded out by Holljes’ brothers Eric (vocals, piano) and Ian (vocals, guitar) as well as Mike McKee (drums) and Grant Emerson (bass). The band chose their moniker from a mythical story the Holljes siblings’ mother wrote about a Southern girl of the same name who summons the Greek gods to earth.

Headlining over 100 shows each year and a regular on the festival circuit since forming in 2009, Delta Rae’s larger-than-life performances have earned coveted spots at Bonnaroo, Tortuga Music Festival, Austin City Limits, Firefly, Bumbershoot, Summerfest, Hangout Fest, Kaaboo, Basilica, VOODOO, and Lollapalooza. They have received national attention with features in NPR, Washington Post, and New York Times, in addition to late night television performances and inclusion in Forbes' 30 Under 30 list.

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Performance Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:51:35 -0400 2018-11-09T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Delta
Keller Williams Duo (November 10, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53041 53041-13211454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 10, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Keller writes: "Usually, I play places without seats. My looping show comes in handy at those establishments. Occasionally, I'm allowed to play really nice places with actual places to sit. It's these types of places that I feel acoustic music is truly what the rooms were intended for. With that in mind, I'm proud to announce that Danton Boller on the big acoustic double bass will join me as a duo in those almost perfect rooms. Just because these shows are loopless, it doesn't mean it won't be super funky. Funk is in the mind, the soul and also in the right hand of Danton Boller. I'm excited to explore the ideas of acoustic dance music with only the big bass, a couple of acoustic guitars and a whole lotta songs to choose from. Danton is in my band KWahtro and has done a bunch of Grateful Grass gigs so ... these shows could get real freaky. Feel free to vibe off my stoke."

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Performance Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:53:40 -0400 2018-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Keller Williams
Rising Appalachia w/sg Be Steadwell (November 11, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54945 54945-13654203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 11, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Roots sounds with world influences and an activist bent

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Performance Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:40:59 -0400 2018-11-11T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Rising Appalachia
An Evening with the Earthwork Music Collective (November 12, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56292 56292-13876221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 12, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Earthwork Music Collective believes in the intrinsic and historical power of music to raise both community and self-awareness and serves to facilitate and encourage original music in the state of Michigan and beyond.

It's been far too long since the last Earthwork Music Collective tour! These shows will feature members of the collective joining forces showcasing the group's variety of talents through song and story. Get your tickets and bring a friend to the Earthwork Music Collective Michigan Tour this November!

Participating members include Bill Chesney, Joe Reilly, Seth Bernard, Mark Lavengood, Chris Good Music, Ralston Bowles, Max Lockwood, Steve Leaf & The Ex Pats, Dede and the Dreamers, Nicholas James, Dan Rickabus Music, Sari Brown Music, Will See Music, Allison Radelll and Brandon Smith.

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Performance Tue, 02 Oct 2018 16:26:01 -0400 2018-11-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Earthwork
Charlie Parr // Ghost of Paul Revere (November 13, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54122 54122-13530640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Roots sounds from Maine and Minnesota—a double bill

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Performance Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:42:46 -0400 2018-11-13T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Ghost of Paul Revere
Amy Ray and Her Band (November 14, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52574 52574-12857349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Amy Ray teamed up with Emily Saliers while in high school, and soon the duo became a staple in the Atlanta music scene. In 1981, their independent music career began with a basement recording called Tuesday's Children. One thing led to another, and they signed with Epic Records in 1988. Despite almost polar-opposite styles, they met on the common ground of harmony and the love of meaningful music. Ray brought fire and earth, Saliers the wind and water. Since the release of her 2001 album, "Stag," however, she's had an independent career that is different from, and complements, that of the parent duo. Amy has released seven albums, and she comes to The Ark with an eighth, the country-flavored "Holler." Tennessee "Southern gothic" songwriter Amythyst Kiah opens.

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Performance Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:43:52 -0400 2018-11-14T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Amy
Front Country (November 15, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53173 53173-13271923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

An acoustic band born in the land of tech innovation, Front Country was unlikely to be accepted as an authentic American roots band out of the gate. Cutting their teeth in progressive bluegrass jams in San Francisco’s Mission District and rehearsing across the bay in Oakland, they fashioned their own take on roots music and Indie Folk, with the tools they had on hand. A mandolinist with a degree in composition and classical guitar. A guitarist trained in rock and world music. A bassist equally versed in jazz and newgrass. A violinist with technique that could seamlessly hop between honky tonk and electropop. And a female lead singer with grit and soul that was also a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. In a wood-paneled country dive bar in the shadow of the San Francisco skyline, Front Country forged a sound hell bent on merging the musical past with the future. The result lies somewhere between Indie Folk and Americana, in a nether-region they've come to embrace as their own.

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Performance Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:39:50 -0400 2018-11-15T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Front Country
Dick Siegel (November 16, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52121 52121-12441238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:53:43 -0400 2018-11-16T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Dick Siegel (November 16, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54211 54211-13539464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Dick Siegel won the Best New Folk Artist award at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, and he's inspired plenty of songwriters in Michigan and beyond. Recently he's been showing up at next-generation roots events like Hollerfest and fitting right in. Dick is an immensely gifted and versatile composer. Ranging from jump blues and Buddy Holly-style pop to folk balladry and new folk lyricism, his songs offer all sorts of immediate lyrical and musical pleasures. Dick was named in WDET's list of the most important and influential artists in the history of Detroit, alongside legends such as John Lee Hooker, Stevie Wonder, and Aretha Franklin. "I'm celebratory—I celebrate life from the huge to the minute, from the tragic to the hilarious," he explains. In concert, he expertly steps into the roles of a raconteur, a confidante, your best friend, a prophet, a comedian, a pair of eyes on the universe, and an interpreter of daydreams.

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Performance Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:32:34 -0400 2018-11-16T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Dick Siegel
Richard Shindell (November 17, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54139 54139-13530681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 17, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:53:23 -0400 2018-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Gabriel Kahane (November 18, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52706 52706-12969901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 18, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The day after the 2016 presidential election, singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane boarded a train at Penn Station and traveled 8,980 miles around the continental U.S. with no phone or internet access, talking to dozens of strangers in an attempt to better understand his country and fellow citizens. The resulting album, Book of Travelers, marks Gabriel’s debut for Nonesuch Records. By turns sprawling and intimate, this collection of songs is at once a prayer for empathy and reconciliation, as well as an unflinching examination of the complex and often troubled history of the United States.

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Performance Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:48:17 -0400 2018-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Gab
Matt Watroba (November 23, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52778 52778-13038643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 23, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Your Thanksgiving weekend in Michigan isn't complete without hearing Matt Watroba! Matt is the kind of guy who makes friends easily. Not only is he on a first-name basis with most of the major folk musicians in North America after a few decades of sharing stages with them, but he also has the kind of rapport with audiences that makes them feel as if they're sitting among friends in a living room. Matt's local shows have had the feel of a homecoming for Michigan folk music, with great songs and warm memories for all—and often special guests!

Dinner-show tickets with reserved seating available!

