Another monster, very hot week of music across West Michigan, from Grand Rapids to the lakeshore to the north country, all captured in images at Local Spins.
Before Things Went Awry: Fans at Party in the Park were, well, partying. (Photo/Eric Stoike)
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What a week. What0 a month.
Summertime’s musical assault – and sultry heat – continued in earnest the second week in August, starting with a rollicking multi-band tribute to the ’90s at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park to a Michigan all-star feast in the Manistee National Forest near Wellston and an explosion of jazz in downtown Grand Rapids.
’90s Bash: Better Than Ezra at Meijer Gardens on Monday. (Photo/Anthony Norkus)
MONDAY
Better Than Ezra, Sugar Ray, Eve 6 and Uncle Kracker delivered crowd-revving ’90 nostalgia at Meijer Gardens “Under the Sun.” See the Local Spins photo gallery and review.
TUESDAY
The Kari Lynch Band closed out the Rogue River After-the-Blues Series in downtown Rockford in front of yet another impressive turnout.
Billy Strings & Don Julin and The Go Rounds fired up the Tuesday Evening Music Club at Meijer Gardens, part of perhaps the most popular year for the local/regional music series yet.
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WEDNESDAY
The 97LAV Summertime Blue Series closed out its 2015 run at the DeltaPlex Arena parking lot with its biggest crowd yet – about 4,000 people, with 1,000 motorcycles rolling in – for a performance by iconic bluesman Walter Trout. And Marcus Bradman of Cumulus Media reports that the success of the series, which was relocated this summer from its home at Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids after more than two decades, means it will return to the DeltaPlex in 2016, with even more dates added to the schedule next year.
Blues Fave: Walter Trout closed out the Summertime Blues series. (Photo/Taylor Mansen)
Complicated Animals, aka the duo of Monica da Silva and Chad Alger, brought songs they wrote in Michigan (where da Silva’s family lives, in the Holland area) back to the state from their relocated home in Florida for the Local Spins Wednesdays series at SpeakEZ Lounge. after appearing on the radio for Local Spins Live earlier in the day).
Every Time I Die uncorked another one of its uber-live, fan-pleasing displays at The Stache inside The Intersection. Read the Local Spins review with photo gallery.
THURSDAY
Styx invaded Meijer Gardens for a sold-out show that trotted out pretty much all of the hits and more. Check out the Local Spins review and photo gallery.
An Dro closed out the 2015 edition of the popular GRAM on the Green series outside the Grand Rapids Art Museum.
Home in the Woods: Greensky Bluegrass at Hoxeyville. (Photo/Anna Sink)
FRIDAY
A stunted Party in the Park event sponsored by WSNX at Fifth Third Ballpark was cut short after headliner Flo Rida failed to show due to weather and flight delays that prevented the performer from getting to Comstock Park on time before a 10:30 p.m. curfew (and a deluge of rain came shortly therafter). Despite thousands of disappointed fans, many of them still came to party, enjoying opening sets by Tech 9ne, Silento and Grand Rapids’ own Ajax Stacks. Refunds are available for concertgoers.
Hoxeyville celebrated its 12th year with an all-star Michigan lineup that included opening night sets by Greensky Bluegrass, Seth Bernard & Friends, Big Dudee Roo and more. Read the round-up and photo gallery, with more to come from Saturday and Sunday.
SATURDAY
GRandJazzFest powered up for the fourth straight year Saturday on Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids. Check out first-day coverage here.
Busy Singer: Kari Lynch started and ended the week on stage, here at Moose Fest. (Photo/Eric Stoike)
Muskegon’s Moose Fest 2015 hosted by WMUS boasted a star-studded country lineup – and throngs of approving fans – that featured Thompson Square, Michael Ray, Brothers Osborne, Mickey Guyton, Josh Dorr, Logan Mize and Grand Rapids’ Kari Lynch.
The second annual Walk the Beat event scattered 60 bands and solo acts across 30 different venues in two different parts of Grand Haven, with Grand Rapids’ Roosevelt Diggs and Oakland County’s Third Degree Burns winning the grand prizes in the unusual event. Read the full story, with photos.
JOE, led by singer-songwriter Joe Rodriguez, recorded a live album Saturday night in an odd location: Dodds Record Shop on S. Division Avenue in Grand Rapids. Fans jammed the small and historic shop for the performance, which also was filmed for an upcoming video.
WEEKEND PHOTO GALLERY: Aug. 16, 2015
The Go Rounds, Billy Strings & Don Julin photos by Anna Sink, Seth Rivard
97LAV Summertime Blues photos by Taylor Mansen
Complicated Animals photos by Ricky Olmos, John Sinkevics
An Dro photos by Kristine Carpenter
Party in the Park, Moose Fest photos by Eric Stoike
JOE photos by Taylor Mansen
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