The opening weekend of ArtPrize and the closing weekend of baseball’s regular season may have gotten most of the attention, but there was plenty of live music amid glorious weather to inspire audiences.
Beer Tent Rockabilly: Delilah DeWylde & The Lost Boys played Rockford Brewing’s beer tent at the Rockford Harvest Festival. (Photo/Anthony Norkus)
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For all of those Detroit Tigers fans who found it hard to fathom that this mega-talented baseball team could actually push things to the brink, to the final game of the season before barely wrapping up the division crown, today arrives with a sense of relief.
ArtPrize Strains: Buskers young and old performed downtown over the weekend. (Photo/Anna Sink)
Or is it a sense of impending doom, considering the team’s under-achieving ways with a host of strong playoff contenders looming ahead?
Perhaps it’s better to bask in the glow of — what?!?! — another Detroit Lions victory and another stellar Local Spins Weekend Photo Gallery, featuring:
• The Rockford Harvest Festival beer tent at Rockford Brewing in Rockford with Channing & Quinn and Delilah DeWylde & The Lost Boys.
• Afro Zuma busting out a percussive, world music-powered set, plus rapper Rick Chyme, Molly Bouwsma-Schultz and Azizi Jasper at Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids,
• Singer-songwriter Howie Day and East Nashville’s Amy Speace (with Laura Curtis) delivering strong performances at Spring Lake’s Seven Steps Up.
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• The wacky Super Happy Funtime Burlesque troupe playing several shows of its annual “ArtPrize: The Musical” at The Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids.
• Musicians playing ArtPrize busking stations, promoting songs they’ve entered into the international art competition. Check out the full Local Spins photo gallery of ArtPrize buskers.
• Insane Clown Posse, Mushroomhead and JellyRoll firing up Juggalos in a tour-opening show at The Orbit Room (where Local Spins photographer Tony Norkus got squirted in the eye with Faygo but managed to protect his camera gear and still get some fabulous photos). See the full photo gallery and an insightful column by Brian J. Bowe in this Local Spins post.
LOCAL SPINS WEEKEND PHOTO GALLERY: Sept. 25-28
Insane Clown Posse, Mushroomhead, JellyRoll photos by Anthony Norkus
ArtPrize buskers by Anna Sink, Tori Thomas
Howie Day photo by Glen Van De Venter
Amy Speace photo by Michelle Hanks
Super Happy Funtime Burlesque photos by Tori Thomas
Delilah DeWylde, Channing & Quinn photos by Anthony Norkus
Afro Zuma, Rick Chyme, Molly Bouwsma-Schultz photos by Anna Sink
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