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Performance Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:50:16 -0400 2018-11-23T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Matt
Mr. B (November 24, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52779 52779-13038644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 24, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:44:38 -0400 2018-11-24T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Mr. B (November 24, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52961 52961-13159591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 24, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Born in Flint and a true Michigan institution, Mr. B (Mark Braun) is a rare living link to the early days of boogie woogie, having learned directly from legends like Little Brother Montgomery and Blind John Davis. He plays in concert halls, he plays outdoors, he's even played on a piano being paddled out to Mackinac Island, but wherever you heard him, it's an exciting show. Each year Mr. B stops in at The Ark for a Thanksgiving weekend concert, and it always brings something new. Mr. B often brings in musicians from around southeast Michigan and beyond for a boogie and jazz blowout to kick off the holiday season with a big dose of boogie woogie joy. You may think every town has a Mr. B, but you would be very, very wrong!

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Performance Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:55:36 -0400 2018-11-24T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance B
Gemini (November 25, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54143 54143-13530685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 25, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:15:02 -0400 2018-11-25T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Lindsay Lou (November 25, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55391 55391-13725246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 25, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Touring behind the release of their record, "Ionia," Michigan-to-Nashville transplant Lindsay Lou and her band have been featured in the lineup of prestigious affairs such as the Shetland Island Folk Festival and Celtic Connections in Scotland, the Stagecoach Music Festival in California, boasting around 55,000 attendees, the Bluegrass Jamboree in Germany, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado, Merlefest in North Carolina, Wheatland, and the Pagosa Springs Folk Festival in Colorado, among many others. They were named one of NPR Music’s 12 best live performance sessions of 2015 by Mountain Stage. Her singing floats over the instrumental mastery and deep groove of her band with dynamics that range from a lullaby to a battle cry. In the words of David Grier, “Lindsay ... sings the way you would want to if you could. Phrasing, tone, emotion, it's all there. Effortless seemingly. Simply mesmerizing. Riveting! Don't miss the musical force that is Lindsay Lou.” Lindsay's brand new full-length "Southland" is a collection of songs delivered with soulfully fierce intensity and tender intimacy that demands your attention.The Sweet Water Warblers—the trio of Lindsay Lou, May Erlewine, and Rachael Davis—are very special guests.

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Performance Thu, 25 Oct 2018 17:24:56 -0400 2018-11-25T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance LindsayLou
Time Out: A Powerful Night of Songs & Stories (November 27, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54938 54938-13654182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Time Out: A Powerful Night of Songs and Stories

Beth Nielsen Chapman is one of the most inspirational women in the industry. Recently inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, Beth has penned tunes for artists including Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Roberta Flack, Waylon Jennings, Faith Hill, Willie Nelson, and more. Beth’s life experiences have inspired songwriting and her story will inspire you to live as you have never lived before.

May Erlewine is Michigan's premier singer-songwriter. Growing up in an eclectic, music infused, home-school environment, May played in punk bands, train jumped and hitch-hiked across the US when she was a teenager, and later settled down on a farm in Michigan. Her stories and songs are captivating and relatable. Her latest album, “Mother Lion,” is her best writing yet, named WYCE's "Album of the Year" 2018.

NPR calls them "The most emotionally compelling songwriters of our time...” The Accidentals have been playing music together since they were 15. They own their own publishing company, they are signed to a major label, they tour 200 shows a year… and they're funny. They are looking forward to sharing songs from their upcoming 2019 album and the stories that inspired them.

Prepare to laugh, cry, and be inspired.

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Performance Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:49:21 -0400 2018-11-27T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Time Out
Sumkali (November 29, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56678 56678-13960689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Sumkali is Michigan's premier Indian music fusion group comprised of award winning musicians, including a Grammy Award winning harmonica master Peter Madcat Ruth. Celebrating the 2018 release of their 4th album titled "Dha Re Dha", Sumkali brings a collective of musicians from all over the world that come together to create a unique blend of Indian folk music with American folk, blues, and jazz. Sumkali formed in Ann Arbor in 2003 when musicians came together for an informal Indian Music Night hosted by the Crazy Wisdom Tearoom. Since then they have recorded four albums, performed hundreds of shows, festivals, private events, Indian festivals, weddings and more. The group is a collective of musicians from all over the world that has found a way to break through musical boundaries. As part of their mission, they also do outreach to schools, universities, and community education programs to educate and inspire students to celebrate diversity and understanding amongst people.

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Performance Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:51:09 -0400 2018-11-29T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Sumkali
The Lone Bellow (November 30, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52330 52330-12639133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Lone Bellow burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut in 2013. The Brooklyn-based band quickly became known for their transcendent harmonies, serious musicianship and raucous live performance — a reputation that earned them their rabid fan base. It's been three years since the band's victorious Then Came The Morning was released. Produced by The National's Aaron Dessner, the album was nominated for an Americana Music Award. The band appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "Late Show With David Letterman," "Conan O'Brien," "CBS This Morning," "Later...with Jools Holland," and "The Late Late Show With James Corden" in support of the album. In the years since the release, the band left their beloved adopted home of Brooklyn and moved to Nashville. Now, The Lone Bellow is back with Walk Into A Storm, which will be released Sept. 15 on Sony Music Masterworks. Walk Into A Storm was produced by legendary music producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, and more) and features their lead single "Time's Always Leaving." The trio, featuring Zach Williams (guitar/vocals), Kanene Donehey Pipkin (multi-instrumentalist), and Brian Elmquist (guitar), recorded this album in only seven days. The group’s first two albums graced the Billboard 200.

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Performance Tue, 15 May 2018 11:25:29 -0400 2018-11-30T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Lone Bellow
Hot Tuna (December 1, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50900 50900-11899295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 1, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Gold Circle tickets (sections A and B) include a copy of the upcoming Jorma Kaukonen book.

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Performance Mon, 12 Mar 2018 14:14:02 -0400 2018-12-01T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance HotTune
Hot Tuna (December 1, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51005 51005-11939151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 1, 2018 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 than Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, the founders and continuing core members of Hot Tuna. At the 2016 Grammys, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards, and they're still coming up with new ideas.

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Performance Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:56:16 -0400 2018-12-01T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Hot Tuna
Griffin House (December 2, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52969 52969-13159600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 2, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Ohio-born, Nashville-based songwriter Griffin House merges irresistible pop-rock hooks with moody Americana shades and an ability to boil his experiences down to sparse songs. Influenced by a line of artists running from Woody Guthrie to Wilco, Griffin developed a distinctive style marked by passionate melodies and layers of ambient guitar. His breakthrough album, "Flying Upside Down," was recorded with members of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers. Griffin's intelligent and heartfelt lyrics and melodies have garnered commercial and critical acclaim alike. From being featured on the CBS Sunday Morning Show and CNN Newsroom, to touring with the likes of John Mellencamp and the Cranberries, Griffin House opened for Toad the Wet Sprocket at The Ark and continues to gain national recognition—and to go deeper with his songwriting. Since we saw him last, Griffin has released a new album, "So On and So Forth."

