Nightspots
Wednesday Jul 8, 2009
The Ark: Open Stage
All acoustic performers invited. Fifteen acts are selected randomly from those who sign up to perform 8 minutes (or 2 songs) each. The most talented and popular Open Stage performers are offered their own evenings at the Ark. $3 (members & students, $2).
The Black Pearl: Beth Stalker & Jim Rawlings
An eclectic mix of styles from blues, R&B, and jazz to rock and country by the Detroit-area duo of Detroit Music Award-winning singer-songwriter Stalker and songwriter-guitarist Rawlings.
The Blind Pig: The Javelins
Detroit indie rock trio. Opening acts are Office, a local rock 'n' roll band, and Lightning Love, a local keyboard-driven minimalist pop trio.
The Circus: Black Jake & the Carnies.
Ypsilanti octet that calls its energetic, foot-stomping blend of punk, old-time music, and bluegrass "crabgrass." All Music Guide writer Steve Leggett calls it "a kind of raucous acoustic Americana that tosses postmodern Appalachian murder ballads, Irish drinking songs, skewed, twisted love songs and general cautionary tales into a stylistic blender that has them sounding like nothing so much as a maverick, hopped-up punk polka band in full 21st-century everything-fits jug band mode."
The Firefly Club: "Salsa Night"
With DJ Sabor.
Goodnite Gracie: Big Blue Cosmic
Funk band.
Zingerman's Roadhouse: Annie Capps
Local singer-songwriter and electric guitarist who writes thoughtful, distinctively personal, warmly exuberant folk-rock songs that are both musically sophisticated and down-home. She is accompanied by her husband, guitarist Rod Capps.
