All five acts took to stages across the state this week, from Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids to Sparta and beyond. Browse the photo galleries from these shows and more, only at Local Spins.
Crowd-Pleasers: Bruce Hornsby at Meijer Gardens and Sarah Jarocz at Bell’s Brewery Beer Garden. (Photos/Jake Orr/Jamie Geysbeek)
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For piano and jam-band great Bruce Hornsby, it was his first show back from a brief illness-related respite, with his band the Noisemakers joining the Grand Rapids Symphony at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park on Thursday, before heading up to Interlochen Center for the Arts for a sold-out Sunday concert.
It also was the first of two Michigan shows for Americana-infused singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz, delivering a fan-inspiring performance Thursday at Bell’s Brewery Beer Garden in Kalamazoo — with local duo Payton & Annabelle opening the evening — followed by an appearance Friday at Blissfest outside Harbor Springs.
On Friday night in Grand Rapids, up-and-coming, 22-year-old Mexican-American country singer Wyatt Flores — who hails from Oklahoma — pumped up a crowd of 1,700 for The Intersection’s outdoor “Rock the Lot” series.
Victor Wooten: Bassist extraordinaire at Studio Park on Saturday. (Photo/Anthony Norkus)
Multi-Grammy Award-winning bassist Victor Wooten (along with The Wooten Brothers), meanwhile, made the most of his only Michigan tour stop by heating up the second sultry night of this summer’s Listening Lawn series at Studio Park in downtown Grand Rapids on Saturday.
And longtime Michigan alt-folk/indie-rock favorites The Accidentals found themselves moving indoors due to threatening rain on Wednesday for their annual return to the Sparta Concerts in the Park series, with more Michigan dates to come: They play Petoskey’s Bayview Concert Series on July 24, Ann Arbor’s Sonic Lunch show on July 25, followed by Lansing’s “Indie Pop Rock Night” the same day, and finally Hastings’ Fair Ground Festival on July 27.
Michigan music lovers also kicked up their country heels with The Bootstrap Boys outside Kalamazoo State Theatre on Friday for the “State on the Street” series.
Browse all the galleries below. Plus check out separate Local Spins reviews and photo galleries from these concerts: Old Crow Medicine Show/Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway at Meijer Gardens; The Wood Brothers at Studio Park/The Four Tops and The Temptations at Meijer Gardens.
PHOTO GALLERY: Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, Grand Rapids Symphony
Meijer Gardens Amphitheater
Photos by Jake Orr
PHOTO GALLERY: Sarah Jarosz, Payton & Annabelle at Bell’s Brewery Beer Garden
Photos by Derek Ketchum and Jamie Geysbeek
PHOTO GALLERY: Wyatt Flores at The Intersection (Rock the Lot)
Photos by Benjamin Howell