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Performance Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:58:01 -0400 2018-12-02T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Griffin House
Bill Kirchen's Honky-Tonk Holiday (December 3, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55404 55404-13725259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Bill Kirchen is an Ann Arbor-bred guitar god, a Telecaster titan who whirls through a whole gallery of country and rock styles over the course of an evening. After a stint as lead guitarist with Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, he's gone on to an acclaimed solo career, and when he returns to town at the holidays his concerts turn into joyous reunions celebrating the glory days of the Ann Arbor honky-tonk scene, with special guests often on hand. Some things haven't changed—the Austin American-Statesman recently praised his "no-nonsense diesel guitar attack, powered by great booming, bottom-heavy licks still covered with axle grease." But Bill has evolved into a very funny rockabilly and country songwriter as well. This honky-tonk holiday show, which has often featured special guests, will get you in the mood for New Year's Eve a few weeks early!

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Performance Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:59:21 -0400 2018-12-03T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Bill Kirchen
Ebird & Friends Holiday Show (December 6, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55394 55394-13725247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:38:25 -0400 2018-12-06T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Ebird & Friends Holiday Show (December 7, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55394 55394-13725248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:38:25 -0400 2018-12-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Ebird & Friends Holiday Show (December 8, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55394 55394-13725249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 8, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:38:25 -0400 2018-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Ebird & Friends Holiday Show (December 8, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55394 55394-13725250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 8, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:38:25 -0400 2018-12-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Jon McLaughlin (December 9, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54934 54934-13654177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 9, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:08:48 -0400 2018-12-09T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
The Weepies - Holiday Acoustic Duo (December 10, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54708 54708-13636385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 10, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:24:36 -0400 2018-12-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance The Weepies
Tish Hinojosa (December 13, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55784 55784-13777556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:53:40 -0400 2018-12-13T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Over The Rhine (December 14, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52964 52964-13159594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

2018 Christmas Tour Thoughts

One December, not long after Over the Rhine began recording and touring, we were invited to perform some seasonal songs on a public radio station. So we worked up a few carols and traditional tunes. It actually felt really good and conjured up an unusual mix of feelings from childhood: innocence, loss, wonder, joy, sadness. I think we were surprised.
On our 2018 tour, we will be performing as a trio, leaning into three-part harmonies and making an intimate but hopefully holy ruckus. It won’t be all Christmas music: we’ll certainly mix in tunes from many of our records along the way. But hopefully it’s still true; that you haven’t heard anything quite like it.

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Performance Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:00:46 -0400 2018-12-14T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Over The Rhine
Blackthorn (December 15, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52970 52970-13159601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 15, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

A Blackthorn show is a musical ramble across Ireland. Traditional songs of emigration, ballads, shanties and jigs and reels combine with some of Ireland’s best contemporary songs for a musical experience that is uniquely Irish. Each of the band’s five members plays multiple instruments, including flute, accordion, tin whistle, fiddle, banjo, cittern, bodhran, and more. These instruments complement the lead vocal of Belfast native Richard McMullan and the band’s tight blend of four-part harmony. This band has been bringing a rich tapestry of Celtic music to southeast Michigan and beyond for 30 years, and they're a must-see for those who want to know the deep traditions of Irish music in Michigan. And, this being December, there may be a holiday tune or two!

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Performance Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:02:35 -0400 2018-12-15T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Blackthorn
Jazzistry Jive for 25 (December 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56680 56680-13960788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Mon, 15 Oct 2018 09:50:17 -0400 2018-12-16T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Vienna Teng (December 17, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53152 53152-13261133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 17, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"Like a child of Chopin and Sarah McLachlan"

San Jose Mercury News

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Performance Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:56:31 -0400 2018-12-17T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Vienna Teng
Delbert McClinton (December 18, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55398 55398-13725254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:49:20 -0400 2018-12-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Joe Hall & The Cane Cutters (December 20, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56681 56681-13960789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 20, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:59:10 -0400 2018-12-20T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Seth Glier (December 27, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53515 53515-13392475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 27, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

New music, steeped in conflict and contradictions

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Performance Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:15:18 -0400 2018-12-27T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Seth Glier
Mick Gavin's Crossroads Ceili (December 28, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54153 54153-13530695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 28, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:26:09 -0400 2018-12-28T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Mick Gavin's Crossroads Ceili (December 29, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54153 54153-13530696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 29, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:26:09 -0400 2018-12-29T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Brother Joscephus and the Love Revolution (December 30, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56700 56700-13967638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 30, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:57:12 -0400 2018-12-30T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
50 First Jokes (January 2, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54978 54978-13660790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:51:38 -0400 2019-01-02T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Gemini 140th Birthday Celebration (January 3, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55791 55791-13777623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 3, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:22:58 -0400 2019-01-03T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Sideline (January 4, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53351 53351-13349545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 4, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

When it comes to bluegrass, this band is your mainline!

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Performance Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:58:34 -0400 2019-01-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Sideline
The Yellow Room Gang (January 5, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55406 55406-13725262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 5, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:05:13 -0400 2019-01-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Hannah Baiardi (January 6, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58308 58308-14459107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 6, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 07 Dec 2018 11:53:34 -0500 2019-01-06T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Ordinarius (January 8, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53354 53354-13349548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

A unique vocal sextet from Brazil

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Performance Tue, 07 Aug 2018 16:18:13 -0400 2019-01-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Ordinarius
William Fitzsimmons (January 9, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56705 56705-13967643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:15:31 -0400 2019-01-09T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Three Women & The Truth: M Gauthier, E Gilkyson, G Peters (January 10, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55411 55411-13725267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Announcement:

Dear Friends,

I am so sorry I won’t be able to get on a plane today and play these shows with my wonderful 3WATT friends Gretchen Peters and Mary Gauthier. Last night at 2 a.m. I rolled over and felt a stabbing pain in my upper right torso. Things went downhill from there into full blown shingles by dawn, the kind that never erupt on the surface but stay under your skin, causing agonizing nerve pain. Yikes!

The good news is the show will go on in grand style-I know Mary and Gretchen will kill it as they always do-two of my favorite songwriters and performers in the world, both of them Grammy nominated and at the top of their game. And if that ain’t enough Austin’s biggest buzz, singer-songwriter Jaimee Harris will be on board to play her heart out as well. Barry Walsh will also be joining Mary and Gretchen on piano at the Ark in Ann Arbor and at Chicago City Winery - making for one great night of music.

I’m sure you will enjoy this show, and please know I will be back around as soon as I am able.

Thank you!

Eliza Gilkyson







Eliza Gilkyson



Twice Grammy Nominated folksinger Eliza Gilkyson has just released her 20th album, Secularia, a collection of songs old and new that reflect her ongoing search for meaningful spirituality without the constraints of traditional religious belief systems, replacing dominant ideology with a more inclusive perspective that embraces compassion, self-awareness and respect for the natural world in a culture she feels is “wavering between collapse and reinvention”. Produced by her son, Cisco Ryder, (Nocturne Diaries, Roses at the End of Time, Red Horse), with a spare urban approach, the recording features songs of grief, gratitude and wonder, a call for accountability and a true moral compass for these divisive times.



“Secularia is a series of poems and hymns, deeply spiritual songs that praise the wonder and beauty of the world, that lament its destruction, and that celebrate the joy of the mystery that lies behind its wild wonder.”

