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The Ragbirds

A Well-Oiled (Literally) Travelin’ Machine Originally from Ypsilanti, the now Ann Arbor-based Ragbirds have been gaining national momentum (and touring their tailfeathers off!) during the past year, but the effortless fusion ...

by Mary Simkins

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A Conversation with Matt Jones [Video]

Musician, circus dreamer and amateur historian The elevator door opens with a squeak and a rattle to reveal two blond-haired musicians: Matt Jones with his guitar and Colette Alexander with her cello. It’s a cram on the way u...

by Paul Kitti

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Christopher Norman

Ann Arbor’s Christopher Norman is a busy man. Recently, he won a spot to play for the Folk the Police festival, remixed one of our favorite DJ’s Chrome Sparks as well as Metric and has played all the bigger venues throughou...

by Ian Cruz

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Lawless Carver Finds Their Groove

Guitarist Hunter Boyd is “literally speechless, sometimes, by what these cats come up with …and this is just the beginning.” Well, it’s essentially the beginning, but it’s been brewing for a while. True, Ypsi-based La...

by Jeff Milo

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Born to Folk

The Ann Arbor Folk Festival Hits the Hill to Celebrate 35 Years One of A2’s most anticipated and celebrated annual events, the 35th annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival returns this year for two nights of down-home fun at Hill Audi...

by David Nassar

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Ann Arbor Restaurant Week

January 15 – 20 2012 It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Ann Arbor restaurant week! Ann Arbor Restaurant Week is a twice-a-year event during which patrons can choose from extraordinary three course dinner menus and...

by Amanda Slater

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Modern Day Renaissance Woman

Shelby Lynne visits Ann Arbor Shelby Lynne is truly a renaissance woman. She does a little bit of everything (yet does it all well) and is always open to learning more. She is a genre-crossing singer/songwriter who broke onto t...

by Tim Adkins

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Einstein on the Beach

Groundbreaking opera is resurrected in Ann Arbor In July of 1976, the curiously-titled opera “Einstein on the Beach” premiered in Avignon, France, to an audience who was expecting, well, an opera. The sprawling musical coll...

by Paul Kitti

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Mittenfest VI + Full Lineup

It’s Mittenfest’s sixth birthday! What started off in 2006 as a modest one-day event to raise money for 826michigan – a volunteer-driven non-profit dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and exposi...

by David Nassar

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71 POP

A pop of color for Detroit 71 POP is a microcosm of the current visionary wave rippling across the city of Detroit. It’s easy to look at Motown and see vacated businesses and walls of broken windows rotting beneath the city�...

by Paul Kitti

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