“Breakfast 2010”: The Ark.
A benefit for the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church breakfast program for the homeless. Performers: Bonnie Rideout, a U-M music school grad, is known as “the piping fiddler” for her theme-and-variation compositions in the style of Scottish pipes. “She transforms a lonely melody into utter desolation, then effortlessly switches gears from languorous ballad to virtuosic exercise,” says a Washington Post reviewer. Virginia-born, London-based Duck Baker is a renowned finger-style jazz guitarist whose repertoire spans the history of the music from ragtime through swing and modern masters like Thelonious Monk to free improvisation. Robert Jones, the host of WDET’s Blues from the Lowlands and an ordained Baptist minister, is an excellent singer and guitarist, with a huge repertoire that draws on Delta, Texas, Chicago, and other blues traditions. Bill Bynum & Co. is a quartet led by Bynum, a Downriver singer-songwriter and guitarist whose bluegrass-based songs also draw on old-time, early country, gospel, and contemporary folk music. His band includes fiddler Mary Seelhorst, dobro player Dave Keeney, and bassist Chuck Anderson.
7 p.m., The Ark, 316 S. Main. $30 in advance at Herb David Guitar Studio, the Michigan Union Ticket Office, & all other Ticketmaster outlets; and at the door. To charge by phone, call 763-TKTS.