--- No Depression

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Gretchen Peters



For two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville's most beloved and respected artists. Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October 2014 by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, who called her "a songwriter and a poet (who) sings as beautifully as she writes” Peters has accumulated accolades as a songwriter for artists as diverse as Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Bryan Adams and Faith Hill. In 2015, The Telegraph (UK) named her one of the greatest 60 female singer-songwriters of all time.



“…songs that manage, with deft use of language, to cram a whole epic into three minutes. Astonishingly good writing.” – Pop Matters



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“With songwriting as powerful as hers, there’s no need to go looking for qualifiers. She’s a unique, intrinsically valuable musical voice. And there’s never a surplus of those.” 
— Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Time



The Associated Press named Mary Gauthier as one of the best songwriters of her generation. Her songs have been recorded by dozens of artists, including Jimmy Buffett, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Bettye Lavette Mike Farris, Kathy Mattea, Bobby Bare, Amy Helm and Candi Staton, and have appeared extensively in Film and Television, most recently on Yellowstone. Her album, Filth and Fire (2002) was named Best Independent CD of the year by the New York Times, and Mary was signed to Universal Lost Highway. Her following 5 records were listed in both the LA Times and NY Times top three releases of the year. She was awarded New Artist of the year by The Americana Music Association in 2005, and her record Mercy Now was named in the top 5 records of the decade by No Depression magazine. Her most recent release, Rifles & Rosary Beads ( a collection of sons co-written with wounded veterans) was nominated for 2018’s record of the year by the Americana Music Association as well she was nominated for a Grammy in 2018 for Best Folk Recording category.

Three Women

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:37:46 -0500 2019-01-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Three Women
John Oates (January 11, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53516 53516-13392476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Solo music from one-half of Hall & Oates

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Performance Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:22:50 -0400 2019-01-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance John Oates
Jill Jack's Too Close to the Sun revisited! (January 12, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53370 53370-13349566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 12, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Jill reprises a classic release as a birthday present to YOU

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Performance Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:11:30 -0400 2019-01-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Jill Jack
Justin Roberts and The Not Ready for Naptime Players (January 13, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58318 58318-14461171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 13, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Three-time GRAMMY Nominated Justin Roberts is truly one of the all-stars of the indie family music scene. For nearly 20 years, Justin has been crafting songs for kids and parents that navigate the joys and sorrows of growing up. Along with his band, The Not Ready for Naptime Players, he has traveled the globe, from Hong Kong to New York, and Miami to Seattle. He comes to MIchigan with a new album, "Lemonade," that he says is "the musical equivalent of an impromptu lemonade stand popping up in the summer heat." Justin has performed in front of millions of people on the Today show; he's been featured on Nick Jr.; and his song "Get Me Some Glasses" was featured on a World Series broadcast.

Series tickets for four children's shows available (Justin Roberts, plus Jazzy Ash 2/17, Gemini 3/24, and Recess Monkey 5/5)!

Adult:

https://tinyurl.com/y7zp4lxg

Kids:

https://tinyurl.com/y7jwqrft

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:27:01 -0500 2019-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Justin Roberts
Carrie Newcomer (January 13, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53355 53355-13349549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 13, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"A prairie mystic"

Boston Globe

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Performance Tue, 07 Aug 2018 16:25:39 -0400 2019-01-13T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Carrie Newcomer
Twisted Pine (January 17, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56706 56706-13967645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Full of energy and surprise, wit and subtlety, Twisted Pine has quickly become one of the most acclaimed young string bands in the Northeast. Audiences across the U.S. and beyond have been drawn to their forthright songwriting, lush harmonies, and musical daring. In its early days, Twisted Pine hewed close to its bluegrass origins, but over time the quartet has developed a unique, infectious style without limits. Moving beyond the standard verse-chorus-solo structure of traditional string bands, Twisted Pine is a multilayered ensemble that brings the enveloping sound and pop hooks of indie music to an acoustic instrumental setting. They come to Michigan with a new album, "Dreams."

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:50:39 -0500 2019-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Twisted Pine
Mountain Heart (January 18, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57722 57722-14272049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Mountain Heart offers bluegrass and more. This band as been fearlessly revolutionizing the way acoustic music can be presented and played. The band's name has been synonymous with cutting-edge excellence in bluegrass circles since the group's creation. Widely known throughout the music industry for continually redefining the boundaries of acoustic music, the band has gained legions of loyal fans as a result of both their superlative musicianship and their incendiary live performances. Mountain Heart's music always fell just barely under the bluegrass umbrella, and now, from large outdoor folk music, Americana, jam band, and bluegrass festivals, to sold-out shows opening for Southern rock icons like The Marshall Tucker Band, The Tedeschi Trucks Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mountain Heart has been making an undeniable connection with wider audiences. Whenever they come to The Ark, they tear the house down—and at last year'sAnn Arbor Folk Festival, they just had a bigger house to tear down.

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:54:24 -0500 2019-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mountain Heart
Arlo McKinley (January 19, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58624 58624-14520006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 19, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Arlo McKinley has been busy building a name for himself as an honest singer-songwriter that deserves to be heard ever since his debut release in 2014, with his backing band, The Lonesome Sound. Crossing genres of folk, rock, indie, and soul music, Arlo's truthful and honest songs have had a consistent mission. Arlo has shared bills such musician as John Moreland, Jason Isbell, Tyler Childers, Justin Townes Earle, and these appearances have spread his name beyond the local Cincinnati scene and have gained him fans across the U.S. and across the pond. Arlo McKinley recently released his sophomore album, "Die Midwestern Vol. 1" and he's ready to become a household name in the Americana scene. Come and check him out for a special low price!

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:57:50 -0500 2019-01-19T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Arlo
Shari Kane & Dave Steele and Red Tail Ring (January 20, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56707 56707-13967646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 20, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp of Red Tail Ring create lush, intricate arrangements of original folk music and traditional ballads with banjo, fiddle, guitar, and close harmonies. American Roots UK hails them as "the very best of the 21st century’s minimalist and highly original folk music ... a peerless duo." Their latest, "Fall Away Blues," features new songwriting fused with old-time and country blues themes, tackling topical subjects such as gun violence and environmentalism as well as age-old questions of place and love. Red Tail Ring "doesn’t just pay homage to vintage folk and roots music: The Kalamazoo duo breathes new life into it, channeling the power and charm of seminal material into its own original songs," says west Michigan critic John Sinkevics.

Shari Kane and Dave Steele first met in the summer of 1991, crossing paths as performing blues musicians: Shari was the partner of harmonica legend, Madcat Ruth (Madcat & Kane), while Dave was leading the electric blues band Big Dave and the Ultrasonics. Friends, neighbors, fellow musicians and fans have asked over the years, "When are you two going to start playing together?" The truth is, they've been playing together since their first date. In many ways their playing has developed side by side, listening to and learning from great acoustic blues guitarists from the past. As an acoustic blues duo, Shari and Dave throw a four-handed guitar party of original and time-honored blues, gospel, swing and ragtime. Steeped in Dave’s smoky vocals, percussive rhythm, and innovative lead lines, and Shari’s crisp picking style, rootsy leads, and stinging slidework, their music has been described as "street swing and stomp blues"—like a testament to sounds once heard on the streets of Harlem, the juke joints of Mississippi, or from the jug bands of Memphis

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:05:48 -0500 2019-01-20T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Shari Kane Dave Steele
42nd Ann Arbor Folk Festival (January 25, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57344 57344-14157786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

This 2-night fundraising event for The Ark takes place at Hill Auditorium on Friday, January 25th and Saturday, January 26th, 2019. The Michigan Union Ticket Office will be selling upper balcony, regular and Gold Circle tickets to this event. Below are the purchasing options.

