Three emerging bands and several young solo performers will rub elbows with veterans such as Wallace Collective and Conklin Ceili Band at day-long festival and pig roast near Cedar Springs. (Video, podcast) Some of Phantom Ivory’s musical influences are easy to trace. After all, the Rockford alternative rock band of teenagers is led by [...]
Hailed by national jazz critics as inspired and stylish in performances from New York City to Paris, Libby York will regale West Michigan fans in coming months, working from her summer home base in Saugatuck. (Story, podcast) With a soothing yet expressive voice, jazz singer Libby York long ago earned the respect of the [...]
The all-day We Do Care Charity Music Extravaganza will spotlight 16 of West Michigan’s music pioneers, including The Eschelons, The Quests, Johnny Boggs, Lyn & The Invaders and more. Playing the emerging rock ’n’ roll circuit as a teen in the early ’60s, Grand Rapids singer and keyboard player Johnny Boggs (aka Jonathan B.) [...]
The popular Hawks & Owls frontman’s Comstock Park home was vandalized and ravaged amid Grand River flooding. West Michigan’s music community is coming to his aid with a May 12 benefit concert. (Video, podcast) West Michigan’s music community has long embraced Bruce Ling as an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, naturalist, teacher, historian and a supreme story-teller, [...]