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Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble ♫
2025-02-26 19:00 (America/Detroit) | Blue Llama Jazz Club, 314 S Main St, Ann Arbor, 48104
There will be another ticketed show at 9pm.

A screening of "Life is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza" [in the Screening Room]
2025-02-26 19:00 | Michigan Theater, 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor
In 2014, Palestinian director Mohamed Jabaly visited Norway for a film festival. Then Gaza’s borders closed, and he found himself stranded there for seven years.

A screening of "A Letter To The West Side: the story of Ann Arbor's historic black neighborhood" [in the Main Auditorium]
2025-02-26 18:00 | Michigan Theater, 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor
There will also be a Q & A with director Kameron Donald.

Professor and percussionist Mark Allen Stone will present a lecture and recital on the music of Bernard Woma ♫
2025-02-26 16:30 | Watkins Lecture Hall, U of M School of Music Earl V. Moore Building 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, United States
Woma was born in Ghana and became a world-renowned performer and teacher. Professor Stone is from Oakland University.

Les Greene ♫
2025-02-25 20:00 | The Ark, 316 S Main St, Ann Arbor
Les Greene was the voice of Little Richard in the 2022 movie “Elvis”. Admission is free, and non-perishables will be accepted for the non-profit organization Food Gatherers.

The Easy Street Jazz Band ♫
2025-02-25 17:00 | Zal Gaz Grotto, 2070 West Stadium Blvd., Ann Arbor

Blues And Creole Night, with Reverend Robert Jones Sr., Cedric Watson, and Creole Du Nord ♫
2025-02-24 20:00 | The Ark, 316 S Main St, Ann Arbor

The Paul Keller Orchestra with the Plymouth/Canton High School Jazz Band ♫
2025-02-24 19:00 | Zal Gaz Grotto, 2070 West Stadium Blvd., Ann Arbor

The Black Action Movement at the U of M presents a teach-in on student activism
2025-02-24 17:00 | The Pendleton Room at The Michigan Union, 530 S State St, Ann Arbor
At 6pm, Public Health Students of African Descent (PHSAD) will have community-building activities.

The Kat Edmonson show at The Ark has been postponed. ♫
2025-02-23 19:30 | The Ark, 316 S Main St, Ann Arbor

Joss Stone ♫
2025-02-23 19:30 | Sound Board, Motor City Casino, 2901 Grand River Ave, Detroit

Josie G will perform at her album release party, with guest performers including Tru Klassick, Notorious Vonna_C, and Where She Creep ♫
2025-02-23 19:00 | Ziggy’s, 206 W Michigan Ave., Ypsilanti

Ryosuke Kiyasu [from the Japanese band Fushitsusha], with Horse Bomb, Gerber and the Babies, and Worm Hotel ♫
2025-02-23 19:00 | Jobstoppers, 5631 Michigan Ave., Detroit

Jean Wilson and Friends ♫
2025-02-23 18:00 | Zal Gaz Grotto, 2070 West Stadium Blvd., Ann Arbor

Third Coast Percussion, with tabla player Salar Nader ♫
2025-02-23 16:00 | Rackham Auditorium, 915 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor
Third Coast Percussion commissioned the late Zakir Hussain to compose “Murmurs In Time”, and this will be performed.

Christine Lavin ♫
2025-02-23 15:00 | University Lutheran Church, 1020 S Harrison Rd, East Lansing

The Ark Storytelling Festival presents an afternoon performance
2025-02-23 13:00 | The Ark, 316 S Main St, Ann Arbor
Yasu Ishida will combine traditional Japanese theatre, storytelling, and other elements. Elizabeth Ellis will present stories of Appalachia.

Schmaltz ♫
2025-02-22 21:00 | North Star Lounge, 301 N. Fifth Ave, Ann Arbor

A launch party for the one-off magazine Dismembered Croissant
2025-02-22 20:00 | Third Mind Books, 118 E Washington St, Ann Arbor
The party for this surrealist art and poetry magazine will feature poetry readings and surrealist games.

The Ark Storytelling Festival continues
2025-02-22 20:00 | The Ark, 316 S Main St, Ann Arbor

The SF Jazz Collective ♫
2025-02-22 20:00 | Max M Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit
The San Francisco based group presents updated and re-imagined versions of songs by Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, and others.

Creole du Nord will play a pre-Mardi Gras concert, with special guest Cedric Watson ♫
2025-02-22 19:30 | Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. 4th Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, 48104

Mazinga will play a record release show-- also on the bill are The Velvet Snakes, Writhing Squares, and Cobra Youth ♫
2025-02-22 19:00 | Ziggy’s, 206 W Michigan Ave., Ypsilanti

The Ark Storytelling Festival presents a Liar's Contest
2025-02-21 20:00 | The Ark, 316 S Main St, Ann Arbor

WCBN's Winter Fundraiser Show, with The Goopies, 7th Street, and Lawncare ♫
2025-02-21 20:00 | The Blind Pig, 208 South 1st St, Ann Arbor

Mark Jewett ♫
2025-02-21 19:30 | Crazy Wisdom, 114 S Main St, Ann Arbor

Brazilian pianist and composer Heloísa Fernandes ♫
2025-02-21 19:30 | Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. 4th Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, 48104

The Branford Marsalis Chamber Project ♫
2025-02-21 19:30 | Rackham Auditorium, 915 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor
This trio will perform a new work by Michael Daugherty called “Kansas City Confidential”. They will also perform music by Debussy and other composers.

The Pontiac Trail Blazers ♫
2025-02-21 19:00 | North Star Lounge, 301 N. Fifth Ave, Ann Arbor

Don Was & the Pan-Detroit Ensemble ♫
2025-02-21 19:00 | Blue Llama Jazz Club, 314 S Main St, Ann Arbor, 48104
The nine-piece group includes Dave McMurry on saxophone and Luis Resto on keyboard. There will be another ticketed show at 9:30pm.