*Note: To get a discount when purchasing both nights, select a 2-night series pass. Series tickets must be of the same quantity for both nights and in the same pricing level (upper balcony, regular or gold). All sales final. No refunds or exchanges.

Single-Night Tickets (Fri OR Sat): https://goo.gl/9VjRa6
2-Night Series: Gold Circle Seats: https://goo.gl/kmvBQ8
2-Night Series: Regular Seats: https://goo.gl/yhAkVg
2-Night Series: Upper Balcony Seats: https://goo.gl/fepr3E

FRIDAY LINEUP:

Brandi Carlile
Gregory Alan Isakov
Haley Heynderickx
Parsonsfield
Sam Lewis
Michigan Rattlers
Peter Mulvey, MC

SATURDAY LINEUP:

Rufus Wainwright
I'm With Her
Joan Osborne’s DYLANOLOGY featuring Jackie Greene
Pokey LaFarge
Ahi
The RFD Boys
Joan Osborne's Dylanology featuring Jackie Greene
Peter Mulvey, MC

*Note: Program is subject to change.

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Performance Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:44:45 -0500 2019-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance 42 Folk Fest
42nd Ann Arbor Folk Festival (January 26, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57344 57344-14157787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 26, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

This 2-night fundraising event for The Ark takes place at Hill Auditorium on Friday, January 25th and Saturday, January 26th, 2019. The Michigan Union Ticket Office will be selling upper balcony, regular and Gold Circle tickets to this event. Below are the purchasing options.

*Note: To get a discount when purchasing both nights, select a 2-night series pass. Series tickets must be of the same quantity for both nights and in the same pricing level (upper balcony, regular or gold). All sales final. No refunds or exchanges.

Single-Night Tickets (Fri OR Sat): https://goo.gl/9VjRa6
2-Night Series: Gold Circle Seats: https://goo.gl/kmvBQ8
2-Night Series: Regular Seats: https://goo.gl/yhAkVg
2-Night Series: Upper Balcony Seats: https://goo.gl/fepr3E

FRIDAY LINEUP:

Brandi Carlile
Gregory Alan Isakov
Haley Heynderickx
Parsonsfield
Sam Lewis
Michigan Rattlers
Peter Mulvey, MC

SATURDAY LINEUP:

Rufus Wainwright
I'm With Her
Joan Osborne’s DYLANOLOGY featuring Jackie Greene
Pokey LaFarge
Ahi
The RFD Boys
Joan Osborne's Dylanology featuring Jackie Greene
Peter Mulvey, MC

*Note: Program is subject to change.

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Performance Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:44:45 -0500 2019-01-26T18:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance 42 Folk Fest
UMMA Pop Up: Music with Emily Slomovits and Billy King (January 27, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59468 59468-14745535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 27, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Emily Slomovits is an Ann Arbor-based musician, actress and teacher. She will be playing a mixture of classical violin pieces and fiddle tunes accompanied by Billy King from around the world at UMMA. Emily regularly plays music with her father and uncle, the duo, Gemini, as well as Annie and Rod Capps, and many other local musicians. She is a member of Spinning Dot Theatre, and has also been seen with The Encore Musical Theatre Company, The Croswell Opera House, Performance Network, and Wild Swan Theatre. Emily helps to lead Spinning Dot's Youth Company, and teaches violin, voice, and guitar for Manchester's Cultural Arts Strings program and the Grass Lake School of Music. She writes regular theatre and music previews and reviews for Current Magazine, PULP, and The Washtenaw Jewish News. 

Billy King is a seasoned performer, songwriter and recording artist. His presence in the independent music scene brings an original blend of rootsy folk/pop with an occasional touch of country swing. Billy's versatility as a multi-genre singer-songwriter is matched by his ability on a wide range of instruments from guitar and banjo to keyboards and accordion. Some of Billy's performance highlights include performing at the The Ark, Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Detroit Art's Beat & Eats, Blind Pig and many more. 

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Performance Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:16:31 -0500 2019-01-27T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-27T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Kasey Chambers (February 1, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54159 54159-13530702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Join Kasey Chambers by the “ Campfire” for a musical journey through the stories of places, people, cultures and sounds that have inspired one of Australia’s most revered performers. Be part of this intimate acoustic experience enjoying songs new and old that have shaped Kasey’s rich and unique life travelling through the vast lands of Australia, America, and Africa. Playing songs from her new album, "Campfire" as well as her much-loved songs from way back, Kasey and The Fireside Disciples offer a special evening of music and stories. Says Kasey: "Campfire is an album I have wanted to make my whole life and represents the connection I’ve had to the different lands and cultures throughout my life that have influenced me the most. I have taken all of those experiences and put them into songs and sounds for 'Campfire.' Join us for a very special evening of music and stories of the places, people, cultures and sounds that I would like to share with you all around my Campfire.” Country songwriter Carly Burruss opens.

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:12:47 -0500 2019-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Kasey Chambers
Dead Horses and The Brother Brothers (February 2, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57311 57311-14148807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 2, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Dead Horses is vocalist/guitarist Sarah Vos and vocalist/bassist Daniel Wolff, sometimes augmented by other musicians as needed. Originally hailing from a small Wisconsin town made world famous by a pair of overalls (Oshkosh, B'Gosh), the now Milwaukee-based folk band have cultivated a sensibility beyond their years due in part to the powerful literary force that is frontwoman and songwriter Vos. Raised on Bible hymns by her preacher father, she has a backstory that sounds more like that of an old bluesman from the Mississippi Delta than that of a young folk singer from Wisconsin. Despite their youth, Dead Horses have crafted a timeless sound, informed as much by modern Americana as it is by traditional roots music. They've worked with producer Ken Coomer (Wilco, Uncle Tupelo) who later invited the band to his studio to record the album, "Cartoon Moon." No Depression called their current album, "My Mother the Moon," one of the best of 2018 so far.

The Brother Brothers, twins, are Brooklyn's Adam and Davis Moss. They offer rich harmonies and thoughtful songs accompanied by guitar, cello, violin, and banjo in a coherent way that only musicians from the same family can achieve. Already established players and composers in a wide spectrum of genres around New York and beyond, they finally teamed up to bring their individual experiences together. Among their fans is Sarah Jarosz, who raves: "They approach their poignant and often charming songs with an almost startling sense of ease, and the tight harmonies are enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine. Their ability to pull the listener into their quietly energetic musical journey is a joy to behold." The Brother Brothers come to Michigan with their brand new debut album, "Some People I Know.

