National acts topped bills for brrr-racingly unique West Michigan shows, but regional bands Mystic Dub, Root Doctor, An Dro, Steve Hilger Band and more were in the Local Spins photo mix, too.
Lighting It Up: Thriftwork fans turned The Intersection into a cavalcade of color with hoops and more. (Photo/Anthony Norkus)
Lively mummies. Resplendent EDM hoopers. California synth-popsters. Psychedelic rockers. Tie-dyed reggae meisters. Dynamic drummers.
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Dick Valentine of Electric Six (Photo/Eric Stoike)
The glitz of the Academy Awards gets a run for the money from these cinematically colorful stage shows.
With temperatures dropping again outdoors, things got colorful indoors this weekend across West Michigan with a peculiar blend of acts, national and regional, brightening the images in this Local Spins photo gallery.
It started with the electronic verve of Thriftworks and Sammy Ruckspin at The Intersection, with hordes of hoopers spinning LED-powered magic, in stark contrast to the laid-back singer-songwriter vibe of Gabrial Lundy playing Rockford Brewing Co. the same night.
The Steve Hilger Band at LB’s Lounge/Louis Benton Steakhouse (Photo/Local Spins)
Friday brought the return of those well-wrapped funk pharaohs from the crypt, Here Come the Mummies, who once again had a capacity crowd at The Intersectiong grinning and grinding, with help from Grand Rapids’ own blues guitarist and singer Jim Shaneberger and crew.
The same night, California’s Gardens & Villa delivered the band’s synthpop-hued indie-rock for a small but enthused crowd at Holland’s Park Theatre as part of the Hope College Concert Series.
Alexis at The Stache (Photo/Colin Butts)
Back in Grand Rapids, the Steve Hilger Band pumped out upbeat blues at Grand Rapids’ Louis Benton Steakhouse’s LB’s Lounge (which now hosts regular live entertainment), Lansing’s award-winning Root Doctor did much the same at a packed Tip Top Deluxe Bar & Grill, Nobody’s Darlin’ delivered its all female string-band thing to an adoring throng at the SpeakEZ Lounge, and Mystic Dub made its reggae-in-Rockford debut at Rockford Brewing.
But that’s not all: The eclectic Electric Six (with Alexis opening) got things really grooving in the front lounge of The Intersection on Saturday, with the ever-popular Mega ’80 entertaining troops in the main showrooom.
On the listening-room end of things, Nashville-based Liz Longley did her award-winning singer-songwriter thing for a sold-out crowd at Spring Lake’s Seven Steps Up.
And Sunday’s final day of the first-ever Michigan Global Roots Music Festival wrapped up with a lively display by An Dro, Wisaal and Badenya Drum & Dance, all providing percussive world music strains at Osgood Brewing Co. in Grandville.
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