The biggest Tuesday Evening Music Club series in Meijer Gardens history launches tonight with Jordan Hamilton and Elijah Russ. Today, we spotlight tracks by Michigan acts playing the 13-week series.
The Elijah Russ Collective: The band is back at Meijer Gardens tonight and kicks off the Local Spins Playlist, too. (Photo/Derek Ketchum)
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When the Tuesday Evening Music Club tonight fires up its biggest, most robust season ever at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, it will do so with some special musical fireworks planned by both artists on the bill.
Award-winning Kalamazoo hip-hop cellist Jordan Hamilton — who often performs solo — plans to play as part of a trio.
The Elijah Russ Collective, meanwhile, will fill the stage with 12 musicians, uncorking soulful, genre-melding rock.
Jordan Hamilton (Photo/Derek Ketchum)
“We’re super stoked,” said Russ, who recently released two studio albums. “Expect some high-energy fusion rock with a 12-piece band of some of the best musicians in West Michigan.”
Hosted by singer-songwriter Ralston Bowles, it’s a fitting spectacle to kick off the 2022 series that showcases local and regional artists from a wide swath of genres.
Admission to the 7 p.m. shows is free for Meijer Gardens members and just the usual admission price to the gardens for everyone else — one reason why the series attracts big, family-friendly crowds on Tuesday nights.
As a special preview to this season’s expanded Tuesday Evening Music Club lineup, Local Spins has compiled a special playlist featuring most of the artists playing the series this summer. (Some weren’t available on Spotify.) Listen to the tracks and scroll down for the full series schedule.
TUESDAY EVENING MUSIC CLUB 2022: The Local Spins Playlist
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