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:15:59 -0500 2019-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Dead Horses
Frances Luke Accord (February 6, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54154 54154-13530698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:19:27 -0500 2019-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Frances
Ellis Paul (February 7, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56709 56709-13967647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"I got a word machine in my head. It's a damn noisy contraption. Constantly running. No 'off' switch," says Ellis Paul. After growing up on a potato farm in northern Maine, Ellis started writing songs while he was attending Boston College on a track scholarship and was laid up for several months with an injury. He's often called the quintessential New England songwriter, and he's got more than a dozen of Boston Music Awards to prove it. Ellis's passionate, literate character sketches, delivered in a soaring, lyrical voice, have influenced a generation of folk songwriters toward the shamelessly poetic. The Boston Globe calls Ellis "literate, provocative, urbanely romantic." Whatever you call him, he's one of the major songwriters of our time. Says Absolute Punk, which you might not think would be reviewing Ellis's albums: "Everyone can relate to Ellis Paul and his songs, and for that reason he continues to be a national treasure."

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:21:36 -0500 2019-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Ellis
Mustard's Retreat (February 9, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56941 56941-14032738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 9, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

From their start at an open mic at the Ark in the summer of 1974, this award-winning duo consisting of David Tamulevich and Michael Hough has become a perennial favorite, not only here in southeastern Michigan but all over the folk singer-songwriter circuit. Their songwriting and recordings have received consistently high praise, and their live performances even more so. Their songs are touching, humorous, insightful, and intelligent, and their music is always revealing something new‑lately they've become a key presence in the consistently high-quality local songwriting collective the Yellow Room Gang. Mustard's Retreat recently celebrated their 40th anniversary as a duo, and they're still creating "music to cure what ails you" anew!

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:25:30 -0500 2019-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mustard
Kathy Mattea (February 10, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58004 58004-14390317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 10, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Hailed by the Washington Post as “one of Nashville’s finest song interpreters,” Kathy Mattea has enjoyed the kind of success many artists only dream of: two Grammy wins, four CMA Awards, four #1 country singles, and five gold albums (plus a platinum collection of her greatest hits). The dream almost ended, though, when Mattea entered her 50s and began to find her voice changing. What followed was a three-year journey through life challenges, soul-searching, and professional uncertainty, a trying time of personal anguish that threatened to silence her permanently, but instead brought her unexpected joy. Mattea dug in with a vocal coach, re-committed to her music, and emerged with the most poignant album of her career, "Pretty Bird." Working with her old friend, music roots wizard Tim O’Brien, producing, she created a chronicle of her journey, song by song, back to singing for the sheer joy of it. From a playful take on Oliver Wood’s “Chocolate On My Tongue” to a tender rendition of Mary Gauthier’s “Mercy Now,” from a British traditional song to a Bobbie Gentry classic, these are the songs that helped Kathy Mattea reclaim her voice, and she inhabits each as fully as if it were her own.

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:31:47 -0500 2019-02-10T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Kathy
Albert Lee (February 11, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57590 57590-14220055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

"The ultimate virtuoso"


Eric Clapton

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Performance Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:25:25 -0500 2019-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Albert Lee
Bill Staines (February 12, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54157 54157-13530700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:53:41 -0400 2019-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Mandolin Orange (February 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56273 56273-13869411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The 7 p.m. show is sold out but tickets are still available for the 9:30 show

Mandolin Orange’s music radiates a mysterious warmth —their songs feel like whispered secrets, one hand cupped to your ear. Ashleigh Phillips of Independent Weekly wrote that they craft "simple songs that go beyond chord progressions and vocal harmonies, leading somehow toward something pure. Using acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin and a hand-me-down fiddle, Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz allure with a heartworn sensibility." This North Carolina duo has shared stages with Rosanne Cash, Chatham County Line, the Steep Canyon Rangers and Abigail Washburn. Their original songs are drenched in a mastery of classic country, blues, and rock, but they are both personal and contemporary. It takes genius to be simple, and this young duo has that kind of genius. They come to Michigan with a new release, "Tides of a Teardrop," which they call their most personal effort. Always simple and quiet, the songs of Mandolin Orange are music to treasure.

L.A. psychedellic band Mapache opens.

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:37:36 -0500 2019-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mandolin Orange
Mandolin Orange (February 13, 2019 9:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56273 56273-13869412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The 7 p.m. show is sold out but tickets are still available for the 9:30 show

Mandolin Orange’s music radiates a mysterious warmth —their songs feel like whispered secrets, one hand cupped to your ear. Ashleigh Phillips of Independent Weekly wrote that they craft "simple songs that go beyond chord progressions and vocal harmonies, leading somehow toward something pure. Using acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin and a hand-me-down fiddle, Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz allure with a heartworn sensibility." This North Carolina duo has shared stages with Rosanne Cash, Chatham County Line, the Steep Canyon Rangers and Abigail Washburn. Their original songs are drenched in a mastery of classic country, blues, and rock, but they are both personal and contemporary. It takes genius to be simple, and this young duo has that kind of genius. They come to Michigan with a new release, "Tides of a Teardrop," which they call their most personal effort. Always simple and quiet, the songs of Mandolin Orange are music to treasure.

L.A. psychedellic band Mapache opens.

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:37:36 -0500 2019-02-13T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Mandolin Orange
My Folky Valentine (February 14, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57591 57591-14220056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Love and marriage...and music

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Performance Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:38:23 -0500 2019-02-14T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
Sonny Landreth & Marcia Ball (February 15, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56943 56943-15061103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

They call her Long Tall Marcia Ball, and she's one of a kind! Marcia Ball grew up in Vinton, Louisiana, in the heart of an area overflowing with blues, zydeco, and swamp rock. All the female members of her family played the piano. In 1970 Marcia and her first husband were heading for San Francisco, but their car broke down in Austin, and that's where she stayed. She put together a trio of talents: piano playing, songwriting, and vocals. In 1983 Marcia released her first solo album, "Soulful Dress," and ever since then she's been letting the good times roll at The Ark and other clubs around the country where a corps of devoted fans has watched her evolved into a true legend of the piano blues. Marcia has won nine Blues Music Awards, and she was recently inducted into the Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame. Come check out music from Marcia's fabulous recent album "Shine Bright"!

