Michigan music news this week ranges from a feature on Traverse City’s Peter, Paul & Mary Remembered to an interview with The Breeders to a limp Limp Bizkit, performing in Detroit.
Traverse City’s Peter, Paul & Mary Remembered
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• Marta Hepler Drahos takes us back to the early days of the Baby Boomers’ folk music obsession with her Traverse City Record-Eagle story about the TC-based tribute band Peter, Paul & Mary Remembered. The trio (plus bassist) performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Williamsburg Theater, 4230 M-72 East in Williamsburg. Doors open at 6 p.m. with a cash bar. Tickets are $20 at the door, or $15 in advance at selected locations in Traverse City and Acme.
PP&M Remembered singer Donna Wilson Probes tells Drahos that the surviving originals, Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey, gave their blessings to the group in a meeting after a concert at Interlochen in 2010. Mary Travers, the third member of the original group, died in 2009. Amazingly, in just the few years since, the Traverse City musicians have raised nearly $100,000 for nonprofits in Northern Michigan with their nostalgic concerts, presenting PP&M faves such as “Puff the Magic Dragon” and “Leavin’ on a Jet Plane.” The group includes Probes’ husband, Lawrence “Doc” Probes, Jim Hawley and Dave Swan on bass. Read the full story in the Traverse City Record-Eagle online here.
• After stopping at The Orbit Room in Grand Rapids on Friday night, Limp Bizkit took Fred Durst’s red hat to a sold-out Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit on Saturday. Apparently the Jacksonville, Fla. band’s first tour in a decade did not benefit from the trip down I-96. Our friend Adam Graham of The Detroit News says “the band seemed content to do a drive-by on its hits and leave it at that.” Hey, the Limp Bizkit-ites wouldn’t even permit photos at the Grand Rapids show, so … Anyway, read more at The Detroit News online here.
The Breeders
• Alt-rockers The Breeders played the Majestic Theater in Detroit on Sunday. Martin Bandyke of Ann Arbor’s 107one FM, southeastern Michigan’s top morning radio DJ for people who prefer good music over prank phone calls, interviewed bassist Josephine Wiggs for the Detroit Free Press. Wiggs’ bandmates are Kelley Deal, Kim Deal and Jim Macpherson. Wiggs reveals to Bandyke that back in 1992, while opening for Nirvana, “audiences were literally in a state of hysteria, to the point where sometimes it was almost frightening.” See Bandyke’s Q-and-A online here.
• Here’s some advance notice: Just days after your mind has been blown by jam bands, lights in the woods and, um, other things at Electric Forest in Rothbury in late June, you can head Up North to put the pieces back together at the second annual Traverse City Area Blues Festival at the Southside Festival Grounds in Buckley. No farm engines in sight at this July 12-13 event, just red-hot blues, cool brews and spicy BBQ. Headlined by national acts Kenny Wayne Shepard on Friday and Trampled Under Foot on Saturday, the show features Northern Michigan home boys Brewz Brotherz, East Bay Blue, and Hipps-N-Ricco. Filling the bill: Harper, Larry McCray, Big James & The Chicago Playboys, Thornetta Davis, Chicago Blues All Stars and Tweed Funk. The Zuni Worldwide Entertainment event is billed as family-friendly, with kids 12 and under getting in free. The adults they bring with them will pay $35 to $65 for tickets. Details online here.
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