Some Street Fairs for this Weekend

Greetings My Dear Friends

Will someone tell the powers to be that my dayjob is interfering with my fun LOL. Yep, been defending against the MAN since Tuesday. That means I have been in a lengthy contested trial that will end today.

But since I am always looking for fun to get some relief. I did take a scan of the sources.

There are two street fairs going on this weekend. One is tomorrow only. The Detroit Linberation Fair. It is apparently a marihuana legalization festival. But, I do know that local favorite Covert Operations will be playing there. http://detroitliberation.org/index.html

This weekend brings the Green Street Fair. www.greenstreetfair.com Over the weekend Bump and the Macpodz are playing. The music schedule was buried on the official site, so I decided to just copy and paste it.

FRIDAY, MAY 1
2:00-3:15: THE SAINTS
3:45-5:00: FOUR FINGER FIVE
5:30-7:00: ZOOROPA: A U2 TRIBUTE.

SATURDAY, MAY 2
2:00-3:15: LUKE WINSLOW-KING
3:45-5:00: ORPHEUM BELL
5:30-7:00: BUMP

SUNDAY, MAY 3
2:00-3:15: THE MACPODZ
3:45-5:00: SERENA RYDER

Saturday Brando and Friends plays Dick O'Dows. Also the Ultraviolet Hippopotamus are playing the Cadieux Cafe.

A show that I am going to draw attention to for next Thursday is Charlie Hunter returning to the Magic Bag. I know many of you know of Charlie. I have literally been seeing him for years. He built the guitar he plays. It is a combination bass and treble (a regular) guitar. It is amazing to see him play jazz rifts while playing the bass chords at the same time. The current version we'll see is a duo. I have seen Charlie in a duo before and my jaw was dropping

Here's another one May 22 Medeski Martin and Wood at the Motor City Casino. www.motorcitycasino.com . I gotta tell you, I was at the room they will play last Friday night, for a swanky gala. It is called the Sound Board and it was state of the art shit. I said to myself, a show in this room is going be tops. Then I saw that MMW, whom we all know, is the most amazing jazz-jam trio in the world.

I will put out some more when I can. I have been really "work" busy these past few weeks.

PLEASE remember to support local live bands:

Brando Creasman, www.brandoncreasman.com, Lucky Brown Music www.myspace.com/LuckyBrownMusic, The Macpodz, www.macpodz.com, Mifune, www.mifunemusic.com, The Great Divide, www.myspace.com/greatdividelive Grievious Angel http://drumdancerrecords.com/grievousangel/index.php, Jill Jack, http://www.jilljack.com/, Billy Brandt, www.billybrandt.net, Distorted Soul (featuring Nadir), www.distortedsoul.com, Flop House Band, www.flophouseband.com, Back Forty backfortymusic.com, Covert Operations http://www.covertopsband.com Rootstand www.rootstand.com, Jam Samwich http://jamsamich.com, David Nefesh www.davidnefesh.com, The Ragbirds www.theragbirds.com, , PAPA www.papatunes.com, Bitter Herbs www.myspace.com/bitterherbs, Greensky Bluegrass www.greenskybluegrass.com; THTX www.myspace.com/THTX and Sentimental Shark, www.sentimentalshark.com to name a few.

PLEASE remember to support local venues:

The Magic Bag www.themagicbag.com
The Majestic Theatre www.majesticdetroit.com/
Saint Andrew's Hall www.livenation.com/venue/getVenue/venueId/1776
The Crofoot www.thecrofoot.com
The Royal Music Theater www.royaloakmusictheatre.com/
The Blind Pig www.blindpigmusic.com/
Blondies (New Club in the Big D) www.myspace.com/officialblondiesnightclub
Museum of Contemporary Art www.mocadetroit.org

GO OUT AND SEE LIVE MUSIC!!!!!


Much love in the 313, 248, 586, 734 and 810

Miko

Author of the occasional Detroit Metro area Live Music Update