It was a hot week in West Michigan, indoors and out. Browse images from some sizzling concerts and Pride Festival featuring national and regional acts, from Grand Rapids to Kalamazoo to Holland.
Hot Blues: Tommy Castro kicked off the 97LAV Summertime Blues series at DeltaPlex Arena. (Photo/Anthony Norkus)
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Talk about hot fun in the summer.
West Michigan’s week of live music thrived and simmered outdoors with:
• The kickoff to the 2016 edition of the 97LAV Village Motorsports Summertimes Blues series on Wednesday in the DeltaPlex Arena parking lot (also part of this year’s West Michigan Freedom Cruise) which drew a crazy-huge crowd of thousands, including motorcycles as far as the eye could see, with Tommy Castro & The Painkillers on stage.
PHOTO GALLERY: Tommy Castro at 97LAV Summertime Blues
Photos by Anthony Norkus
• Kalamazoo heating up outdoor events with Zion Lion at the Kalamazoo Farmers Market on Thursday, Irish Festival in the beer garden at Old Dog Tavern on Friday and the Kalamazoo Island Festival at Mayors Riverfront Park on Saturday.
• Pride Festival taking place Saturday on Calder Plaza in downtown Grand Rapids, with a host of local and national acts performing.
(Check out separate photo galleries for Saturday’s Founders Fest in downtown Grand Rapids, the B93 Birthday Bash in Martin and sold-out Meijer Gardens concerts featuring Of Monsters and Men on Monday, Ziggy Marley on Wednesday and Tedeschi Trucks Band on Friday.)
Add to that some bracing indoor shows, including JMM Trio at SpeakEZ Lounge, Jonny Carroll’s CD-release show at The DAAC, The Legal Immigrants, Devin & The Dead Frets and Trash Hounds playing Tip Top Deluxe Bar & Grill (for the Local Spins Non-Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll Show), Heaters, Major Murphy and The Go Rounds uncorking sets at Park Theatre in Holland, and Glenn Bulthuis and Friends unfurling an ambitious “Music of Simon and Garfunkel” show at Van Singel Fine Art Center in Byron Center.
WEEKEND PHOTO GALLERY
Park Theatre photos by Kendra Kamp
Tip Top Deluxe photos by Anna Sink
Kalamazoo event/concert photos by Derek Ketchum
Jonny Carroll photos by Hunter Gamble
Garage Bar Block Party photos by Kendra Kamp
JMM Trio, Pride Festival photos by John Sinkevics
Glenn Bulthuis & Friends photos by Daniel J. Cooke
VIDEO: Pride Festival 2016
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