Jim Cooper Quintet

"When Music Is Tight It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Malou Beauvoir

Traditional Haitian Folk Ballad

Kalu &The Electric Joint

Austin, TX - A Hybrid Of Psychedelic Soul Music With The Driving Beat Of Rock And Roll And The Ancient Rhythms Of Africa

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Seventh Son

West Michigan Blues!

Fela Kuti & Nigeria 70

One Of The Most Important Musical And Political Figures To Emerge In Post-Independence Nigeria; A Legendary Rebel And Agent Provocateur That Pioneered Afrobeat, An Invigorating Hybrid Of Dirty Funk And Traditional African Rhythms

Jerry Douglas

Appearing 3/6 At The Ark, Ann Arbor

Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings

Tom Rigney, Violin

Billie Holiday

Composer: Cole Porter - Featuring "Sweets Edison, Ben Webster, Jimmy Rowles, Alvin Stoller, Red Mitchell And Bernie Kessel

Al Petteway & Amy White

Guest Musicians: Bonnie Rideout, Maggie Sansone And Eric Riglar

Corbin Hayslett

Civil War Murder Ballad With Its Roots In Eastern Kentucky

Alex E.Smith, Cheevers Toppah, Nitanis "Kit" Landry

Native American Vocal Harmony

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Appearing: The Magic Bag, Ferndale, MI 3/9/19

AFO With Tammy Lynn

Co-Founded With Ellis Marsalis In New Orleans, 1961

Mandolin Orange

Returning To The Ark In Ann Arbor For Two Shows On 2/13

Neil Young

Backed By the Reunited Crazy Horse On Tour In November 1976 - Three Months Prior, Young Abruptly Quit The Ill Fated Still-Youngs Tour, Departing On His Bus In The Middle Of the Night - The Album Captures Young At A Restless Moment, Writing Songs Too Fast To Release And Scrapping Albums Too Fast To Remember

Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer

(Child Ballad 216) - The Song Is Quite Rare In Scottish Balladry Not Really Known Outside The Highlands Before The Early Nineteenth-Century. As It Was Handed Down Through Oral Traditions, And Additional Verses Were Added, It Became Known As The "Drowned Lovers" And "Mother Malison"

Arthur Gunter

Arthur Gunter's Southern Gospel Roots, And Later Playing With Various Blues Groups Took Him To Nashville In The Early 1950's, Signing A Recording Contract With The Excello Records, And Writing and Releasing a Stable Of Songs During That Decade. The Only Hit Gunter Ever Had Was Sung By A Singer From Tupelo, Mississippi. Elvis Made Gunter's "Baby Let's Play House," Into A World-Wide Smash. Gunter's Own Releases Were Not Generating Much Interest, And He Eventually Faded From Public View, Performing Occasionally. Arthur Gunter Passed On 1976

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Arthur Gunter

May 23, 1926 Georgia - March 16, 1976 Michigan

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Ken McIntyre Quintet

Sam Jones, Bass...Walter Bishop, Piano...Art Taylor, Drums...Eric Dolphy, Flute...Ken McIntyre, Alto Sax

The Steel Woods

A Quartet Of Southern Rock Traditionalists From Nashville Laying Claim To The Sound Pioneered By Lynyrd Skynyrd - Appearing At The Machine Shop In Flint On February 21st

Larry Efaw And The Bluegrass Mountineers

Multiple Award Winning Bluegrass Band With Its Founding Roots Running Deep Both In Akron & Athens, OH

Eilen Jewell

Undercover: Frankie Lee Sims

Kruger Brothers & The Kontras Quartet

Born And Raised In Europe, The Brothers Relocated To Wilkesboro, NC In 2002

Johnny Cash

Cash's First No. 1 Album In 37 Years; Produced By Rick Rubin

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