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Kitty Donohoe

Kitty Donohoe & Friends

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Michigan Emmy-winning songwriter Kitty Donohoe, based in Ann Arbor, is celebrating more than 50 years as a performing singer-songwriter. She recently received the 2024 Michigan Heritage Award for her 30 plus years of entertaining audiences with her original songs about our state, as well as being named a finalist and Outstanding Achievement Award for three of her songs by the Great American Song Contest in 2022. Drawing from her Irish, Canadian and American roots, Kitty backs herself on guitar, cittern and piano to write songs that can be uplifting, thought-provoking, celebratory, moody, quirky, humorous and everything in between!

$20
Judy Collins
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Judy Collins

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Judy Collins has inspired audiences with sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to social activism. In the 1960s, she evoked both the idealism and steely determination of a generation united against social and environmental injustices. Five decades later, her luminescent presence shines brightly as new generations bask in the glow of her iconic 50-album body of work, and heed inspiration from her spiritual discipline to thrive in the music industry for half a century.

$50, $65, $80
Luke Winslow-King and Roberto Luti

Luke Winslow-King featuring Roberto Luti

Special Guest: Nathan Graham

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Originally from Cadillac, Michigan, Luke Winslow-King is a career rock & roll guitarist, singer, producer, and songwriter. Joining Luke is Tuscan slide guitar maestro Roberto Luti. With his unorthodox, angular, and evocative slide guitar style, Luti made a name for himself during his nearly decade-long residency in New Orleans.

$25
The Decemberists photo by Holly Andres
Special Event

The Decemberists

Special Guest: Ratboys

Royal Oak Music Theatre 318 W 4th St, Royal Oak, MI, United States

For over 20 years, The Decemberists have been one of the most original, daring, and thrilling American rock bands. Founded in the year 2000, The Decemberists’ distinctive brand of hyper-literate folk-rock set them apart from the start with the release of their debut EP 5 Songs in 2001. Since then, the band has released nine full-length albums that are unbound by genre and highly ambitious, ranging from Americana-leaning storytelling epics to elements of 70's prog and hard rock.

$44.50
Tim Easton

Tim Easton

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

A mainstay of American roots music for more than 20 years, Tim Easton crafts songs that blur the lines between folk, blues, and workingman's rock & roll. It's an honest sound influenced not only by the flat-pickers and folksingers who came before him, but also the arc of Easton's own experience. Born within a stone's throw of the Niagara River, he spent his childhood in upstate New York and midwestern Ohio, raised on the sounds of trailblazers like Doc Watson and Woody Guthrie. Following in his heroes' footsteps, he grew into a modern-day troubadour, busking his way around Europe for the better part of a decade before heading back home to America.

$20
Mike Vial and Ari Hest

Ari Hest // Mike Vial

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Ari Hest is a Grammy nominated indie folk singer/songwriter who built a fiercely loyal following through relentless touring over the past two decades. Mike Vial is a singer-songwriter and educator based in Ann Arbor. He won the Ypsilanti Songwriting Festival award in 2010 and the Blue Owl Songwriting award in 2014.

$20
Aaron Jonah Lewis's Ragtime Banjo Revival

Aaron Jonah Lewis’s Ragtime Banjo Revival

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Aaron Jonah Lewis's Ragtime Banjo Revival thrills and delights audiences with fresh arrangements of classic, novelty, and British ragtime pieces for cello, banjo and guitar, plus blues and early jazz fiddle music, centering the contributions and influence of Black American composers. The group creates a relaxed and enlivening space to experience popular music of the past and to connect with a greater sense of our shared cultural history. With a curious and optimistic spirit, Ragtime Banjo Revival educates and inspires, welcoming the newcomer and cultivating respect across the lines of difference.

$20
Mouths of Babes
Artist Spotlight Series Live and Virtual

Mouths of Babes

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

With more than a dozen albums and over a thousand shows between them, Ty Greenstein and Ingrid Elizabeth of Mouths of Babes are no strangers to the contemporary folk-Americana music scene. For years, their respective bands Girlyman and Coyote Grace captivated thousands of loyal fans as they crisscrossed the country, rocked festival main stages, and toured with the likes of Indigo Girls and Dar Williams. Now they have distilled the very best of the songwriting, musicianship, and humor of their previous groups into a power duo that brings more depth and style than ever before.

Free, Donations accepted for Food Gatherers
Shawn Phillips

Shawn Phillips

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Shawn Phillips helped define folk-rock in the 1960s and progressive rock in the 1970s. He co-wrote a lot of Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" LP, introduced the sitar to pop music, and sang on "Lovely Rita." Since then he's recorded more than 20 albums that draw organically on folk-rock, jazz, progressive, pop, and classical styles. Shawn was born in Texas, lived for a decade in Italy, and now works as a firefighter, EMT, and sea rescue specialist in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where he remains very much creatively active and issues new music from his home studio.

$25
Kyshona

Kyshona

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Kyshona lends her voice and music to those who feel silenced, forgotten or alone. She began her career as a music therapist, writing her first songs with patients -- students and inmates under her care. She became compelled to write independently and find her own voice, an endeavor which led her to the Nashville creative community and songwriting culture. Since then, she balances her music career with her passion to heal in community through her organization Your Song. Kyshona comes to The Ark with her new album, “Legacy,” which tells the story of her family’s journey.

$20
Mike Masse

Mike Massé

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Mike Massé is the new voice of classic rock. Don't miss this amazing show of Mike performing some of the best classic rock songs of all time acoustically: Toto, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles... His YouTube video views are in the millions, and he’s a unique talent. Mike Massé returns to Ann Arbor for this intimate evening of acoustic music. Mike is an internationally acclaimed artist whose arrangements are praised for their originality and emotional honesty.  Legends of rock, including Toto, Boston, Sarah McLachlan, Asia, and others have expressed their love and gratitude for his renditions of their finest works.

$30

Justin Roberts
Ford Family Series

Justin Roberts

The Ark 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Four-time GRAMMY Nominee Justin Roberts is one of the founders of the modern family music scene. For 25 years, Roberts has been creating the soundtrack to families’ lives, helping kids navigate the joys and sorrows of growing up, while inspiring parents to remember their own childhoods. His songs are the kind of get-stuck-in-your-head pop nuggets that draw comparisons to Elvis Costello, Fountains of Wayne, and Paul Simon rather than simple nursery rhymes, prompting USA Today to call him “hands-down the best songwriter in the genre.”

$20, $15 kids 12 and under