From touring legends such as Todd Rundgren and Trevor Hall to local rock favorites Trifocal and Low Phase, it was another memorable week of live music across West Michigan captured in images at Local Spins.
Triumphant Sold-Out Performances: Todd Rundgren (top) and Trevor Hall at Bell’s Beer Garden. (Photos/Derek Ketchum)
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It was another music week of new beginnings and final soirées, of legendary veterans and rising stars.
Take Saturday’s celebration outside Kalamazoo’s Old Dog Tavern where Kalamazoo psych/funk/rock band Trifocal played its final hometown show for fans, with band member Adam Hastings stepping away from the group as he steps into fatherhood next month.
The event sparked a festival atmosphere full of dancing, bubbles, hooping and fire with a couple of impressive light shows once the sun went down. Trifocal performed a full three sets in the place that opened the doors to them for their first Kalamazoo show making it a great bookend night of family, friends and a decade of music.
On the flip side on the same night, it was a new chapter for Grand Rapids indie-rockers Low Phase who debuted their new EP, “So Pretty It’s Perfect,” amid a theatrically propelled evening of music at The Pyramid Scheme, with opening sets by The Cosmoknights, PHABIES and Dovetail.
And the post-Independence Day week in West Michigan really got cranked up on Wednesday with rock icon Todd Rundgren and band heating up Bell’s Beer Garden in Kalamazoo with a 23-song set that included everything from “I Think You Know” and “Secret Society” to “Hello It’s Me,” “The Last Ride” and “Fade Away.”
Bell’s followed that with Elephant Revival on Thursday and Trevor Hall on Friday, with both of these popular artists headed north later in the weekend to perform at Blissfest, north of Harbor Springs.
Browse photos from all of the shows below with a separate review and gallery from The Verve Pipe/Grand Rapids Symphony concert on Monday at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, which also hosted Headband Henny and Hannah Laine for its Tuesday Evening Music Club series.
PHOTO GALLERY: Todd Rundgren at Bell’s Beer Garden (Wednesday)
Photos by Derek Ketchum
PHOTO GALLERY: Elephant Revival at Bell’s Eccentric Cafe (Thursday)
Photos by Derek Ketchum
PHOTO GALLERY: Trevor Hall, Daniel Rodriguez at Bell’s Beer Garden (Friday)
Photos by Derek Ketchum
