She Wants Revenge, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Red Legs: Week-in-Review Photo Galleries

The week was packed with national tour stops and local showcases: The Sauce, Chris Andrus, Jim Lauderdale, Ramblin’ Rose’s Grateful Dead tribute, Devil Elvis, Dede Alder and more in Local Spins images.

 

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Officially, winter hasn’t begun.

But December got the snow machine rolling anyway, wreaking havoc on roads and many folks’ plans. It couldn’t stop a blizzard of concerts featuring national as well as regional acts, however, so let’s recap some of them at Local Spins:

• Grand Rapids’ The Sauce made its Local Spins Wednesdays debut at SpeakEZ Lounge on Wednesday, with singer-songwriter Chris Andrus — and backing singers Dana Mate Dones and Shaneé Laurent — also performing.

• On the other side of downtown Grand Rapids, St. Cecilia Music Center hosted the opening show of its 2016-2017 jazz series with Grammy-winning singer Cecile McLorin Salvant impressing the audience.

• Another Grammy winnner, Americana singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale, meanwhile, played a Pin Drop Concerts show at Seven Steps Up in Spring Lake on the same night.

• She Wants Revenge brought its 10th anniversary tour to The Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids on Thursday, the same night that Dede & The Dreamers made a return visit to Rockford Brewing in downtown Rockford, with Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe delivering what Local Spins photographer Derek Ketchum called an “incredible, high-energy show” at Bell’s Brewery Eccentric Cafe — which also celebrated “Bell’s Eccentric Day” this weekend with Devil Elvis, Saxsquatch & Bridge Band and Funk Parade performing and fans arriving to the masquerade dressed in, well, eccentric garb.

• On Friday back in Grand Rapids, Ramblin’ Rose & The Friends of the Devil (aka, Hannah Rose Graves and some superstar guests) uncorked a tribute to The Grateful Dead for a jam-packed capacity crowd, the same night that Grand Rapids rock band Red Legs unleashed a CD-release show at The Pyramid Scheme.

WEEK-IN-REVIEW PHOTO GALLERY
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The Sauce photos by Anna Sink
Cecile McLorin Salvant photos by Jeffrey Wilkinson
Jim Lauderdale photos by Gary Hanks
She Wants Revenge photos by Katy Batdorff
Dede & The Dreamers photos by Anna Sink
Karl Denson, Bell’s Brewery photos by Derek Ketchum
Ramblin’ Rose, Red Legs photos by Anna Sink

For a full Local Spins review and separate photo gallery from Saturday’s concert featuring Aaron Lewis at The Orbit Room, click here.

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