The Ottawa Tavern’s tenure as a jazz club is ending … suddenly. Just six months after making the much-celebrated conversion of the downtown watering hole into a place where live jazz could be found several nights a week, The Ottawa Tavern is ending its run. Tonight (Saturday) will be the last night that jazz will [...]
Everything is different in the dark. Way different. In daylight, Electric Forest sweats with a sun-splashed milieu that sort of celebrates Michigan’s great outdoors – concertgoers gyrating and hula-hoopers hooping to the progressive bluegrass/jazz beats of The String Cheese Incident and the hip-hop electronica of Break Science and Chali 2na. But things change after the [...]
Gary Clark Jr. made it all worthwhile. Cranking out the raw blues-rock of “Bright Lights” in the brilliant sunshine at Double JJ Resort in Rothbury with undulating, brightly bedecked Electric Forest hippies grinning madly and cheering, Clark turned what could have been an unpleasant disposition into a pretty darned ebullient attitude. After encountering enormous, ridiculous [...]
The temperature was in the 90s at showtime, but nothing was hotter than Warren Haynes’ guitar work as Gov’t Mule made its Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park debut on Thursday night. With a boisterous, hard-drinking crowd of 1,704 on hand, the Mule played two sets covering nearly 2-1/2 hours, saving the best for last [...]