music
Taste of Grand Rapids event to host 25 local restaurants, live entertainment
by (CL)
Submitted 07-18-2013 under NEWS
The 15th Annual Taste of Grand Rapids will take place July 19 and 20, featuring a wide variety of food from 25 local restaurants. The family-fun event will also be hosting a state-sanctioned barbecue competition, West Michigan Trucking show and live...
Grand Rapids-based band Field ready for listeners
by (Davis Dryer)
Submitted 07-17-2013 under LOCAL LIFE
Grand Rapids-based band Field has begun its entry into the scene of live music, and they’re eager to dive in. Field’s entrance into playing live has been a long time coming- the band first formed nearly a year ago. Within the month,...
Antrim Dells' new album shows musicianship, nostalgia
by (erickehoe)
Submitted 06-26-2013 under OPINION
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Southtown Guitar works to impact music, community
by (Davis Dryer)
Submitted 06-24-2013 under LOCAL LIFE
When Dean Wiers-Windemuller decided to open a guitar store, he knew from the get-go that he wanted his business to be different. “I never liked guitar stores before,” says Wiers-Windemuller. "That’s why it feels really weird...
Eat.Shop.Rock. to celebrate local economy with food, music
by (CL)
Submitted 06-18-2013 under PLACE-MATTERS
The Uptown business districts invite the community to the Eat. Shop. Rock. event this Thursday, June 20, for a night full of entertainment in Grand Rapids' most thriving business districts: East Fulton, East Hills, Eastown and Wealthy Street....
Catalyst Radio: The Market presented by Avenue For The Arts is Saturday
by (Catalyst Radio)
Submitted 06-07-2013 under NEWS
Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and listen at your leisure. INTERVIEW In this episode of Catalyst Radio is featured Avenue For The Arts, and its Market highlighting artists and businesses and the community of South...
Festival of the Arts to celebrate creativity, community
by (empichot)
Submitted 06-06-2013 under NEWS
The Festival of the Arts provides plenty of opportunities for gazing at local intriguing works of art while listening to local live music with locally made food in hand. This year some new and exciting things are put into the mix. The Circle Stage...
State Street gets its life back through re//STATE
by (shannoncunningham)
Submitted 05-17-2013 under LOCAL LIFE
As much as we hate to see it, every city has them: streets that, over time, have transformed from bustling economic hubs to vast, desolate concrete waste. Their public green spaces become neglected, morphing into empty parking lots while their...
Hugo Claudin: transgressive art and performance
by (DwellingPlace)
Submitted 04-12-2013 under NONPROFITS
An AK47 is pointed at the crowd. A patch of light is on the face behind the gun. An adolescent wearing a luchadoras mask shouts “Go home, yankee, yankee go home BANG BANG BANG” The faces in the crowd duck to the left and right...
"TRIP THE LIGHT: MYTHICAL" at Wealthy Theatre, May 11
by (wealthytheatre)
Submitted 04-11-2013 under NONPROFITS
Presale tickets are on sale now for TRIP THE LIGHT: MYTHICAL which takes place at Wealthy Theatre on May 11, 2013 at 8 p.m. Grand Rapids dance collective Dance in the Annex (DITA) performs two annual, collaborative dance/music concerts at Wealthy...