After a dozen acclaimed albums, virtuoso slide guitarist and bandleader Sonny Landreth has released "Recorded Live in Lafayette," capturing the one-of-a-kind live Sonny experience. Sonny Landreth has collaborated with the very top names in guitar over the years: Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Eric Johnson, Derek Trucks—the list goes on. The noted slideman cut his musical teeth in The Red Hot Louisiana Band of zydeco king Clifton Chenier, and he has since recorded and toured with artists ranging from John Mayall to John Hiatt. "Recorded Live in Lafayette" adds another major chapter to his tale, as new vocal and instrumental colors emerge

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Performance Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:35:43 -0500 2019-02-15T11:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Marcia
Joshua Davis (February 15, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58003 58003-14390316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Joshua Davis is back at the Ark to celebrate the release of a brand new album. His first ever live solo album was recorded over two nights at Lansing’s Robin Theatre and beautifully captures his songs distilled into spare but powerful arrangements. “I’ve wanted to make this album for years,” says Davis, “and I’m so excited to share it. I love playing solo shows. It allows me the freedom to dig deep into my songs and really be in the moment with an audience.” Join us for a night of beautiful singing, killer guitar playing, irreverent storytelling and powerful songwriting. Michigan-to-New Orleans transplant Luke Winslow-King opens

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:51:42 -0500 2019-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Joshua
Ben Daniels Band (February 16, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56710 56710-13967649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 16, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Ben Daniels is the son of actor Jeff Daniels, but that's very much the beginning of a story, not the end. When Ben Daniels decided he was going to be a musician, it was more than a career choice. A natural poet, this young songwriter went to school on Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, and Jack White, among others. His lyrics speak directly to a younger generation that hears, sees, and thinks about the very things he’s writing. From their opening song to the finale of their set, The Ben Daniels Band brings originality and musicianship to a sound that spans Americana, blues, jazz, and rock. What Ben inherited from his father is, perhaps, a feeling for what it takes to live life as an artist, to reach out and create not just songs but anthems with arrangements that pull people in. With seven CDs under their belts, The Ben Daniels Band has grown to be a formidable group that sounds pleasantly familiar, yet unforgettably unique

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:56:04 -0500 2019-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Ben Daniels
Jazzy Ash & The Leaping Lizards (February 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58320 58320-14461172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Jazzy Ash grew up with a mother from New Orleans and a father from Trinidad, and music infused her home life every day, from jazz to Caribbean rhythms to the lively children’s music which was playing all the time for the kids in her mother’s home day care. She often spent summers in New Orleans with her aunts and grandparents, enjoying the culture and music that permeated their West Bank neighborhood. Later on, after becoming mom to two sons, she earned a degree in early childhood development and embarked on her music education program, Leaping Lizards Music, and that evolved into a band, Jazzy Ash and The Leaping Lizards. They've had the pleasure of performing at Lincoln Center and Symphony Space in New York, Getty Center in California, World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival. Jazzy Ash's music has been featured by LA Times and NPR, and continues to top the children's music charts.

Series tickets for four children's shows available (this show, plus Justin Roberts 1/13, Gemini 3/24, and Recess Monkey 5/5)!

Tickets:

Adult:

https://tinyurl.com/y7zp4lxg

Kids:

https://tinyurl.com/y7jwqrft

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:58:45 -0500 2019-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Jazzy Ash
HEARTS FOR RECOVERY (February 17, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58317 58317-14461170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 17, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Proceeds benefit Dawn Farm, a Michigan addiction treatment center with an emphasis on the recovering community as the most important source of healing and recovery support for our clients. Dawn Farm is a a 501c(3) non-profit organization.

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:01:54 -0500 2019-02-17T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Hearts for Recovery
Joe Henry (February 18, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53508 53508-13392470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

New and political music from an always fresh and unpredictable songwriter

w/sg Clarence Bucaro

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Performance Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:24:50 -0500 2019-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Joe Henry
Sierra Hull (February 19, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57592 57592-14220057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Sierra Hull first played the Grand Ole Opry stage at 11, invited by Alison Krauss, and she quickly became known as a bluegrass mandolin prodigy. She was celebrated, yet adrift. Stranded, even. What she felt at 22 was not what she felt at 12, and the music Sierra Hull was writing and playing at home was different from the music she was making on stages. "In some way, I was needing to run from the thing that everybody thought I was being," she says now, at 25. Now, after consulting with Krauss and with Béla Fleck (who says, "She plays the mandolin with a degree of refined elegance and freedom that few have achieved"), Alison Krauss, who has won more Grammy awards than any female artist in history, says of Sierra, "I think she’s endless. I don’t see any boundaries. Talent like hers is so rare, and I don’t think it stops." Pretty soon she's going to be acoustic music royalty

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:07:42 -0500 2019-02-19T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Sierra Hull
Ladysmith Black Mambazo (February 20, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58005 58005-14390318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo recently celebrated more than 50 years of joyous and uplifting music. Within this music are the intricate rhythms and harmonies of their native South African musical traditions. The group borrows heavily from a traditional music called isicathamiya (is-cot-a-ME-Ya), which developed in the mines of South Africa, where black workers were taken by rail to work far away from their homes and their families. Assembled in the early 1960s in South Africa by Joseph Shabalala, then a young farm boy turned factory worker, the group took the name Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Ladysmith is the name of Joseph’s hometown, about three hours west of Durban and three hours east of Johannesburg; Black being a reference to the oxen, the strongest of all farm animals; and Mambazo being the Zulu word for chopping axe, a symbol of the group’s ability to "chop down" any singing rival who might challenge them. A radio broadcast in 1970 opened the door to their first record contract—the beginning of an ambitious discography that currently includes more than 50 recordings (including Paul Simon's "Graceland") and has earned three Grammy awards

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:10:38 -0500 2019-02-20T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Ladysmith
Kitty Donohoe (February 21, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58294 58294-14452852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

The Celtic-influenced Michigan roots music of Detroit native Kitty Donohoe has been praised in Sing Out! for its "intelligent, literate songwriting infused with an inherent optimism." Over the years Kitty has opened for a variety of artists, from Doc Watson to David Bromberg, from Bruce Cockburn to Cheryl Wheeler—and in 2008 she and sideman David Mosher took the stage at an Obama rally just before Bruce Springsteen. Her song "There Are No Words," written on September 11, 2001, has been performed by numerous other songwriters and has taken on a life of its own. Rich Warren of WFMT radio in Chicago has included Kitty on his list of the 50 most significant songwriters in the last 50 years. She has some great seasonal songs like "The Michigan Waltz" that may be making an appearance on tonight's show.

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:18:56 -0500 2019-02-21T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Kitty
Jared Deck (February 22, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58295 58295-14452853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Maybe you heard Jared Deck doing a wonderful set at the Ark stage during the 2018 Ann Arbor Art Fair—now he's back for a full evening of his remarkable music, with a new album in tow. Jared takes life one fight at a time. "The battle has always been internal, overcoming my own failures and working to improve," he says. Raised on the dusty plains of an Oklahoma family farm, Jared worked in the fields as well as the town grocery, owned by his parents. "In a community of 1,200 people, big dreams seem impossible. We're taught to manage expectations, put our nose down, and get to work." Later he worked in an oilfield and a factory. During the Great Recession he got by with a job as a pianist in a black church, where over the next six years, he received an unparalleled musical education. Now, with his self-titled debut album, Jared tells stories in an honest voice of midland America. His song "The American Dream" won first place in the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Songwriting Competition, and he comes to Michigan with a brand new release, "Bully Pulpit."

This show is free at the door for Ark members at the Solo level and above.

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:22:34 -0500 2019-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Jared
32nd Annual Storytelling Festival (February 23, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57593 57593-14220058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 23, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Laura Simms has been a, storyteller, teaching artist and advocate for storytelling since 1979. She is internationally acclaimed. Laura sits on the Advisory Council for Global Education (UN-NGO), is the artistic director of H.C. Andersen Storytelling Center in New York, and has directed festivals and events worldwide. She combines traditional stories with personal narrative. She has received awards including the Sesame Street Sunny Days award, the Brimstone Award, the Oracle Award, the Choice award for best story collectio,n and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Storytelling Center.

Edgar Oliver is a writer and performer who has lived and worked in New York for many years as part of New York's downtown theatre community. He started out reading his poems and performing his monologues at the Pyramid night club in the early 1980s From 1988 to 2001 he wrote and performed in a series of autobiographical plays, premiering a new play almost every year in the Club at LaMama on East Fourth Street. Titles include: The Seven Year Vacation, The Ghost of Brooklyn, Mosquito Succulence, Hands In Wartime, Motel Blue 19, and The Drowning Pages. In recent eyars he's turned to one-man shows, for one of which, "Helen and Edgar," the New York Times hailed his creation of "a living work of theatre all by himself.” Edgar has also appeared on The Moth.

Michigan's Ivory D. Williams interweaves his stories with humor, wit, and fun to engage audiences and spread positive messages, promoting and perpetuating the ancient art of African and African American storytelling in the oral tradition. His presentations are highly interactive, entertaining, and educational.

Note special start time!

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:30:25 -0500 2019-02-23T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Edgar
Storytelling for Kids (February 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57595 57595-14220059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Each year, The Ark's Storytelling Festival brings masters of the tale from near and from far to pay tribute to humanity's oldest art. This year's tellers are Laura Simms, Edgar Oliver, and Ivory D. Williams. Sunday afternoon, they return with stories for the whole family.

Laura Simms has been a, storyteller, teaching artist and advocate for storytelling since 1979. She is internationally acclaimed. Laura sits on the Advisory Council for Global Education (UN-NGO), is the artistic director of H.C. Andersen Storytelling Center in New York, and has directed festivals and events worldwide. She combines traditional stories with personal narrative. She has received awards including the Sesame Street Sunny Days award, the Brimstone Award, the Oracle Award, the Choice award for best story collectio,n and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Storytelling Center.

Edgar Oliver is a writer and performer who has lived and worked in New York for many years as part of New York's downtown theatre community. He started out reading his poems and performing his monologues at the Pyramid night club in the early 1980s From 1988 to 2001 he wrote and performed in a series of autobiographical plays, premiering a new play almost every year in the Club at LaMama on East Fourth Street. Titles include: The Seven Year Vacation, The Ghost of Brooklyn, Mosquito Succulence, Hands In Wartime, Motel Blue 19, and The Drowning Pages. In recent eyars he's turned to one-man shows, for one of which, "Helen and Edgar," the New York Times hailed his creation of "a living work of theatre all by himself.” Edgar has also appeared on The Moth.

Michigan's Ivory D. Williams interweaves his stories with humor, wit, and fun to engage audiences and spread positive messages, promoting and perpetuating the ancient art of African and African American storytelling in the oral tradition. His presentations are highly interactive, entertaining, and educational.

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:28:25 -0500 2019-02-24T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Laura
Gina Chavez (February 24, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54158 54158-13530701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 24, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Presented by The Ark

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:32:10 -0500 2019-02-24T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Gina
We Banjo 3 (February 27, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54930 54930-13654171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

One of the best live acts to come out of Ireland in recent years is the multi-awarded winning We Banjo 3. With a seven-time all-Ireland banjo champ, a four-time banjo champ, another member who is an all-Ireland champ on both fiddle and bodhran, and with a passionate lead vocalist like a young Springsteen adopted by the Chieftains (yes, they're a quartet, but there are three banjos), the result is unforgettable. On both sides of the Atlantic the word is out about this group! WB3 performed at the “Friends of Ireland” luncheon on Capitol Hill attended by House Speaker Paul Ryan, President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, and has headlined virtually every major U.S .Celtic fest for several years in a row. With a strong bluegrass influence (they call their music "Celtgrass"), the band is rapidly gaining favor in the worlds of bluegrass and Americana as well, as evidenced by their invites to Merlefest, ROMP Fest, Sisters Folk Fest, Old Settlers Fest, Four Corners Fest, and more! They come to Michigan with a new release, "Haven."

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:36:28 -0500 2019-02-27T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance We Banjo3
We Banjo 3 (February 28, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54930 54930-13654172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

One of the best live acts to come out of Ireland in recent years is the multi-awarded winning We Banjo 3. With a seven-time all-Ireland banjo champ, a four-time banjo champ, another member who is an all-Ireland champ on both fiddle and bodhran, and with a passionate lead vocalist like a young Springsteen adopted by the Chieftains (yes, they're a quartet, but there are three banjos), the result is unforgettable. On both sides of the Atlantic the word is out about this group! WB3 performed at the “Friends of Ireland” luncheon on Capitol Hill attended by House Speaker Paul Ryan, President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, and has headlined virtually every major U.S .Celtic fest for several years in a row. With a strong bluegrass influence (they call their music "Celtgrass"), the band is rapidly gaining favor in the worlds of bluegrass and Americana as well, as evidenced by their invites to Merlefest, ROMP Fest, Sisters Folk Fest, Old Settlers Fest, Four Corners Fest, and more! They come to Michigan with a new release, "Haven."

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Performance Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:36:28 -0500 2019-02-28T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance We Banjo3
Loudon Wainwright III (March 1, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58629 58629-14520012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Loudon 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 new compilation, "Years in the Making," which includes new music, and new songs for a film produced by Judd Apatow, "Surviving Twin."

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Performance Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:34:06 -0500 2019-03-01T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance loudon
Matt Nathanson (March 2, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56294 56294-13878487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 2, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

A lot of people know Matt Nathanson for his 2007 hit "Come On Get Higher," but his career has only kept growing since then. The year 2018 saw two albums from Matt, a collection of Def Leppard covers and the all-original "Sings His Sad Heart." He comes to The Ark with acoustic arrangements of the songs "Sings His Sad Heart," and it's not so common to hear him in a club The Ark's size. It's all to the good, because Matt has a unique sense of humor on stage that can get lost in larger venues.

This show is sold out. Songwriter Blu Sanders opens

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Performance Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:44:34 -0500 2019-03-02T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance matt
Los Lobos (March 3, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58006 58006-14390319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

After celebrating their 40th anniversary with the live album "Disconnected in New York City," Los Lobos return with "Gates of Gold," their first studio album since 2010's "Tin Can Trust." "We're a Mexican American band, and no word describes America like immigrant," says Los Lobos wordsmith Louie Perez, describing the new release. "So it's perhaps natural that the songs we create celebrate America in this way." It's been a long time since Los Lobos have played Ann Arbor, and this is a rare concert opportunity indeed.

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Performance Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:01:04 -0500 2019-03-03T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance lobos
An Evening with Lúnasa (March 4, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58632 58632-14520015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

After celebrating their 40th anniversary with the live album "Disconnected in New York City," Los Lobos return with "Gates of Gold," their first studio album since 2010's "Tin Can Trust." "We're a Mexican American band, and no word describes America like immigrant," says Los Lobos wordsmith Louie Perez, describing the new release. "So it's perhaps natural that the songs we create celebrate America in this way." It's been a long time since Los Lobos have played Ann Arbor, and this is a rare concert opportunity indeed.

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Performance Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:38:23 -0500 2019-03-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance lunasa